The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-04-22

| gen.ienl8s= that III any series ef ten
/ years7Fsf tile last thirty not dollar has
I been made by manufacturers Of this
Country as class in IL y staple in
/ dustry that has.not been gotten out Of
nature by invention. Not a cent OF
| profit has been made 10y increased
prices; it has all come from nature Iy
means of tile inventions OF manufac-
| t Irers and mechtnics-every dollar OF
it.
Bfr. HEMPHELL. Well, then, We
ought to ray them for it, not you.
Mr.. SIMPSON. L understand it was
the Mckinley lii which was going
to enrich everybody, and produce
wealth III this country; and now the
gentleman from Massachusetts, says
there is no increase of wealth. except
that coming from the inventive genius
Vt tie American people applied to
manufacturing machinery, ana thereby
increasing the productive power of the
country. Then it is not the protective
tariff at all that has helped the manu-
facturers. TAT this point Mr.. Walker
started to leave the hall hope the
gentleman will not go away; propose
to have something to say about Massa-
chusetts later on. tLaughter.l
Now, Mr.. Chairman, L am a free
trader-absOIute. I am rot one Of
those men who drs ready to comprom-
use withwrong. Either thing is right OF
it is wrong. L learned my republican
ism when the republican, party meant
something-when it stood for a. Prinei-
pIe-wl,en old William Lloyd Garrison
and Wendell Phillips said they would
have no compromise with wrong; that
slavery was Fan agreement with death
and "a covenant with hell.'' They re-
fused To compromise with wrong. That
is tile time when l WAS republican,
But when the republican party became
tile champion of special interests, when
tie money power and the manufactur-
ing class got control of it to use it as a
vehicle through which to foster their
special interests left the republican
party, and today I stand for absolute
free trade i'll every sonse of the word.
Now, gentlemen, what is free trade?
Is it - natural or unnatural condition.
Are not human beings so consti uted
that they must trade? No matter how
/ primitive the state of society, men
must trade. With the developments
of human progress the inventions of
machinery and the division of labor,
different classes and different couutries
| producing separate and distinct articles
VIC must have a system of trade. III
Olden times this cropped out because
the settlements were along public high
ways or water courses, by means of
which the people could communicate
with one another. Trade is n natural
condition. What do the protectionist
gentlemen propose? To protect against
trading, to prevent people from trad
ing with one another? Is it mot obvi-
Z OILS to every man that protective
= tariff law las for its object to prevent
some one from trading with some one
else? 1t is evident that there must he
p men in this country who wish to ira Il
, with those i'll some other country, o.
3 you wonld not pass a law to prevent
this trading. Here, then, is country
where men are prevented by law from
trading.
5 say, Nr. Chairman, that trade i,
natural. II left to take cure of them
z 5 lives men Will trade with other mel
. vino viii give them good burgains
When I produce anything ON my farm
, grain or hogs "a cattle-I produce
! larger quaint. ty than I can use myself
because hope to trade the surplus
( with other men who have articles thai
want; and I want to trade with TIN
3 manor the people, or the nation, VIA
g will give me the best bargains. 1 wan
t TO trade where I can get rich instea,
of getting poor. BIT the law step
! / Ia TO prevent this. The protective
tariff law confines me to n particula
section of country It assumes tina
e tue people, if left at liberty TO trade
D will make bad bargains. Is that til
= history of the American people? Is no
p the Yankee particularly noted all owe
the world for making smart trades an
good bargains9
4. The protective tariff goes on til
X theory that a nation gets rich by keeT
/ ing out wealth, by sending out its prod
r uets aud bringing nothing IN. It as
O sumes that the more wealth you sen
= out ami the less you bring in the richie
Il tue country becomes; and gsntIsme
g quote here statistics showing that TIA
= "balance of trade is in our favor; tia
n We sent out last year 1920, 600 90
c worth Of products more than W
a brought in; and it is argued that 10
Q this reason We are getting rich.
d Sir, when was down in Florida
e little over a year ago, as 1 stood O
IT tbs deck of n steamer passing ou
y through the magnificent harbOr Of Per
saeCla, I SAW sixty-iive ships in tia
IS harbor, all except two flying a foreig
d aaS. 1 inquired OF the collector Of tn
d port, -'fIOU many OF these vessels con
g into this port ladenf'' He said ~ q
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