The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-05-13
TIE HON. JERRY SIMPSON.
or KANSAS, 1IAIzI1s A SPEECH ~ THE
Rouse or REPRE- EoyTArIvEs- FRI
DAY, APETL. g, 1892

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; gain. take the history Of Australia
which was originally largely settled
by a criminal class. Those people go
+ ing there and having free access to the
natural opportuHitiss-the mines and
forests and streams-for the produc-
7 ton of wealth, finding TO mouopoles
there, being left free to develop the
I resources of the country, to have their
own homes and enjoy the rewards of
their own industry, they gradually
developed into the most advanced com
munity on the fJce OF the earth, and
to-day that nation which originated ont
Of "a criminal class is furnishing you a
ballot law with which to fight against
! the same kind OF legislation that made
criminals Of them i'm the past.
How does it happen, then, that we,
after this long period, are gradually
falling back into the same old coudi-
ton Of society, and that VIC to-day are
filing The whole land with crimiuuls9
/ Why ia Now York alone last year there
were eiglby-unc thousand arrests Of
criminals, many o. them made Grim
iuals by law WHY? Simply because
I they were deprived of their natural
and lnalieuabls right Of access to the
great storeh0Use of wealth. the earth.
because OF the mouopolies built up
under this iniquitous system of protec-
| ton. Ny friend from Michigan, INF.
! Burrows -.let the cat out of the bag
/ IL regard to this system. Speaking in
favor Of the protective tariff, and show
( ing how disastrous it would be to put
certain articles on the free list. he read
Il dispatch dated at Ottawa, Ontario,
March 10, as follows;
OTTOwA, ONTARIO, March 10.
Anticipating a removal of duties from
coal imported into the United States,
a syndicate Of American capitalists
I has bonded several valuable coal
areas in Cape Breton and PictoU, Nova
Scstin, to enable them to compete with
the PeHHsy lvHniu mines i'm the New
! England market, If coal Is put on lie
free list.
That shows you what grows out OF
this protectiye-turiH system. Under
that system these lnonopolies have
grown up ana capitalists have bought
! up the mineral deposits of this country
everywhere that they could discover
them. over i'm the neighb0ring com
monwealth Of Virginia there are POO
1 900 acres OF tho best iron deposits in
the United States, bat those deposit.
are not developed, they are not used
because they would come into compo
titiOn with the iron mines OF Lake SUI
periou and Pennsylvania, And tina
land is assessed AT the low valuation o
=. 50 AN acre. That is the system O
monopoly which tie protective turii
tends to foster.
Under The system of protection
q competition from abroad is shut out
The capitalists buy up the coal depos
. its, the iron deposits, and the minera
deposits of tho land, and hold then
cut of use, and thereby labor is deuie,
access to those resources of nature
and so IL surplus of labor arises;
fierce struggle for existence amoul
, laborers sets in and then it is propose,
! to cure that evil by protective tarf
5 system, which so far from opening "a
new avenues of production real.
3 enables the few to still further mon
Z opolizs tho natural resources o
wealth.
1 speak in the interests of the labor
! er. 1 can properly speak for him
/ because 1 have Eeeu laborer all 10.
life; having come in contact with lab
Oring people 1 think / know their view
and wishes as well as any lawyer o.
manufacturer. 1t seems to me tina
when laburer exchanges his labor
although directly lie may exchange j
fer money, lie in fact exchanges TAI
: labor for the product of the farm o
the factory. lie wants something e
: live on, he wants something to eat
! something to drink, something to weal
Now when you put protective tart.
ON those articles what do you do bu
Increase the cost to limg And how d
you benefit the laborer by increaiug tn
cost of the products OF the factory O
% the farm OF anything else for which IA
s must exchange his Iabor2 Some goo
. republican will please tell me now Ia
g wages of the laborer are increased %
$ increasing the cost Of the articles fo
p which he exchanges his labor3 LbII
simpson paused for reply. No on
venturiug to speak, he procceded-l
e Furthermore we hear good dea
u said on this 1.-THE republicanJs ide of tn
< house about protecting American Iabo
. against the ''pauper labor of Europe.
5 Now Will some republican tell me wlla
e nation do you want protection against
2 ID, not an sneaIr at once. There
q surely some republican who can te
{ me what nation in Europe he wants {
It protect our laboUers against.
IA Mr.. DOLLTVER. The genuema
i from New jersey LAfr. EnslIshl ii
l. referring an hour OF two ago 10 ca
eutta, indicated che country agains
which our labor needs to be protect ed
It III. SIMPSON. VIII tire EoutIema
:. tell me what nation he wishes to Pre-