New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-04-20

parent In speech and act, is to destroy
that principle. Will you allow it to be
i done2 Will you allow this great con
i spiracy against the true interests of the
American people to be successfnl2 You
alone can answer these questions; and
4 upon you alone is fixed the responsible
s; ty. Frankly do not believe you will
4 have too much faith in the integrity
and in the patriotism of the people OF
this country to believe that you are will
4 ling to throw down the bars and invite
4 to your farms, your manufactures and
your industries of every kind the compe-
tition of underpaid and oppressed labor
in European countries, and of men who
| if this flag was assailed, could not and
would not lift hand in its defense and
who bear and share none of the respon-
slbilities Of government with you.
The principle of protection is a plain
and simple one. We as Republicans be-
lieve that the advantages of this country
should be enjoyed by the people of this
country. We as Republicans believe
that the harvest should be reaped by the
people of this country. We as RepubIi-
l
from the sale of our surplus products
should go to benefit and build up the
masses who produce that surplus. That
the savings banks of the United States
and not the savings banks of Great Bril-
tain should have and hold the surplus
earnings of the laborers of this country
engaged in every industry. We as Re-
pubHcans believe that the farmer of Min
nesota in the sale of his barley and his
wheat and his rye and his flax, and the
eggs gathered from his hennery, and his
butter and his potatoes and the products
of his soil should not be brought into
competition with the farmers of any for
eign land. We believe that the man, who
pays good and living wages to the men
who harvest his grain, should not be
brought into competition, when he comes
to sell it, with the Ryot of India, who
lives on his six and ten cents a day. We
believe that the man who works in the
factory and at the forge should not be
brought into competition in the sale Of
his labor, with the unpaid laborer of any
foreign land. We believe as Republicans
that, applying these principles, we can
/ build as we have already builded, until
this nation as a whole in every industry
shall be stronger and greater than it is to-
day. We as Republicans believe that
the application of these principles will
not increase the price of the necessaries
to the laboring man of this country. We
know as a demonstrated fact that while
the products of our industries have MAIN
tanned practically the same value that
they had ten years ago and twelve years
ago and fifteen years ago, that all or
nearly all the necessaries of life have de-
creased in price from 30 to 40 per cent
If this is true, and you can demonstrate
| it if you do not believe it, what reason
Is there on the face of this earth why any
man should want any better party than
we offer to you9 You may go into the
stores of Sleepy Eye and you may turn
1 back the pages of the account books for
ten years and compare, if you doubt the
prices of to-day with the prices of ten
years ago. and you will find that what /
ftlve said is true, that in nearly every ar
ticle, which enters into common every
day consumption, in every piece of ma
chlnery that you use upon your farm, in
the clothes that you wear upon your
i back, in the boots and shoes that YOU
wear upon your feet, in the food that
you put into your mouths, that, instead
of going higher, they have gone lower;
4 and that a dollar to-day is worth more
! than it ever was before in the history of
this country. The laboring man is pro-
tected by this principle; the merchant,
| the miner, the manufacturer, the farmer
and all classes are protected by it. As a
result we are richer per capita than the
people Of any other nation. and the bal
ances in our savings banks to the credit
of wage earners is reaching into the bill
/ lions of dollars. In the State of New
4 York alone its eighteen hundred thou-
sand wage earners have in the savings
1 banks thirty-th three million dollars more
than the fifteen million wage earners OF
Great Britain. This proportion holds
true throughout the whole country and
is an evidence which refutes all argu-
ment against the efficacy of our system
/ of government.
! About two years ago this system OF
/ protection eliminated in the Mckinley
j bill. You recollect that while it was a
baby yet in its swadling clothes it was
attacked by the vilest yituperation ever
4 heaped upon any measure passed by the
i American Congress. There was no Ian.
guage sufficient to roll from the mouth
i of the average Democrat its condemna.
ton. You were told that it meant stag.
4 nation; that it meant ruin; that it meant
4 decrease in the value Of our farm pro.
j ducts; that it meant the establishment o.
Il trusts; that it meant the increase Of al
the common necessaries of life; and these
tales were drummed into your ears agar
and again, until, I am loath to say, many
4 Republicans Of this country believed thai
there must be something in them.
~ We told the people two years ago thai
they ought to give that bill a trial; thai
the men who framed it and who passed
1, it and who believed III it were patriots
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