St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
MINNEAPOLIS ABLAzE
Continued From First Page.

July, 1916, TO take cf1ect on the ISL Qdy
of December, 1876. Our trade has always
been trade chiefly between American
farmt Is and foreign manufacturers and
cent of all the exports of this country
have been foreign products and are SO
today. Therefore. everybody knew
that whenever the obstruction was
removed there would he an increased
demand for farm products to go out to
pay for the increased importation of
manufactured goods. The increased
demand for farm products increased
the price of farm products, and Oh the
first day of December, when the law
! went into effect. the increased value of
| farm products in the United States was
| OH all average 23H per cent. which
| crop of the United States. 1t took away
| the suited value which the tariff had
| imposed upon manufactured goods of
an equal amount, and S700,000.0o0 were
| left to he enjoyed among the labOrers
| of the country. who had earned it by the
sweat of their brows. [Applause.l DO
you not suppose that if we should re-
duce the higher tariff of today that
there would be all
Equally Increased Price
| of agricultural products, and an equally
| depressed price of manufactured goods?
| Unquestionably there would. 1t would
be at least % per cent, because the price
| of manufactured goods is much higher
than they were in 1912.
| What is the value of our farm pro-
| ducts today? The agricultural depart
| ment reports them at 81, 800. GOO, 600.
| Add 25 per cent to that price and you
| will find that the value of the farm pro-
| duets of today would be $4,000, 000, 600
instead of 81, 500, 600, 600. The increased
| price of the farmers of this country would
be $50. 100000 That value the tariff de-
stroys, because it destroys the market
for these goods. [Applause.] They are
made here.
| This is the richest country in the
world. We have the most intelligent
| and productive labor in the world. We
| produce the quantity, but if we cannot
| find market for e consumption of
| the product the surplus becomes worth
| less.
| Suppose the protective policy were
! carried out as some of the philosophers
of that school demand that it shall be.
| Suppose that it should be carried out as
J Henry G.. Carey, one of the great lights
Of protection, contends, and that the
ocean should be set on fire so that no
| vessel could cross from this country to
a foreign country. nor come from that
| foreign country to us; Mr.. Carey says
that that is what ought to have been
done; that it would be infinitely better
for the country if it were to be done.
| Now, Democrats are generally very we'll
| contented to take this world as they
| find it, Just as God made it. and we all
| believe that He has made it the wiSeSt
and best that it could possibly have been
made, and we believe that the highest
! possible attainment, moral, material and
intellectual, is to be secured by living
in the stricteSt conformity with the laws
| of God. know that many of you Re-
| publican friends think that you could
wonderfully
Improve the Works OF God,
and if Mr.. Carey had been in the Gar
den of Eden when the world was made,
doubtless he would have called upon
the Almighty and would have suggest
ed some wonderful changes in the
mechanism of the universe. Laughter
| Now, here is fifteen hundred millions of
dollars annihilated. And if the
| ocean were set on fire SO
| that we could not send any wheat, any
| cotton, any provisions to any other part
| of the world after every one in this
country had been satisfied, every single.
| solitary dollar Of the export business
would he Il loss of a thousand millions
of dollars year; at least that. But is
that all? Why, my friends, that is only
a part OF it-perhaps only half of it.
| The increased price of the manu-
features, which we have to pay, takes
! an amount equal to that at least out of
the pockets of the people, transfers it
from the pockets of the laborers who
make it and gives it to a favored
class who have no right to it. APP
| pIauSe.] AS | told you, we make
! goods. On the imported goods into this
country, about &450,0O0,000, we pay an
| ad valorem average rate of duty OF S45
on every 500 worth. Say that we pay
only % per cent upon The domestic
| product. and, if we do, and give away
500, 0OO,G0O (say that the product is only
$4,000, 600, 0000, instead OF SIS, 700. 600, 600,
and that it has an increased price by
reason of the. tariff of 25 per cent aver
age). you have added 1900, O0O, 900 on
the shoulders of the taxpayers of this
country-taken it from them and given
| it to a favored class. These are stupen-
douS figures. They ought to command
the serious attention of the people of
the United States. 1t is for you to say
whether this policy is to be continued
or whether you will return to the an
cient
Policy of the Republic,
to permit our people to work at what
ever occupation they please, and send
the products of their labor all over the
earth if they please. [Applause.]
Now. my friends, these figures re-
mind me OF the story of little boy who
had gone to school. and his teacher gave
him sum to work, and he did it very
readily and was very proud of it. He
ran home and told his father that the
teacher had given him sum ard he
worked it right off. and he says. 81 be-
lieve | can do any sum in the arithme-
tic, any of them, did that so quick -
His father SAID. "Well, now, my sou. l
am going to give you a sum, and if you
do that-dO it any time will think
that you are going to be great mathe-
matician, and shall be very proud of
you. You know l am digging well
out here in the yard, and have got
down forty feet deep this even ing. 1t is
as dry as powder house, haven't got
a bit of water; | am tired and [ want to
go TO bed, but | want to give you this
sum for you to work, and when you get
through with it you can wake me up.'
We'll, the little fellow says, "Wait until
get my slate and pencil;' and he got
his slate and pencil, and his father
says, NOW, mere is the sum: Ii catch
cat and throw it in the well, and the
cat scratches out two feet toward the
top every day and slips back three feet
every night, how long will it be in get
ting to the top OF the well ?'' Laughter.
And the little fellow says. 'Well,
now, that may take me some time, but
l am very sure about figures, and l will
get him out for YOU" [Laughter.l He
got his candle and went to ciphering
away. The old man went to bed, and
away in the night he woke up and saw
the little fellow with the
Candle All Burned Out,
down on all tours before the fire. with
the chunks all turned up so he could
see to continue the investigation, his
head stuck almost in the flame, ard he
t>was still struggling 10 get that cat out