The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-18
FARMER FUNSTON h
a MAsrERLY ARGUMENT
In Favor Of Protection and Against
the Falaeies Of Free Trade.

Un0ef the above head lines the 10.
peka Capital Of Tuesday May Is, pub
fishes the following special dispatch
from Washington-adi dispatch that will
be read with thrill ofpride and pleas
ure by Mr.. Funston's home friends
and neighbors:
The tariff discussion continues until
next Saturday. It will be closed by
Carlisle and Reed.
The debate has grown exceedingly
mOnOtOnous, and both sides are tired
of it. Generally but little attention
Is paid to the speakers on either side.
To-day the debate was diversified by
an able speech from E. H. Funston.
This Is the first gun from the Kansas
delegation. Others are to follow.
Mr.. FunstOn's address was of q stfik-
ingly original and forcible character,
conceived throughout in his own di.
rect practical and sensible way Of
thinking and looking 1T national cues
tions. It will be furnished entire. The
readers Of the Capital, and the people
OF Kansas will recognize 1t as an able.
statesmanlike document. His criticisms
of the Mills bill as q political, section.
al measure, and fitted mainly to hold
the vote Of the democratic States, were
telling hits. He showed that the bill
blundered In attempting to reduce the
surplus. and that the real effect will
be to increase the surplus; that free
trade is not yet the settled policy of
any civilized nation; that England
achieved her national supremacy by a
protective policy; that she adopted
free trade only by protection; she be-
came powerful enough to defy c0mpe-
titiOn; that democracy exhibits its &C
customed contempt Of the interests OF
the agriculturalists by placing on the
freelist many of the productions of
their toll; that free trade is the enemy
of labor, for it destroys industries that
create a demand for labor; that pro-
lection has increased the price of labor
and diminishes the price Of goods: that
all kinds of manufactured articles are
vastly lower now than in 1850; that
labor can only vote for the side that
gives them wages, and protection alone
will give the farmer q home market;
that Without protection the farmer will
have no money to buy with that free
wool saves at the spiggot but loses at
the bung; that protected labor is inf
nitely better paid than free trade labor
that protection yields indirect benefits
greater than the direct, by giving q
good market all round; that tariff in
the large sense is not 30 much tax as
a license fee laid upon foreigners for
availing themselves of privileges &C.
cured by our own labor and expense /;
that farmers have never improved 90
rapidly as during the last twenty years
that by diversifying industries our
home demand will soon be equal
to the home supply; that the protec-
ton system is the great stimulant:of
invention that without protection the
sorghum-sugar process would never
have been invented; that protected
America took five premiums at the
worlds exposition at Paris, while free
trade England took none; that judi
cious disbursement is the true remedy
for the surplus that national domin.
ance prevents war;; that substantial
building saves rent and loss by fire;
that pensions stimulate patriotism;
that the payment of the national debt
saves interest and preserves national
credit.
Mr.. Funston spoke in q fearless,
manly style and was listened to with
unusual attention. His own enthusi.
asm in his subject generated enthusi-
asm in others. At the close he receiv.
ed party ovation from many mem.
bers Of his party. The most generous
recognition of any speaker since Faith
er Kelley delivered his Introductory
grafton.