The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-06-11

Before another election it will be demon |
strated that in obedience to law-that
increasing the American manufacture
greatly lowers the price of the goods
the foundation of the charge that we
have increased tie cost to our consumers
has disappeared. On the high seas the
same result will follow. Increased fa-
cilities of transportation will stimulate
and improve foreign trade; not in the
exchange Of cheap tobacco with Cuba;
not the commerce consisting in the trans
portation Of raw cotton to England, its
manufacture there into apparel for use
and its transportation back in that form,
coupled with the carrying of -four and
meat to English workmen, rather than
their sale to our own people making the
goods here. Mark, sir, the great loss to
producer and consumer in the needless
transportation have illustrated, but it
will stimulate exchange of American
merchandise. fruits of farm and factory
for those we cannot produce.
Congressman Dolliver-My father was
preacher. If you require it will pro-
duce affidavits for that, and one of the
cheerful recollections of my youth is the
picture Of my venerable ancestor, with
his eyes turned toward heaven, invoking
the divine blessing on our humble fare,
while the rest of Us turned our eyes away
from heaven and heavenly things to
watch the progress of fight between
ion and a unicorn that appeared to be in
progress on the bottom of the breakfast
plates. never knew how that fight came
out, but as passed through the city of
Trenton an hour ago could not help
thanking God that man can eat his
breakfast in the United States today
without having the exercises interrupted
| by that kind Of chrome. Wendell
Phillips used to say that the main factor
| in civilization is the dollar left over out
| of the weeks wages after the expenses
| of the family have been paid. That dol
lar means music and pictures. 1t means
the church and the school. 1t means the
savings bank and the insurance policy.
It may not be very large, but it is big
enough to wrap up in it the safety of
nations and the welfare of centuries. 1t
is that dollar which lifts the industrial
level of America above the level Of the
old world. 1t is that dollar that has at
tracted the industrious millions out Of
all lands. persuaded them to lay down
the differences of race and creed and
language, take upon honest consciences
the oath of our citizenship, and receive
in exchange hope and prospect that
are denied to the children Of the people
in the older countries of the world.
Senator Dolph-The fallacy of the
Democratic argument, that we must
buy of nation if we expect to sell to it,
is exposed when it is stated that nations
do not buy of each other; that foreign
trade is carried on by individuals who
are governed by self interest and who
buy where they can buy the cheapest,
without stopping to inquire what the
state of trade is between the two nations.
The proposition is shown to be false by
the statistics of our foreign trade and Of
the foreign trade of every other country
England would buy what food product!
she required of us If she could buy then
cheaper Of us than elsewhere, if we die
not buy dollars worth of her; and il
we should admit her manufactures fret
she would not buy dollars worth from
us if she could buy them cheaper else
where.
Hon. William E. Curtis-Four hun.
dred years ago. Mr.. chairman, mar
was wandering about the capital o.
Spain asking assistance from the govern
ment to enable him to extend its richie.
and glory and power. He was de
nounced and derided. He was called {
: subsidy beggar and they said he was in
sane; but his persistence and patriotism
succeeded. and America was discovered
!. from the deck Of, subsidized ship
After similar derision and disappoint
ment those who have sought to exten(
the riches and glory and power of tn
United States have secured the consen
Of congress for increased facilities TO
: reaching the markets that are bein;
! opened by the reciprocity arrangements
9 and we should commemorate the close o
|: the fourth century of American civiliza
: ton by recovering control of commerc
|. that belongs to US by reason Of geo
graphical and political association.
. Hon. ]. H. Walker-The American
mechanic is the first and richest fruitag
s of the American protective tariff, and h
= | ~ u VIII uSiS Slfcu w luo idi daC2 SVc1.
> tool and machine that has lightened hi
+ toll from the first and has made his labo
/ twice as effective in 1890 as it was il
+ 1860. Not one of them do we owe t
Europe. It is said that the reaper wa
r suggested there, but it was develops
\ and made practical here Our pre-emi
nence in the department of agriculture
machinery is so pronounced that ever
q form Of agricultural appliance is cheape
= in this country than in any other cour
y try in the world We furnish to ever
J. other country its cheapest and best sgri
g cultural machinery, exporting million
t. Of dollars worth every year.
; Robert P. Porter-During decade O
i. ferocious attack and gloomy prophec
n by Free-traders we have added natio
;. to nation-a nation complete in ever
= particular. have shown that the ad
vancement Of population, the increas