The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-02

Mills. of Texas, proclaimed in the open Sem
ate did not have the approval OF 1000 people In
the United States. LApplause.l
% And the people OF the country are asked TO
approve or hat law. But, my fellow citizens,
after the country had waited for nineteen
months for some settlement OF the question
anything, they said, was better than no hing
give us some certain tarif law 30 that we
may adjust our business to it-that was the
cry of the business men OF the country, and
after they hal passed a law then they had an
nounced that that law was no settlement or
the tariff question at all laughter; that 1t was
only the beginning laughter; that 1t was the
ente ring wedge TO tariff reform; that IL was
but the first step toward free trade. Mr.. Cleve-
land himself declared that he war had only
just begun. and he called all the friends of tar
iff reform to close mp their ranks touch elboH
with elbow, aud prepare for fresh assault
upon the industries OF the United States lie
called every Democratic Senator and every
Democratic Representative traitor who
stood in his place and begged The Democratic
Congress to stay its destI y, hand and lie Let
Applause. Traitors thew may have been but
IL raitors to anything they were traitors to
their party and the tens o. thousands hc aye aye
year will be traitors to their party. [Great APP
plause.l
The Genesis OF the Law.
And it is infinitely better to be traitor to
your party than trait or to the sacred inter-
ests OF 6 100000 OF people.
But, my fellow citizens, who made that
law? Three senators made It. 1t never had
the deliberate cOnSlueraJlOn OF the COm I1ttee
of Ways and Means. or OF the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate, or of the Conference
Committee between the two houses. Thirty
seven Democratic Senators met In caucus and
turned over their sacred trust to the three
Senators. Who were these three men that
made this great tariff law for the people OF the
United States? Harris of Tennessee, Vest OF
Missouri, Jones OF Arkansas. And those three
Senators from these three great IN al ufacturing
and industrial States llanghteri enacted law
for 65, COO, OOJ of people. That law was made by
the minority voio OF the country, for you were
never consulted. and the voice and the law
thus made cannot endure.
They say they have reduced the duties to
remove the burdens from the people. But we
have not had any such burden In nifty years as
the Democratic party has been to this country.
Laughter and applause And yet see Demo-
cratic orators going aoout the country saying:
We made wool free. and no sooner had wool
been made free than the price OF wool went up. 7"
Well, now, IL that be true, then the tariff Is
not tax. Then free trade is a tax. And they
say they put a duty on sugar and sugar went
down. do not know whether that is true or
not. but III 1t be true 1t only proves that a
tariff is not a tax. and that the more tariff you
put on thing the cheaper it becomes Laugh
ter and applause.l
But thew say they have reduced the tariff so
as to increase tho revenue. Well. we never
needed revenue worse in our lives than we do
now. Laughter They have reduced the tar
iff to increase the revenue. Now, need not
tell this intelligent audience that IL you re-
duce the tarif on foreign goods that compete
with ours and expect to increase the revenue
JOeTeIrOM, YOU fnuSJ multiply IfnpOTttJlOnS
Well, now. the more We import into this coun-
try OF products which we make. the less we
will make, won't we?
The More Imports the Less Manufac tures.
We cannot, my fellow-citizens. we canno;
buy our goods abroad and make them at home
and the more goods we import from Europe
like unto the goods we make at home the less
goods we will make at home The less labor
goods made abroad the labor abroad will be
employed won't it2 And the wages will be
paid abroad. and the wages will be spent
abroad. IL we make orr goods ut home the
labor will be employed at home the wage:
paid at home and the wages spent at home
[Applause.l Mr.. Lincoln gave the whole
philosophy of this tariff question when he
said: II don't Inow very much about the
tariff, but do know IL buy ton of iron In
London and pay "a for IL get the iron. but
of iron in the United States. 1 have got the
iron and my own people have got theS20." lap
plause.l
Now IL it is more foreign gods you want
then you want 60 continue the Democratic
party In power. [Cries of NO, no" and Kisses
Well, see that you don't. Applause
But they say, my fellow citizens. that II we
cheaper. Well. arcn't things cheap enough
nowl Does anybody wan anything any
cheaper Are wages too hixh? [Cries of NO
no. Does anybody who thinks wei OF his
country and it's future and it's citizenship anc
its civilization want wages brought down any
lower2 Well. wages viii come down unless we
shop by protective tariff.
Ia the wool-grower getting too much for bis
woolI met wool-grower In Nebraska tn,
other day. lie told me that in 1892 he haC
voted for free WOOL and he said he had come
within cents OF IL. The last saw OF him h,
was heading Republican procession Laugh
ter. He told me subse quently that in 1892 hi
had voted for his party, but that In 1894 hi
meant to vote for his property. tLaughterl
The Reduced Cost of Living.
Mr.. Stevenson. the Vice President of tn,
United states and n citizen of this State
lhissesl, I'm a speech made I'm the city of Brook
Ign two or three nights ago. said boastfully anC
in defense OF the present atministrati that
$40 would buy as much now as 81 would hav,
| bought I'm 1892. Yes. the cost of living doubt
less. has gone down lCries Of starvation
| and laughter So the power to make n lvins
has gone down. too. MY fellow-citizens, Their,
is nothing cheap to the American people tha
| comes from Europe. that enforces idleness a.
home. We never had free soup house during
the thirty years OF . protective tariff
ton. tor thirty years. down to. the ia
tai November day in 1922. we lived nm
| der the protective tari7. and during oil
those years every man earned HE own soul