The advocate., 1892-06-01

ACCOUNT TOT Cno Sky Ouu mllIlOna IN gOlu
that went abroad in the last year, and
that have failed to come back. We are
sending a steady stream Of wealth out ut
this country instead Of bringing iC In.
What we want gentlemen, is more goods.
We want to trade for things that wa
need; and IN opposition TO what my
friend from Michigan Mr.. Burrows
SAYS, instead Of calamity coming from
flood Of good things, [ apprshend that
what wa want is TO have the world food
US with good things.
Did you ever hear of any country send
ing things into another country when
sha did not take something out In
returnP During the arguments on the
silver bill wa heard from the Republicans
and the Democrats both-hecause they
are a unit m that question, 81 to speak
that great danger would come to us
from European nations flooding this
country with silver. They were going
to send silver into our country. [
said, "Lst 1t come" It ls not
reasonable to suppose they will
give us silver for nOthing. | appFehRnd
that when they eend silver, they will take
our surplus wheat and oDrn and cotton
Ia paw for il; and taking our surplus out
will increase the wealth Of thls country,
brcause they will leave some Of the
thIngs that wa want ard that will be Of
greater value Ia us Our debrs are pay
able In dollars, not ia 10 Oent corn and @
cent cotton.
The same thing Ia true OF other
countries. II they bring In their goods
here, ie IL evlde that they are not
going tU gIve them o. uS for nothing;
aud 10 exchanging 'hem rhsy must tsk4
out such things ~ wheat, corn, and
cotton; and bRvirg n large surplus Cf
those goods, they are the things we want
70 get rid Of, and the goods they have are
the Ones wa want. My friend from Mich
igan Mr.. BurrowI says IL we were to
tear down thls protective wall it would
flood us with disaster. Why. gentlemen
iC would be about as reasonable 10 sup,
pose that the lsrselltes, when they were
wandering In the Wilderness, would have
rooted themselves ever for fear the mama
would fall upon them To sustain them.
Laughter
This protective tariff wall that the gem
tleman speaks Of Is keeping good things
out, and not bad things The wall that
he spoke apcut, remember, has been
com pared with that great wall the patient
Dutchman built around Holland to re-
claim IL from the ocean. The Hollanders
devote certain number Of days every
year TO repairing the dikes. With his will
low basket till' d with sand he repairs 1t
and puts back all the earth that has been
removed. So he watches and guards
against the tyrant that is continually
wearing down the wall TO reclaim the
realm that man has won from him.
But, gentlemen, there was a time In
the history OF Holland when the Prince
of Orange saw Louis XIV flooding his
hi4 Land with troops TO enslave the peo-
ple, and he said: "Break down the dikee;
give Holland back 10 the food" Why?
Because he would rather have the sea,
enemy 40 il vas, than have the despOt-
Ism OF the French kings rule over the
people of that country. say TO day,
aBreak down this tariff wall" would
rather have this flood OF goods, even IL
it brings in thu products Of cheap labor
of Europe. / would rather have that
system than to have the present system
Of high protective tariff, tariff that is
bringing the American people TO bank
ruptcy.