Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-13

strated that in obedience to a law-that
increasing the American manufacture
greatly lowers the price Of the goods
the foundation of the charge that we
have increased the cost to our consumers
has disappeared. On the high seas the
same result will follow. Increased IA
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 flour 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
a preacher. If you require it will pro-
duce afidavits 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 a
lion and unicorn that appeared to be in
progress on the bottom of the breakfast
plates l never knew how that fight came
out, but as l passed through the city of
Trenton an hour ago | could not help
thanking God that a 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
i'll 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.
1t 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
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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 a hope and a 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 products
she required of us if she could buy them
cheaper of US than elsewhere, if we did
not buy dollars worth of her; and if
we should admit her manufactures free
she would not buy q dollars worth from
us if she could buy them cheaper else
where.
Hon. William E. Curtis-Four hun
bred years ago, Mr.. chairman, man
was wandering about the capital of
Spain asking assistance from the govern
ment to enable him to extend its riches
and glory and power. He was de-
nounced and derided. He was called a
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 extend
the riches and glory and power of the
United States have secured the consent
of congress for increased facilities for
reaching the markets that are being
opened by the reciprocity arrangements,
and we should commemorate the close Of
the fourth century of American civiliza-
ton by recovering control of commerce
that belongs to us by reason of geo
graphical and political association.
Hon. J. H. Walker-The American
mechanic is the first and richest fruitage
of the American protective tariff, and he
it is who has given to the farmer every
tool and machine that has ightened his
toll from the first and has made his labor
twice as effective in 1890 as it was in
1860. Not one of them do we owe to
Europe. 1t is said that the reaper was
suggested there, but it was developed
and made practical here. Our pre-emi-
nence in the department of agricultural
machinery is so pronounced that every
form of agricultural appliance is cheaper
in this country than in any other coun-
try in the world. We furnish to every
other country its cheapest and best agri-
cultural machinery, exporting millions
of dollars worth every year.
Robert P. Porter-During decade of
ferocious attack and gloomy prophecy
by Free-traders we have added nation
to a nation-a nation complete in every
particular. have shown that the adj
vancement of population, the increase
of agricultural products, the diversified
ton of manufacturing, the development
of mineral resources, the extension of
railroads and the building up of great
commercial and industrial centers have
kept perfect time to the martial music of
our national progress. There is nothing
discordant about this development, as
Free-traders would have the people be-
heve. The farmer has extended the
area of cultivation into the unsettled
region, the manufacturer has attracted
thousands to the cities, and along the
streams and mountain ranges mining
villages have sprung up, and myriad
blast furnaces tell the story of the mar
velous output of mineral wealth. That
these results are some of the fruits of
Protection as shown in the eleventh
census l have no doubt. Had such tri-
umphant progress followed period of
Free-trade would not the very men who
attack the census, belittle our industrial
development and enviously laugh at our
'home industry dinner" be foremost in
attributing such stupendous strides to
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