Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-10-21

me to comprehend this whole theory
ofprotectiO II, suppose q case where
a farmer of Morrison county wishes
to buy a certain quantity of clothing
| and he has twenty bushels OF wheat
to buy 1t with. tits fact that this
United States has not many years
produced all the wool necessary to
clothe it's people, within 200, OOO, 900
pounds per annum. The Morrison
lcounty farmer wants to buy some
cloth. He, sends half way around
the world, to Australia, for the fleece
of the sheep, produced by an Austral-
ian shepherd to whom wages are
paid, when they might be paid to an
American shepherd, If the wool were
raised here: That wool goes on
shipboard, on alBritish ship, run by
a British crew, receiving British
wages. The wool is shipped to the
great manufacturing centers OF Eng
land, where the clothing is to be pro-
duced, goes through the various pro-
cesses, until it becomes the finished
article ready for sale worked on by
! artisans of various kinds, not one of
whom receive American wages and
it is produced by manufacturers and
capitalists, not one of whom con-
tribute to the support OF America
institutions. The cloth reaches the
city of Little Falls. 1t has Travelled
16, 900 miles and in return for it the
Morrisonl county farmer starts his
wheat for Liverpool, 4 900 miles away
to pay for the wool, -.~
The speaker then referred to this
city, taking Little Falls as an object
lesson. The pulp and paper mill the
size and extent OF which surprised
him. Suppose that it should be
moved to some other county, or
state or across the water. Little
Falls would not only loose the taves
on the capital invested but the pro-
fits to he reinvested would go else
where; the employees would spend
their money in some other place, and
SO it would be with matters of great
national interest. They would go to
some other country where wages
were cheaper.
And yet the free traders would like
the raw products of Minnesota car
ried ON English steel rails to be ship
ped 1900 miles away to pay tor the
fleece Of a sheep which came from
Australia.
1 dislike to say anything respecting
but having been placed in
nomination by two conventions of
the Republican party asits candidate
for the United States senate it is ne
cessary that should say something
in regard to the matter. 1t is very
little to me and very little to the
United States senate, but 1t is ques-
ton OF vital Importance to the pros
perity Of this state or this commun-
ity whether my successor be a Re-
publican or a Dem ocrat [applause],
and it is upon that purely imperson-
al view that I adjure the people of
county of Morrison, which more than
any other county in the Northwest
by virtue OF it's Diverse functions is
interested in the perpetuation OF the
American economical system, to
stand by the Republican legislative
ticket to the last. loud applause.]
The Republican party took this
Union in 1864 broken, rent, peeled
and scattered. 1t restored it up on
the broken ashes Of the empire,
stretching from sea to sea; it built
a structure, tier upon tier, pillar
upon pillar. arch upon arch, endur-
ing like the Coliseum, and above it !
all spread the canopy OF equalrights |
and Justice and freedom to all men. |
loud applause]. That is the party |
for which 1 have appealed tonight
and I thank YOU most earnestly
far your kind attention. [lOud an d
prolonged applause.