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

to Wales and were very greatly pleased
with 1t. Applause.
WOOL.
We put wool on the dutiable list higher
than it was before. Un0er the reduction or
duty in 1858, the Wool-growlng INDUSTRY o.
five years II GOO, coo sheep disappeared. In
1888 one-fourth of the WOODEN mills of the
United States were idle and their opera
tlves thrown out of employment. Inc NC
Kinley law increased the duty On wool,
made it adequately productive, and IN
single year the sheep in the United states
increased 100000 and the wool product
increased 5000, 600 pounds; not only that
but the importation of wooden goods that
year decreased 100000, with no de-
crease in the domestic production of wooden
goods We simply made them at home In
stead of sending money abroad to buy
| them from there [applausel, and to-day,
ladies and gentlemen, there is not wooden
mill in the United States that is not run
ming, and large number have been added.
Why, the Democratic party, as l recOl-
lect, it succeeded in 1890, in electlng con-
gress. They elected that congress on a
platform that they would repeal the Nc
Klnley law, and how many majority did
they have? One hundred and seventy
five. A tremendous majority IN session,
month after month, month after month.
month after mOnth-and what were they
Mckinley law. Laughter and applause.
Why didn't they repeal it II 1t was such a
robbery? They passed bill putting wool
on the free list. They say in their majority
report that the duty on wool has not been
of any: benefit to the farmer; that it has
| not increased the price OF WOOL THAT is
falsehood, but they say it, and the taking
| of duty off of wool would not decrease the
price of wool to the farmer. In the next
line they say they take the duty off of wool
because tits raw material and they want
to cheaper the cost OF woolens. 1t taking
| the price OF wool how would it diminish
| the price of woolens? Two million men
| in the United States engaged In sheep
raising this last yea- that produced 2o6,-
! OO0,OOO pounds of wool. The value of the
| farmers sheep in the United States to-day
| is SLY 200, 900 and his income from wool
last year was $29, OO0.O)0, and yet this
| Democratic house repealed so much OF the
| Mckinley law as to put wool on the free
| liSt-let 1t come in here without restriction
the wool of Australia and South America.
Ii had the time l could show you that in
| Australia they have good grass all the year
around except when they have an occa-
sional drought. They get their lands from
| the crown and they pay only cents an
| acre by the year and three acres to the
| sheep; so that 1t only cost them cents for
| the sheep the whole year round. They
have multiplied that industry and increased
! it so that it is as plain as anything can be
that If the duty is taken oft OF wool. the
sheep husbandry of the Uuited States must
| be killed; but these men-think OF 1t a
| minute-theSe men take the duty OFT wool
and yet they leave duty by their bill OF
80 per cent. on wooden cloths. They talk
| to us about class legislatlon-Whatl is that
| but class legislation? - discrimin ating
| against 2,O00,OO0 men engaged III sheep
| huSbandry and discriminating IN favor OF
| 22O, coo MEN engaged IN the manufacture OF
| wooden cloth
That is not all. We pu: a prohibitory
duty on shoddy OF SO cents pound and
| kept high duty on rags and waste to
| keep that peSt-aden stuff out of the nited
States, and to improve the quality OF the
clothing which our people wore. Great
| applause1 The bill which they reported
| from the committee and which passed the
| house, putting wool on the free list and
leaving woOlenS 80 per cent. dutiable,
made rags free and put Shoddy at cents a
| pound. This great patriotic Democratic
| congress, dominated by the South largely,
Disseminated against the American farmer
and in favor of the Paris rag picker, ask
the farmer of Wisconsin to stand by them
| and vote for free wool and free trade all
along the line. Will you do it?
A voice-"No, never" Applause.
BIsMARCK's TESTIMONIAL.
They nave had a great deal to say about
| the farmer having no protection under the
Mckinley law. | cannot take the time to
| go into it tonight, but on tobacco the
| farmers market last year was $4,000
| more than it was the year before, and we
saved to the farmers of this country by the
duties levied by the Mckinley law upon
| their products in gross Sl6,O0O,00O as
| of the tariff law. Now when the free
trader talks about the tariff as robbery
| and undertakes to satisfy the people that
it is class legislation and ought to be
wiped away, he takes upon himself ar
awful big contract, 1t was Prince Bis
marck, the great statesman OF Germany,
! whom our people remember as standing
| in his white uniform beside the old emperor
| when the ensign OF united Germany was
planted to stand forever-it was Prince
Bismarck who said that he had watched
the course of America. He had seen her
wonderful progress and he ascribed it to
her protective tariff system. l want to
| read it.
1.-The success of the United States IN ma
| terial development is the most lllustrlous
| OF modern times. The American nation
| has not only successfully borne and sup
pressed the most gigantic and expensive
war of all history, but Immediately after
| ward diSbanded It's army, found work for
all its soldiers and bereaved, paid for
almost all of its debts gave labor and
| MONIES TO al! Oh tDe ull6UIpiOyeu Ol Europe
as fast as they could arrive within its terri
| tory: and has done all this by a system of
taxation so indirect aS not TO be perceived,
much less to De felt; because 1T is my de-
liberate judgment that the prosperity of
America is mainly due to its system of
protective LAVISH urge that Germany has
now reached that point where it is neces-
sary to initiate the tariff system of the
| United States And Germany thereupon
adopted protective tariff under which the
| industries of Germany have trebled and
the wages of German labor have increased
3S1f per cent. Great applause. And
that is the utterance OF statesman who
stood away from US unbiased by our poll
tics without prejudice OF section: but look
ing upon us from distance with the eyes
of keen statesman and philosopher;
and that Judgment of our prosperity and
of our policy put in vogue among his own
people. And when the tree trader ar
| raiunS nrntectinn as a system of robbery