Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-06

the years since the Mckinley law went in
| TO effect there has been an increase IN that
| single state Of wages or So .UOu,vOi. and OF
manufactured products sjlO0O 0J0.
No wonder the average tree trader says
Peck is a liar. Laughter That IS one
| trouble with the free tTJder-I don't say,
| mind YOU with the Democrat. but-with
the man who's willing to reverse the policy
| under which we have proSpered. Inc man
who IS willing 10 tear down the protective
| system and put this country upon the free
trade basis. Nothing IN the way of an in
duStrlal triumph pleaSes him. nothing IN
| the line OF an industrial calamity but
| what gives him encouragement APP
plauSe. hey are the Anarchists of Amer
lean industry they are the Anarchists of
American labor lapplausej, whether they
mean 10 be or not They stand always
with wide open mouths shouting prOpheSleS
of evil. They fTlshten capital whenever
| they can agalnSt entering INTO this industry
or that. They thereby keep labor our of
employment. ana they depTeSs our country
and our prosperity.
| They are eveTlaStlnglv telling US: "You
cannot do this and you cannot do that" /
! want an American citizen never 10 say
that American capital and American labor
cannot do anything. They told us way
| back 10 1867 and 1870: ~ on cannot make
steel rails" At that time steel rails were
selling at $50 IN gold. and very much
more in currency congress put duty on
steel rails, and without going into the de-
tails of 1t, to-day we are making IN the
| United States, and have been tor years, all
| the steel rails which We have needed for
our domestic consumption, aud we are eX-
porting some, too Applause and the price
has come down, dOWn, down, until II
ranges from S21 to S3l and So a ton. Ap-
plause. Well when | made that state
ment tine other day TO free trader, he SAID
to me well, If we have cot so now that
xxya 90 l~a SD rofl e ~
why don't you take the duty of p Laugh
ter. And SAID TO INN just what | say TO
you tonight that there would be Just as
much sense in my going to yOu and saying
My friend, that fence of yours has kept
your neighDOr's hogs out OF your cabbageS
how for four years why don you take II
down p Great laughter and applause. ]
SUGAR MADE CHEAP AND FARMERS PRO
TECrED.
We passed the Mckinley law; we took
the duty of OF sugar; we cheapened sugar
to every family in the L nited States a
while after we TOOK the duty of of sugar
Mr.. Mckinley told me that man III his
town went into store and wanted d0l-
lars worth OF sugar, and the merchant be-
gan to weigh 1t out he kept dipping, Dip
ping, dipping the sugar INTO the measure,
and the purchaser interrupted him and
said: Il only want dollars worth" He
= y
and he kept on untll lie made bundle of
twenty pounds OF sugar and wrapped it up.
The man took II in his arms. walked out
to the sidewalk, and said MIR French,
don YOU tell my wife that ] got that sugar
for a dollar WHY p Nv hy, If you did
she Will never give me any peace till vote
the Republicantcket.' lGreatapplauSeand
laughter. We were paying about S55,O0J,-
900 year out of the pockets of the people.
duty on sugar. and that was tax because
that was a tariff tor revenue only, for we
did not produce enough sugar In this coun-
try TO affect by competition the price of it
here at home. Gen. Bragg talked the other
night at Tomah about our legiSlatlng in
favor of the sugar trust. We put a duty
on raw sugar sugar which could not be
used by the people without being refined (;
we preferred that our sugar should be re-
fined in the United states TO having that
labor done over the sea. We put talr,
reasonable duty upon 1t. But we did not
begin TO put the duty upon refined sugar
that the Mills bill put upon it. The duty
put by the Mills bill upon refined sugar
saved tO.the sugar trust ll,OO0.O00 more q
year than the duty put upon refined sugar
by the Mckinley law We gave bounty
equal TO the duty we had taken Off to en-
courage home production and we afford
thereDy-and the supreme court held it to
constitutional afford thereby the same
announcement at a small outlay To the do
when levied upon sugar And what IS the
result of it? We dld II with our eyes open.
W did IL to encourage the production OF
sugar IN the south we did it to encourage
the beet sugar product IN the North, aud
one refinery in Nebraska this year, will
produce 100000 pounds Of beet sugar as
good as ever was seen on the earth.
Gov. Rusk told me the other day that the
experts had demonstrated beyond any
question that there was large belt OF states
having the soil aud the climate which
would enable the farmer to make a profit
able crop of the sugar beet and which
would enable us before many years 10
make, in his judgment 10 provide our own
people with sugar; and lie told me that
Wisconsin was one OF those states; and the
oxford company has agreed with him to
establish great sugar refinery IN this
state in order to give our farmers a chance
to open up another agricultural industry.
so WILL PEARL BUTTONS AND LINEN.
Why, the free traders told us when the
Mckinley law was passed: You cannot
make pearl buttons Wen the trouble
with that is, we are making pearl buttons.
There is only one pearl button which we
are not making in this country to-day,
which we imported here before the Mckln-
ley law, and that Is one made IN the prisons
OF Austria which we prohibited from COM
ing here forever Applause.
|
duties imposed in that schedule would en-
nance the price of linen to the people and
would not do any good because you can
not make linen III the nIted States"
Why dot? We have the fax: 'Oh, yes;
but you have not the machinery" Well,
when before did America tail to make any
thing TOR lack OF machinery? If they can
not buy it they invent II. Continued APP
plause. 1t was not long after the Mckin-
ley law was enacted that they sent several
bales of Minnesota FAX to the mills in
Scotland and 1t came back IN good linen,
with a certificate lhat they had never h ad
any better fiber IN that mill; and the other
day when we met IN Minneapolis 10 nomI-
nate Ben iamln Harrison the next president
of the United States great applause the
great Exposition building was carpeted-
YOU remember twin linen made out of
Minnesota flax in MINNEAPOLIS mill
Great applause. No, sc cannot make
linen. Well. my free trade friend, we can
make linen, and we viii make linen.
lGreat applause.
MAkING TIN PLATE NOW.
There is no one subject upon which
more has been said against the Mckinley
law than the UutE UUOu I'm Mate voted.