Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30


imports into the United States exceeded our
exports, and times were hard. From 1876 to
1873 our exports exceeded our imports 81 ISL
S6,sIi and times have been good. [Applause.l
MY feilow-citiZens, that enormous balance
OF the bookkeeping OF this nation with
foreign nations for now less than IL
eedness to US; shows how much the products of
American labor on the farm. in tue workshop
IN the mine. In every capacity, has exceeded all
that we have taken from foreign nations, and IL
PUTS forever to rest, or ought to, In the mind of
any considerable man who sits down
soberly to judge this subject. the objection
which has been made to the tariff system of the
Republican party. that it a device calcu-
lated to and inevitably to the impoverishment
OF tins nation. Now one singular thing,
my fellow citizens, is that foreign nations don't
like the Mckinley bill. They rise IN universal
denunciation of 1t. So charitable and offcious
are they for our welfare that they regard us as
unwise In passing it. They say it strikes a
blow at their industries. They say that it gives
the nation an undue advantage in the compe-
t ,;nh OF labor and production with nations
thinking. much more than their share. Now.
my fellow citizens. in bills Of this character
oses Tie un.eS a ssaes tbep
going to make or lose; foreign
nations are either going to make or lose by this
universal voice of dissent and reprobatiou arise
from across the sea from the papers of London,
from the official organs of France or Count
Clenoke, of Germany mourning over the loss of
convict made pearl buttons. you may rest assured
that so far as the judgment of foreign
nations upon this bill is concerned, it is that
United States the gamers by the transaction.
Applause Let me read you few lines from
{. translation from leading Berlin paper of
Law" 1t is long diatribe against the hideous
mistake that the American people have
been making against their own interests
recently became law. And the editor says:
Now for the first time America is really begin
ming to be what it has heretofore been consld-
cred as being. the Eldorado of protection The
dangers arising from this are common to all
European states; the defense should therefore
be common. AS to what this line of defense is
the purpose of this article to answer"
So it seems, my fellow citizens that this act of
this American people, enacted by them in their
majesty and in their Independence, and con-
ceived by large majority of the Aueri-
can people to be for their own benefit,
is considered by this most authentic
upon German industries. That de
tense must be made against it; that the Amer
lean has assumed the aggressive; and it is
fact he has done SO. Coming with all the armor
of the accumulated riches which l have de-
scribed and proved to you by statistics, sur
passing Great Britain in manufactures; the
enormous balance in our favor of 81 500. 600 600
In but IL years is it surprising, my fellow citi-
zens. that the American people should rise and
turn and face the commerce OF the world and
the nations of the word and say we are now
ready, not only to manufacture for ourselves,
bnt demand our share of our commerce with
you.
And right here let me notice another consid-
Grafton which has been advanced in discussions
of this character. 1T has been said that owing
to the operations of the tariff the farming in
terests of New Eng land, for instance have been
so far injured that the agriculture of New
England no longer sustalns its people. My fell
low citizens, 1t was not because ef any injuri-
this was brought to pass. In that fact lies the
highest proof of their efficacy and benehcence.
For more than two centuries the farmer OF New
England had wrung hard subsistence from
hard and unwilling soil, but under the intiu-
ence of protection the industries of New Eng
land took another form. The water which had
and tumbling over her pools was put to turning
wheels and the farmers boy and the farmers
girl were released from the lot lot; OF fol
and mother, and they sought the more lucra-
tive employment of the mandatory they went
where better wages and better SUBSISTENCE
could be obtrined, where inventive genius had
play; where manual dexterity could find en-
ployment. and where all conditions of life were
bettered and were frightened from year to
New England farm fell into decay
and passed out of productiveness.
relatively to what it had been before. But what
The consequence WIS that New England and
the man ufacturins states had to look elsewhere,
namely to tho West for their subsistence; and
Immediately, as by magic, after the close of the
war, the West became peopled, and owing to
the facilities of transportation and the ex-
pee5ant fertility Hit % her en se the New West s
land where before the time of manufactures
the western part Of the country had no market
a. all Nov DO son Pssoedvds the the po,asI
ulatiop of this country by the diversifcation
of industries and by the creation of the home
and domestic consumer and home . market SO SO
civilization no longer stands pausing upon any
western outposts; population has crossed this
country we have admitted new states until
from sea to sea this country stands under the
wide arch of an empire unbroken from ocean to
ocean. lApplaqse! a., p
home market to the extent of 50 per cent of all
our production. For. notwithstanding all this
discussion and talk and objection upon this
country cemented the American people with
each other, and only per cent of our produc-
ton at ali attaches to foreign commerce.
The present tariff bill has expanded in a most
liberal and remarkable manner. the free list. 1t
has put all tho tbers upon the free list, .jute,
manila. sisal and sun-l mean all the hoers
do produce, of fax and hemp, it has protected
those fibers so that the American farmer can deal
with the American manufacturer. Applause
Now take an instance right in point. l have
noticed with great deal of interest and great
deal of state pride that the energy and liberality
of the people OF this city are about to establish
of Minneapolis. Applause Minnesota PRO
duces three-seyenths of all the ha1 raised in
We have protected the farmer of Minnesota as
to that flax, we protect the manufacturer of
Minneapolis as to that linen, and the conse-
quences will be that the farmers of Minnesota
will no longer have to gamble upon single
crop of wheat. 1t has another reliance, the flax
crop of this state. Hundreds of people who do
not now live here will gather round your fac
tory and the farmer will have a market
within 60 miles of the place of production for
his raw material which now rots benea1h the
And yet some free trader will tell you, some
one of these men who is in for protection ''for
revenue only" that he knows place four thou
perchance for year or two. or
buy linen towling, and all that sort of thing
cheaper than he can here at the start at least,
therefore he will condemn himself, he will con-
denim the people of this city to a foreign mar
ket to dictation of prices by n foreign manu-
facturer and frequently by foreign syndicate
We have placed molasses and sugar upon
THE FREE LIST.
There was another thing in which your delega-
ton was largely instrumental. 1t conceived the
idea that the article of binding Irvine, of inn
mense importance to the farmers of Minnesota,
should either be largely reduced in its duty
placed upon the free list; and as the result
of much discussion, as the result of consider
this Mckinley bill-which is abused
SO inconsideratelly, by those who have
1t if they WOULD laughter and applausel has
been reduced from ~ cents pound to mills,
or from % mills to an Immediate, apparent
and inestimable benefit to the farmers of Min
nesota.
What else has been done by this bill for the
the producers of the iand7 Take the matter OF
internal revenue. This bill has abolished all
special taxes and license, and you of this audi
ence, who for years have paid special taxes and
licenses to the government, know and
will soon feel just what it MEANS 1t re-
duces the tax on manufactured tobacco
from to 6 cents a pound and it removes all re-
strictions upon the farmers who grow tobacco.
This was for the benefit of farmers of Wiscon-
SIM and of Connecticut, and of Kentucky, and
of Missouri who are large producers of that