St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23

surplus breadstuffs are going. in accord
anca with the laws of God and nature.
and the laws which are sustained by the
Democratic party going to foreign
countries to find consumers. [Applause.
| But, my friends, let us suppose that it
was possible to bring that $1,000, 900 of
i people here. want to pursue this alb
surdity little. What would they do to
make money to buy the breadstuffs Of
the people OF the United States? There
would be no home market at all if you
| had to give them the wheat. They have
| got to have profitable employment to
enable them to make the money to buy
| the wheat. They have got to have
/ work. These, remember, are not farm
ers. They were adroit enough to say in
their report that these men had to be
noll-agriculturists, because. if farmers
are going to come, they will raise more
wheat, and we will have larger surplus.
| lGreat applause and laughterl Now
one-thlrd of our population, about, are
engaged in gaintul occupations, and
one-thlrd OF these that come will be en-
! gagged in gainful occupations. About
nineteen millions of these people will
be engaged in other than agricultural
| pursuits. One-third of that class of
: !, population in the United States are en-
gagged in manufacturing. We will say
that one-third of this great migration
Will be engaged in misunderstanding.
Then there will be six million three
hundred and thirty-three thousand per.
sons engaged in manufactures. of this
vast Importation of people. -Four mill
IONS OF operatives turned out in 1890 a
produce valued at eight billion.
seven hundred millions of dollars. If
four millions turn out eight billion
seven hundred million, how much will
six million three hundred thirty-three
thousand turn out? Between twelve
ana thirteen billions of product. Where
is to be the market for it? Why, they
Consume the Same Proportion
of their products that we do of ours.
We consume about S134 per head, of
manufactured products made in the
United States. Say they will consume
S134 worth of theirs. That Will give
them somewhere about seven billions
OF consumption OF their own products,
leaving as surplus five billions to find
a market somewhere. Where is it 60
Ing :? 1t cannot go out into the
world. because the duty oil raw
materials keeps our products from for
elgn markets, keeps us away from COM
petition with foreigners, compels us to
stay and chase the ignis fatuus of a
home market. 1t will compel them to
sell, too, in the home market; they
cannot go out OF it. Then, what are YOU
to do? If these people cannot sell their
surplus they cannot buy our wheat.
Surplus makes the wealth of a people.
1t is not what they consume that keeps
them alive, but it is their surplus that
becomes the accumulated wealth of the
country. Now, how are they going to
dispose of this five millions? why,
RI ha ,nrin ntv,tn
these protectlonists statesmen, they
have got to go then and import about
5o,O00,0O0 of farmers to eat OF consume
the surplus manufactures. [Appiause.]
And then. when the farmers come in,
they make another surplus of two hun
dred and fifty or sixty million Of wheat,
and then you will have to import some
more non-agriculturists to eat that up,
and you have got to swap from one to
the other. until eventually III few
years we will have the entire popula-
ton of the globe, fourteen hundred
millions of people, in this country. fAp-
plause. There will be the Chinese and
the Japanese and chimpanzees. and all
the rest of them from all over tine world
Crowded Into This Country
to sustain the home market and vote
the Republican ticket. Great applause
Now, gentlemen. you see how falIa-
cious all that thing is. We have got to
export. Instead of bringing people
from all over the earth, away from their
homes, contiscating their property (be-
cause they couldn't find any sale for it
lit would have to be abandoneCD in
stead of pursuing the Republican policy
of uproOting entire populations and
bringing them to the United States we
would distribute the surplus products
of our wealth all around the globe, and
bring back the surplus products of other
people tnat we wantin exchange for the
surplus products of our people that they
want. [Applause.]
How much do you suppose the farm
erS Of the United States lose by the poll
icy adopted by the present tariff law?
In 1916 revenue tariff law was passed.
Robert j. Walker, the then secretary of
the treasury, and one of the greatest
men that ever filled that office, when he
that celebrated bill which was
sent down to congress aud afterwards
became law, said in his official report
that when the bill was passed agricult-
ural products would rise in value all
over the Union and manufactured prod.
ucts would fan. Why? Because the
normal condition which competi-
ton had established was broken
UP by the high tariff law of 1912;
products were elevated
in price, agricultural products were de-
pressed IN price; and when the inter-
vention of the law was removed, the
normal condition would be restored by
goods falling and agri-
cultural products rising to restore the
level. 1t was
A PerilOus Prediction
for a man to make if he did not know
exactly what he was talking about-be-