The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

who have both money to buy mt at anC
a well-established habit of eating it
Laughter and applause.) Our neople
are for reciprocity, not with our com
petitors in the fields of productive in.
dustry, but with every country whose
incoming cargoes neither disgrace mol
degrade the occupations Of our owr
countrymen. The man who cannot
see the difference between a limited
reciprocity with Brazil and free trade
with Europe ought to connect himself
with night school. The one secures
new market without damage to the
old. The other would either drive out
our industries or require us at once tc
cut in two the bread-buying ability OF
our own working men. (Applause)
Whatever the tariff may be, we see
that the absence of the factory is a
veritable tax on our resources. We are
going to get rid of that tax. In the
chief city of Iowa the pepIe gave $780,
600 to hire a man to build cotton
mill. (Cheers) In an enterprising
town in my own district the people in
spite of their politics and regardless
of the fact that the kingdom of Saxo-
ny is the cheapest place on earth for
knit goods, raised $4,000 to put in a
knitting factory. At Forest CITY, Iowa,
in my district, every year the harvest
is celebrated in splendid palace of
flax, which displays at once the taste
OF the community and their anxiety to
welcome the linen industry to the
West: (Applause.) There is not vi
lage in the state without its board Of
trade, with its brass band, carriage
and cash donation for any we'll
dressed man who will undertake to To-
cate any kind of an industrial enter
prise. (Applause.) Ny friends, you
could more easily convert such peo-
people to Mohammedanism than to
free trade. X *
We have seen the whole list of house
hold goods go down in price through
the gradual development of national
resources, the foreign product yielding
to the American, often not very grace
fully, until to-day the comforts of life
are within reach of larger number of
people than ever enjoyed them before
in the history of the United States.
Loud applause.) You cannot excite a
man about the tax on earthen ware
whose wife can recall the days of Eng
hsh ascendancy in our markets-days
when dishes were SO costly that if a
hired girl broke a tea cup it required
capital punishment. [Great laughter.
Wendell Phillips used to say that
the main factor in civilization is the
dollar left over, out of the weeks wag-
es, after the expenses of the family
have been paid. The dollar means
music and pictures. It means the
church and school. It means the saw
ings bank and 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.
Great applause. 1t is that dollar
which lifts the industrial level of
America above the level of the old
world. 1t is that dollar which 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 conscience
es the oath of our citizenship, and re-
ceive in exchange a hope and pros
pect that are denied to the children of
the people in the older countries of the
world. Loud applause. For myself,
I am constrained to say that they are
welcome. Without their help the West
would be to-day half settled wilder
ness. am not yet ready to shut the
doors of the great republic in the face
of mankind. The only favor I have
ever asked of man born in foreign
country is to stand by us while we la
Dor along the lines laid down by our
fathers, to keep the fresides of Amer
lea out of beggar's competition with
the hard conditions of life in the in
dustrial capitals of Europe. TGreat
applause. It makes little difference
what comes to the palaces if only peace
and prosperity abide with the cottages.
[ am glad to hear a new gospel of
wealth declared in these times; but af-
ter all it is a very old gospel, and came
to us, think, out of the mountains of
Judea-that property is more than a
mere possession. 1t is a moral trust
So that every man who has it, whether
it lies in railroad or in a coal bank, or
in blast furnace, is in a high sense
the trustee of the community, and I'M
der high law to use his estate without
prejudice to the commonwealth. ZAP
plause. The gospel of mammon,
which in England, if we may believe
Cardinal Manning, has produced a
"world of wealth and world of want, ~
already threatens our own country with
similar perils. The statesmen who
have secured the American markets
for the use of the American people
haye not finished their work until ev-
cry conspiracy in restraint of trade, ev-
cry organized syndicate of extortion
every system of fraudulent and ficti,
tious dealing is scourged from the
temples of legitimate business. (Ap-
plause.) am a believer in wealth
honestly come by and wisely used for
the good of the world. I think that g
millionaire like Peter Cooper-with 8
heart full of love to mankind, is Gods
best gift to modern society. Applause
would have every man, and especial
ly every young man devote the strength
of his years to the accumulation Of
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