The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-10-01

Office by Mr. Cleveland. and retained IN it
| by Gov. Hill. He has lately made report
| as labor commissioner Of the state OF New
| York, from which ii appears that during
| the years since the Mckinley law went III
| TO effect there has been an increase IN that
| single state of wages OF $1,000, COO and OF
| manufactured products s3l .oOoUUO.
| No wonder the average free trader says
| Peck is a liar. laughter mat IS one
| trouble with the free trader-l don't say.
| mind you. with the Democrat. but-wlth
| the man who Is willing TO reverse the policy
| under which we have proSpered. Inc man
! who IS willing to tear down the protective
system and put this country upon the free
dustrlal triumph pleases him. Nothing in
the line of an industrial calamity but
| what gives him encouragement lAp-
| plause. They are the Anarchists OF Amer
lean industry F.; they are the Anarchists of
American labor app!ausel, whether they
with wide open mouths shouting prOpheSies
of evil. They frlghten capital whenever
| they can against entering into this industry
or that. They thereby keep labor ou1 Of
| employment, and they depress our country
and our prosperity.
| They are everlastinglv telling us: "YOu
cannot do this and you cannot do that"
want an American citizen never to say
| that American capital and American abor
cannot do anything. They told us way
back IN 1867 and 1870: You cannot make
| steel rails" At that time steel rails were
selling at $50 in gold. and very much
more in currency. Congress put duty on
| steel rails, and without going into the de-
tails of it, to-day we are making in the
| United States, and have been tor years. all
| the steel rails which we have needed for
| our domestic consumption, and we are eX-
| porting some. too Iapplausel, and the price
| has come down. Gown. down. until II
ranges from S21 to 81 and So a ton. Ap-
| plauSc. Well. when | made that state
| ment the other day to free trader. he SAID
| to me: well. if we have got so now that
we can make steel rails and export them,
| why don't you take the duty OFT , Laugh
| ter. And | sad To HIM Just what | say to
YOU tonight that there would be Just as
much sense i'll my going TO you and saying ::
| My friend, that fence of yours has kept
your nelghbOrS hogs out OF your cabbageS
now for four years why don't you take 1t
| down. Great laughter and applause.
SUGAR MADE CHEAP AND FARMtHs PRO
| TECTED.
I We passed the Mckinley law we took
| the duty off OF sugar we cheapened sugar
| to every family i'll the nited States. \
while after we took the duty OFT of sugar
| Mr.. Mckinley told me that man III his
| town went into store and wanted DOL
| lars worth of sugar. and the merchant be-
gan 10 weigh il out: he kept dipping. DIP
ping, dipping the sugar INTO the measure.
| and the purchaser interrupted HIM and
| said Il only want a dollars worth" He
sad Il am giving YOU adollar worth :"
| and he kept Oh until he made a bundle of
| twenty pounds of sugar and wrapped it up.
| The man took ii i'll his arms walked out
/ to the sidewalk, and said Mr.. French,
don't YOU tell my wife that got that sugar
| for a dollar why Nv by, if you did
she viii never give me any peace till vote
the Republican ticket. Greata?plausea and
/ laughter. We We're paying about S55, uOU.
600 year out Of the pockets of the people.
| duty on sugar. and that was Il tax because
| that was a tariff tor revenue only. for We
| did not produce enough sugar III this cOun
| try to affect by competition the price of ii
| here at home. Gen. Bragg talked the other
| night at TOmah about our legiSlating in
| favor of the sugar trust. We put duty
| on raw sugar: sugar which could not be
| used by the people without being refined {:
! we preferred that our sugar should be re-
| fined in the United states TO having that
| labor done over the sea. We put talr.
| reasonable duty upon 1t. But we did not
| begin to put the duty upon refined sugar
| that the Mills bill put upon It, The duty
| put by the Mills bill upon refined sugar
| saved toithe sugar trust ST .OUo.00o more
year than the duty put upon refined sugar
| by the Mckinley law. We gave bounty
equal to the duty we had taken off to en-
courage home production and we afford
| thereby-dnd the supreme court held 1T 70
| constitutional we afford thereby the same
| announcement at Il small outlay to the do
! nestle production as this great tarlf did
| when levied upon sugar. And what is the
result of it? We did it with our eyes open.
/ We did il to encourage the production OF
sugar in the south we did II to encourage
the beet sugar product III the North. and
| one refinery in Nebraska this year, VIII
produce S,0HO.000 pounds of beet sugar as
| good as ever was seen on the earth.
! Gov RuSE told me the other uaN that the
| experts had demonstrated beyond any
| question that there was Il large belt OF states
| having the soil and the climate which
! would enable the farmer 10 make pr0flt-
| able crop Of the sugar beet and which
| would enable lis before many years 10
| make. in his judgment 10 provide our own
people with sugar: ana he told me that
/ Wisconsin was one OF those states and the
| oxford company has agreed with him 10
! establish Il great sugar refinery in this
| state III order to give our farmers chance
to open up another agricultural Industry.
Whv. the free traders told US when the
| Mckinley law was passed: 40 GU cannot
make pearl buttons. Well the trouble
with that is. we are making pearl buttons.
/ There is only one pearl button which we
are not making i'll this country to-day.
which we imported here before The Mckln-
lev law and that is one made i'll the prisons
of Austria which we prohibited from com
ing here forever. Applause.
! They told Us that tie duty on llnen-the
duties imposed in that schedule would en-
nance the price OF linen 10 the people and
| would not do any good because you can
not make linen IN the | nlted States"
Why dot? We have the flax: ''Oh, yes;
but you have not the Machinery Well.
| when before did America fail to make any
thing for lack of machinery? If they can
not buy il they invent II. Continued APP
| plauSe Ii was not long after the Nc Kin
lev law was enacted thai they sent several
bales of Minnesota flax to the mills in
| scotland. and 1t came back IN good linen,
| with a certificate that they had never h ad
any better fiber IN that mill: anC the other
DAY when we met III Minneapolis 10 nOml-
nate Ben amin HARRISON the next president
OF the United states great applause the
| great Exposition building was carpeted-
| YOU remember lt-Wlth linen made out of
| Minnesota flax in MINNEAPOLIS MILL
lGreat applause. No. we cannot make
linen. Well. my free trade fllend. we can
make linen. and we will make linen
iGTeat applause.
MAk-NG TIN PLATE NOW.
There is no one subject upon whicd
more has been said against the Mckinley
law than the duty upon TN plate. | voted,
as said here in lA@B. Tor the duty on tin
| plate / said in 1890 would do i again if
had a chance. | say tonight | would do
il again II | had chance. Applause.