Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-29

right to experiment with what belongs TO
you. Out upon the political party willing
70 experiment In Legislation with the wages
OF our laboring men and with their well
being and comfort and happiness. APP
plause. They tell us that wages In this
country are higher than they are over
there, but that everything else Is cheaper
over there than IL Is here, and that the
lower wages paid over there have there
fore greater purchasing power than they
have over here, Welt, now, If that is true:
q man must be better off over there; and IL
a man Is better of over there with his
lower wages, and their greater purchas-
ing power, what in the name OF heaven do
they want TO come over here f0IY lAp-
plause.l can understand how they
might be misIead into coming here by
false reports, circulated by steamship
they get here and lind that they are so
much, worse of than they arc over there,
why don't they 90 back again? APP
plause. But they do not; they come here
because this Is and has been under the
American policy the land of promise for
the honest labOrers OF the earth who care
10 come here and make this their home;
and we propose TO keep 1t so.
LORD SALISBURY SEES 1T, TOO.
You may see fellow hit and think he is
striick pretty hard, but he knows how
hard he is hit better than you do. The
hardest headed statesman in England is
Lord Salisbury, and Lord Salisbury says
on this question of reciprocity something
L would like to have you remember.
After all, this little island lives as a
trading island. We could not produce, in
food stuiIs, enough to sustain the pOpula-
ton that lives In this island, and it is only
by the great industries which exist here
and which find markets in foreign coun-
tries That we are able to MAINTAIN the vast
population by which this island Is lnhab-
tied; but danger is growing up. Forty
or fifty years ago everybody beneved that
free trade had conquered the world, ana
they prophesized that every nation would
follow the example OF England and gave
itself up to absolute free trade. The re-
suits arc not exactly what they prophe-
sized. but the more adverse the results
were, the more the devoted prophets of free
trade declared it would come out all right.
The worse the tariffs of foreign countries
became, the more confident were the
prophesies of an early victory: but we see
now" This is not a free trader from WIS
consin or Chicago testifyiag. 1t is Lord
Salisbury, until recently the premier of
Great Britain.
ave see now after many years. exper-
ienee that explains it, how many foreign
nations are raising one after another q
wall, braZen wall OF protection around
their stores which excludes us from their
markets, and as far as they are concerned
do their best TO Kill our trade. And this
state OF things does not get better. On
the contrary, 1t constantly seems to get
worse. Now, of course. II IL utter a word
with reference to tree trade shall be ac-
cused OF being protechonist OF a desire
TO overthrow free trade and of all the
other crimes which an ingenius magma
ton can attach to the commercial hetero-
coxy. If we look abroad into the world
we see it. In the office which have the
honor to hold see a great deal of II. We
live in an age of war OF tariffs. Every
nation is trying how it can by agreement
with It's neighbors get the greatest possible
proportion for It's own industries and at
the same time the greatest possible access
TO the markets of its neighb0rS. This kind
OF negotiation Is continually going on, or
has been going on, for the last year and
halt with great activity. l want To point
out TO you what observe is that while A
Is very anxious TO get favors of g, nobody
cares two strawS about getting the COM
merclal favors OF Great Britain. What is
the reason of that? 1t is that in this great
battle Great Britain has deliberately
stripped herself of the armour and the
weapons by which the battle is to be
fought" And thereupon he proposes that
England shall use the weapons which the
United States has been using, not against
the United States, he says, because they
must have in England our raw material
and our food products. IL there ever was
a tribute which ought to add weight to the
reciprocity scheme, and the tariff scheme
too, of the Republican party, Ii Is that.