Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-02-08

OF the Aldrich report show so conclusive
~, and which have received the sanction
OF the members from New York, the sec
rotary OF the treasury and the Democrat
&c bureau OF statistics, our committee pro-
pose TO lower wages and so lessen the
market, and then divide that market with
somebody else, and all for the chance of
getting the markets of the world.
The agricultural Class.
But what do you say about the farm
or! Well, on that subject l do not pro-
fess any special learning, but there is
one simple statement | wish to make, and
leave the question there. If, with cities
growing up like magic, manufacturing
'.Ilages dOtting every eligible ste, each
end all swarming with mouths to be
filled, the producers of food are worse off
h when half this country was a des-
crt, | abandon sense in favor of political
economy. One other thing ] have noticed
in this debate: When the gentleman
from Kansas OR. Simpson,, gsfs a little
money ahead he does @UloUD 1t into
stocks in these immense. knan-
ufactories; he has too NJ He
adds to his farm, and has yS add.
Example is richer than precept.
IF the hope Of agriculturists is in En-
SlANi i y AllNty Ali'N DClI-l ltiI'lCl
on the fact that while the wages of arti.
sans nave Sed in England S2.43
per week since 1850, the wages of the
agricultural laborerS have only increased
- cents, and while the Lancashire Oper-
ativeS in the factories live as well as any
body except Americans. the agricultural
laborer is no better than the continental
peasant. England's example will not do
for agriculture.
Here let us meet one other question.
ord let us meet it fairly. We are charged
with In ing claimed that the tariff alone
will raise wages. We have never made
such a claim in any such form. Free
traders have set mp that claim for MS in
order TO triumphantly knock il over. What
we do say is that where two nations have
equal skill and mechanical appliances and
market equally so, and one can get her
labor at one~half less, nothing but a tariff
could maintain the higher wages, and
that we can prove. We are the
Only Rivui That England Fears,
for we alone have within our borders the
population and wages, the raw material,
and within ourselves the great market
which assures to us the most improved
machinery. Our constant power to IN
crease our wages. assures us also con
tinuOus progress. IL you wish us 10 fol-
low the example of England, | say yes,
with all my heart, but her real example
and nothing else. Let us keep protection,
as she did. until no rival dares to invade
our territory, and then we may take our
chances for a future which by that time
will not be unknown.
Nobody knows so we'll as / do how
much | have failed to present even my
own comprehension of the great argument
which should control his vote. | have
said not a word OF the great fall OF prices
which has come from the competition OF
the whole world. rendered possible 10y pro-
lection and substitutes for the competl-
ton of a single island. | have said not a
word of the great diffe between the
attitude of employers who find their own
worknen their best customers in their
W land. and who are therefore moved
by their own best interests 10 give their
workmen fair wages. and those who sell
abroad and are therefore anxious for low
wages at home. and on whom works I'M
restrictedly that pernicious doctrine as
wages fall. profits rise. These ana
much more have I omitted, for there Is a
limit 10 all speaking. -,
I'VE know. nv friends, that before this
tribunal. we all of us plead in vain;
Why we fail let those answer who read
tbe touching words of Abraham Lincolns
first inaugural. and remember that he
pleaded in vain with these same men and
their predecessors. Where he failed we
cannot expect 10 succeed, but though we
fail here to-day. like our great leader OF
other days. in the larger field before the
mightier tribunal. which win finally and
forever decide this question, we shall De
tion. shaking off. as il has once before:
tbs influence of a lower civilization, VIII
90 on TO fulfill it's high destiny, TIL over
tbs South. as well as over the North,
shall be spread the full measure of that
amazing prosperity which is the wonuer
Of the world"
Given an Ovation.
Throughout Mr.. Reeds speech he was
Frequently interrupted with applause, ana
AT times the Democrats joined IN tne
general laughter at MS, Wi5ti nEo
when. at 80 o'clock, he glanced az 'ne
r,oct which noted that his time had OK,
n;reS the eloquent Republican entered
mon his brief peroration, there was IN
tense stiffness throughout the house; me
leasing reference TO that former hiustrl-
ors loader. Lincoln. was made IN q To-"
yo,ce which could have hardly Deen
csncbt had not everyone on the moor
and In the galleries been strainlne 81
catch every word. As he closed ms selt
hand was raised high IN one OF the :"
gestures which marked his speech. As
shs hand Fell and his speech closed mere
une : hurst of applause which swelled
into a great demonstration. as me en-
,bnsiastfc galleries gave shouts, hurrans
and sharp whistles which are oiteh ms ~
in ,heatsrs, but seldom in the hahs Oh
Speaker Crisp.
While the demonstration was going on
$500 Crisn r~e!inauished the chair q
~ Hatch OF Missouri and resumed the
oid seat which he occupied in the days