Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-28

free raw materials. The proof OF this IS
irrefutable In 1873 Mr.. Tucker, of Vir-
ginia, had asked:
why should we make pig iron when
with Berkshire pigs raised upon our farms
we can buy more iron pigs from England
than we can get by trying to make our
selves. We can get more iron pigs from
England for Berkshire pigs than we can
from the Pennsylvania manufacturers,
Why, then should | not be permitted to
send there for them?
What market for our raw material,
for our products, if we only would take
the hand which Great Britain extends to
US for free trade between us
Mr.. Garfield replied:
''For a single season, perhaps, his plan
might be profitable to the consumers of
iron; but If his policy were adopted as a
permanent one, it would reduce us to a
merely agricultural people, whose chief
business would be to produce the simplest
raw materials by the least skill and cul-
ture, and let the men of brains of other
countries do our thinking for us and pro-
vide for US all the products requiring the
cunning hand of the artisan, while we
would be compelled to do the drudgery for
ourselves and TOR them.
1t was in the same speech that Mr.. Tuck
er, beaten and baffied on the practical line
tried, as it was stated at the time, the
''pious dodge, and said:
Commerce, Mr.. Chairman, links all
mankind In one common brotherhood of
mutual dependence and interests, and
thus creates that unity of our race which
makes the resources of all the property of
each and every member. We can not if
we would, and should not if we could, re-
main isolated and alone Men under the
benign influence of Christianity earn for
intercourse, for the interchange of thought
and the products of thought as a means of
a common progress toward a nObler civil
cation.
''Mr. Chairman, cannot believe this is
according to the Divine plan. Christian
ity bids us seek, In communion with our
brethren of every race and cline, the
blessings they can afford us, and to be-
stow in return upon them those with
which our new continent is destined to ill
the world.
In response to the above Mr. Garfield
made one of the abest replies ever utter
ed in congress June 4, 1878: This, |
admit, is a grand conception, beautiful
vision of the time when all the nations
shall dwell in peace; when all will be, as
it were one nation, each furnishing to the
others what they cannot proftably pro-
duce, and all working tremendously to.
gether in the millennium of peace. If al
the Kingdoms in the world should become
the Kingdoms of the Prince of Peace, then
admit that universal free trade ought to
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remote to be made the basis of practical
legislation of to-day. We are not yet
members of the parliament of man, the
federation of the world. For the present
the world is divided into separate nation
alities; and that other divine command
still applies to our situation: He that
provldeth not for his own household has
denied the faith, and is worse than an in
fdel, and until that better era arrives
patriotism must supply the place of uni
versal brotherhood
For the present Grotschakoff can dc
more good to the world by taking care OF
Russia. The great Bismarck can accom-
plish more for his era by being. as he is,
German 80 The core, and promoting the
welfare of the German empire. Let Bea-
consfield take care of England, and Nc
Mahon of France, and let Americans de-
vote themselves to the welfare of America.
When each does his best for his own ma
ton to promote prosperity, justice and
peace, all will have done more for the
world than if all had attempted to be
cosmopolitans rather than patriots" Gap
pla use.
In the same speech, Mr.. Garfield said,
what is we'll worthy of consideration now
Too much of our tariff discussion has
been warped by narrow and sectional con-
siderations. But when we base our action
upon the conceded national Importance OF
the great industries | have referred to,
when we recognize the fact that artisans
and their products are essential to the
well-being of our country, it follows that
there is no dweller in the humblest cottage
on our remotest frontier who has not q
deep personal interest in the Legislation
that shall promote these great national
industries. Those arts that enable om
nation to rise In the scale of civilization
bringing their blessings to all, and patrio
tic citizens will cheerfully bear a fail
share of the burden necessary to make
their country great and self-sustaining.
will defend tariff that is national in it:
aims, that protects, and sustains those
interests without which the nation cal
uOb ueCOuIt SItdu anu SelI-SuSIdlnluS.
The Cleveland administration seemed tC
nave recognized the truth of the follow
ing, except in the case of the Dolphin: Sc
important, In my view, Is the ability OF
the nation to manufacture all those article,
necessary to arm. equip, and clothe oul
people, that if it could not be secured
in any osher way | would vote t.
pay money out to the federal treasury t.
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en- and cotton mills, at whatever cost
Were we to neglect these great Interest,"
and depend upon other nations, In what {
condition of bel plessnesS would we fine
oursel Ives when we should be again iDvolv
we were depending to furnish us these
supplies? The system adopted by ou
father is wiser for it so encourages tht
national industries as to make it possible
at all times for our people to equip them
selves for war, and at the same time in
crease their intelligence and skill o as tt
make them better fitted for all the duties
of citizenship. both in war and peace
We provide for the common defense by
system which promotes the general war
fare.
Again Mr. Garfield said: LET It b,
remembered that % per cent of all tn,
laborlng people in this country are arti
sans engaged in manufactures. Thei
culture has been fostered by our tariff
laws 1t is their pursuits and the skill
which they have developed that produce,
the glory of our centennial exhibition. T.
thelI the country owes the splendor of tn
position it holds before the world NOR
than to any other equal number of our cit