The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-03

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ways and means. 70 banquet on this 9th
ulE they were greatly worried
The British manufacturers and dealers
are very greatly indebted 70 the chairman
OF the ways and means committee for do
ing 80 much in reducing the duties on the
No man has done as much for Great
Britain and her interests on this side of
the water as this Democratic Tariff doc
trinsire Wilson. who is correctly described
by Tom Reed as Learned only in the wis
dom of EHgilshmen."
The Democratic leaders In Washington
City seriously thought of sending Wilson
q cable dispatch. Don't eat" The Dem
oerasic leaders justly feared the effect Of
this banquet upon the workingmen Of the
country, who will naturally take the
English Endorsement Of Wilson to mean
that their wages will have to come down
to slevsl of those paid in England
The fears of the Democratic leaders have
been verified. Wilson attended the ban
quet, made q speech, and was welcomed
as "man and brother" by the English
free traders, Who embraced him because
bis tariff had lighted the fires in their fur
naces and made their long silent mills
vocal with the hum of reviving industry.
Gov. Mckinley. of course, can see
through ladder. and he saw his opportu-
nifty when he said in his speech Of Friday
last that while the Wilson tariff had re-
vived the languishing industries of Great
Britain so effectively that British free
traders were hugging Prof. Wilson TO
their bosoms, IL had not started the wheels
OF silent labor in America from Massachu-
sets 10 West Virginia.
Tom Reed correctly describes Wilson as
one of those Democratic whoopers whose
mouths are always full of that .'folderol of
folly which garnishes the mouths OF men
who think epithets are ideas" and further
says:
The great motive power of our progress
In civilization and comfort Is the wide dis
tribution of the wealth of the country
which Is the result of keeping all our peo-
pie employed. This it il when consti-
tutes the purchasing power of this country,
which has made the mill wheels turn and
set the factory machinery in motion. No
foreign commerce can make up for that;
Tor whatever We cannot make because il Is
made abroad pays no wages to our
workmen, to our managers and superin-
tendents, and furnishes no profits with
which our millowners and factory COM
panies can extend their plant and employ
the builder and his host of employees.
When one mill in my district diminishes its
payroll 20 per cent and pays its people
$ll7.0oo less per year for 700 hands en-
ployed, or more than sizes for each-and
that instance is multiplied by thousands
We are no longer taking the strides toward
comfort, happiness and civilization which
We had been taking for the thirty years be-
fore the fatal mistake of 1897"
This is complete answer to the stupid
nonsense brayed by President Cleveland
concerning our ultimate capture of "the
markets of the world" The capture of
1.-The markets of the world" would not be
worth the surrender of our home market
to the world. When We surrender our
home market TO the world We shall be Civ
ing away bird in the hand worth two in
the bush; We shall be like "the base
Judaean who flung away q pearl richer
than all his tribe"
The argument presented by Gov. Me-
Kinley that the Wilson tariff is lighting
all the fires in the British furnaces while
it does not reIume those of the United
States. is unanswerable, aud will prove
most effective in the campaign. Yet it
seems To US IL can be stated in a more
compact and forceful way.
III the Wilson tariff is a good thing for
ing. be a good thing for the United States
unless the economic situation is Identical.
Every intelligent man knows that SO far
from the economic situation being the
same II is exactly reversed in America.
Great Britain is thiekiy populated :;
its small area is in the hands of
tho few. and consequently the mass
Of her people are ''lsnd poor"
Great Britain has not been able to
raise her own food for many years. she
confessed this in 1876 when she repealed
the corn laws. Great Britain could not
live month on the food she produces If
her ports were Dramatically sealed tomor-
row. she is manufacturing country of
small area. thiokly populated, land poor,
and does not and cannot raise her own
food. therefore she naturally desires free
trade and seeks TO force her manufactures
into every market in the world
Now il the Wilson tariff delights Great
Britain. with these economic conditions,
how can II possibly be good for the United
States, where the economic conditions are
exactly reversed The United States has
an area of over 5000. 90 square miles. in
ha6.ted by $500. 900 Of people, while Great
Britain has an area of 1eo. So square miles
inhabited by ss,eoO.o of people The land
in England is IN the hands of some q, 900
persons; Great Britain is, therefore.
land poor and thieklv inhabited. while
the United States is, by comparison.
land rich and thinly inhabited. The
United States not only raises its own food
bat sells an enormous surplus Of food pro-
ducts 70 foreign countries. Great Britain
is obliged TO bay her food OF foreign coun-
tries. The United States is both manu-.
featuring and agricultural country, while
Grea, Britain il devoted to manufactures.
OF course with these economic condi-
lions exactly reversed il is logically i'm.
possible that . tariff thar would help Great
Britain would he also \ blessed thing for
America. and Gov. MeKlniey's question
pu, 10 the American workingmen whether.
With economic conditions exactly re-
versed, tariff that lights the ares and
moves ihs wheels Of industry In Great
Britain can possibly light the fires Of ex-
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