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

duty make it Into finished product or make ;t
amy part of finished product, using American
arawoack ot ~ per cent of all he paid upon his
raw F,sr material by way of duty. (Applause.j
was ia a deg II n was 20 per cent, which
nenl ohiy exacts per cent for handling and the
alh am, manufacturing with his genius ability
ana superior meth d of processes can turn ana
| face the word, as the free-traders ALWAYS de-
manded that he should and ought to do bv
getting his raw material free, and enter upon
| the race with England, which he has entared
| upon with Germany and France, which he has
| TTu i upon. upon career of prosperity the
IKE OF which he has not witnessed before
| Why, my fellow citizens. what cons,i.
tutes state and its prosperity7 The state
| of one industry OF one vocation ia n"oe
| Indeed: A pastoral state is always poor The
state OF one production saps the richness of its
sou and Ii ways on the descending grade to
poverty. That state is great which has dyersi-
ncatlon OF employment. where the farmer doe
not compete with the farmer, but where the
| farmer and the consumer the mechanician. the
artisan, the workingman live and reclprocably
| lnteract upon each other for their mutual bene-
NJ lake an instance quite to tho purpose
Here at the head of navigation of the Mississippi
| river, at the geographical center of this cont
| nent,sit 10 all their queenly beauty two inperi.
hundred thousand odd people. They are the
commercial aud the political capital of a state
| this extraordinary fact at first glance Il these
| three hundred thousand people of st. Paul and
production of those who live outside and who
| are engaged in agricultural pursuits. Take the
city of Duluth and the other cities of this state
| position, and these are undevelopcd places. You
| establish linen mills here in Minneapolis You
are reaching out u every direction to bring
people here, to call the farmers boy and girl
| from the farm, to compel them not to follow, il
| they do not choose, in the footsteps of their :
| father and mother, but open to them wider
| scope and amper verge than their parents be-
| fore them over knew. North of Duluth is a re,
gion forlierly esteemed valueess. 1t was al
nfnf ion 4
rocks, it was uninhabited, almost BY wile
animals, by reason Of its steriitS
laid the enchanter's hand of investigation upon
| that STRIFE wild. and 10 and behold the Genius
| OF lron, clad in complete steel from its
| trance of unnumbered ages, and stands furnish
the Northwest the very guardian Of oar civil
| ton. lAppausel What does it meant IL
means 2oo0o people in that region formerly
and of the other towns Of Minnesota, 81,
| ing market to the American farnt-
nesota farmer. And yet, workinsmen Of Mime s
| apolis, to you who depend on daily wages comes
some one along and says Il know place, 4O0C
miles across the sea, where the blanket or the
pearl button or something of that kind can be
| bought cheaper; will buy the nnderpaid labos
| Of Europe, will strike down The industries o
| en- OF the manufacturer of Belfast, will buy my
| iron Of the manufacturer a Belgium, where.
God@swomen work as miners un
der the ground / win strike down these
OF Minneapolis, Of Duluth, of St. Paul, out Of
| my hand and where is tho laborinS man Of
those those cities1 IApplS:sel another man, 1910
| cheaper. The laboring man and tho farmer
stand face to face in this matter, and the labor
| ing man will say to the farmer, "You vote that
way-wipe out our domestic industries, destroy
the source OF or existence. the daily means By
which we sustain ia. our liyssn and the laborins
go to that place whence all mer
came and to which all men must
return; ]. the lahorins man. go to
the farmer of Minnesota, and instead Of be
coming your customer and consumer, will be
1000 miles away at rates Of prices Competing
| IApplause.] 1t goes to the shoemaker upon Ia
bench. to the tailor upon his bench, this sort
revenne-reform and free-trade. and it says:"A
dear sir Il know a laborer in the sweating plaf
of London. in Belgium in Germany, oous
d9w1 to 2. sysssm Of Wages Sy
of whom can get pair of shoes OF a gaylIr
Al little cheaper propose TO patEeaize a
rises from his bench; they lay down the i'm,
ments of their trade; they GO to the soil, ~
said moment ago. where the laborers Of n
neapolis should have to go if the industries !,
the manufactures of this city we're destroyed,
it is attempted to be done by the extreme pe<
pie who are arguing upon these points.
My fellow citizens:
Let us suppose that
THE PRESENT SYSTEM
of raising revenues if abolished. or even subvef
sively changed as demanded by its opponents; =
that system which was founded by Washington, -
Hamilton, Madison and has been advocated BY
Jackson, Clay, Lincoln and Blaine [applause1
that system which in so far as it taxes collects
its imports at the port OF entry, at the counter
of the merchants, at the MILL the factory and
the mart by an automatic process; that sys-
TEN which, in theory, bears equally, and gem
when this system Is subyerted, BY what sub
stituted scheme will you raise the enormous re-
venues that are necessary to maintain this gov
ernment7 -+4
If you decree free trade you abandon entirely
the policy of indirect, collateral and Incidental
taxation known as ihe t arr which employs NC
assessors to pass upon the obligations OF the
citizen, no harsh penalties to fill tho courts
with prosecutions, no cunning evasions whereby
ncorporeal property asserts the exemption OF
invisibility and visible property, the home, the
land, the grain. the cattle bear nearly all the
| burden.
alton, because the constitution of the United
States provides that such taxes shall DO pro.
portioned among the inhabitants OF
the several states in proportion to their popuia-
ton, This is no head reckoning import, under
which the 1.500.U0 people of Minnesota will
pay "a times more than the 6O0,OU people
Of Connecticut, with Us much greater
You may say tax by tariff for revenue,-this Il
what his bill does. While it protects domestic
industries It reduces the rey TS Is,s
ceipts over appropriations will be small unde-
any estimates, varying from . nominal surplus
Will you change the system to taxation upon
incomes7 History bids you beware of this. You
then drain daily the product of daily labor ana
of the activity OF capital You tax wages the
profits of the shop, of the market, of the pro-
fessions. and of capital that mighty function
which is at once the creator, the presenter and
the stay of modern civilization You
quell the incentive which impels men Ito im-
| prove their condition. You discourage ING
motives of genius in every department. OF
human endeavor and you start 6s,00OO00A pei.
| pie, tho most competitive and accumuh alive
that the world has ever seen on the roadway Y"
the Gehenna of dead and buried nations.
There is back of all this the plan of the single
tax upon land, that seductive sophism VIII zen
charms even its victims, the only, last concif us
| aud anarchy; the logical abyss into which al y
these arguments take their final plunge. whicl
demands the extinction of titles. the resump-
ton by the state of the ownership OF 1nd, TING
destruction at once as property OF the farm ana
the city lot, the abolition OF the home, the an
Inhalation. of the domestic relations as they are
sanctioned by hoary ways and by religion the
enslavement of the bodies and souls OF men ana
women to a ruling power of whatever kind.
heretofore only dreamed OF IN the rhap-
sodies of delirious economics, and, havlns
csl hn sate t tSas fssTfo
in the prest-ridden and king-ridden empire OF
Peru.
Ny fellow citizens, the science of govern:
the most difficult of all No scheme is
perfect. The perfection Of today SIC,
ceeds the in % Yesterday an
of tomorrow. But this always remains IN .
free government, that the people in their sub
lime and imperial capacity can repair, renoyaIe
and reconstruct the palac OF freedom IN whicn
they live without razing the structure TO re
foundation on account of every remediabls
defect it its construction. [Applause.l
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