The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-08-28
A POINTED ARG U AZ mt.

That protection protects, and further
more that it pays to protect, is sufficient
" indicated by an editorial article in a
Canadian paper, advocating free trade.
Tine Moncton On. b. Transcript, OF
August 10Th, says:
Give the Maritime provinces unrestrict-
ed trade with the Uuited States, and
they will become the most populous por-
lions of Canada. The isthmus and adj
iacent counties will be to Canada what
the Black country is to England. The de-
velopment of the mines-the expansion of
the mining industry-will provide work
all the wear around for an immense pop
ulation.
The population of Canada is not suffi-
GENTLY large to create demand equal to
the ADEQUATE development of the coal
and iron mines of these provinces. 1t is
here i'm the east that the absence OF such
q development is keenlv felt Our people
are impoverished on the one hand by the
burden of taxation, and on the other
hand by exclusion from their natural
markets.
But there are signs of a brighter dawn.
The tariff reform movement is sweeping
on with irresistible force, in the ne1gh-
boring republic. Cleveland drove the
wedge in, and now Blair is following
There is shaking and quaklng among
the dry bones of protection.
And to emphasize the foregoing bright
picture of the way in which free trade
would build up Canadian industries at
the expence OF the United States, witness
the following:
Throw down the tariff barriers and
the rush of capital into Canada from the
limited States would be enormous.
Wealth would flow into the country-all
classes of business would expand-the
volume of profits would increase and the
rates of wages advance-the hum OF
great industries would be heard in all
these provinces; and the land be dotted
with tall chimes and the sky at nigh.
over this isthmus would be red with the
glare of smelling furnaces!
There YOU have it in nut shell. Capt.
tai from the United States would rush
into Canada and light up the horizon of
our nighbors with the lurid light of blast
furnaces. OF necessity, every fire lighted
there means one extinguished here. Every
dollar of additional capital there means
one less here. The profits so eloquently
and longingly hoped for there must be
paid here. Higher wages there must in
eyitably lead to lower wages here or else
an increased cost of production for which
we must pay.
Once more and more it:
Which shall it Ike: The N. r. and closed
cotton factory-shut down lock works
mortgage burdened farms-low wages
deserted ship yards and impoverished
coasting trade or
Unrestricted reciprocity and the hum
of industry on every hand; the flow OF
capital into Canada developing our un-
settled lands and natural resources and
reviving silent factories; the sound of
ship building on every available creek,
the hustle and stir IN the little ports of
the lower provinces so we'll remembered
in the days of reciprocity, and triple
pro6ts-profts on the produce we sell.
profits on the cargos carried in the ships
we own, and profits on the goods
brought back in exchange.
But, says the farmer, what have we to
do with this? We are not affected by
this building up of Canadian industries.
My dear farmer friend, read closely and
between lines. The Canadian farmers
have tens of thousands of acres of uncul-
tiyated lands just as fertile and produc-
tive as our own, and agriculture would
receive stimulus commensurate with
manufacturing activities, and the thous-
ands Of 1aboring men would be supplied
with bread and meat from Canadian
farms. And worse than that, the
thousands of operators in the United
States forced out of employment in the
factories would turn to the soil for liv-
ing, and instead of being consumers of
your produce would become active COM
petitors with you in both home and for
eign markets.
The policy advocated by England and
her provinces for their prosperity at our
expense, is the policy which tits very safe
to combat.
That was a wise saying, and very APP
plicable in this connections: Find out
what the enemy wants you to do, and
then don't do it."