Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-29

von Ont upon the political party wllllng
- evner,ment in legislation with the wages
of orr lahorinp men and with their wen
being and comfort and happiness. ~ ~
plause. They tell us that wages ~ rrar
country are higher than they are oaer
there but that everything else is cheaper
over there than it is here, ana tnas ..le
lower wages paid over there have 1nerc-
fore greater purchasing power IMAM .nes
have over here. Well, now, II that IS llue :.
man must be better off over therei ahG IL
a man IS better off over there Win MS
lower wages. and their greater purchas-
ING power, what in the name OF heaven az
thew want to come over here for? Ap-
nlai,se. / can understand how they
might be miSlead into coming mere ~
false reports, circulated by Steansulp
agents and all that sort of thing, put Wnen
they get here and find that tney arc ~
much worse off than they are over tnere'
why don't they go back again Az
nlailse. But they do not; they come mere
because this is and has been under the
American policy the land OF promise lol
the honest laborers of the earth VINO care
to come here and make this their home'
and we propose to keep IL so.
LORD SALISBURY SEES 1T, TOO.
You NAV see fellow hit and think he is
struck pretty hard, but he knows now now
hard he is hit better than you do. Inc
hardest headed statesman in England is
Lord Salisbury, and Lord Salisbury says
on this question OF reciprocity something
/ would like to have you remember.
after all, this little island lives as a
trading island. We could not produce, IN
food slur1s, enough to sustain the popula-
ton that lives IN this island, and it is only
by the great industries which exist here
and which find markets in foreign coun-
tries that we are able to MAINTAIN the vast
population by which this island is lnhab-
tied; but danger is growing up. Forty
or fifty years ago everybody belleved that
free trade had conquered the world, ana
they prophesiZed that every nation would
follow the example of England and gave
itself up to absolute free trade. The re-
suits are not exactly what they prOphe-
sized, but the more adverse the results
were, the more the devoted prophets OF tree
trade declared it would come out all right.
The worse the tariffs of foreign countries
became, the more confident were the
propheSies of an early victory; but we see
now" This is not a tree trader from WIS
consin or Chicago testifying. 1t is Lord
Salisbury, until recently the premier OF
Great Britain.
1--WE see now after many years. exper-
fence that explains it, how many foreign
nations are raising one after another q
wall. a braZen wall of protection around
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, 1t constantly seems to get
worse. Now, of course. it utter word
with reference to free trade shall be ac-
cused OF being a protectlonist, of desire
to overthrow free trade and of all the
other crimes which an ingenius magma
ton can attach to the commercial hetero-
doxy. If we look abroad into the world
we see it. In the office which l have the
honor to hold see great deal OF it. We
live in an age OF war of tariffs. Every
| nation is trying how it can by agreement
with It's neig hbors get the greatest possible
proportion for its own industries and at
the same time the greatest possible access
| to the markets OF its neighborS This kind
OF negotiation is continually going on, or
has been going on, for the last year and a
half with great activity. ] want to point
! out to you what | observe is that while A
| is very anxious to get favOrs 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 thereupon he proposes that
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 material
| and our food products. Ii there ever was
a tribute which ought to add weight to the
| reciprocity scheme, and the tariff scheme
too, of the Republican ATTY, it IL that.