St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-22
PRETTY DIRECT.
The Kind of a Deal New England
Gives Her Western Brethren.

1IiC "a a DOak NCW
Gives Her Western Brethren.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In his speech at Grand Harbor the
other day, Mr.. Blaine undertook to
show what an unmitigated blessing the
New England manufacturers are to the
agricultural, and particularly the West
ern states. In doing this he closely
followed the Hon. William Mckinley in
his speech against the Mills bill. Mr..
Blaine says New England pays the
West annually for wool $40, 0OO,0 600, Mr..
Mckinley said 1t was $40,000,0 900, but my
quarrel is not with their figures. Mr..
Blaine says she pays us SS4,000.000 per
annum for her food supplies. Mr.. Nc
Kinley said it was sat least $40, 900, 000,"
but | care not, so far as the argument is
concerned, whether the one or the
other be correct, or whether the exact
figures be ten or twenty or fifty millions
different from the figures of either.
And yet, an ordinary man would think
such high authorities in protectiOniSm
ought to ''iibe" better than this. Mr..
Blaine eXclaimS: us anything more
needed to prove the value to you of the
home market?" Mr.. Mckinley said:
Il repeat, is this not market worth
preserving, aye, cherishing, and does it
not make us long to have New England
thrift, New England enterprise and
New England policies more generally
distributed throughout all sections of
the cOuntrY?" | say yes, Mr.. Blaine,
there is something more to be proved.
To Mr.. Mckinley, | say. hold on min
ute; let us investigate little before we
go into the 'cherishing" business too
extensively. In dealing with Yankee
it isn't good policy to go altogether on
the ''gnsh' principle. Better open
your eyes a little and see what
kind OF a deal he is giving you. The
Yankee does not dO his business Oh the
"gush" style at all. If he is sending
out here SS4.OO0,OOO to buy our products
with, he is going to see that he gets full
value for his millions, and few to
spare, and don't you forget it, Mr..
Blaine. If he is sending out at least
S7O,000.000, to pay for our products, he is
not doing it for the special purpose of
"cherishing" our industries, and don't
you disremember it, Brother Mckinley.
Therefore, say, before we rush off
on the "cherish" and ''gush" tangent
very far, let us stop and inquire what
kind of a deal Mr.. Yankee is giving us
in this matter. Now, Mr.. Blaine knows
very we'll, and so does William, sur
named Mckinley, when he sObers
down out of his ecstatic flights, that if
New England sends us either $40, 10000
or SS4, 900. 900 to buy farm products, we
send her about the same amount to buy
manufactures. The result is, then,
that we really swap our farm products
for her wares. Aren't we as necessary
to her as she is to us? And now, what
kind of a swap does she give US? She
takes our wheat, provisions, etc., at the
market price of the world-the price
fixed by the lowest pauper labor of the
world, the serfs of Russia and the riots
of India, to whom 10 cents day, with
out board or lodging, is big price, al
though our farmers who raised that
produce had to pay from 81 to $3.50 a
day for the labor that went into it; and
how about the goods she snapped us for
this produce? Why, by reason of our
protective tariffs. she was enabled to
add from 35 to so per cent to her wares
above the market price of the world.
And so she has been getting our wheat
at from so to 60 cents per bushel-the
same price that Liverpool bought it at,
freight add ed in each case, while she
tucked an bonus of from 20 to 80 per
cent on everything she traded us for
that wheat above the Liverpool mar
ket. And then she sent us back the
money she euchreS US out of on the
deal to loan on our houses and farms.
All. Mr. Blaine, that's the kind of a
New England she is. Aye, aye, Mr..
Mckinley, that's the kind of deal she
gives us, and that's the way she
s.chershes" her beloved brothers out
West. l really had Il suspicion from the
beginning that the Yankee wasn't going
to lose money Oh the trade, and now
that suspicion is as ripe as wooden
nutmeg. But, if the Yankee says he
has to pay 100 per cent or 200 per cent
more wages than his competitors in
England Oh Germany or France pay,
then want TO reply that our farmers pay
900 per cent greater wages than their
competitors in India pay. Why should
one class OF our citizens be protected
against 70-cent-a-day labor, while
another class has no protection
against 10-cent-a-day labor? | said
there was something more for you to
prove, Dir. Blaine. Prove that it is just
and honest and righteous for the gov
eminent to compel one class of its citi-
zens to trade their produce at the
worlds market value to another class
of citizens who are allowed 10 add a
bonus of from 80 to 80 per cent above
the market price of the world to the
goods with which they pay the former
class for their produce. Prove that it is
fair and just and equitable to make the
! farmer compete with the lowest pauper