The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-09-28


to Wales and were very greatly pleased
with IT. Applause.
WOOL.
We put wool on the dutiable Inst higher
than IL was before. Under the reduction or
duty in 1888, the wo0l-growing industry OF
the United States began 10 decay, and in
i've years III ,000 600 sheep disappeared. In
1883 one-fourth of the WOODEN mills OF the
United States were idle and their opera
tlves thrown out OF employment. The Nc
kinley law increased The duty on wool.
made 1t adequately productive, and In
single year the sheep IN the United States
increased l,5U0, U00 and the wool product
increased 1900, 0J0 pounds; Dot only that
but the importation OF wooden goods that
year decreased S1L00o,000, with no de-
crease in the domestic production or WOODEN
goods. We simply made them at home IN
stead of sending money abroad to Dny
them from there Applause and today,
ladies and gentlemen. there Is not wooden
mil In the United states that is not run
| ming. and large number have been added.
Why, the Democratic party, as L recOl-
lect, it succeeded in 1870, In electing con-
gress They elected that congress on Il
platform that they would repeal the Nc
hlnley law, and how many majority did
they have? One hundred and seventy
five. A tremendous majority III session,
month after month, month after month,
month after monih-and what were they
doing? Simply firing paper-wads at the
Mckinley law. Laughter and applause.
Why didn't they repeal 1t II IT was snch Il
robbery? They passed bill putting wool
on the free list. They say III their majority
report that the duty on wool has not been
OF any benefit to the farmer; that it has
not Increased the price OF wool (tnat is a
falsehood, but they say it, ond the taking
of duty OIL of wool would not decrease the
price of wool to the farmer. In the next
| line they say they take the duty off OF wool
| because ii Is a raw material and they want
| TO cheaper the cost o. wOolens. Ii taking
the duty of of wool would. not diminish
| the price oil wool now would Ii diminish
| the price of woolens? Two million men
| In the United States engaged III sheep
raising this last ycac that produced 2S6,-
C0O,OOJ pounds of WOOL. The value OF the
| farmers sheep i'm the United States to-day
| Is Sill, OO0 900 and his income from wool
| last year was So, U0O.0U, and yet this
Democratic house repealed so much of the
| Mckinley law rs 10 put WOO OH the free
| list-let 1t come In here without restriction
| the wool of Australia and South America.
| Ii | had the time 1 could show you that In
Australia they have good grass all the year
around except when they have an occa-
slOnal drought They get their lands from
the crown and they pay only = cents an
| acre by the year and three acres TO the
sheep: so that 1t only cost them cents for
have multiplied that industry and increased
II so that II is as plain as anything can be
| that II the duty Is taken of Of wool. the
sheep husbandry of the Uuited States must
be killed; but these men-tnink OF 1t q
minute-these men take the duty OIL wool
and yet they leave duty by their bill or
| 80 per cent. on wooden cloths. They talk
| to us about class leglslation-what is that
| but class legislation? - discriminating
against 2,OOO,OOJ men engaged In sheep
| huSbandry and discriminating In favor or
22O.OOO men engaged IN the manufacture OF
| wooden cloth.
That is not all. We put prOhibitory
duty on shoddy or 50 cents pound and
kept a hlgn duty on rags ana waste 70
| keep that peSt-adcn stuff out OF the United
| States, and to improve the quality or the
clothing which our people wore. Great
| applause The bill winch they reported
| from the committee and which passed the
house, putting wool on the free list and
leaving wooens 80 per cent. dutiable,
made rags free and put shOddy al cents a
pound. This great patriotic Democratic
congress, dominated by the South largely,
Disseminated against the American farmer
anu III favor OF the Paris rag picker, ask
the farmer of Wisconsin to stand by them
and vote tor free wool and free trade all
along the line ! Will you do it?
A yoice-"No, never" Applause
BISMARCK's TESTIMONIAL
They have had a great deal to say about
| the farmer having no protection under the
| Mckinley law. 1 cannot take the time to
| go into 1t tonight, but on tobacco the
farmers market last year was S1,0O0,000
more than 1t was the year before. and we
saved to the farmers OF this country by the
| duties levied by the Mckinley law upon
their products in gross Sl6,0CO,000 as
| against the year preceding the enactment
1 ~ Al
trader talks about the tariff as robbery
and undertakes TO satisfy the people that
| 1t Is class Legislation and ought TO be
wiped away, he takes upon himself ar
awful big contract, 1t was Prince Bis
marck, the great statesman of Germany.
whom our people remember as standing
in his white uniform beside the old emperor
when the ensign or united Germany was
| planted 10 stand forever-it was Prince
| Bismarck VINO said that he had watched
| the course of America. lie had seen her
wonderful progress and he ascribed it to
her protective tariff system. l want TO
read 1t.
1.-The success of the United States III ma
| terial development Is the most lllustriouS
of modern times. The American nation
has not only successfully borne and sup
pressed the most gigantic and expensive
| war of all history, but Immediately after
ward diSbanded It's army, found work for
all its soldiers and bereaved paid for
| almost all of its debts, gave labor and
homes 10 all of the unemployed of Europe
| as fast as they could arrive within its terri
tory: and has done all this by a system OF
| taxation SO indirect as not 10 be perceived,
much less TO De felt; because 1t Is my de-
| liDerate judgment that the prosperity of
America Is manly due to its system of
| protective laws,ai urge that Germany has
| now reached that point where IL is neceS-
| sary 10 initiate the tariff system of the
| United States" And Germany thereupon
adopted protective tariff under which the
| industries of Germany have trcbled and
the wages of German labor have increased
3316 per cent. Great applause. And
that Is the utterance or statesman who
stood away from us unbiased by our poll
ties without prejudice OF section; but look
| ing ulon us from distance with the eyes
of keen statesman and q philosopher;
| and that judgment OF our prosperity and
of our policy put in vogue omong his own
people. And when the tree trader ar
IaignS protection as q system of robbery
he impeaches the judgment and the in
tegrity and the common sense OF every
people under the sun, except Great Britain.
France has her protective tariff, Germany
her protective tariff, Italy her protective
tariff, Canada her protective tariff. Aus
tria, Russia, all of them protective tariff,
and what awful fools they must all be Ii
| tho frpa trader il riOht IAnnIauca