Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-02
REWARDS OF LABOR.

8tS W AHO0 OS SfA000s
sons Speeches.
i Tho republican party stands for the
principle of protection. We believe in
the preservation of the American mar
ket for the American producers and
workmen. We believe that the devel-
opment of home manufactures tends di-
rectly to promote the interests of agri-
culture, by furnishing home market
for the products of the farm, and thus
emancipating our farmers from the trans
portation charges which they must pay
when their products seek distant mar
kets. I believe that in reducing our
revenues to the level of our needful and
proper expenditures we can and should
continue to favor and protect our own
| industries. The republican
party has shown its capacity wisely to
reduce our revenues and at the same
time to protect the American system
Indianapolis, July %, 1888.
It is one of the best elements in our
strength as state that our farm lands
are so largely possessed in small tracts
and are titled by men who own them. =
God grant that it may be long
before we have in this country tenant
~ that is hopelessly such from one gen.
GRAFTON to another.-Indianapolis, Aug
ust 3. 1888.
Our party stands for the doctrine
that the American market shall be pre-
served for our American producers.
Our 100000 of people are
the best buyers in the world, and they
are such because our working classes
receive the best wages in the world.-In-
dianapolis July 81, 1888.
desire that our legislation may be
of that sort that will secure the highest
possible prosperity, wages that not only
supply the necessities of life, but leave
substantial margin for comfort and for
the savings bank. No mans wages
should be SO low that he cannot, in his
days of vigor, make provision for the
incapacities of accident or of the feeble
ness of old age.-Indianapolis, July ID,
1888.
The tide of emigration from European
countries has been and is toward our
shores. The gates of Castle Garden
swing inward. They do not swing out
ward to any American laborer seeking a
better country than this. Men who
have toiled at wages in other lands that
barely sustained life and opened no av-
enue of promise to themselves or to
their children. know the good land of
hope as we'll as the swallows know the
land of summer. They testify that
here are better conditions, wider and
more hopeful prospects, than in any
other land.
The more work there is to do in this
country, the higher wages will be paid
for the doing of it. That policy which
secures the largest amount of work to
be done at home is the policy which will
secure to our laboring men steady en-
ployment and the best wages. Apolicy
which will transfer work from our fac
tories to foreign factories inevitably
tends to the depression of wages here.
What is the best evidence of
national prosperity and the best guam
antee of social order, if not an intelli-
gent, thrifty, contented working class?
Indianapolis, July rs. 1888.
Heroes have been found at the thrOt-
tie and the brake, as we'll as on the bat
tlefeld,' as well worthy of song and
marble. There is relation between
the wages of the skilled laborer and of
the unskilled laborer, as truly as be-
tween the prices of two grades of cot
ton cloth. If the first is cut down, the
other, too, must come down. If labor
is thrown out of one line or avenue, by
so much more will the others be crowd
ed. Any policy that transfers produc-
ton from the American to the English
or German shop works an injury to all
American workmen.-IndianapoliE, July
-, 1886.
I do not believe that a republic can
live and prosper whose wage earners do
not receive enough to make life COM
Portable. who do not have some upward
avenues of hope before them. When
the the wage earners of the land lose
hope, when the star goes out, after that,
anarchy or the czar.-Indianapolis,
September Is, 1883.
We have come to point where Amer
lean industries, American commerce and
American influences are to be revived
and extended. The American sentiment
and feeling was never more controlling
than now; and do not use that term
in the narrow sense Of native American,
but to embrace all loyal citizens, wheth-
or native born or adopted, who have the
love of our flag in their hearts.-San
Francisco, Cal, May 1, 1891.
THE SAD FOREIGN MANUFAC-
TURERS.