Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-05-14

of people.
Now, what are these people to do?
You propose to increase your import
ations by at least 5000, 900, 600. So the
men who make this 5000, 900, 900 worth
of products in the United States are
to be thrown out Of employment. Out
of this production from go to 95 per
cent is labor. If you import 5000, 900,
900 worth from abroad of manufac-
lures which otherwise would be made
here, the $1sO,O0O,O or $4,000 ,OOC
now paid in wages must cease to be
paid for the work now done here,
but hereafter to be performed abroad
These men must engage in other oc-
cupations or must be idle.
Now, in what work are these $3.50,
100000 worth Of workmen hereafter
to engage in? What do you propose
to have them do?
There are four things which come
from projections:
First, high wages;
Second, national independence;
Third, varied employment; and
Fourth, stimulant to the inventive
faculty.
If protection costs anything, each
of these things alone would be worth
all it cost. The cost Of the country in
the last twelve months of the mere
threat of destruction to our protected
industries has been greater than the
whole cost of the protective syste N
from the beginning of the govern
ment.
If you pay Chinese wages for your
workmen, you will have Chinese civ
ilization for your country. The brain
does not invent when the blood is
thin Or the belly is starved. Upon
provement in manufacturing process
es, which increases production and
diminishes cost. So that, while the
price of the product is higher in pro-
tected than in unprotected countries,
the skill produced by the higher wag-
es is constantly tending to lower the
cost Of production.
Two great disturbing causes threat
en- the peace Of the republic and ex-
pose us to the dangers of great social
disorders. One is the acquisition, in
few hands, of vast accumulations Of
wealth by dishonest or questionable
practices. II the rich man OR the
business man gets wealth by the mill
.ol, L I,
paid for, it is natural that every poor
man shall be inclined to fancy that
the same path is open to him, and
that wealth may be unjustly divided
by processes kindred to those by
which it is accumulated.
The other is the wicked and unscru-
pulous appeal to the prejudices and
passions of large masses of people by
political leaders for political infu
ence, spreading abroad and through
out the country falsehoods, which
make the people dissatisfied with
their own institutions and their laws.
All these delusions, SO injurious to
the country, are specially fatal to the
men who create them and the com
munities which indulge in them.
Whenever people Or community
sets itself to try to believe lie, God
commonly Furnishes it by complete
success.
[ do not despair Of the country. I
am not even alarmed for the future,
in spite of the present conditions.
These marching armies of Anar-
chists and half tramps that are un
dertaking to turn to their own pur-
poses the stress of present conditions,
look formidable enough in the news
papers, and may provoke some indi
vidual and temporary trouble. But
our nation, out of A states, our 900
local and municipal bodies, have each
a separate and vigorous life, with it's
roots in the ground and its branches in
the air. It is not in the power of
Coxey armies to endanger the corpo-
rate existence, Or the local discharge
Of it's functions, Or the humblest or
5he weakest of these political beings.
The eternal law, Gin the sweat of
5hy face shalt thou eat Bread" will
prevail. It will never be repealed. It
will punish those who tamper with it.
But like every law of divine origin it
will bestow on every man who obeys
t the richest of Gods providence
content, health, wealth, strength,
happiness. To the people who obey
,th it's austere behest s'length of days
s in it's right hand and in it's left hand
iches and hOnOr.o
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