St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-01
Massachusetts Tariff Reform
ers Explain the Fallaeies
of Protection.
Republicans in Cahoots With
Wool Growers, Iron and
Coal Barons.
This Country Does Not Re-
quire a Chinese Wall
Around 1t.
Give Americans a Chance and
They Will Discount the
World.

WOPlUs
Boston, Dec. .-Members;of the Mas
sachusetts Tariff Reform league gath
cred in full force at the fremont house
this evening, the occasion being the an
nual dinner of the organization. Hon.
Henry l.. Pierce presided, and among
the more notable gentlemen present
were Hon. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas;
Hon. Thomas G. Shearman, of New
York; Edward Atkinson, Hon. William
E. Russell. Hon. J. NJ. Forbes, Hon.
John s. Farlow, Robert Bleakie, Presi-
dent G. w. Eliot, of Harvard college;
Charles Francis Adams, Hon. John F
Andrew. jerome Jones, Hon. Robert
Treat Paine, Hon. P. A. Collins and
others. President Pierce, in opening
the after-dinner exercises, among
others, employed these words: "Poli-
seeing that either the duties
upon raw materials must be given
up or that the industries thus taxed
must go to the wall intimate willing
ness to let one oe the most important
of them die out if it should be found
necessary to do so in order to placate
the iron masters ani coal barOns of
Pennsylvania. Rather than break with
them, these politicians, in the interest
of the party which they serve, are ready
to look on and see the iron works of
New England shut up forever. 'In the
light of what has been presented, is it
not reasonable to conclude that the
leaders of the political party, whose
RArnRrSfAnP nrnfnGfinn a oHyr in
its interest, to sacrifice one industry
after another, and as many industries
as may be necessary,
TO CEMENT THE ALLIANCE
which they have formed with the wool
growers. iron masters and coal barons
of the country? 1t Is no small ad-
vantage that in the struggle before US
we have for our leader man of moral
courage, sterling honesty and straight
fOrWardnesS, the most acknowledgement
ality III American life--Grover Cleveland
Hon. Roger Q. Mills was next present.
ed. Mr.. Mills felicitated himself upon
being able to touch elbows with New
England on the subject that had gath
cred them together, and he thought it a
fitting place for agitation of tariff re-
form-in the old town that ON ce made
teapot of its harbor. Among his ut
terances were these: e'History repeats
itself, and we are here tonight re-
monstrating with our government for
its wrongful interference with our
private business, depressing cur indus
tries, paralyZing our labor, impoyerish-
ing our people and cutting off our for
eign trade. And tonight we say to Mr..
Harrison and Mr.. Blaine, as our fathers
said to Kiug George and Lord North,
You have no right to close our ports.'
Grover Cleveland lat the head of the Mo-
hawks in December, 1887, threw the tea
overheard and called on the battle for
the VindicatiOn of the right. We had
our LeXingtons and Bunker Hills in
1888. We had our Saratoga in 1889.
We shall have our Yorktown in 1892.
If restricting the purchase and sale of
our products to American markets stim-
ulates industry, cheapens production
and increases wealth and wages, why
would it not be wise policy to apply
the principle to each one of the states?
Ii it is productive of good to forty-two
states, it ought to be good to each one
of them. 1t is question of political
economy, not one of patriotic sentiment,
II the principle is correct it will apply
to small community as well as a large
one. Why not carry it out to its logical
conclusion, and have Chinese
WALL AROUND EACH STATE,
W Industries,
increase its wealth and give better EN-
plOyment and higher wages To its own
people. Let Massachusetts go to rails
ing coffee and tea, and cotton and or
anges, lemons and ground peas. And
what would be still better, let each
county wall itself in and foster and en-
courage the developmentof all branches
Of industry and be independent and
self-sustaining. Let the people within
each township trade among themselves
and bring the home market home.
The perfection of the principle
would be to wall every man into
courage him to develop his resources.
increase his wealth. give better employ
ment to himself and higher wages. In
q short time he would be sufficiently
developed to raise his own wheat, com,
bSef and hogs, manufacture his own
cloth, make his own shoes, dig his own
potatoes, set his own hens, hatch his
own chickens and drive out the dogs,
This policy means that man rises to
the highest happiness when he
eXpendS the largest amount of labor
and obtains the leastamount of product.
When followed to its last ANALYSIS it is
perpetual work and no product. The
best home market is the one into which
is admitted the largest importation. be-
cause the largest importation means the
largest expectation, and that means
active demand for the articles exported.
and that means increased price, and
that means increased wealth distri-
butcd among the consumers, and that
will, i'll turn, create an active demand
for home product, which supplies so
per cent of the home consumption-an
active demand for raw material and
labor, and that raises the price of both
ana gives constant employment to ali
classes of labor. When the home mar
ket is shut in by Chinese walls, or Bos-
ton port bills, or Morrill, tariffs,
IMPORTATION IS SHUT OFF,
that shuts off expectation, that throws
down the prices of agricultural product,
that lessons the capacity of half the
population to buy, that restricts con-
sumption, that decreases productions,
that shuts out employment, lowers
wages, decreas wealth, and brings
blight and mildew OH the land. Ed
ward Atkinson next spoke, in part as
follows: All reasonable advocates of
protection consider free trade the OBJ
jective point of the system to be
attained when the time has come
to make it safe. Ali reasonable
free traders claim that true protection
to domestic industry is what they aim
at. The only difference is on the time
of concession. Why not begin now?
There may be Cancellation without COM
promise OF principle. Tie diff
Guilty of bringing. about a common con-
sent and a common demand for reform
and the difficulty of putting the agree
ment of these two parties, so far as
there is an agreement, into the tariff