Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-21

IT WAS A HUMMER |!

CoLGRovE's CLEAR, CONCISE, AND LOGICAL
TALK WELL RECEIVED.
Central Hall was filled to its ca
pacity Monday evening by an enthu-
siastic crowd who followed the speaker
to the very close of his discussion.
The speech throughout was clear,
and logical and entirely devoid of
personal abuse of any sort. The tenor
of Mr.. Colgrove's argument went to
prove that in national affairs as well as
those which pertain to the family 1t IS
grand policy that looks after, pro-
tects, and cares for our own people
| first; that the true policy for our gov
ernment to pursue is that policy which
| best serves the interests of our own
nation leaving each of the other ma
tons TO follow their own plan in their
own way 20 long as they do not in
terfere with our best interests.
The speaker showing beyond contro-
versy that ours is grand nation IN every
sense of the word; that we, as people
have large amounts of timber, coal,
iron, copper, and nearly all of the
materials grown in temperate climate
and that we also have people who
are so intelligent, so skilled, and SO
progressive that we can work up these
materials into lumber and all its pro-
ducts; into all of the various manufac-
lures that civilized man can make
from wood and iron; and that the in
ventive genius of our people is so keen,
so wonderful, that they have invented,
perfected, and established machinery
to manufacture all of these materials
into all of the articles for the home,
the farm, and the shop, and the
country at large that our people can
possibly need or use.
The speaker then gave this propo-
sition: If we have the skill. the machi-
merry, the men and the materials to
make all Of these things just as cheap
ly as they can be made without rob-
bing the workmen who make them
why should we leave our own iron in
the mines, our copper in the ground, {,
and the products of the field on the
farm-leave all of these here at home
and go to other countries and to other
peoples to get them?
The speaker also showed that it is
the policy of the Republican party to
admit to this country, entirely free of
duty such articles as tea, coffee, spices,
cloves, sugar, ETC., ETC., for the reason
that we do not produce them here in
sufficient quantities to supply our peo-
pie; but that when we have sufficient
of an article right here at home it
would be the heighth of folly to go
abroad to buy it.
And again he conclusively showed
that if we went to foreign country to
purchase an article that we can make
here at home then we certainly help
the people of that country to the de-
triment of our own, for the reason
that our money goes to that country
and stays there; the workman of that
country gets employment to make the
article and our own men at home who
could have made just as good an
article must be thrown out of the en-
lployment; that the workman of the
foreign nation has all his interests
there; that those people pay none OF
our taxes; build none of our school
houses or churches, and do not do any
, thing to build up and maintain our
local, state, or national institutions
and for this reason it would not be
5 fair and square dealing with our own
! workmen and our own people to al
low the trader and traffickers of foreign
g nations to dump their goods on ouI
shores and thus deprive our own peo
pie of the employment necessary tC
ers, miners and others of market for
their products that go into these goods
that it would not be right and hon
est to our own to allow these to come
in duty free-and that it is just and
right, honest and fair to say to these
foreign manufacturers and dealers in
those articles that we can produce
right here at home eve shall DrOtec
Our o,Cn; zoe aoiU care for ourSeLCe,
, first, and you afterwards. zoe shall
purchase at home at fair rates 1Ce tCil
keep our money here and employ OtI
q oocn people first and aoiH consider go,
: later"
Mr.. Colgrove further showed tina
Notwithstanding the fact that the
q Democratic party in convention as
sembled had declared in their plat
form that the protective tariff system
of the republican party "is unconSti
} tutiOnaP, yet such statesmen as Wash
ington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams
and Monroe who took part in framing
:. the constitution and some of whom
were the greatest constitutional states
men that any nation has ever pro
d duced-these men ADVOCATED it, anC
passed protective tariff laws, and tha
s the second bill ever enacted by Con
: gress and signed by Washington was I
{ protective tariff measure, and further
that this and all tariff measures eve
enacted followed by prosperity, whil
u every repeal of such laws had beer
followed by depression and a loss Il
~ the nation.
These and many other kindred
topics were treated in such fair ant
IS masterful manner, that those VIII,
were interested listeners declare tha
o it was one of the best meetings of thu
s campaign.
4 At the close of the meeting a Re
publican Club of 65 members wa
formed which has since been increase,
:; TO one hundred and twenty-five, AM
4 is still increasing.