Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-07
we first put in our mills when we took out our
burr stones. Not one Improvement had the

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burr stones. Not one improvement had the
French made in their own invention, while
we had made hundred. 1t was the same
case with the Austrian rollers that were
brought out in Hungary. where they Were in
vented; they have made no change and we
have been constantly increasing their
efficiency, SO that though we have twice
changed our milling system, in each case we
teachers"
This man has just sold his mills for ss OOo,-
oU. anq they pay 8 per cent. They are
SSoe Il in Euf0p to extent but the
one instance Of the transfer of Euro
pean capital to the United States to
meet our manufacturing system half way
We probably could sell all our profitable
mills in Europe. thereby releasing our own
capital invested in them for other employ
ments, and insuring the retention of the
the manufacturers are not in great 1orce at
this convention, and Blaine is 20 years be-
yond Mckinley and Cooke in his journal
nansr 1ss1s ssatesmanship . for he was news,
statesman. and recognized the news. Yet
the manufacturers in general are her for
Harrison. most of them having been dullish
sort OF mechanics, looking out for present
patronage, and quite Indifferent about great
customers who had gone into bankruptcy.
Men Who Bade Blaine Goodby.
The opponents of reciprocity and advo-
Gates of immovable protection said adieu to
Blaine two years ago. Here are McComas, of
Maryland, who is generally for Blaine, and
General Geary. the wealthy Baltimore man.
ufacturer, supporting Harrison. McComas
said to me a good while ago that he was
opposed to reciprocity, especially annexing
Canada. When these ultia-protectionists
threw sugar into the free list it never
occurred to them to ask for anything in re-
turn, whereas the Spanish, as l was told,
only hVe weeks ago, in Spain, by Mr.. Dwight
Reed our former Secretary of Legation there,
nQi / rit,o ,Sofi inn
Tor this free sugar. And Harrison. Foster
and Mckinley insisted on presenting it to
them Blaine again cut in, and had some
thing given for so much received. which
proves him to be a very bad protectionist.
nave been coming to these conventions
for 20 years, and unless the present platform
is drawn up by good reporters, on events OF
the day, it will be- like platform literature
in general. worth about 81 column. In the
hands OF a man like Alexander Hamilton no
spot could insnire such platform as
stand of the Celto-Germanic races, to make
metropolis. Minnea polls has foreign
relations of as much account as the Atlantic
sea coast. Mr. Pillsbnry, the miller who
came here from New Hampshire and is one
OF half dozen powerful townsmen here,
SAID to me yesterday: "Our territorial
boundary is drawn as far north as we want
it. 1t is mistake to suppose that all
that country to the far north will be of
benefit to US. 1t is mistake to suppose that
the wheat that grows there will be of benefit
splendid belt of spring wheat which makes
our flour known all over the earth, and
commences in the vicinity of Richmond,
Va, gets its splendor in Minnesota the Da-
kotas and in some other States of the West.
An Attempt That Is n Failure.
"The attempt to make a British Empire of
Winnipeg is a failure; they have not as
much population in all that country be-
tween Lake Superior and the Pacific as we
have here in the city of Minneapolis. and
every FIVE emigrants who go to that region
from their passion to be under the
British flag they lose four OF them, who
must perforce come here and die
under the American flag. To these
facturers from the East to the West, the de-
velopment of new mineral regions the con-
structing of new manufactures and the
high protective distan ce between this West
ern district and the Atlantic, modify every
platform. 1t is not free trade nor high pro-
lection which is the rostrum for the present
situation. just as pair of horses must
be driven with tight rein and the whip
applied until they are thoroughly broken in,
until, after some years, they can obey the
voice and frighten at nothing, we have
in these new regions they are finding the
protection of distance the relief of trans
portation and competition and the encour-
agement of versatile agriculture and
mines"
Said 1 to Mr.. Pillsbury: "You raise fax up
heref'
Yes, our region is the greatest fax region
in America, and the crop is constantly in
creasing until we are compelled to do some
thing more with it than make oil cake"
"Why don't you make linen?"
"Why, we have just started linen mill,
right here in Minneapolis, to use American
fax and knock out the Irish and Scotch"
"Do you find the climate as good for linen
as the damp climate of Ireland and Scot
Nothing Wrong With the Climate.
"They say 1t is just as good. Commonly
speaking, country which produces Ger.
tain straw or grade is adapted to make it up
into manufacturing product"
do you know" said MIR. Pillsbury, "that
we have more iron in Minnesota than they
have IN Pennsylvania? Yes, our iron makes
steel right off. 1t is not like the Southern,
which will make pig iron but not steel"
But what do you do for coal?"
"We have the Illinois coal, and some coal
from further west, but we have transporta-
tion as cheap as the Atlantic ocean, from
Ohio to the lakes, and we can either send |
our ore down there or bring their coal up |
here" GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.
Our Great Reduced-Price Sale of Dress
Goods |
Now going on means more line dress goods |
mt lower prices than were ever seen in this |