The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-17

those colonial markets put together. She knows
OF one market in which %, 100000 OF the most in
telligent people on the globe are purchasers and
consumers-the United states of America-and
she knows that IL she can get into that market
IL means "A revival OF her trade such as has not
been known for n century and such as could not
be known before the United States had attained
TO tie great power and the great wealth we now
have. England seeks an entrance into this
market, and the Democratic party following tho
lead OF President Cleveland ia doing everything
1t can to destroy our home market and give
large share OF it to nations beyond the sea-
They say, to begin with: Let us have no duty
on wool Why should we give protection to
wool? Why not say to Australia: Bring your
wool here and you have just as good market
in this country as an American citizen has for
his wool
They say TO Canada: Everything you can
raise for your vegetable product, your grains
your diaries, shall come in here and have Just as
good chance under the American flag as our
own people who pay taxes here and support our
own Government.
They say to all the people throughout the
globe: You who produce salt, come here and
you shall have Just as good "A chance in our mar
ket as the State OF Michigan or the State OF New
York, which supply the United States with salt.
And 80 on throughout the whole list, each State
in the Union is struck in one great staple, two
great staples, or three great staples by the
declaration that they shall not DO allowed to
furnish article which many American citi-
zens are laboring to produce unless they do so in
direct competition with import atoms from
nations that do nothing to support the United
StAtoB. VINO pay no taxes 10 inc government OF
the United States and who are not in any way
interested in the Government of the United
States. Now, do you think that is fair play? Is
that fair play that you the great State of Michi-
gan, with over 2,OO0000 Of people contributing
your share to the support OF the State Govern
ment and of the National Government, should
have no more right and no more favor under the
flag Of your country than the men who live in a
foreign country beyond the sea? Is that
ordinary fair play between man and man?
Well, now, speaking Of free trade there
advantages in free trade, and will tell you one
of them. We are 65, 0)O,OOO of people; we have
thirty-eight States and eight Territories; we
have $4,000 square miles OF territory; we
have II, 900 miles OF ocean froat and over that
vast area-nearly as large as tho continent of
Europe, with much greater waterfront on the
ocean-we Americans, among ourselves, around
the hearthstone and by the Preside. have abso-
the border Of any State against another State II
you have particular article you can come TO
Maine, TO New York, to New England, or you can
go TO California or Oregon, and you will not be
met on the whole way by custom houses or tax
collectors of any kind SO that. as n matter OF
fact-and have brought IL to the attention OF
people beyond the sea-there Is not, nor has there
ever been, so great n number of millions OF peo-
pie in the world who have had the greatest and
highest blessings that free trade give them
as the people OF the United States.
But we know also that IA free trade among
ourselves. That is the intercourse between the
great family of the American people, who do not
tax each other, and every State in which is guar
anteed home TO any man that chooses to settle
I'm IL. apd every man has the same right in one
state that he can have I'm any other State But
when you come TO the question whether the for
eign peoples, VINO pay no taxes, who not OF
our family, who live alien to US, who live far be-
yond the ocean, shall enter into this great home
market, that opens another question. There
comes In the great doctrine OF protection. More
than that, let me say here that the principle Of