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

tight 70 experiment WIN Wndt belongs 10
you. Out upon the political party willing
10 experiment In legislation with the wages
of our laboring men and with their well
being and comfort and happiness. APP
plause. They TELL us that wages In this
country are higher than they. are over
there, but that everything else Is cheaper
over there than IL Is here, and that the
lower wages paid over there have there
fore greater purchasing power than they
have over here. Well, now, II that is true,
man must he better of over there; and IL
a man is better of over there with his
lower wages, and their greater purchas-
ing power, what in the name OF heaven do
they want TO come over here Tor? APP
plausc. | can understand how they
might be mislead into coming here by
false reports, circulated by steamship
agents and all that sort of thing, but when
they get here and find that they are so
much worse of than they arc over there,
why don't they 90 back again? APP
plause. But they do not; they come here
because this Is and has been under the
American policy the land OF promise for
the honest laborers of the earth who care
10 come here and make this their home;
and we propose 10 keep II SO.
LORD SALISBURY SEES 1T, TOO.
You may see fellow hit and think he is
struck pretty hard, but he knows how
hard he is hit better than you do. The
hardest headed statesman in England is
Lord Salisbury, and Lord Salisbury says
on this question OF reciprocity something
l would like to have you remember.
after all, this little island lives as a
trading island. We could not produce, in
food stn1TS. enough TO sustain the pOpula-
ton that lives In this island, and 1t Is only
by the great industries which exist here
and which find markets in foreign coun-
tries that we aIc able TO maintain the vast
population by which this island is lnhab-
tied; but danger is growing up. Forty
or nifty years ago everybody believed that
free trade had conquered the world, ana
they propheslZed 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 free
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 tree trader from WIS
consin or Chicago testifyiag. 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 4
wall, braZen wall OF protection around
their stores which excludes us from their
markets, and rs 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, II | utter o word
with reference TO tree trade shall be ac-
cuSed OF beng prOtectl0nlst OF desire
10 overthrow free trade and OF all the
other crimes which an ingenius magma
ton can attach to tho commercial hetero
dOXY. Ii We look abroad into the world
we sec it. In the office which / have the
honor to hold | see a great deal of II. We
live in an age OF war of tariffs. Every
nation is trying how it can by agreement
with It's neighbOrS geC the greatest possible
proportion for It's own industries and al
the same time the greatest possible access
TO the markets OF its neighOOrs. This kind
OF negotiation is continually going on, OIL
has been going on, for the last year and q
half with great activity. L want To point
out TO you what l observe is that while A
is very anxious to get favOrS of Z, 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 tht
United States has been using, not agains
the United States, he says, because they
must have in England our raw materia
and our food products. II there ever wa!
tribute which ought TO add weight TO III,
reciprocity scheme, and the tariff scheme
too, of the Republican arty, 1t Is that.