Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18

aearths.one and by the tireside, have
hsoute free trade fCheers and cries
i That's it. that's the doctrine We
10 not erect a barrier on the border of
luy State against another State. II you
have q particular article you can come
10 Maine, o New York, TO New England, /
II you can go TO California or Oregon, !
and you Will not ~ met on the whole
way by cu5tom-hoJses or taX-collectors
80 any kind. So thaJ, as matter of
act--and uaTe brought it to the at
tel.lan ,.t ts cope De eond the sea-
there is not, nor has there ever been, so
great number Of millions Of people in
the world who have had the greatest
and highest blessings that free trade can
give them as the people Of the United
States. Applause
But we know also that is free trade
among ourselves. That is the inter-
course between the great family of the
American people, who do not tax each
other, and every State ID which Is
guaranteed a home to any man that
chooses to settle in it, and every man
has the same rlght in one State that he
can have in any other State. lCheers
But when YOU come to the question
whether the foreign peoples, who pay
10 taxes. who are not of our family,
who live alien TO us, who live far beyond
the ocean, shall enter into this great
home market. that opens another sues
'tion. There comes IN the great doctrine
of protection. More than that, let me
say here that the principle of protection
is not always in every country alike
profitable The principle of protection
cannot be applied in every country with
the same value and the same profit, and
/ will tel You why, it has
become of lasting profit to the
United States. 1t is because the
United States is a worl Id within itself.
Now, if we were little narrow country
that only had one or two products, prob
ably if we sought to protect those pro-
duets we would only raise the price up
on ourselves; but we have a country
that extends from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific, from the Gulf to the Lakes,
from latitude 90 degrees on the borders
of the Tropic of Cancer 90 latitude 40 de-
grees, away off on the borders of British
Columbia. We have the seml-trOpical
products in Southern California, and in
the Northern latitudes we have the cere-
ais; we have the fruits, we have the cot
ton, we have wool, we have hemp-we
have world within ourselves. Ard so
large does this principle Of protection
become and so varied Is its application
that no man can say thai this man or
that man Is protected at the expense OF
his neignbor, because every pursuit, ev-
cry calling mwhich man engages, comes
in for a share Of the great beneEcent in
hueuce which protection gives TO Ma
ton situated MS the United States is
81, 40 f, ne
about free trade tell them in England
that as compared with us they know
nothing about it. We have gotabsOlute
free trade among G5,000,0 Of our own
people, and we have protection against
the / 400, 600 600 of people that live out
side Of us Applause and laughter.
Now l understand my duty to be to
look out for these Ga. 600, 600 of people at
home. The old saying used to be that
the City of Prague was the cleanesJ city
in Europe, and the reason was that
every man brushed his own doorstep.
/ TCheers and laughter. Now these phi
lanthropic statesmen, like President
Cleveland--If / may say so Laughter. !
who want to look out for trade beyond
the sea and to benefit mankind beyond
our keeping, think have got larger
lob on hand than they will accomplish,
and | know that the Nation which most
and best looks ont for itself is acting not
only according to the law of intelligent
seltishuess but according to the best law
of brotherlv love and philanthropic re-
gard for man; for the richer we grow
the more we impress ourselves upon the
entire world rs an exhibition and .
proof of what intelligent men can dc
uDdor Self-uOyerument without the and
of a noble or a king. TCheers1 That IL
what this country has done. Cheers
/ We framed our government without the
protection of kings and in spite OF them.
/ We grew up without the favor Of the
/ great in Europe ana in spite of them
/ We grew up without the patronage OF
! nations in Europe and in spite Of them
/ and to-day we have grown so large that
the little Nation of 100000 in the
/ struggle Of 1116 has become SO great an
/ grand and so powerful that it over
/ shadows them all. The example Of thi;
/ Nation Is worth more TO struggling
nationalties and TO suffering humanity
throughout this world than any thing
/ that il was in the power Of the Amerl
/ can people to produce. The policy which
has done that is the policy of protection
which has caused our wide Interchange
4 of domestic products, and which ha:
surrounded our interests by grea
power against injurious intrusion from
abroad and with perfect safety at home
/ lChecrs.