New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-12

i the war, has declared that in his ]ldg-
ment our protective tariff system was
the source OF our strength, that by reason
of it we were able to deal with q war
debt that seemed to be appalling and
insurmountable lido not doubt that you,
too, men who believe in work and in
thrift, and so many of whom are every
where sheltered under roof of their
own, will unite with us i'll this struggle
to preserve our Americas market for our
own workingmen, and to maintain here
a living standard Of wages.
/ If any is robbery, all is. Our Demo
cratic friends say protective tariff is
! robbery. You see this written at the
head OF campaign tracts circulated by
their committees. You hear it said in
the public speeches Of their leaders. You
have not once, | think, in the campaign
heard any Democratic speaker admit
that even low protective tariff was
desirable. Those who, like Mr.. Randall,
have in former campaigns been used to
allay the apprehension of our working
people by talking protection have been
silenced. On the other hand, the Re-
publican party declares by its platform
and by its speakers that protective ta-
riff is wise and necessary. There is the
issue. Make your own choice. If you
approve by your votes the doctrine that
protective tariff is public robbery, you
will expect your representatives to stop
this public robbery, and if they are faith
full they will do it; not seven per cent.
of it, but all of it.
A National and common policy. - It
seems to me that when this fuller deve-
lopment of our manufacturing interests,
this building up of home market for
the products of our farms, which is sure
to produce here that which has been so
obvious elsewhere great increase in
the value of farms and farm products
is opening to us the pleasant prospect of
a rapid growth in wealth, we should be
slow to abandon that system of protec-
tive duties which looks to the promotion
and development of American industry
and to the preservation of the highest
possible scale of wages for the American
workman. The development of our
country must be on those lines that bere-
fit all our people. Any development
that does not reach and benehcialIy affect
all our people is not to be desired, and
cannot be progressive Or permanent.
Students of Maxims not Markets. We
cannot doubt, without impugning their
integrity, that if free to act upon
their convictions they would so revise
our laws as to lay the burden of the Gus
toms revenue upon articles that are not
produced in this country, and to place
upon the free list all competing foreign
products. | do not stop to refute this
theory as to the effect of our tariff du-
ties. Those who advance it are students
of maXims and not of the markets. They
may be safely allowed to call their pro-
jects ''Tarif Reform" if the people un-
derstand that in the end the Argument
compels free trade in all competing pro
ducts
/ The essential difference The Repub-
iican party proposes that our tariff duty
shall be of an intelligent purpose, be
levied chiefly upon competing articles.
That our American workmen shall have
the benefit of discriminating duties up
on the products of their labor. The De.
mocratic policy increases importation,
and, by so much, diminishes the work to
be done in America. It transfers work
from the shops Of South Chicago to Biz
mingham.
Cheap products from abroad as bad as
cheap labor at home:-C Closely connec-
ted with the subject of the tariff is that
of the importation of foreign laborers
under contracts of service to be per
j formed here. The law now in force pro-
hibiting such contracts received my cor
dial support in the Senate, and such
amendments as may be found necessary
effectively to deliver our working men
and women from this most inequit-
able form of competition will have my
sincere advocacy. Legislation prohibiting
the incorporation Of laborers under con-
tract to serge here will, however, afford
very inadequate relief to our working
people if the system Of protective duties
is broken down. If the products of AM
erican shops must compete in the Amer
can market, without favoring duties, with