The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
1ARIEE ARGUMENTS.

Some Good Points Made BY Senator Haws
ley-ws Do Not Want ssCheapness" In
this Coansry--Diversificatio of Industry
Essential to Prosperity.
Every whine and cavil and growl and
fault that the Democrats have had over
our bill here could have been applied
to the Mills bill itself, because that had
big duties. 1t left great many duties
as they were; the changes were trifing;
In some it clipped of a toe-nail here or
something Of that sort and called it a
reform bill. They said 1t was because
they could not do any better at the
time; but should like to have some
man draw one and then hang it up for o
specimen of what they would do If they
had absolute power.
Their argument is substantially this
1t can not be avoided-that IL any
body in Gods world can make any thing
cheaper than it can be made here, it is
our duty to buy it Now If there is a
meaner word in the English language
than the word cheap" do not know
what 1t is 1t is mean and nasty, the
word ''cheap" is. Cheap labor means
cheap clothes, cheap food, cheap lodg-
ing, cheap morals and cheap human
devils That is what cheapness means
Are we to have it? Break down your
barriers You do not want the China
man in here; you have forbidden him;
but now carry your machines abroad
and they will go to the Chinaman and
he will work for four or five cents day
with these magnificent American ma
chimes, and then he will come with ship
loads of stuff to sell at less than Euro
peans or Americans or anybody else.
Yet you would take the tariff of and
let those cheap goods come in. Is that
your logic? What is your tariff to be,
and what sort OF country do you want
to have, anyhow? You talk about the
British tariff. / have found but one
man on that side who had pluck enough
to say that was model tariff, and that
was my friend from North Carolina, and
he thought that was the best tariff there
was going.
Sir, the Lord Almighty gave us with
in this country almost every thing. i
/ loathe the old Chinese-wall humbug.
Sir, build it, and build 1t hundred
miles high, and we shall live within it
fifty years and come out rich and fat
and happy. You will not have much
coffee or much tea; you will not have
much silk goods; but there is nothing
mechanical, nothing essential to human
happiness, progress and prosperity that
we would not be able to make within
that time. Shut Great Britain up for
six months and half her people would
be in the grave. And yet you think the
same economic system is good for the
two countries
Great Britain by her own statistician
says that she has to bring in 90 per cent.
of her raw material from abroad. The
same statistician in the same paragraph
says America gets the same figure OF
raw material from within her OWL
bounds; and yet gentlemen argue from
the British tariff to ours. The English.
man could not live a week under oul
tariff, and therefore having cut his tail
off, or 1t having been cut off by nature,
he wants US to cut ours off also. He car
not raise half enough to feed him.
Ninety per cent OF his materials he
l
by commerce; he has to live by com
merce; and so what he has to do he
thinks other people ought to do. He
goes around the world with his ships
bullying and annexing and contro line
little nations, inferior peoples, every
where expanding his territory, or as ons
of their statesmen said, John Bull
thinks he is increasing his glory by in
creasing his burdens; he is undertaking
to cultivate patches all over the world
where his Lancaster men can sell goods
That is what John Bull" thinks, anC
the drum that accompanies the sur
around the world is the drum of com
merce, the drummer. That's the states
manship of Great Britain.
They have to live so. On the othel
hand we have to live in the other di
rection. If we obey the plain intima
ton of what is the will of the Almight.
in giving US these possibilities, 1t is oul
duty to cultivate them. Says one o
these Englishmen-they OCCASIONAL!
let slip the truth when they are argu
ing about this country-speaking Of tn
United States and its glory and progress
and material possibilities: blessed i
the nation that is self-contained ant
need not be always asking what othe
peoples are doing" We can be self
contained, and there was no more glori
GUS vision ever placed before a states
man than the vision of what thes
United States shall be under such
policy as the Republican policy in al
matters of Justice and of material pre-
gress such as this country will be, wit
q variety OF industries. The diversif
cation OF industry is absolutely essen
] tial to the moral and mental health, an
|, prosperity as we'll, of the country.