The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-27

their resources and would keep them
ana their children a race of hin elings.
l belleve such men as Cleveland are
sent tor high and special purpose.
see Washington front unfinchingly the
power of a British king; see Jackson
with tho righteous rage and strength
OF Sampson throttle the United States
bank; ! see Lincoln with divine
compassion III his sad face strike down
slavery; | see Cleveland shifting with
the power of giant a gigantic wrong,
the last relic of feudalism on our conti-
nent, and then | see that God reigns in
the history of nations and raises up
great man for each great crisis.
L have heard in this campaign that
men like myself, who are simply stu
dents of the social and moral forces of
society and are not in the current OF
practical politics, can find no material
for earnest thought and action in the
issue between the two main parties. ]
hear that the issue is a mercenary one,
merely one of dollars. But | reply
that there is no Great NaZarene now
walking among US in the flesh and
multiplying loaves and fishes for the
poor by the simple fiat of His omnipo-
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the councils OF tho great. The question
OF bread and raIment is still high
question for the poor. The man who
owns his roof and owes tribate to no
man is freer from temptation and can
more easily be patriot, better father
and husband, better citizen, than one
whose mind is beset day and night
with misgivings for the future of those
he loves. 1t is not true to say, as the
governor of Illinois said the other day 3,
that an appeal is being made to the
baser instincts of the people, to their
pockets. Food and shelter and gar.
ments that keep out the winter wind
and the worse than winter chill of
hunger and discomfort, can be had only
for money, and money can be had only
by labor, and they are not base things,
but present the very highest questions
of craftsmanship and underlie the pro-
foundest social and moral problems of
our time. / should have thought that
the warm and generous heart of Gov.
Dick Oglesbv would get the better OF
his partisanship before his careless lips
had uttered SO strange a sentiment in
the presence of a supreme issue be-
tween the avarice of the rich and the
needs of the poor. Men may differ
about that thing called "protective
tariff" but no thoughtful man can fail
TO see its mighty and far reaching
effects.
L am told and know that there are
honest voters in this land who think
that tariff for protection is blessing
10 the loiler on the farm and i'm the
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until November. If then we still diffel
the rest of us can live where the mos
of us can. Let me tell you what
think about it.
1t protection is blessing, let lis al
have it. If one should be protected
, all should be protected ,land each shoul'
have protection equal to the other. Blu
= that brings us out where we hav
2 started in-on an equality. That is no
: projections; that ls equalizing. Equa
8 rights, equal privileges and equal bur
Y dens is the opposite to protection
b. That will not suit the lumber king 0
0 Maine or Michigan, who wants me t
f pay 50 more for every 1000 feet of lun
L ber than | would have to pay if go
few miles further Oh and buy across tn
line. Therefore he wants protection
Protection against whom2 Why, pre-
lection against me. Think of it! Pro
C lection against me, his nelghbor, livin
Q under the same government with hin
t on the same soil, and under the sam
}. precious flag. But what injury to hir
d do purpose, against which he wan
n to be protectedp lie simply wants
1t be protected against my buying th;
y lumber elsewherel Aud what does
d do? He is not strong enough alone, S
II he cOntcderates with the iron man, Ill
:, both of them confederate with the sa
h man, and then all three of them col
II iederate with the blanket man, and a
four of them confederate with the cal
'f pet man, and then the glass and 20
J. terry man is admitted, and behold! "
IS nave northern contederacy as daI
y gcrous TO poor white man as Il
le southern cOnfederacy was 10 the blaC
ID man! That is the genesis OF prote
/ ton.
is But what is it? What does it signify
~ Simply system by which some Anne
~ leans are benefited 1t the expense
rs other Americans. You and are Il
n other Americans. 1t is system
ID which those confederates make you al
a me buy from them, aud pay them mo
ls for coat, d sidewalk, IL barn or ba
+ rel OF salt than II we were free INT
J. and could buy where we pleased. Ho
I'd am | protected? own no mills.
IN have no salt wells. am not the pr,
= prietor of a blanket factory. l do II
ey make chinaware nor carpets.
We But hear that the tariff tax supper
er the government. What the governme
at gets out of the tariff is revenue. Bar
p ing all unhealthy surplus, no o.
s. objects. But we are not talking
At revenue, we are talking of protectio
lie The nOrtherH confederacy shall n
4 steal from me in the name of reven
tariff.
~ But protection is the question Ho
IL am benefited by it? Ii gives emplo
0, ment aud good wages to labor l hea
+, If the protected factory will render t;
10 annual account, deduct interest al
lie clerk hire, and divide the profits wi
ST it's worknen, then the statement
true otherwise it is pitifu sophisl
ut and all the more pitiful because
e. many hungry men in our cities, wi
a. pale faced wives and ill-clad childr
90 believe il, Listen to me one momeI
a friends the oppressed ever had, MT
10 like John Bright, Golden and Hem
~ George and nalpeless host OF trl
ld hearts and clear thinkers, have d
IS nounced aud exposed that sophism
IN thousand times. Men who wou
ty willingly die to better your lot, tell yt
ne that it is a delusion. You yourselv
ie know that the factory imports che
l. labor free OF duty, cuts down 20
u wages by their competition, adds {
ey amount of the tariff TO the cost of 4
ir article, and pockets the profits. Ic
ht and must pay their price because {
he same article made elsewhere is exclude
Ell by the confederate tariff, aud so yo
up wages. cut down by imported compe,
ty ton, are next absorbed by higher pric
IS, Oh all you buy.
| But hear that protection furnish
n the farmer home market. 1t doe
I'll Let us be honest. If protection Is
lc good thing for us all, | want it. 1t do
a. furnish the farmer a home marke
II. But the thing that troubles the farm
ne is not question of market. The wor
MT must go 10 him TO be led. Ii he sta
at home the world will hunt him u
Or lie is not in any danger of finding
OF market. The question with him is IL
il. the market but the price after he sc
We to market. Liverpool, the commerci
a center of the agricultural world, te
a the farmer what he must sell at, al
v the northern confederatcs tell him VIII
as he must buy at. Liverpool registe
as the rise and fall OF that supply q,
IL demand which fixes the market pri
tn for the farmers grain The Allan