Telegram-herald., 1891-08-04

wheat exchanges for IL bis capital,
/. aien represengs saved or stored
Ia abor. - that they both hold the
wheat by aa equally valid title The
Peint h made that every individual
wheat grower has the right TO sell the
product of his own labor where and
when ne can get the nest satisfactory
price. or not 10 sell at all il that suits
him best at the time. II that right
buyer and owner Of wheat, who has
transferred ais labor or the representa-
tive thereof for the wheat, and holds
it by as just title. This Is
dilemma the way out OF which - not
To be found by stignatizing as 'spseu-
lators' those who. after all is said. are
buyers and SELLERS OF the wheat in
which they deal. liable in the last
analy sis, as other buyers ami sellers
are. TO deliver the goods sold when
contract calls for delivery. aud TO pay
the price thereof at the rate and the
time for which they stipulate."
DoS'S sOPHisfkY.
Don Dickinson Is reported to have
urged, In an interview at New York,
the great importance OF the eneour-
agement OF the lake commerce. He
wants more OF the whaieback trips
made. He wants "a guarantee that
this was oniy the beginning OF the
business" So far we can agree with
MIR. Dickinson. just as an aliopathic
physician may agree with a homeo-
pathic in the diagnosis OF disease. AS
those two ''pathies" differ widely
however, when the question of treat
nlent comes up. so must we differ wide
ly from Mr.. Dickinson in his sugges-
tion for the encouragement OF whaie~
back trips. He Is reported to have
said: In the first place we want this
Internal tariff taken out OF the way
so that even II it were possible to
ship our products 10 the great market
OF Europe we could get a return'
cargo Saying nothing about the
delicacy of his language, we do not
agree with Mr.. Dickinson that return
cargoes are OF SO supreme Importance
that other things of equal import
ance. il not greater, should be sacri-
feed 10 attain them. We cannot dis
possess our mind of the consideration
that if the ''infernal tariff were taken
out OF the way those return cargoes
would be composed largely OF pro-
ducts that we can just as well provide
for ourselves, thus giving employment
to those laborers who bring forth the
raw materials and work them into
form. Nor can we persuade Ourself
that it is better, for the sake OF bOomt
ing commerce, to buy OF Others what
we can just as well IN axe for ourselves
Here is where Democracy begs the
question. 1t goes into rhapsodies over
the white wings OF commerce." and
''our flag seen on every sea-" until
it works itself into a fever of excite
ment to bring about this most desir-
able state OF affairs. To consummate
this, the rabid free trader would have
every nation produce only such things
as appear spontaneously upon its soil.
and rely upon exchange OF products
among nations TO complete its list of
necessities. Ii Is true that this would
tend to increase commerce. But the
Republican party Is not commerce
crazy. II believes that manufactures
are lust as natural to this country
as to the European countries. 1t does
not believe that our illimitable resour
ces OF raw material were designed to
be idle and undeveloped simply because
England got her manufactures de-
veloped first, and that, too. under the
influence OF restrictive and prohibit
tive regulations that were much more
''infernar' than any tariff America
has ever dreamed OF adopting. There
is one weak point In the logic OF Demo-
cracy. 1t has never yet done away
with the force OF the argum ent that
every time we import an article OF
foreign manufacture. we deprive our
iaborers OF so much work, il the article
can be produced here. To do away
with that effect we should have to
produce only such things as cannot
be produced elsewhere. That would
reduce this nation practically to an
agricultural country. II allowed TO
stop its arguments where the willy Don
drops 1t. tho Democracy can make out
very fine case; but the "horse sense"
Of the people OF this country viii insist
upon carrying the examination
farther.
The Detroit Journal has this TO say
of Democracy's reform Governor: 1T
is announced that Governor Winans
viii come to the city next week as n
private citizen aud not IA the Cover
nor of the state. Governor Winans is