Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-01
THE BURLINGTON PRESS: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1892
THE RALLY,
Confined from the fir'

millions Of duiiara wa the amour. Of money
the American people al to pay to Europe
to settle the balance o. trdiu against them
and there were only two years of that long
period whom Europe pad us any money t
settle tho balance OF trade i'll our favor.
Now | want to read totem. Stevenson an,
| want to read to this audience not wha
some republican has said, not what som,
politician has said, not what some protec
ZIONIST has said, but | want to read to Gen
Stevenson what Willard Fillmore, the presi
dent of the United States, said in his mes
sage to Congress in informing Congress OF
the condition Of this country December g
1871. He said: s"The values of our domes.
tic exports for the last fiscal year as com
pared with those Of the previous year OK
hibit an increase OF So, GAG, 900; in Wow of
this condition of our trade with foreign ma.
lions it would seem TO present the most fiat
terng hopes of its future prosperity. An
examination of the bills of our
exports, however, will show that the
increased value of our exports for
the last fiscal year is to be found in the
high price of cotton which prevailed during
the first half Of that year, which price has
since declined. The policy" says Mr..
| Fillmore, 'of imposing a low rate of duties
on foreign merchandise, it was thought by
those who promoted and established it,
would tend to benefit the farming popula,
ton Of this country, by increasing do
mand and raising of the price Of agrcuI.
tural products in foreign markets. No such
result, however, has seemed to follow the
adoption OF this policy" In his next an
nual message Mr.. Fillmore says 81 deem
it my duty to call your attention to one or
two other questions affecting this subject.
| The first is the effect OF importations OF
foreign goods upon our currency, Most of
the gold OF California, as fast as
it is coined, finds its way direct
| ~ 20 Europe in payment for goods pur-
chased. In the second place as our manufaot-
uring establishments are broken down by
competition with foreigners the farmer
to that extent is deprived of q home mar
ket for the sale OF his surplus products. The
destruction of our manufactures leaves the
foreigner without competition in our mar
kets aud he consequently raises the prices. -
More and more you break down our home
industries the more and more the foreigner
puts up his prices. The revenue tariff
breaks down our home industries and the
revenue tariff builds up the foreign shop at
the expense of the domestic shop. The
revenue tariff encourages our people to go
abroad by the alluring hope of getting
something cheaper rather than take the
products made in the United States. And
they may be cheaper for time, but the in
slant our domestic manufactores are broken
down that instant the price is put up to the
American consumer. Let me give you an
Illustration OF that Four or five years ago
in the State of Missouri there was built a
factory for the making of huted glass and
cathedral glass. 1t was very successful
From the moment that the plant was start
ed foreign cathedral glass went down to the
American consumer and continued to 90
down. One night fire came and destroyed
that magnificent plant and no sooner had
that plant been destroyed and competition
in the United States destroyed than tue
price OF cathedral glass went up at once
So whether you destroy American factories
by fire or FREQ trade, the result Is exactly
the same, enhanced price Of the foreign
goods to the American consumer. THE
speaker again read extracts from Mr.. Fill
more's message.
James Buchanan says in 81, in lis mos
sage 10 Congress that the interests OF the
country were in a deporable cond tom our
manu- Gctories suspended, public works re-
tarded, thousands OF usefu. laborers thrown
out of employment and reduced 10 want
ct Gen. Stevenson says that the worlimen
were employed, no fires were put out, no
IDLE men were found in the lind.
Now | want to read from another witness
of that golden period d scrib.I by Cen.
Stevenson, Let me read you a statement
OF IA democratic candidate for the prcsi-
dency, Horace Greeley. In answer to Cen
Stevenson in lSJj, Mr.. Greeley in a leading
editorial CT the Tribune Of that date said:
'Nho is hungry! Go and see. You that
are full fed and know not what it Is to be
hungry perhaps never saw a hun
cry man. Go and see. Go and see
thousands Of mon and women, boys and
girls, old ANA young, black and white Of al.
nations, crowding and jostlng each other,
almost fighting for the first chance, acting
more like hungry wolves than human be-
iugs in Il lana of plenty. 1t is only by the
continuous efforts of two policemen that the
crowd can los kept in order until the food Is
ready for distribution. Such scene may
be seen every day between II and II
O'Clock, around the corner OF Duane aud
Chatham Streets New York city, where
charity gives dinner to tho poor and soup
aud bread to others TO carry to their miser-
able families. Ga Saturday spent an hour
there at tine hour of high tile. had never
seen like it before, Upwards Of a thousand
people were fed with plate OF soup and Il
piece oil bread and piece o. meat More
imam lOJU IN MI. ElCNCu hundred anu
thirty portions of soup were dealt ont from
Stewards free kitchen in tho rear OF the
greatstor
Over 5000 persons were fed in the sixth
ward alone, ca Saturday, January 49,
This is only one day in one ward Mean
while scenes OF a like nature are being en-
acted all over the city. A procession of
several thousand persons kept marching
about the streets yesterday, with flags and
banners which bore the inscription "lIuu-
ger is II sharp thorn. ~ "Lye aud let live. 80
1--WE want work because We want broad. "
Yet Gen. Stevenson says every body was en-
ployed during that period. "Such ara the
scenes, " says Mr.. Greeley, 'that are being
enacted daily before my eyes. mo fac
tories are closed, no fires put out, " saws
Gen. Stevenson, yet Horace Greeley says:
"The factories are closed, homes aud
shops are no longer being built, |
factory hands and laLorers are idle.
Paralysis is rapidly repressing every pur
suit in the country. Tho cause-auI that |
is what we Interested iu-the cause OF !
ali this is to be found in the steady outflow |
of gold to pay foreign iaborers for making |