The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-24

not having so much of that pros
perity as you had two years ago, all
of which deeply regret. But the
voice of the people of this country
is supreme, and in 1892 by the voice
of majority of the people of this
country the republican party was
voted out of power and the demo-
cratic party was voted in; and we
have now everything we had then
except the republican administra-
ton and prosperity. These we
bartered away for a change of ad-
ministration. We have had good
deal of experience in the last nine
teen months. And, after all, my
countrymen, that form of education
which is most effective and endur-
ing is experience. We have all been
attending school. 1t has been
in the nature OF compulsory edu-
cution. cheers Nobody has been
excluded from its benefits. laugh
ter The tuition has been free.
but the ultimate cost to the country
has been very great. The people
have been thinking, and if not
thinking have been feeling feeling
the stress of the hard times brought
by the great change. We know
more than we did two years ago,
and we are better prepared to ex-
ercise the great privilege of Amer
lean citizenship than we were in
1892. Even the eyes of the blind.
est partsans have been opened
and those who hitherto have never
been able to see any good in the
republican party, and have habit
ually voted its policy fraud and a
robbery and its, laws as class legis-
latlon, are now themselves ready
for reconsideration and a change,
and the only thing the people
want now is the opportunity to
vote for change, and wherever
they have had that opportunity they
have improved it and voted
in favor of the American
workshop and the American home.
The controversy between us this
year al! over the country is as to
whether we will preserve our own
markets for our own people, and
our workshops for our own work.
ing men. There are two ways to
do this: One way is to put a
tariff upon the foreign product
that completes with ours, high
enough to discourage foreign i'm
portation and encourage home pro-
duction. That is the republican
protective way.
The other way is to reduce
wages, so low in this country that
no other country can produce so
cheaply as we. This is the free
trade, British democratic way.
Now do not know what YOU
think about it, but I think that it
is infinitely better for this country
and all the people which dwell in
it, to make it harder for the
foreign product to get in here,
rather than to make it harder for
the American citizen to live here.
And | would make it hard for every
foreign product that completes
with the American product to get
into this market, that l
might make it easier for
the American citizen to live in the
United States. That is the policy
OF the republican party. If we buy
our goods abroad, they are made
abroad and the labor is employed
abroad; and the wages are paid
abroad; and the wages are spent
abroad.
Now that is clear enough isn't its
| If you make your goods at home,
you employ your labor at home /;
you pay your wages at home and
the laborer in turn spends his
wages at home; and there is no
money that SO circulates in every
channel of commerce and that runs
through every avenue of trade like
the wages of the American work.
ingman.
Now, if we do not protect our
selves, nobody will protect us.
They say that the tariff law of
1894 is better than the tariff law of
1890. Well better for whom? Bet
ter for England. That is what Sir
Albert Rolli; said in London when
they were bapqueting Mr.. Wilson.
"My American friend may not
have accomplished all he hoped to,
but | want to tell him that his new
, tariff bill has opened the
mines in Wales and the fac
tories in Devonshire and af-
, ter it has been in operation
| a short time we will feel the bene-
fetal effects still more" But what
did this new tariff law do for
e America? 1t did not stimulate any
American interests. The law OF
1894 has not started any fires; it
has not given any employment to
working men. Why, during the
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