New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-12
NUGGETS FROM HARRISON.
Protection and American Homes Defended
by the Nations President.

laborer seeking a better country than
this. These men who have toiled at
wages in other lands that barely sustained
life, and opened no avenue of promise to
them or their children, know the good
land of hope as well as the swallow
knows the land of summer.
Buys more and has more to buy with.
1t is known to you all that our 65,OOO,-
900 people furnish per capita a larger
market than any other like number of
people. This grows out of the fact that
our capacity for purchasing is larger than
is found in those countries where proven,
ty holds a larger sway. The working
man buys more, has more to buy with in
America than in any other land in the
world.
The wages of skilled labor bears on
all.-The attempt is often made to create
the impression that only particular clas-
ses of workingmen are benefited by pro-
tective ta1iff There can be nothing
more untrue. The wages of all labor
labor upon the farm, labor upon our
streets-has direct and essential rela-
ton to the scale of wages that is pail to
skilled labor. One might as well say
that you could bring down the price of a
higher grade of cotton cloth without af-
fecting the price of lower grades as to
say that you can degrade the price of
skilled labor without dragging down the
wages of unskllled labor.
Tin plate and commercial indepen-
dence.-I cannot quite understand how
an American can doubt that we have the
mechanical skill and business sagacity to
establish successfully here the manufac-
ture of tin plate. No other country GER
tainly surpasses us in the inventive genius
of its citizens or in the business sagacity
of its capitalists. It is surprising to me
that any patriotic American should APP
proach this question with q desire to see
this great and interesting experiment fail,
or with an unwillingness to accept the
evidences Of it's success. It will be a
great step in the direction Of commercial
independence when we produce our own
tin plate. ~.
Free trade must mean less work and
lower wages.-Less work and lower
wages must be accepted as the inevitable
result of the increased offering of for
eign goods in our market. BY way OF
recompense for this reduction in his
wages, and the loss of the American mar
ket, it is suggested that the diminished
wages of the workingman will have an
undiminished power, and that he will be
able to make up for the loss of the home
market by an enlarged foreign market.
Our workingmen have: the settlement OF
the question in their own hands.
Axioms of political economy. = Ger
tainly you do not need to be told that
that shop or mill that has the smallest
payroll in proportion to its production
will take the market. Certainly you do
not need to be told that the wages now
enjoyed by our American workmen are
greatly larger and the comforts they en-
Joy greatly more than those enjoyed by
the working people of any other land.
Certainly you do not need to be told
that if the American Government, in
stead of patronizing home industries,
buys its blankets for the public service
in England there is just that much less
work for American workmen to do.
Our disinterested foreign critics. The
criticisms of tue bill that have come to
us from foreign sou rces may we'll be re-
iected for repugnancy. If these critics
really believe that the adoption by us of
free trade policy, or tariff rates having
reference solely to revenue, would dimin-
ish the participation of their own coun-
tries In the commerce OF the +World,thelf
advocacy and promotion by speech and
other forms of organized effort of this
movement among our people is rare
exhibition Of unselfshness in trade. And
on the other hand, if they sincerely be-
lieve that the adoption Of protective
tariff policy by this country inures to
their profit and our hurt, it is noticeably
strange that they should lead the out
cry against the authors Of policy 50
helpful to their countrynen, and crown
with their favor those who would snatch
from them substantial share of a trade
with other lands already inadequate to
their necessities.
The American wage-system must be
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