The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-29
SHERMAN'S SPEECH.
Remarks of the Ohio Senator Be-
fore the Home Market Club
of Boston.
The Benefits OF Protection to- Ameri.
can Labor and Capital Clearly
Set Forth.
James Russell Lowell Taken to Task
for Some Recent Misstate-
msnts.

Gentlemen, / have, frat of all, to thank
you for the hearty reception you have gwen
10 stranger from distant State; but q
stranger akin to you by many ties Of associa-
ton, and, more than all, by a hearty sympa-
thy with you IN the line OF public policy that
has done more than any other to develop the
resources and to promote the prosperity of
our common country,
l like the name of your club, for it is a
name that describes your principles; 1t Is q
creed in itself-home market for home pro-
ductions. 1t has the flavor Of patriotism
When you use the word SLome" you do not
mean your household, your business, not
even Boston or Massachusetts, but your whole
country from ocean to ocean, from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico The market you refer to
Is the interchange OF the products OF sixty
millions OF people, the most free, Intelligent
and prosperous on the globe, engaged not
merely In manufactures but agriculture and
commerce. and embracing almost every en-
ployment of civilized man. You use the
phrase Shome market" to distinguish 1t from
the foreign market not to exclude the for
eign market but to emphasize your prefer
ence for the home market as infinitely great
or, more valuable, more productive than the
foreign market
The home market deals with over So 000,-
100000 annually OF agricultural products, and
5000, O0J,0O0 of manufactures, while the
foreign market deals with only 81, 81, 200
of exports and imports annually, and more
than half Of these are homo products. This
is not all; every part Of the capital and labor
employed in the production of the home mar
ket is American labor and capital These pro-
auctions are by American farmers and work.
shops, and they are transported on American
railroads, steamboats,, and wagons. They are
exchanged for each other by American mer-
chants, tradesmen, and middlemen, and more
than % per cent Of them is consumed by the
American people. 1t Is the home marked that
gives employment life, strength, health,
wealth, and comfort to the people of the
United States. 1t is this home market that l
take it, you wish to foster, protect, and di-
versify.
On the other hand, our foreign market is
conducted entirely Ey foreigners. Nearly
one-half of it is in foreign products, made by
foreign labor, largely by people whose daily
wages would not buy the food saying moth
ing about clothing and shelter, that Is con-
sumed by the American workingmen; and
yet the price of ali food is confessedly cheaper
here than in Europe. These products are
transported on foreign vessels; they are con-
signed mainly to foreign agents as device
to secure naturalization, and, to large ex-
tent, are consumed as articles of luxury
and ornament The aggregate of imported
goods in the highest years of importation is
less than per cent of home products. More
than one-third of this, the great body that
enters into the consumption of our people, is
free of duty, and the rest is only charged
such reasonable duties as will incite home
competition without destroying home indus
tries.
AS to our exports, mostly of food, when
they leave our shores they are carried in
foreign vessels, and are only taken to supply
absolute wants. They are taken by our
European nelghbors as we take sugar from
the West Indies, and coffee from Brazil, be-
cause they must have them All the while
they are trying to get cheaper wheat from
Even what they do take in the way Of food is
less than per cent Of our production, while
the home market consumes the balance.
When i think of the contrast between our
home market and our foreign market in mag
nitude and proportions, the universal benefits
of the one and the comparative unimportance
of the other, lam led to wonder why 80 many
gentlemen of education and character are
willing to endanger the wonderful develop
ment OF our home industries to increase our
fessors as Mr.. Sumner and Mr.. Perry whose
theories exclude love OF country AMI
rest only upon the universal good of man.
The most distinguished professor Of this
school Of philosophy that know of is Mrs.
Jellyby, who devoted herself to the good Of
mankind, and, especially Of Africa, to the
neglect OF her house, her husband and the
little Jellybys. / believe the best we can do
FOR mankind is to do the best for our coun-
try. suppose that in Congress at least we
are to legislate for the United States, and tina {
on the question OF home marKet or foreign
market, we are to be guided by the interests of
the people of the United States
When you invited me 10 speak to the Homo
Market Club learned that there was another
club in Boston called the Massachusetts, Tariff
Reform League, and that its members had q
banquet here recently at which there were
many distinguished guests and speeches. So
naturally thought that here, at least, / might
find statement of the benefit of the foreign
market and what is meant by tariff reform.
/ carefully read all these speeches, and con-
fess my surprise to find 30 little on economc
questions affecting our home industry, and 80
much about politics. 1t is like Falstaff's bill
of fare; so little bread and 80 much sack.
Take MIR. Lowell, for instance, a gentleman
for whom have always entertained the high
est respect He Is known as an accomplished
writer, man of culture and taste, well
come representative OF this country at the
English court He was the President vf the
occasion, and gave tone and direction to it
/ find but very little about the tariff in his
remarks, buta good deal about Mr. Cleveland
He says
Personally, confess that feel myself
strongly attracted to Mr. Cleveland as the best
representative of the higher type OF Ameri-
canism that We have seen since Lincoln was
snatched from US.
Thus Mr.. Lowell, who has been honored by
a great party with its confidence and trust
places Mr. Cleveland above Grant the great
soldier of our country; above Hayes who
certainly gave to the country pure and ex-
cellent administration, and Mr.. Lowell, HIM
self; above Garfield, one of the most accom-
plished OF American statesmen. and above
Arthur, in every respect model gentleman
and prudent and able President
Now, for what has Mr. Cleveland been dis
tinguished to justify this eulogy? Two
things-frst for the promise of civil service
reform, and he has practced the most gen
eral, sweeping removals in the public Offices
since the government was established He
found 1850 Presidential Postmasters in Office
and he has removed or changed 1000 of them.
His Postmaster General, out Of SO, 900 en-
ployes under him has removed 40,0O0. Out
of thirty-three Ministers abroad the President
removed or changed thirty three, large pro-
y, ar rrn;n n,,. s se oi ~
places he has removed or changed AZ, 900, and
out of the AZ, 600 there are not fifty Republic
cans among the appointees. No wonder the
witty but cynical Mr.. Stearns, one OF these
appointees. says: @Civil service reform re-