Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-23

| Ihe castles of the marauders were
still to smoke upon the hilltops and tall
| chlmneys were still to break the sky
line OF this unhappy country. They are
to be allowed to rob within 7 per cent.
of what they rob now, and as compen-
satlon they were to be let loose upon
the markets Of the world, where, ac-
| cOrdlng TO the learned chairman, they
were to reap larger wealth and pile up
statelier millions.
| If the President was right, and gentle
men did not dare to doubt him, an an
nual tribute was paid protected manu-
lecturers out of the pockets of the peo-
| pie more impoverishing than ever was
| exacted by any oriental despot. In the
face of duty to free the people from
this iron yoke you gentlemen stand mig
| CLING about the amount of the tribute.
| Instead of $47 for every 100 they
| proposed to give $40 of the
peoples money and throw into
| the trade the markets of the world. If
1T were a tribute, be bold and sweep it
away. Why did they hesitate? Was it
because they dared not be caught lower
ing the wages of the laboring men who
have votes? Have the courage of your
leaders, convictions-tor has not the
gentleman from Texas, godfather of this
bill, who has promised to bring it up in
the nurture and admonition of the
Lord loudly proclaimed to the open
day that tariffs have nothing to do with
wages? Is it out Of mercy to the capital
lst that YOU falter?
Do you say there is capital invested
under OUR laws, and we must keep faith
with those who have invested it?
Whether faith should be kept with such
vampires is for you to say. But surely
no better faith need be kept than to pay
back every cent they have invested. If
the President be right, and John Ran
dOlph Tucker be right, If the honorable
and gallant member be right if j. S.
Moore, who fixes the tribute in 1882 at
81 900, 900 more than any of us, be
right-if they all be right, then every
| year more than $1,000, 900, 900 come out
of the people for these men.
He did not purpose to defend protec-
ton. Its vast growth within the last
quarter of a century defended it better
even than eloquent orations. 1t was
born with the republic. 1t was the faith
and practice of every civilized nation
under the sun, save one. 1t had sur
vived the assaults Of all the professors
of the ''dismal science" called political
economy. It had stood up against all
the half knowledge of learned men who
never had sense enough TO transmute
their learning into wisdom. On the face
of the earth to-day there were but two
sets of people who believe in free
trade, whether pure and simple or
disguised as revenue reform and those
two are the masked majority of the
committee on WAYS and means, and
| their followers and the united kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, with Ire
land suppressed, Russia, the granary of
L,l 4 I,
the striking result that whereas, in 1876,
before the duties were raised. she
bought 100000 hundred weight Of
British metals and paid therefor
$50, 000,000; she got the same guam
tity in 1884 and paid only ST.
900 for it. Austria, Germany,
Italy, Mexico and the Dominion Of
| Canada, that child Of Britain herself,
had all joined the army of protection.
| 1t was the instinct of humanity against
| the assumptions of the bookmen. 1t
was the wisdom of the race against the
| wisdom of the few. Man derived his
| with other men, his union with his fell
| lows.
Here in the United States were co.
| 100000 people with all the varied char
| acters their numbers indicate. The
| problem before Congress was what sys-
| tenn would get from all these creatures,
| so different from each other, the maxi
| mum of work and wealth and wisdom.
| There was only one way to get the best
work out of men and that was to give
each the work he can do best To en-
able the American people themselves
to supply ali their wants you must give
and assure to the American people the
! American markets. What did this
| phrase mean in practical life? It
means that we, the nation, say to
capital, Embark yourself in the man
| ufaclure of such and such articles, and
you shall have market to the extent Of
| the wants of the American people,"
| Capital then said to labor, Go with me
into this new field, all Of you who ike
this work best, and we will share the re-
| Suits" Then began a new industry.
Multiply this by hundreds and you had
community where every man honestly
minded would get what on the whole
suits him best and the nation would get
the greater amount of work from the
| greatest number.
"Call in the British When the day
| comes that this republic cannot save it
! self from a dozen of its own citizens
| without aid from over the sea, [ hope to
| be buried a thousand leagues under
some respectable and permanent noun
| tain range. What unreasonable talk
| this is A dozen men fix the prices
for 6O,OOO,00O freemen! They can never
| do it.
"Here is another unsolicited gun
| called the markets of the world The
markets of the world How broad and
cool these words are They stretch
| from the frozen regions of the northern
| pole across the blazing tropics to the
| -bound'shores of the Antarctic con-
tine1t. All this we can have if we will
| but give up the little hands breadth
called the United States of America.
| What are the markets of the
world? To hear these rhetori-
clans declaim you would imagine the
markets of the world a vast vacuum
waiting till now for American goods to
! break through, rush in and fill the
yearning void. Will your goods 60 to
Austria. to Italy, Germany, Russia, or
! France? Around all these benighted
| countries are the Chinese walls of tariff
! taxes. ALI these nations will contest
| with YOU the other countries which they