The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-30

teeted by the Mckinley act is numbering. IL IS
said that there Is invested In the lumpeiIhg
business OF ihis country S3oo0Uoooo; sna' In
Washington, west of the Cascade Mountains,
there are 100000 acres OF timber lands. ana
there are also large and valuable tracts scarce "
less in extent and value in Western Oregon. The
redwood lumber OF Californ Ia Is valuable arti-
Gle OF commerce. The Puget Sound mills nave
capacity OF over 100000. 900 feet OF LUMBER an
nually, and the manufacture OF lumber uron me
sound In single year has reached OO,ooOooo
fee.
nTimber and labor are so much cheaper In Brit.
isb Columbia and the manufacturers are enabled
TO obtain so much cheaper machinery there that
II the duty were removed from lumber The lll'
dustry would be destroyed upon the PaclDc CoasI'
as IT would be elsewhere III the United States
The great staple production OF the States OF the
Paclhc Is wheat. For years the market 1or our
surplus agricultural products abroad mas Deen
constantly declining. both as to demand ahd
price, and it is evident TO all intelligent ana
thinking men that our dependence IN the lutute
must be upon The home market Inc time IS not
distant, fear, VIXEN we will iud no remunera-
tive market abroad for any of our principal agil-
cultural products except cotton.
THE HOME MARKET.
The foreign price of agricultural products VIII
be determined from The supply from these
sources, competing with our own surplus, and IS
beyond our power TO control. But the nome
market is ours by right. We can control that.
We can. by fostering manufacturing industries
at home, increase the home demand for agfl-
cultural products and save The farmer from
labor products OF other countries.
Time will only permit me 10 aliude TO another
great industry which under The provisions OF the
recent tariff legislation promises to reach great
proportions upon The Pacific Coast. The beet SUI
gar industry, the success OF which seems 10 De
assured by The successful operation OF factories
in California, and Tho future magnitude ana
value OF which Is fOretOld by the fact that the
wonderfully fertile valleys all along the coast
from southern California to the Puget Sound pro
duce in profusion sugar beets OF the best qualify
Although not new to the people OF oregon, anh
possibly not to those present. is so appropriate
that think 1 may venture, for me purpose OF
showing the English view OF the effect OF free
trade, TO quote from the somewhat remarkable,
but hole not prophetic, uLterances OF the En-.
gsh statesman, Mr.. Fox. in speech III Convent
Garden Theater, London, ApriI 8, 1874, IN dis
cusslng
THE OREGON CONTROVERSY
During President Folks Administration, when
the rayng cry OF political parties IN this eoun-
try WAS "tilty-four forty or fight"
Alter describing the country as waste and
barren aud not worth contending about, he sald !:
And when man has occupied 1t, when industry
has driven its car Of peaceful conquest around
the borders OF that vast land, when towns have
arisen and cities appeared with their tbronging
numbers, when the Rocky Mountains are tun-
neled and rail and canal have united the Atlantic
and Pacific, when The waters OF the Columbia
swarm with m-boats, why, then Will be the
time to talk OF the Oregon territory; lhen, Win
out regiment or line-Ofbat;le ship, without
bOmbardng any town whatever, free trade Viii
conquer the Oregon territory for US, ana VIII
conquer the United States for US also as far as IL
is desirable either for US or for them that there
should be any conquest whatever IN the case.
Free trade Will establish there all tie insignia oil
conquest When their products come here,
and those OF our Industry return, there Will
be scarcely lab0ier upon the pine forest that
lie Is clearing, but VIII wear upon his back, 10
his very shirt, the livery of Manchester. The
knife with which he carves his game Will have
The marx of Sheffield upon its blade as testi-
mony of our supremacy. Every handkerchief
waved upOn the banks OF the Missouri will be
the waving of an English banner from Spital-
fields. Throughout Tie country there VIII DO
marks Of our skill aud greatness, and tribute
PAD for US received not by warriors or Gov
ernors, not coming directly into the national
treasury but flowing Into tie pockets OF the n-
duSiriOus and toiilng poor, refreshing trade ana
enrchiDg those who pursue II, giving them an
Imperial heritage beyond The wide Atlantic.
The picture drawn by Mr.. Fox OF he develop
ment OF tile Oregon territory has been more til an
reaZ, d. But free trade has not yet established
there the insignia OF British conquest and 1 am
much mistaken Ia my estimate OF the ntelli-
gence and patriotism of its people II Il ever does.
The issue upou which the next Presidential
election Will be fought will be precisely the Issue
upon which President Harrison was elected and
air. Cleveland was Defeated ana | am confident
tnat the result Will be an Increased majority for
protection.
Addresses were made also by Messrs.
HiScOck. D0lIiver, Farquhar. Sheridan,
Porter and others, the speaking continuing
until late hour.