The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-02

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destructive C"mreti"n of Foreigners,
ami th,-e VINO t. Iur it do 1t with a
reservation tuaI tnry viii i!o. antlv de-
vote In m~ClVeS 10 Il new crUlSt4e
against Whatever terriers are lett
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fen>e O. the III II tn. o1H"I SIDE Iv gr.-
, tlrn:cn who ale I, r,SpOn>l.Ir only t. III, .r
tOn~tuucnci..S, or hy the gentlemen who
by their sense of responsibility to the
whole country, h"Vt. one and all, with
but rare cx, options, placed their au-
thors uncomprOnIi lngly, except for
Temporary purposes, on the side of unrc-
StnCtCd tree lr. de.
Ii is evlurnt that there is no ground
for that hope entertained by SO many
moderate men that this bill, bad "A, it
Is, could be a resting pl; ce where our
manufacturing and productive indus
tres, such as my survive can re-es-
tabllsh themselves, and have sure
foundation for the future, fre from
party pickering and party strife Hence,
also there en- be no foundation for that
cry, SO lnslduouSly raised that this bill
should be passed at once, because
Uncertainty Is Worse
than any illl can possibly be. Were
this bill to pass both branches today un
certainty would reign just the same.
So utterly undisputcd and so distinctly
visible to every human being in this
audience has leen our growth and prog
ress, that, whatever the future indus
trial system of this country may be. the
past system is a spl,n monument to
that series of successful statesmen VINO
found the country bankrupt and dis
traCted and left it first on the list of na
tionS.
Mr.. Reed here quoted at length from
English authorizes, showing the
strength OF their confidence in the bros
perity of this country.
After quoting statistics to snow the
great rise IN wages since 1860 Mr.. Reed,
continued:
The truth is, that this very question
OF rising wages is what makes a good
many men free traders People with
fixed incomes think that anything which
Raises wages Is lnimical to them, and
manufacturers who are in foreign mar
kets are natur lily anxious to have wages
on the foreign standard. | confess to
you that this question of wages is to me
the vital question. To insure our
growth in civilization and wealth we
must not only have wages as high as
they are now, but
Constantly and Steadily Increasing.
This constantly increasing wages does
aot have its origin in love for the indi-
'hdual. but III love tor the nation.
Mr.. Reed eulogized the American
sharket as being tie best in the world,
owing to the high wages paid here, en-
aDlng wOrkmen to purchase largely of
the comforts of life. Instead of increas-
ing this market, he said, by leaving it to
the steady increase of wages that the
figures of the Aldrich report show SO
conclusively, and which have not only
received the sanction of the members
from New York and the secretary of
the treasury, but the Democratic bureau
OF statistics, our committee
Propose to Lower Wages
and so lessen the market, and then di-
vide that market with somebody else,
and all for the chance of getting the
markets of the world.
TO add to the existing possibilities of
this contention, the orators on the other
side say they are going to maintain
wages. How can that be possible? All
things sell at the cost of production. If
the difference between cost of prcluc-
ton here and cost of production in Eus-
land be not equalized by tho duty, then
our cost of product must go down, or
we must 60 out. Our laws have invited
money and men, and we have grown