The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-03

and wouldn't you a great deal rather
have your customers, your consumers, in
| the United States than 10 have them in
some other nation of the world Wouldn't
/ you sooner have them near by and close
&c you than far distant beyond the seas,
5000 miles away? What gives you the
consumer at home? The great work
shops Of the United States give you
where you sell the products of
your farm, and thu best customers you
| have ever had in all your history have
been the workingmen of the United
States employed in shops that have
been fostered and protected by American
protective tariffs ICheers.]
There are two ways of keeping for
eign products out Of this country. and
from comp petIng with ours. and preserve
this market for ourselves. I'D / contend
this market is ours. It belongs to the
people OF this country, and SO long as
serve it 70 the people of this country.
LApplause.l
Il said there were two ways of pre-
serving theAmerican market T. the Amer
ican people. One way is to make the
tariffs high enough to check the impOr-
That is the Republican way. The other
way is to reduce the WAGES of labor so
low that nobody anywhere else can pro-
duce any cheaper than we can. This is
Keep Out Foreign Products.
"Now, / don't know what you think
about il, but l would a thousand times
rather make it hard for the foreign pro-
duct to come into the United States than
to make it harder for the Am erican citi-
zen to live in the United States. Ap-
plause. And, my fellow citizens, you
cannot preserve this market aud main
tain the wages that are paid to American
labor unless you have a protective tariff
upon the products that come in here
that are made by cheaper labor on
the other side. And if you do not
put the difference between the American
wage and the foreign wage the for
eign product by way of tariff, then the
wOrkingmen OF the United States have
got to bear that difference themselves.
That is the philosophy of this protective
OF ourselves, who will take care of u.s.
Whose country is this, anyhow? [Ap-
piause.
There is not schedule, there is not
paragraph, there is not rate Of duty in
the tariff law of 1894 that brings any
benefit to the American people, pro-
ducer or consumer, not one. The
only benefit it brings is to
our commercial rivals, and the
only people who rejoice today over that
bill are the men who owe no allegiance
to the government of the United States
and no loyalty to the flag Of our country.
Wilson Honored by the British.
sWhy, when Mr.. Wilson, the author Of
this tariff law, was banquetted the other
night in the city of London, the gentle
man who introduced him said that his
name was as well known IN England as
4 Il was in the United States, and they
honor him much in England as they
do in the United States. Voices, More
"Then vote that way if that's the way
you feel about it! lApplause.l
NnIf has ,ira af fhaf han Of
said that Mr.. Wilson may not have fully
realized all Of his aspirations concerning
his bill, yet he wanted to assure him that
his bill had stimulated industries in Eng
land, that it had opened the mills in
Wales and Yorkshire and had started the
wheels of industry IN the great textile
factories of that country.
No Mills Opened Up.
ssYou haven't heard Of any mills being
opened up in the United States by the
law Of 1894 You have not heard of any
textile factories being started by that
law this year in the United States Why.
that law, my fellow citizens, does not
light a single new fire in this country, it
does not employ single new working
man in this country; il does not stimulate
a single American interest. not one.
The only people it helped was
the sugar trust and the whisky trust and
the people today are suffering from that
very law and will continue to suffer It
cannot be otherwise, and we might just
as we'll make up our minds that capital
will not invest in enterprises unless
there is a reasonable belief that there
will be profit in It.
~Capital will not work without profit
any more than labor will work without
wages. You cannot get any man to in
vest his money in manufacturing en-
terprise unless he has a reasonable GER
tainty that he is going to
make some money out of that
investment And that is our trouble to-
day. The men who have the money
have no confidence in the present nation
al administration; they don't know what
is going to happen Uncertainty hangs
over them, and uncertainty breeds dis
trust and distrust paralyzes the arm Of
labor.
at is not the money that is troubling
US today. I say to the people of Kansas
gold, silver, greenbacks, treasury
notes. silver certificates. gold
certificates; every one Of them is good.
Our trouble is to put that money into
circulation. We must find somebody
who wants to buy what we have to sell;
we must find somebody who wants what
we have. and who has the wherewith to
buy it. The banks never were SO filed
with money they are today.
Money was never so much unem-
ployed as it is today. 1t is there
awaiting investment. the only way you
can fetch that money out is to put busi-
ness upon a sure and profitable basis
When you do that. then the money
will come flowing out If we had twice
as much money as we have today we
could not get it any easier under the
present conditions We must have some
thing that somebody else wants and that
somebody else must be able to pay for it.
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