New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-11

ISelf to that ancient Democratic tT1ckss OF
going across road to kick sheep,
| make wool free to the direct detriment
| of the farmer and the ranchmen, one of
/ the most vital agricultural interests in
this country. Why have they not at
tempted to redeem their pledge in this
respect if what they said two years ago
is true? They know that it is not true.
Every man that runs can read that that
bill is standing the test of experience.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have
gone into new industrial enterprise in
conquence of that bill.
The first principle upon which Repub-
licanism is based and the disregard of
which would entail the dissolution of
that great organization is the protection
of American industry and American la
Dor by tariff laws. It is upon that basis
and asserting and proving that it isFight
that hope the Republican party Id this
state will make their next attack. Ithas
led us to victory always when we have
adhered to it; disaster has never overta-
ken our banner except when we altered
it in that respect. 1t is consistent Re-
publicanism; it has been cardinal and
automatic in the party ever since 1862.
I assert and claim that it benefits every
man in the community, the farmer, the
wage Garner, the fixed salary man and
all. Upon what principle does it rest2
Upon the principle Of self-preservation ion.
A principle which is sanctioned to indi-
viduals as well as to nations.
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to less advanced states and communities
or to more powerful states and commu-
mites, where in their power, they have
rotted into corrupt social system or
corrupt industrial system, that you shall
not bring your corruption into contact
with our purity and hope to taintit. The
free trader proposes to lay his country
open to every attack because the foreign
merchant will sell goods cheap to who
ever happens to have money to pay for
them. He forgets in doing this that he
takes numberless sources Of employment
from his neighbor, from the man who
does not produce the crude raw material.
In the last analysis Of this question pro-
lection is in selfdefence of every man in
the community. It is all the difference
between Civilization and barbarism.
Wherever compensation is hight use
the term in this large sense-the state of
civilization of that nation is high. Wherz
ever the rate of compensation OF wages
using this term in the large sense-is low
the lower it goes and the nearer ap-
proach to barbarism that nation makes.
Under the advantages Of a protective
government the home influences were
refined and elevated, and that was the
court of last resort to which all strings
of empire run. Regarding the question
of protection from a standpoint not
quite so sentimental, and the arguments
in favor of it would, if possible, be
stronger. How much saving has been
effected under this system in transporta-
ton? The great tax Of modern times
was getting products from place to
place. The railroad tariffs Of this coun-
try were of ten times more importance
than all the taxes levied by the taxing
power. If the farmer had only to carry
his wheat fifty miles was it not far. bet
ter than that he should have to carry it
5000 miles. This would be the result
of the growth of manufacturing towns
in regions hitherto given over to one
employment, for each such town would
bring market so much nearer to the
home of the farmer. This was the result
Of protection. | want to put the case to
the Minnesota farmer who wants to buy
SO many yards of wooden cloth. He has
got SO many bushels of wheat-two or
three, say, to pay for SO many yards of
cloth. Under the free trade policy the
wheat is in Minnesota; the fleece is in
Australia. The wheat travels 5000
miles to Liverpool and pays the tax of
transportation. The Australia fleece
travels $4,000 miles to Liverpool and
also pays the tax of transportation. It
is there made into cloth and it is brought
5000 miles to Minnesota to the farmer,
who has to pay all that transportati on.
Now, would it not be better, my far
mer friends, if your two or three bushels
of wheat could find that fleece in Mime
apolis or Redwood Falls? Would it not
be better that the railroad companies in
stead of the steamship company had re-
ceived the benefit of much shorter tran
sportation? Would it not be far better
to have several enterprises like the Wood
Harvester, settle right in the state and
develop its resources than to have it Civ
en- over to agriculture and have the far
mers importing all the manufactured ar
ticles that they might want? I would
tax luXuries, of course, but / would tax
them for another reason than is COM
monty assigned. | would tax them in
order that they might be produced right
in our midst. There is no class of man
ufacture that pays so highly in wages as
that of luXuries. It would give dlversi-
fed employment and that always tends
to the advancement of the community.
For years we have been the greatest ag-
rieulturul co untry in the world We
want to be the greatest manufacturing
country as we'll. The marvellous adj
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