Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-06

right 10 experiment with what belongs to
you. Out upon the political party willing
10 experiment IN legislation with the wages
or our la00uug men and with their well
being anu comfort and happiness. APP
plauSe. They tell us that wages In TINS
country are higher than they are over
there, out that everything else IS cheaper
over there than Il is here, and that the
lower wages paid over there have there
lore greater purchasing power than they
nave over here. Well, now, If that Is true.
man must oe better of over there, and If
man IS better OIL over there with his
lower wages, and their greater paTchaS-
ing power, what IN the name of heaven do
they want 10 come over here fOT2 APP
plause.l can understand how they
might be miSlead into coming here by
raise reports circulated 10y steamship
agents and al that SORT of thing, but when
they get here and ind that they are so
much worse of than they are over there.
why don I they 20 back again? APP
pause. But they do not; the come here
because TINS Is and has been under the
American policy the land OF promise for
the honest labOreFs Of the earth who care
10 come here and make this their home,
and we propose TO keep II SO.
LORD SALISBURY SEES 1T, TOO
You may see a fellow hit and think he IS
struck pretty hard. but he knows how
hard he Is mt better than you do. The
hardest headed statesman in England IS
Lord Salisbury, and Lord Salisbury says
on TINS question of reciprocity something
would like 70 have You remember.
after all, this little island hives as a
trading island. We could not produce, in
food stuHs, enough 10 sustain the popula-
ton that hNeS IN this island, and It Is only
by the great industries which exist here
and which find markets in foreign cOun-
tries That we aie able 10 maintain the vast
population by which TINS island is lnhab-
tied; but danger is growing up. Forty
or fifty years ago everybody beneved that
Tree trade had conquered the world, ana
they prOpheSiZed that every nation would
follow the example of England and gave
Itself up 10 absolute tree trade. The re-
suits are not exactly what they prOphe-
sized, but the more adverse the results
were, the more the devoted prophets of free
trade declared it would come out all right.
The worse the tariffs of foreign countries
became, the more confident were the
propheSles Of an early victory; but we SEQ
now. This is not tree trader from WIS
, eonSin or Chicago teStitAiag 1t is Lord
Salisbury, until recently the premier OF
Great Britain.
1--WE see now after many years eXper-
fence that explains il, now many foreign
nations are raising one after another a
hdlis q VI ttACH wall VI plplCCltun hAuuuu
their stores which excludes us from their
markets, and as far as they are concerned
do their best TO Kill our trade. And this
state of things does not get better. On
the contrary, II constantly seems 10 get
worse. Now, of course. If utter a word
with reference TO Tree trade | shall be ac-
cuSed OF being protectlOnlSt, of desire
to overthrow free trade and of all the
other crimes when an lngenIuS magma
ton can attach TO the commercial hetero-
doXy. If we look abroad into the world
we see it. In the Office which | have the
honor TO hold | see great deal of II. We
live in an age OF war of tariffs. Every
nation is trying how it can by agreement
with Its neighOorS gel the greatest possible
proportion for Its own industries and al
the same time the greatest possible access
to the markets OF its neighDOrS. This kind
of negotiation Is continually going on, OF
has been going on, for the last year and a
half with great activity. | want 10 point
/ out TO you what observe is that while A
/ is very anxious to get faYOrS of g, nobody
cares two StrawS about getting the com
mercial favors OF Great Britain. What is
! the reason of that? 1t is that in this great
| battle Great Britain has deliberately
stripped herself of the armour and the
weapons by which the battle is TO be
| fought" And tnereupon he proposes thai
England shall use the weapons which the
United States has been using, not against
the United States, he says, because they
must have in England our raw materia
and our food products. If there ever was
a tribute which ought to add weight TO tht
reciprocity scheme, and the tariff scheme
too, OF the Republican ", II ID that.