Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

the article by cheapening the artisan
Protection cheapens the article b.
e~levating the artisan so that you ge'
the best Drawn, and the best brain
and the best skill of the artisan
Free trade in this country? / will
tell you when we will be ready fol
free trade. When the nations of the
world will bring their condition W
to ours. Tremendous cheering.
Whenever the nations of the world
will bring their labor up TO our high
standing we will meet them in the
neutral markets of the world, and il
will be the survival of the fittest.
But we give them notice here and
now, and let it ring through this
country, into every workshop and
home and tireside of the land. let
them understand it now, that we will
never bring our condition down To
theirs. Renewed and long continued
| cheers.
They were going to destroy this
tariff. In 1890 they carried the house
by two-thirds majority. The tariff
law was then four weeks Old-it was
too young to speak for itself. 1t is
eighteen months old today and it is
doing its own talking. And they
have not got the power to destroy a
line of it, they are shooting paper
wads through it, and apOlogizing for
doing that. They are attacking it by
piece meal, then informing the pub
lie that they need not be alarmed;
but while they are attacking it in the
house by piece meal it n eve sue
coed because there is a senate which
is republican and a president who is
a republican, grand man as he is, who
will stop any injury to the law.
Applause. They have got three
items past the house. Laughter and
applause. At three items a year it
would take a thousend years.
[ApDlause.l
What do you think of tariff reform,
anyhow? [Laughter.l Who knows
what it means? There is not a dem
Ocrat in Chicago who can tell what
tariff reform means. Laughter. ]
Nobody knows, and we are getting in
a situation where nobody cares. They
can't touch one side Of that law in
1000 years. And why? Because you
car always trust the people of this
country to vote for themselves. The
bill is an American bill. Applause.
Every line of it breathes patriotism.
Every page and paragraph is dedi-
Gated to American enterprise and
American genius and ~cOnSecrated to
the American boy and the American
girl.
BENEFITS OF THE TARIFF BILL.
1t gives them wider opportunities
than can be had under any other sys-
TEN under the sun. Cardinal Man
ming, two years ago, writing to Lon
don magazine, says of free trade:
He says it does two things, he says it
creates an irresponsible wealth which
stagnates, and the starvation wages
Of the labor market. He says: "Here
in London and in England we have
two worlds always standing face to
face-the world of wealth and the
world of want; the world of wealth
saying in its heart: Il sit as queen
over all the toilers,' and the world of
want not knowing what may be on
the morrow" [Applause.l
There is an indictment against the
free trade system, not from a partisan,
not from a republican or a democrat,
but one who has studied the situation
and the condition of the wOrkingmen
of England. Do we want to transfer
that condition to the United States?
| say no. Applause, cries of mo,
MOL Now, my fellow citizens, |
have talked too long. [Cries of mo,
nO."l Talk about the republican
party, there is not a man in this
country who is not proud that there
is a republican party. Applause.
There is not a page of republican
history that has been made since 1860
that any patriot in this country
would have etfaced from our statute
books if he could. No M who loves
his race would strike it from the
volume of political history. And
that party, only thirty-siX years old,
occupies today the advance pOSt-the
most advanced post of any in the
annals of political civilization. And
that party will continue its onward
march; that party will continue its
achievements and its c0nqueStS until
our fiag-the flag of the Stars-shall
be the unquestiOned symbol of SOW
ereignty at home and American honor
abroad. Long continued applause.
Until the labor of the United States
10 StCuIC lIOl1 UlS ucSI duIllS COulDcII-
tion from abroad, until there shall
not be an enemy to an hOnestdollar in
the United states. And it will go
on, my fellOw-citizens, until a free
ballot shall be enjoyed by every citi-
zen, secured to him under the law,
and by the law, and for the law, and
until the American ballot box shall
be as sacred as the American home.
Applause.
/ go next Monday with a committee
from every state and territory of this
Union, appointed by the convention
at Minneapolis, to give formal and
official notice to President Harrison
of his nomination. Applause. 1t
will be m of the most pleasant
duties of my life; it will be one of
the most pleasant duties to place in
his hands, as the representative of a
great convention, the banner of the
great republican party, to which for
years he has given added beauty and
brilliancy and luster and purity, and
in whose hand it will be safely
intrusted to carry us to a triumphant
victory in November. GApplauSe.