Evening journal., 1890-01-01
REFORM TALK

REFORM TALK |
Q. Mills Discusses
" Rvorite Topic.
GLANDS TEA PARTY
Representative Nirs'
q I'll z3 81 Sz he Massachusetts Tarin
" ||| NE 3 at Boston President
s|z u sS nent to Mr.. Cleveland.
Members OF the Massa-
ssA orm league gathered in
.ss$ Nj. # HI RRE Pmont house last evening,
IA the annual dinner Of the
& Il Hon Henry Ia Pierce
Il! # @ a3 the more notable gem
u the Hon Roger Q. Mills,
4 \ 4 " |E|z Thomas G. Sherman, OF
" " zrd Atkinson, the Hon.
!. r.. IS the Hon. John M. Forbes,
4 |l.| 81. rarlow, Robert Bleakie,
%S W. Eliot, of Harvard
Il ss 81 IS rancis Adams, the Hon.
y I # Jerome Jones, the Hon.
S.153s e, the Hon. p. A. Collins
sz 81. ing the letters of regret re-
from the Hon. Seth Low, OF
8 me from the Hon. George
||4s| N III rnor Of Ohio +.
iment to Cleveland.
rec, in opening the after
VI said there were three great
eform ballot reform and
III sform-now on trial before
q; Ia that it was no small ad-
Yin the struggle before us we
4 N leader a man of moral cour-
honesty and straightforward
lost interesting personality in
fe-Grover Cleveland
introduced the Hon Roger Q.
the first regular speaker Of the
Mr.. Mills was most enthusiastic
A~ received
Mr.. mills Speech.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Mills said
"Standing this December evening in the
midst of the sons of this old granite stock,
who arc assembled to give utterance to their
comp aints against the unnecessary and un
Just interference by congress with the for
eign trade Of our people, / recall that other
meeting on that other December evening in
this same metropolis Of New England more
than century ago, when your fathers, after
having listened TO the eloquent Quincy, raised
Mohawk warhoop, and, rushing down tc
the wharf, made a teapot Of Boston harbor.
That night New England crossed the rubi-
con, and that night severed forever every
cord that bound the colonies to the British
crown.
Americas First Home Market.
"In connection with that historic tea
party another thought involuntarily rises
| in the mind, and that is that the first and
| immediate result Of ID was the passage by
parliament Of an act which closed the port
Of Boston against all imports coming within
her jurisdiction. And this gave to Americs
the first thorough, complete, perfect and
/ only ideal home market this continent has
ever had the very market now zealously
sought for by so many wise statesmen and
so many patriotic citizens. In that cxclu
/ sively American market the products ol
American labor were thoroughly protected
against all foreign competition. Every
citizen could buy what he wanted, if h'
could find it, at the highest price, and sci
his products, if he could find purchaser, a
the lowest price. And there was no foreign
pauper 70 molest or make him afraid
History Repeats Itself
"History repeats itself, and we are herr
tonight demonstrating with our govern
ment for its wrongful interference with oul
private business, depressing our industries
paralyzing our labor, impoverishing ou
people and cutting of our foreign trede
And tonight we say TO Mr.. Harrison anG
Mr.. Blaine, as our fathers said 70 KIM
George and Lord North, you have no righ
to close our ports. Grover Cleveland, a
the head Of the Mohawks, in December
1887, threw the tea overheard and called o.
the battle for the vindication of the right
We had our Lexingtons and Bunker Hills il
1888. We shall have our Yorktown in 1872
A Question of Political Economy.
"If restricting the purchase and sale O
our products 10 American markets stimu
lates Industry, cheapens production and IN
creases wealth and wages, why would it nc
be wise policy to apply the principle
each one of the statesi If it is productive {
good 10 forty-two states, it ought to be goo
to each one of them. 1t is a question Of p'
litical economy, not one Of patriotic sent
ment II the principle is correct, it will al
ply to a small community as well as a larg
, one. Why not carry it out to its logic
conclusion and have Chinese wall aroun
each state, and stimulate it to build its il
dustries, increase its wealth, and give bett'
employment and higher wages 10 its oW
peoplei
Interstate Protection.
"Iet Massachusetts, go to raising coff
and tea, and the cotton and oranges, lemoi
and ground peas. And what would be ST
. better, let each county wall itself in al
|. foster and encourage the development Of 9
branches Of industry and be independei
; and self sustaining. Let the people with
7 each township trade among themselves al
Z bring the home market home. The perfe
4 tion Of the principle would be to wall eve
e man into himself, and thus foster and
courage him to develop his resources,
!, crease his wealth, give better employme
:, TO himself and higher wages. In sho
= time be would be sufficiently developed
raise his own wheat, corn, beef and hos
, manufacture his own cloth, make his oN
shoes dig his own potatoes, set his o'
hens, hatch his own chickens and drive 0
i the hogs.
NJ The Theory's Alleged Fallacy.
''The prime fallacy in the theory Of
restricted home market is that when y
prohibit importation, all the other elemeI
r. in the industrial problem will remain
same; that consumption is a fixed quantii
that capacity to pay is the same, howe'
the right to sell may be denied. Its ad'
Gates maintain that, if you exclude $500, ,0C
- 900 worth Of imports, that amount of dom
!, tic products will be bought by the consum