St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-19
AN OVATION TO MILLS
The Greatest Crowd of the
Year Greets the Texan at
Austin.
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Farmers for Twenty Miles
Around Gather to Hear
Him Speak.
A Splendid Address on the
Great Issue of the Day,
the Tariff.
At Least One Thousand Men
With Torches in the Great
Procession.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
AUSTIN, Mimi. Oct. 1S.-The largest
political meeting ever gathered in
Southern Minnesota greeted Senator
Mills here tonight. Clubs from Lyle,
Adams, Leroy, Owatonna. Spring Val
ley. and other towns came in on the
cary trains. Large delegations came
from Northern Iowa, and at s
o'clock it was estimated that there we're
5000 people in the city. Farmers drove
for twenty miles, bringing their entire
families with them. There were about
1000 men in line bearing torches. The
armory could not hold all the people
who came, and an overflow meeting
was held in the court house
and was addressed by Judge Wilson
and Capt. Harries. Senator Mills
speech was superb. After the speech
the crowd gathered around him, and it
was impossible for him to leave the hall
for over half an hour. so anxious were
the people to meet him. Judge Wilson,
Capt. Harries, Judge NethawaY, Con
gresham Hall and many other dis
tinguished gentlemen were present. In
his address Mr.. Mills said among other
things:
s''Fi,e Value of Labor
lies in the freedom of exchange for its
product. Where is the use or value of
labor If you cannot sell it or its product
where and to whom you please! Com
merce needs independence for its best
a brotherhood of man to reach
the best results of civilization.
This is need decreed by law.
1t is one of natures dictums. Our
Republican friends attempt to revise
this law. They say that we can pro-
duce all we consume. They would raise
coffee in hot houses and tropical fruits
in artificial heat. They want not only
to be independent of all the world, but
independent of God Almighty. The
highest possible beueiicence it is posi-
BILE for humanity 10 attain is in strict
conformity with the laws OF nature
They are established for our guidance.
If we violate them it is at our peril.
But the Republicans propose to improve
upon the divine plan, and with paternal-
istic recourse to law reverse
The Course of Nature.
Man has never been made religious,
moral or wise by law. and he has never
esses of legalized robbery. Loud ap-
plause. Forty per cent of the people
of this country live by farming. 1t is
the industry out of which all live. The
average consumption of wheat is five
bushels per head. The farmer who
raises COG bushels of wheat consumes
twenty-five bushels with family of
five, The balance is his surplus. The
surplus. of any product controls
the price of it. 1t is not what
is consumed. but what is left for
sale that fixes the price. The great
wheat surplus goes to foreign market,
constituting large part of the farm
products, which make so per cent of
our exports. The promise of a home
market to consume being left unful-
filled, after years of projection the Re-
publican senate committee on finance
proposed to shut out foreign manufact-
ureS and import foreign non-agricult-
ural laborers. The average annual
wheat crop is 625,000.O0O bushels; the
average consumption, 5 bushels per
head. This leaves
An Annual Surplus
of 2SS o00.O COO bushels. To consume this
we must import 57,000,000 non-agricult-
ural laborerS in one year. Laughter
and applause. Where are they to be
employed? One-third of the number
would be workers, and with the in
creased manufactured product gro owing
out of their labor, which we could not
export. owing to high tariffs on raw
material, i'll one year the surplus of
manufactured product would be so
great we would have to begin importing
farmers to consume it. You can
not restrict imports without restricting
exports. Two things are necessary
to make trade; man cannot trade with
himself. Two things must pass In
every transfer. Suppose a man has a
horse he wants to trade for cow.
There is no law against horse trade,
but there is one against the trading of a
COW. What is the effect of such law?
Is it not to restrict commerce? To de-
strOy trade? To lose money? When
we bar out importations we not only de-
stroy the exchange of foreign goods for
our surplus farm products, but, by re-
ducing the trade, employment and
wages in foreign countries injure their
capacity to consume them, even were
they willing to send the cash for our