Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-01
The Great British Free Trader
Confesses that the Home
Market is the Best.
To Strengthen and Encourage It
the Republican Policy
To day.
Conclusive Answer to Statements
Made by Un-American Organs
Of the Democracy.

Is the sweat Of labor Transported to
moisten distant fields at the cost of the toll
that produced it. 1t pays for the trans
portatlon IN the lossened price it re-
celyes." Democratic organs.
All that is needed If to rear carefully the
illusions In the democratic free trade
organs to realize that Tariff for protec-
ton cOnduces, above all, to the welfare of
the farmers and iaborers of the country.
What stronger proof could any one ask of
the benefits of home market than the
quotations given above, thai "egery pound
of products carried to Europe conveys away
the
FERTILITY OF AMERICAN FARMS.
to enrich foreign soil" All that Ameri-
now claim it is not the ''enriching of Tor
eien soil, but the consuming at home of
every pound of product to maintain ''the
fertility of American farms" In other
words, to maintain what home market we
have and still further strengthen it until
we 10 longer "moisten distant fields at
the cost Of the toll tnat produced it" here,
and ultimately to consume at home all the
products of our own farms.
This can be best accomplished by ex-
INCREASING THE CUSTOMERS
or consumers of farm products Even
market Is the best market" Adam
Smith asserted the same thing in his
Wealth of Nations, published in 1776
time in this reply. May %, 1880, the
writer, in address, Irish Americans and
the Tariff" delivered at Bay View, Wis,
SAID:
1T was English jealousy fearful of Irish
competition in home and foreign markets,
and her determination to keep Ireland
poor by her cruel and wicked laws, differ
entail duties, etc, that had crushed out
all the Industries of Ireland rs fast as
they rose. Even upon Irish Agricultural
they laid disabilities to prevent successful
competition with the English farmers
To add to the miser'es OF Ireland the
biighting curse o. absenteeism followed
the country was Trained of Tia resources
Of the soil to feed foreign landlords, some
of whom lad never seen the estates they
owned reducing the
FRESHMEN IN IRELAND
almost to the condition of series.
ITO vote for the tariff here would be to
drain this country Of the proceeds of her
soil, TO enrich the producers and man
ufacturers Of other lands Instead of
keeping our wealth, which was the pro-
ceeds of labor, within our country, in
circulation here, we should have to send
il abroad; instead of manufacturing here,
having mills workshops, factories, looms,
etc, running here they would be run
there.
Whenever the wants of a country-a
people-are supplied from another country
the country supplied Is dependency of
that other country whence it draws its sup
plies. No country can be SO independent
as one that by its own labor and manufac-
lures can supply its ON wants within
itself, by ITSELF and for itself. If it have
anything for expectation, we'll and good
but the real wealth, prosperity, content
ment, and happiness of a country, and its
independence, is in its capacity to supply
Its own wants, Independent of others.
The London Times, June 26, l645, says
OF Ireland, etc:
THE LAND Is FRUITFUL ENoUGH.
nor can it be said that man is wanting.
TIE Irishman is disposed to work. In fact
man and nature together produce abund-
anty. A perpetual decree of
sic vos non vobis condemns him to toll
without enjoyment. Social atrophy draws
off the vital juices OF the nation
Let it be repeated that, draws off the
vital juices of the nation" The vital
juices of me nation are nothing more,
nothing less, than the
WAGES OF THE WORKINGMEN OF A Ma
TON;
and when you give the wages that belong
by right to the workingmen of your own
country for the manufacturing of TIE nee
essaries of your own people to the work
ingmen of another country to manufacture
those necessaries in that country, you are
drawing off the vital Juices of your own
country" to enrich the blood, to ST. ength-
en- ard invigorate that other nation, while
you affiict with "a wasting, weakening,
whitening atrophy, the workingmen of your
own country.
Andrew Jackson recommended the tax
ing of thousands of those engaged In
agriculture and setting them to manufact-
urlng, to thereby increase the consumers
of farm products, and to prevent those
products from being carried to Europe to
enrich foreign soil" He desired that the
sweat of our labor should enrich our own
field" and not moisten distant fields at
TUE COST OF OUR OWN TOLL
and the transportation to a foreign country
suliecting our people to the lessened price
it received after paying the cost of that
transportation.
The democratic free trade organ quoted
tailed to realize the protective tariff force
Of its own language. Obfuscated by the
practically beneficial workings of the Nc
kinley bill it bscame insensibe to the
logical deductions of its own utterances,
so damaging 10 the free trade side it tried
to advocate. Like the Irishman, contem-
plating the decapitated turtle whose jaws
were still working, when asked by lady,
isn't it dead?" replied, Faith, an il is
ma am. 1t is entirely dead, but the poor
creature isn't sensible of it.
Democratic free-trada editors have
neither sought to protect or increase the
home market nor to protect the farmer o.
laborer The free trader In this country
works and pleads for
THE INTERESTS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES
the American protectionist favors anC
works for the interest and to 'prOmot,
the general welfare or the people of The
United States. Take the Morrison anC
Mills bills for example. Take the first, l
was we'll said in Mr.. Bubbell's speech:
THE so-caIled Morrison farm, manufact
ured in New York City by order of TIT
free trade league under the inspiration o
the American members of the Englisl
Golden club. strikes directly at the polio,
of protection and aims death-blow a
many of our important industries, Will
none of them is allowed to escape its Grip
ping influences.
Let us see what brother democrat, tn
How ca,I af ha Mill