Telegram-herald., 1890-09-20

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lit o4n net DC aV0l2ed-that II any
BODY in God's sorld can make any IA ng
F cheaper than it can BE- made here, II is
cur daty q bay il Now II there IS
mesner word in - Eaglish language
than the word cheap" ! DO not know
What il IS IL is mean and nasty, the
weFd cheap" is Cheap lAbcr means
cheap clothes. cheap feod, cheap lodg-
Ing, cheap morals and cheap human
devils That is whascheapness means
Are Ne TO have it9 Break down your
barriers You DO not want the China
man in here; you have forbidden htn;
bat now carry your machines abroad
and they will 20 20 the Chinaman ana
he will work for four or five cents a day
With these magnificent American ma
chimes, and then he viii come with ship
loads OF stun 10 sell az Jess than Euro
peans or Americans or anybody else
Yet you would take the tariff OF and
let those cheap goOas come n. Is that
your logic? What Is your tariff 70 be,
aud what sort OF country do you wast
70 have, anyhow You talk about the
British tariff. | have fosnd but one
man on that side who had pluck enough
to say that was a model tariff, and that
was my friend from North Carolina, and
be though. that was the best tariff there
was going.
Sir, the Lord Almighty gave us with
in this country almost every thing. l
loathe the old Chinese-wall humbug.
Sir, build il, and build ii hundred
miles high, and we shall live within il
fifty years and come out rich and fat
and happy. You viii not have much
coffee or much tea; you viii 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 yot 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 sS per cent.
of her raw material from abroad. The
same statist,cian in the same paragraph
says America gets the same figure of
raw material from within her own
bounds; and yet gentlemen argue from
/ the British tariff 20 ours The English
man could not live a week under our
tariff, and therefore having cut his tail
of, or it having been cut off by nature,
! he wants us 10 cut ours of also. lie can
not raise half enough to feed him.
Ninety per cent. of his materials he
| gets from elsewhere. He has to be fed
| 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 ling
| little nations inferior peoples, every
whore expanding his territory, or as one
! 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. J"
That is what John Bull" thinks, and
the drum that accompanies the sun
around the world is the drum of COM
merce, the drummer That's the states
manship of Great Britain.
They have TO live 80. On the other
hand we have to live in the other d.
rection. II we obey the plain intima-
ton of what is the will of the Almighty
in giving US these possibilities, il is our
duty to cultivate them. Says one Of
these Englishmen-they occasionally
let slip the truth when they are argu-
ing about this country-speaking of the
United States and its glory and progress
and material possibilities: Blessed is
the nation that is self-contained and
need not be always asking what other
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 these
United States shall be under such a
policy as tho Republican policy in all
matters OF justice and of material pro-
gress such as this country viii be, with
a variety Of industries The diversif-
cation Of industry is absolutely essen
tial 70 the moral and mental health, and
| prosperity as we'll. Of the country.