Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-26
The Great British Free Trader
Confesses that the Home
Market is the Best.
To Strengthen and Encourage 1t
the Repub lean Policy
To day.
Conclusive Answer to Statements
Made by Un-American Organs
of the Democracy.

Every POuHu VI pIOuuCJs carried 10
Europe conveys away the fertility OF
American farms to enrich foreign soil 1t
Is the sweat Of labor transported TO
moisten distant fields at the cost of the toll
that produced it. 1t pays for the trans
portauon in the lessened price it re-
ceives.' Democratic organs.
All that is needed if to rear caretulythe
fflsions 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, tina, every pound
Of products carried to Europe conveys away
the
FERTILITY OF AMERICAN FARMS.
10 enrich foreign soil ;" All that Ameri-
can protectioniSts have ever claimed and
now clam it is not the 'eHriching of for
eign 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 no longer "moisten distant fields at
the cost Of the ,o!l t1at produced it here,
and ultimately to consume at nome all the
products of our own farms.
This can be best accomplished 10y ex-
tending our manufactures and thereby
INCREASING THE CUSTOMERS
or consumers of farm products. Even
John Bright admits that ''the home
market is the best market Adam
Smith asserted the same thing in his
Wealth OF Nations, published in l776.
These ideas are not advanced for the FIRST
time in this reply. May %, 1880, the
writer, in address, "Irish.Americans and
the Tariff, delivered at Bay View Wis,
said:
at 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 as fast as
they rose. Even upon Irish agricultural
they laid disabilities to prevent successful
competition with the English farmers.
To add TO the miserles of Ireland the
bligGtiug curse o. absenteeism followed
the country was drained of Tia resources
Of the soil to feed foreign landlords, some
Of whom had never seen the estates they
owned; reducing the
FRESHMEN IN IRELAND
almost 10 the condition of cries.
10 vote for the tariff mere would he to
drain this country of the roceeds of her
soil, 70 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
cremation here. we should have to send
1t abroad; instead of manufacturing here,
having mills, workshops, factories, looms,
etc. running here they would be run
there
Whenever the wants OF country-a
peope-are supplied from another country
the country supplied Is a dependency of
that other country whence it draws It's sup
plies No country can be so independent
as one that by Its own labor and manutac-
lures can supply its Own wants within
itself, by itself, and for itself. IT it have
anything for expectation, well and good
but the real wealth, prosperity, content
ment, and happiness Of a country, and its
Independence, is in its capacity to supply
ITS owgx ants, Independent of others.
The HSndou Times, June 26, 1916 says
OF Ireland, etc:
THE LAND is FRUITFUL ENOUGH;
nor can it be said thai man is wanting.
Tie lrishman is disposed TO work, In fact
man and nature together produce abund-
antIy. A perpetual decree Of
slg yos non vobis condemns him to toll
without enjoyment. Social atrophy draws
oil the vital juices of the nation.
Let 1t be repeated that, draws off the
vital juices Of the nation. The vital
juices T ne nation are nothing more,
nothing less. than the
WAGES OF THE woRKGNGMEN OF A MA
TION;
and when you give the wages that belong
By right to the workingmen of your own
country for the manufacturing Of the nee
assaries of your own people to the work
Iugmen Of another country to manufacture
those accessories in that country you are
drawing off the vital Juices of your own
country, 10 enrich the blood. to ST. e myth
an and invigorate that other nation, while
You atiiIct with wasting, weakening,
whitening atrophy, the workingmen Of your
own country
Andrew Jackson recommended the TAX
ing of thousands IF those eugag d In
agriculture and setting them to mauutact-
H1ug. 10 thereby increase the consumers
"t 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
aed, aud not moisten distant fields at
TIRE COST or OUR owS toll
and the transportation TO a foreign country
.at Jecting our people to the lessened price
I. received alter paying the cost Of that
iran portation.
he democratic free trade organ quoted,
'alod TO realize the protective tariff force
q H. own language. Obfuscated By the
lracucalIy beneficial workings Of the Nc
hniey bll. it became insensibIe TO the
.eglcai deductions Of its own utterances,
q damaging to the free trade side it tried
q advocate, Like the Irishman, contem-
plating the dccapitated turtle whose avs
NrTe TIL working when asked by lady,
Isn't 1T dead?' replied, Faith, an il fl,
"a am II is entirely dead but the poor
.FaaturA isn't sensible 81 it.
hemolralie free-trade editors have
1titEsr sought to protect or increase The
&. me market nor TO protect the farmer ~
a'lrar The free trader in this country
Fars- and pleads for