St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
some of these Republican friends can

uO tIldt SOrt OI business. Laughter ana
applause.l No trade can be made that
does not require two things to be eX-
changed in making the trade. If your
government comes in and intervenes
and prevents one part of the trade from
being performed, that very proposition
prevents the other part of the trade
from being performed. Suppose there
are two citizens here, and one should
have surplus horse; he is raising
horses, and has got one more than he
wants; he proposes to exchange it for
cows with man who is raising cows
and who has more than he wants, but who
wants horse. Suppose they meet and
agree, II will give you my horse for so
many of your cows" and the other says,
II Will give you the number of cows for
your horse" the trade is agreed to. both
parties are satisfied, both parties are
benefited. But the government comes
i'll and says, II have no objection at all
to the man who has the horse parting
with him, selling him to anybody. but
he shall not take in exchange the cows
that the other party to the exchange
proposes to give" Now l want to know
If that trade is not broken up. / want
to know if the surplus of the man who
has the horse is not thrown back
on him.. Then, when you stop the
Europe coming here to be exchanged
for your breadstutfs-and many OF you
are producers of breadstutfs, OF the rep
resentatlveS of men who are-when
they sag you shall not take the manu-
features OF Germany, of England of
France, you shall not take the steel
rails of Belgium. you shall not take the
woolen goods of the Netherlands, you
shal! not take anything coming from a
foreign country that can be purchased
IN this country. what does 1T
Say to the wheat GroWera
1t says: You shall not send out of
this country your surplus wheat" That
is what it says. What is ''surplus?' 1t
is that amount of every ones product
over and above that which his own
wants require. And when every mouth
is fed i'll this land, when every one of
65,000.000 of people have been satisfied
from the breadstutfS produced in this
country, then we have left a large
amount of surplus to be disposed of to
other people for value. Our government
comes in and says: You shall not take
what the foreigner has to give
YOU" Your surplus must be
thrown on the home market,
where it increases the supply.
The home market is already glutted,
the ground. Where is your wheat to-
day? Certainly not where it was in the
Old days when your trade was unob-
Structed. Look back to the returns
from 1850 to 1860; look back to the last
year OF free and unobstructed trade
commerce upon which alone no revenue
duties were imposed but to 1aise reve-
hue to support an honest government
and you see your wheat was worth over
S1.5O per bushel. What is it today?
About one-third of that, OF little more.
But our friends SAVIOUR Republican
statesmen It that we must still cling
to the idea of the home market. In
a report it made to the senate three |
years ago. reporting bill substantially |
the Mckinley bill. or the Mckinley law |
of today, the senate cOmmitte on finance |
said that I'VE cannot depend on selling |
our>wheat in foreign markets in COM |
petition with the pauper labor of Eu- |
rope" They say that the only way that !
We can find market to consume our |
wheat is to levy high duties on manu- |
factureS and induce an unagricultural |
population to come to this country to |
consume our wheat-a population to be |
brought to the country out of a
Love for High Taxation.
Well now, let us try that, my friends,
and see how it will work. We raised |
last year 6l3.O00,00O bushels of wheat.
The statistician of the agricultural de- !
himself Republican and a
protectionlst. says that four and two
thirds bushels OF wheat is the average
of the people of the United
States per head. Let us put it at five.
and multiply the 65,00O,Q0O by FIVE, and
it gives 325,000.000 bushels of wheat
necessary to satisfy the wants of all
Our people. That leaves Surplus of
2SS, 900, 200. bushels. What is to be-
mittee says that We must must
import an unagricultufal population into
the United States sufficient to consume
this enormous product. How many peo-
pie will it take? And you have got to
bring them in one year, because the
surplus is all here. They have promised
to give YOU home market for your sur
plus. Five into 2S5 goes fifty-seyen
times. Fifty-seven millions of people
have to be imported into this country by
the influence of protective tariff, in
one year, to eat up the surplus wheat
crops. [Applause and laughter The
in force two years. Where are the 81
100000 of people? This is one
Of the strongest and most soph-
!stical arguments of the leaders
ST the Protective policy. 1t is
for the home market! 1t is to make
ourselves independent of ali other peo-
pie! The law has been passed, the high
duties have been imposed. Where are
the fifty-seven millions of people that
we're to come here to consume our prod
lcts? The people are bearing the
taxes, but the
Wheat Is Going Away
from US; the population is not coming
10 this country to consume Il but the