New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-19
ABUNDANCE VS.. GHEAPNESS
The Eloquent Iowa Orator DolliYer Agrees
with Harrison that things may be
too Cheap.
One Thing as Important to Community
as Cheap Goods, is Money to Buy
Goods With.
A Brilliant and Humorous Argument in
Favor of the Doctrine of Protec-
ton.


Congressman Dolliver of Iowa made a
protective speech, which fairly bristled
with strong points and eloquent sentences
He took for his text, President Harrison's
statement that things might sometimes
be too cheap and in referring to the peo-
pie of his own state he says:
They believe in buying what they need
as far as they can at home and in selling
what they produce as far as they can in
the market places of their OWE country.
(Applause. Being largely engaged in
raising live stock for sale, they see the
advantage of having customers who have
both money to buy meat and we'll
established habit Of eating it. daughter
and applause. Our people are for re-
'ciprocity, not with our competitors in
in the fields of productive industry, but
with every country whose incoming car
goes neither displace nor degrade the
occupations Of our own countrymen.
(Applause.) The man who cannot see
the difference between limited rec1pro-
city with Brazil and Free-Trade with
Europe ought to connect himself with
night school. Uaughter.) The one Sc
cures new market without damage to
the old. (Applause) The other would
either drive out our industries or require
us at once to cut in two the bread buy
ing ability of our own workingmen.
(Applause.) We find, for example, near
ly a million people living yonder in Con-
necticut-a State that was not intended
for farming, having been cast up by
volcano and left with surface that re-
quires fertilizers in the graveyard in OF
der to insure the resurrection of the dead.
(Great laughter.) If Brother Porter is
correct, and | never knew him to be
wrong, though saw in the papers that
he did not send blanks enough over here
to take down the names of all the Tam
many folks Caughter) but if he is cor
rect, the eight hundred thousand people
of Connecticut do not raise enough to
feed themselves ninety days in the year.
Iowa has substantial interest in the
prosperity of that State.
We can use her prosperity in our busi-
ness. We will sell them all they need at
living rates. (Applause) And we are
ready to accord them living rates for all
they offer for sale. (Applause.) We
are always on the lookout for a good
trade, but we are not hunting for bank
rupt sales. We seek no bargains that
bring to our firesides the pathetic history
of want. (Applause.) We seek no bar
gains that recite in our ears the Old
Worlds tragedy of children without
books, of women without hope. (Ap-
plause.) We seek no bargains that are
found floating upon the stagnant waters
in which a submerged tenth of the indus
trial population has gone down. Tire
mendous cheering.) And if the impor-
ters of this town wait for their victory
till the farmers Of the West vote the
manhood out of American life or set up
boycott against the United States Of
America, they will live to crowd Methu-
selah for first place. Great laughter and
applause.) Already the smoke of the
furnace and the skill ofmen's hands have
begun to move toward the West. What
ever the Tariff may be, we see that the
absence of the factory is a veritable tax
on our resources. Applause. We are
going to get rid Of that tax. In the chief
city of Iowa the people gave fifty thou
sand dollars to hire man to build a cot
ton 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 Saxony is
the cheapest place on earth for knit goods,
raised ten thousand dollars to put in a
knitting factory. EApplause. At For
est 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 snot a vii
lage in that State without its board Of
trade, with its brass band laughter, a
carriage and cash donation for any well
dressed man who will undertake to To-
cate any kind Of an industrial enterprise.