Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-11-05

iSSb A'tCiC li6S utcH al increase IN that
single state of wages OF So, 900. 900. and of
manufactured products $31 900 900,
:, NO wonder the average free trader saws
Peck Is Ilar. Laughter That is one
trouble with the free tradeT-I don't saw.
mind you, with the Democrat, but-with
the man who is willing to reverse the policy
under which we have proSpered The man
VINO IS willing to tear down the protective
system and put this country upon the free
ITaue OASIS. Nothing in the way of an in
duStrlal triumph pleases him. Nothing in
the line OF an industrial calamity but
What gives him encouragement Ap-
plauSe. / hey are the Anarchists of Amer
lean Industry they are the Anarchists of
American labor LapplauSel, whether they
mean TO be or not. They stand always
WIN wide open mouths shouting propheSies
OF evil. They trlghten capital whenever
they can against entering into this industry
or that. They thereby keep labor out 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 labor
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 $3.50 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 for years, all
thetSteel rails which we have needed for
our domestic consumption, and we are ex-
porting some, too applauSel and the price
has come down, down, down, until it
ranges from $27 TO S31 and S32 a ton. Ap-
plauSe. 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 off ?' Laugh
ter. And | SAID TO HIM just what say to
you tonight that there would be just as
much sense in my going to you and saying !:
my friend, that fence of yours has kept
your neIghDOr'S hogs out of your cabbageS
now for four years why don't you take it
down %' Great laughter and applause. J
SUGAR MADE CHEAP AND FARMERS PRO-
TECTED,
We passed the Mckinley law we took
the duty OFT OF sugar; we cheapened sugar
to every family In the United SGateS. A
While after we took the duty off of sugar
Mr.. Mckinley told me that man in his
town went into store and wanted a dol
lars worth of sugar, and the merchant be-
gan to weigh it out; he kept dipping, Dip
ping, dipping the sugar INTO the measure,
and the purchaser interrupted him and
said Il only want dollars worth" he
sad Il am giving you dollars worth -
and he kept on unul he made bundle Of
twenty pounds of sugar and wrapped it up.
The maT took it in his arms. walked out
to the sidewalk, and said: ''Mr. French
don't you tell my wife that got that sugar
for dollar .'Why? % "Why, if YOU did
she Will never give me any peace till vote
the Republlcantic ticket" [GreatapplauSea and
laughter. We were paying about $55, ,O0O,
QUO year out of the pockets of the people.
duty on sugar, and that was tax because
that was tariff tor revenue only, for we
did not produce enough sugar in this cOun-
Try to affect by competition the price of it
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 a tair,
reasonable duty upon it. 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 S11 100000 more a
year than the duty put upon refined sugar
BY the Mckinley law. We gave a bounty
equal to the duty we had taken off to en-
courage home production and we afford
thereby-and the supreme court held it to
cOnstitutional-we afford thereby the same
encouragement at a small outlay to the do
meStlc production as this great tariff did
when levied upon sugar. And what is the
result of it? We did it with our eyes open.
We did 1t to encourage the production of
sugar in the South we did 1T to encourage
the beet sugar product In the North, and
one refinery in Nebraska this year, will
produce 5000, 900 pounds of beet sugar as
good as ever was seen ON the earth.
Gov Rusk told me the other day that the
experts had demonstrated beyond any
question that there was large belt OF states
having the soil and the climate which
would enable the farmer to make proht-
able crop of the sugar beet and which
would enable us before many years TO
make, in his Judgment, TO provide our OVID
DeopIe with sugar; and he told me that
Wisconsin was one of those states; and the
Oxford company has agreed Win hlm 20
establish a great sugar refinery In thtS
state in order to give our farmers chance
to open up another agricultural industry.
so WILL. PEARL BUTTONS AND LINEN.
Why. the free traders told US when the
Mckinley law was passed: ''YOu 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 in this country to-day,
when we lpOIIcu uCAO SiAS
lev law, and that is one made in the prisons
of Austria which we prohibited from COM
ing here forever. Applause
They told us that the duty on l1nen-the
duties imposed in that schedule would en-
hance the price of linen to the people anu
would not do any good because you can,
not make linen IN the Unlted States"
Why dot? We have the flax: ''On, yes;
but YOU have not the machinery" Well,
when before did America fail to make any
thing for lack OF machinery? Ii they can
not buy it they invent it. Continued APP
plause. 1t was not long after the Mckln--
lev law was enacted that they sent several
bales of Minnesota flax to the mills IN
Scotland, and it came back In good linen,
with a certificate that they had never nad
any better fiber IN that mill; and the otner
day when we met IN Minneapolis 10 noml-
nate BENJAMIN Harrison the next president
of the United States great applause the
great Exposition building was carpeted--
Won remember it-wlth linen made out OF
Minnesota flax in MINNEAPOLIS mill.
IGreat applause. No, we cannot make
linen. Well. my free trade hlend, we can
make linen. and we will make linen.
lGreat applause
MAKING TIN PLATE NOW.
There is no one subject upon which
more has been said against the Mckinley
law than the duty upon tin plate. l voted,
as said mere in 1890, for the duty on tin
Mate. | said in 1890 l would do it again II
/ had a chance say tonight Woulo 90
IL again if [ had chance. Applause.
DO YOU realize that from 1871 to lo9z, we
sent away from the United States SS6I :