New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-19

mechanism than to Free-Trade. Loud
cheers. You may stampede us for a
few weeks by concerted alarm about
advancing prices. But only once, for
the awkward liar has a hard road to
travel in American politics. Great
laughter. There is something about a
smooth and polished prevarication that
saves it from the fate of the ordinary lie
of commerce. Continued laughter.
But when the importing merchants based
their campaign two years ago on sys-
tenn of bogus trade circulars, already
everywhere discredited, they invited the
universal reaction that has set in in favor
of the Tariff legislation of 1890. Great
applause. If Noah had PREDICTED a
drought instead of flood and put in a
system of water works instead OF boat
he would have exercised a larger know
ledge of the drainage question than the
enemies of Protection have of the Tariff
question. Great laughter. They have
offered bribe to ignorance and put a
reward in the hands of credulity. APP
plause. The good people of the West
have built schoolhOuse on nearly every
square mile of their territory for the ex-
press purpose of discouraging that style
Of politics. In the long run, with the
issue squarely made, they will give the
preachers Of the English gospel of Amer
lean prosperity a permanent vacation.
Laughter and applause. They are not
ready to rescind the Declaration of Inde-
pendenee. Applause. They have not
yet forgotten the exhortation of Jefferson
to prefer nothing foreign when an equiv
alent American fabric can be obtained,
regardless of the price. Applause.
They know that there is at least one thing
as important to community as cheap
goods, and that is money to buy goods
with. Applause and laughter. The
prodigal son is not interested in prices.
Continued laughter. Take the daily
question of clothes. There are evidences
that this is the best dressed country in
the world. Applause. Nor are we
without evidence that the average grades,
such as people generally weaF, cost little
if anything more than the same grades
would cost abroad. Be that as it may,
our folks are contented on the question
of clothes by their personal knowledge
that thousands now proserous citizens
came among them in rags out of the very
countries where clothes are the cheapest.
Long and continued applause. 1t may
suit this neighborhood to sprinkle Eng
lish salt on Irish potatoes and thank God
for the privilege great laughter, but
the great West prefers the MICHIGAN az
ticle and thanks the Protective Tariff
that it has been made nearly as cheap as
sand IN the streets of our cities. Great
applause. With us it is back number
to parade the household necessities of
the West in the cheerful masquerade of
sympathy for the tax-burdened farmer.
We suspect people who exhibit too much
sympathy, Oaughter) We investigate
persons, especially if they claim to be
better than other people,, who put their
sympathy into Croton reservoirs, with
delivery pipes in the direction of every
human misery. Uaughter.) To tell you
the truth, we are not candidates for SYM
pathy. We have seen the whole list of
household goods go down in price
through the gradual development of our
national resources, the foreign product
yielding to the American, often not very
gracefully, until to-day the comforts of
life are within reach of a larger number
of people than ever enjoyed them before
in the history of the United States.
cloud applause.) You cannot excite a
man abont a tax on carpets who has seen
his country change undera great national
policy from a carpet importing to a
carpet making country.
The Free Trade argument, whatever it's
merits in the abstract, fails among a
people who remember that the markets of
the world gave us carpets so costly that
we could only afford one in the house,
and always kept the parlor door locked
for fear somebody would go in and step
on that carpet. Laughter.) You can
not excite man about the tax on earth
ern ware whose wife can recall the days
of English ascendency IN our markets
days when dishes were SO costly that if
a hired girl broke a tea cup it was capital
punishment. Great laughter.) One. of
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