Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29
WILL VOTE FOR AMERICA.
Mr.. +. q. Pechln, . PROMINENT Iron Man
DenOunces the FREQ Trade ID eddlera. I.

Harrison and Morton and prOtectlOn, He
is Mr.. +. e. Pechin, well known rs q
scientific authority ON Ill matters pertain.
ing to the iron trade. MIR. Pechin is a
writer of prominence on the production
of, iron, and is interested IN its mauufac-
ture. Before becoming citizen Of Clcvc
land he lived in Western Pennsylvania,
where he was active in politics as demo-
crat. He has written letter to the
American Manufacturer. explaining his
position and addressing his democratic
friends in Pennsylvania. which will bear
careful scrutiny. 1t IS as follows: IS
f. CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 81, 1885,
EDITOR AMERICAN MANUFAcTURER:- |
Since in your editorial columns of last |
week you give me some prominence as an
old-time Democrat intending to vote tor
HARRISON. will you kindly allow me few
words.
In all that made me democrat in Penn
sylvania for so many years am a demo
crat still, but against the democracy of
Cleveland. Mills, and Scott protest and
vote. confidently believe that had my
old friend and competitor for Congress.
slonal honors in the gallant old Twenty
first district, Boyle, been in Congress this
session, his cool, able head and thought
full character would have placed him
alongside of Randall rather than Mills.
Years of careful reading and much obser-
vation and thought have only strengthen
ed the conviction formed long ago that,
as far as the United States is concerned,
that national policy should be adopted
and adhered to which most rapidly and
surely developes all classes of manufac-
turing enterprises. An empire within
ourselves as to climate, soil, and natural
resources, the largest prosperity must
| come as agriculture and manufacturing
Join hands. Both are lnseparablc, and
the combination, the integration, of both
brings about the grandest results
Not many years ago we were simply an
agricultural people. In 1888, while the
annual value of agricultural products had
reached the enormous sum of nearly five
billion of dollars, the annual value of
manufactured products exceeded this.
The material progress Of the United
States during the last twenty-five years
exceeds that of any other nation. The
records for the same period show that the
purchasing power of what the wage
Garner receives had steadily increased.
Statistics show that the wages paid to
workingmen here, are far IN excess of
that paid to workingmen elsewhere, and
that on the whole the prices for the neces-
saries of life are as low as elsewhere.
The condition of the workingman here is
immensely superior to that of the work.
ingman in any part of the world. To
thrift, sobriety, and Intelligence any posi-
ton is open. In my judgment these strik-
| ing results have been brought about by
those inducements held out by the govern
ment in the shape of duties that protected
the capital of comparatively new coun-
try, in its investments in various forms.
against the low and ill-paid labor of the
Old World, kept down and oppressed by
the accumulated capital of centuries.
The democracy of to- day says that our
prosperity is fictitious. that workmen and
farmer are alike oppressed, and that hap
pier results will come If all governmental
barriers are removed and trade made free.
don't believe 1t, and so I am not that
sort of a democrat. Neither do the So
called democrats of the House practice
what they preach, because they have kept
the duties on Southern sugar and rice and
marble, and taken them off Northern
cotton ties, salt and wool. Texas, l know,
is large wool raiser. but it's Aocks range
on lands belonging to the government, or
other people. The Northern farmer has
| to own and fence his grazing land.
President Cleveland. in his message,
clearly shows his position and tendency
The Mills bill, shorn of much of its orig
inal productiveness oy the pressure of
political circumstances. is but the enter
ing wedge, that, with democratic sue
cess, will split wide open the nanufac-
turing system of the country. e.
| If the products of the great industries
of America are to be brought in eompe-
tition with the low labor products Of the
old world, one result is inevitable: Wages
must at once fall, or mills and factories
will close, until wages here adjust them
selves to those abroad. I believe in do.
nestle competition, and under its healthy
influence, combinations" and trusts"
will surely die, but don't want foreign
competition as well, when that comrcti
ton is based upon wages that permit the
workingmen only to exist-never to live.
I want to see the workingman prosperous
and contented, with we'll clothed body
and a we'll filed stomach, with comfort
able home, and educated children, and
those who know my record in the past,
know that these are not idle words.
want to see the farmer prosper, with a