The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-14


rich enough to employ these great resources,
my hope is that they will be rich enough to
consume their products themselves
The Country's Great Progress.
So utterly undisputed and so distinctly
visible to every human being in this audi
ence have been our growth and progress that
this hasty outline is all that is needed to
remind you of one great fact-thst whstev-
er the future industrial system Of this coun-
try may be, the past system II . splendid
monument to that series Of successful
statesmen who found the country bankrupt
and distracted and left 1t first on the list Of
nations.
But we must not leave this matter to our
own praises. Let others speak, and above
all the citizens of that land which is our
great rival, at whose feet American states
manship in this house now sits.
l have seen an article in The Fortnightly
Review wherein Mr.. ]. Stevens Jeans, a
British free trade writer, in December, 1892
declares that America has for many years
enjoyed an amazing degree Of prosperity, so
much so indeed that, to use the eloquent
words of Edmund Burke: 'Generalities
which in all other cases are apt to heighten
and raise the subject have here a tendency to
sink IT, Fiction lags after truth, invention
il unfruitful and imagination cold and
barren"
When read these words, recalled a scene
In this house and said how differently men
look at the same things,
Here is a cool blooded Englishman who,
In talking of the mot unreasonable hopes
Il use his very words-which his country
men entertain that the greatest market in
the world and probably in the worlds his
tory is once again to be found lying at the
feet Of British industry and commerce"
declares that America has for many years
enjoyed an amazing degree of prosperity,
so much so indeed that he has TO use the
words of Burke to say that he cannot even
describe it. And yet in this very hall a.
member of the committee of ways and
means, himself a countrypan Of Edmund
Burke, and whose wonderful eloquenee
moved this assembly As never saw it NOV
ed before, allowed himself, amid Laughter
and applause on the Democratic side" to
compare this amazing prosperity to PRO
longed debauch, y from which the country
could rescue itself only by the free use of
the committees dilution of the original
beverage. Ii seems somehow almost des-
ecration to put the facts over against the
figure of speech.
Solid Arguments Needed.
OF course We are not to change the his
tory of the last 30 years and the principles of
100 years because some gentlemen especially
gifted with sonorous voices have distributed
epithets. We are not going To risk our all
upon fragments OF ancient platform speech
es. upon loud outcries and abusive language.
There must be addressed to us some solid
arguments or at least the opinions of wise
men who have proved their wisdom BY the
actual test of human life Surely we are
not going to venture into the unknown be-
cause political economists bid us do so,
while they still leave improved every prin-
ciple upon which they found their advice.
So long as they cannot agree among them
selves on any of their propositions they can
not be cited a. a body to force our conclu-
sions. On no trackless future will we ven
ture unless the prospect of increased happi-
ness Is large enough to justify risk and ex-
posure.
Is there any example in the history Of the
world of any nation situated like ours that
has taken the step to which we are invited,
Some gentlemen perhaps are Fastening
to say that England affords us the needed
example; that we have but to turn to her
history and find all that we need by way of
examples, just as in the statements Of her
political economists we shall find all that is
necessary for advice, for guidance and in
struction. Mr.. Speaker. have looked there,
and am amazed to 6nd how little the ex.
ample of England can teach.
England when she became free trade was
. workshop wherein was manufactured the
raw material Of the rest Of the world Of
raw material shs herself had none Her
coal and iron and the invention of the steam
engine had developed her mauufactures 10
out Of proportion to the wages Of her work
men that she must have . larger market
At that time the only idea Of larger mar
kst va one thst Aad more eqQsqmses. The
noeio0 thai TIE market could 6e enlarged
BY those who were already consumer had
not entered into the popular thought. Jet
her workmen we're clam0ring for more pay.
TAin had really ceased TO Be protection az
cept ON corn. and not on that In any true
prutective sense. It was only . tax like
that on sugar 1t made food dear. Repeal
Of the corn laws meant IN fncrease of real
wages. Repeal of tariff on manufacture
meant nothing. The whole crusade Of 1ea0
was for free food. and Golden nowhere says
anything else. Projection In our modern
sense IL never mentioned in any one of his
free trade speeches.
The Bill . Deed Of violsnes.
After this review of the story Of Eng
lands change will any man dare to say that
he finds therein any justification for the
present deed OF violence which In called the
Wilson billl
euppose England, instead of being libtle
island in the sea, had been the half Of .
great continent full of raw material, capa-
ble of an Internal cowmerce which would
rival the eommercs # all the rsut a the
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