The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-02-08

| Speaker g. f. Crisp.
| of the Aldrich report show so conclusive
| ly, and which have received the sanction
Of the members from New York, the Sec
! rotary Of the treasury and the Democrat
| ic bureau of Statistics our committee pro-
pose to lower wages and so lessen the
market and then divide that market with
somebody else. and all for the chance OF
getting the markets of the world
| The Agricultural Class.
''But what do you say about the farm
err? Well, on that subject 1 90 not pro
TESS any, special learning. but there is
one simple statement wish to make, ana
leave the question there. If, with cities
growing I'D like magic, manufacturing
Villages dotting every eligible site, each
and all swarming with mouths to be
filled, the producers of food are worse OH
than when half this country was a des-
crt, abandon sense in favor of political
economy. One other thing have noticed
in this debate: When the gentleman
from Kansas (Mr. Simpson, gets little
money ahead he does not put it into
stocks in these immensely profitable man
ufactories; he has too much sense. He
adds to his farm, and has others ada.
Example is richer than precept.
eff the hope of agriculturists Is in En-
glish free trade, they had better ponder
on the fact that while the wages OF arti-
; sans have increased in England $2.43
per week since 1850, the wages OF the
agricultural laborers have only increased
y cents, and while the Lancashire oper-
atives in the factories live as well as any
body except Americans, the agricultural
laborer is no better than the continental
peasant England's example will not do
for agriculture.
"Here let us meet one other question,
ard let us meet it fairly. We are charged
A.. ,,s,> III hat ho to. o1n
will raise wages. We have never made
such a claim in any such form. Free
traders have set np that claim for us in
order to triumphantly knock it over. What
we do say is that where two nations have
equal skill and mechanical appliances and
market equally SO, and one can get her
y labor at one-half less, nothing but a tariff
: could maintain the higher wages, and
that we can prove. We are the
Only RivuI That England Fears,
for we alone have within our borders the
population and wages, the raw material,
and within ourselves the great market
which assures to us the most improved
machinery. Our constant power to in
crease our wages, assures us also con
tinuous progress. If you wish us to fol
low the example of England, say yes
with all my heart, but her real example
and nothing else Let us keep protection
as she did, until no rival dares to invade
chances for a future which by that time
will not be unknown.
IS Nobody knows so well as I do how
IL much / have failed to present even my
re which should control this vote. I have
u said not word of the great fall of price:
~ which has come from the competition O.
II the whole world, rendered possible by pro
= lection and substituted for the competl
~ ton of single island. L have said not I
III word of the great difference between tn
u attitude of employers who find their owl
H. workmen their best customers in thel
" own land, and who are therefore move'
f. by their own best interests to give thei
ie wOrkmen fair wages, and those who sci
- abroad, and are therefore anxious for low
IN wages at home, and on whom works IN
II, restrictedly that pernicious doctrine a
ne wages fall, profits rise These an
~ ~ limit to all speaking.
Tn 1--WE know, my friends, that before thi
'ls tribunal, we all of us plead in vair
~ Why we fail let those answer who rea
the touching words Of Abraham Lincoln
first inaugural, and remember that h
nd pleaded in vain with these same men an
nv their predecessors. Where he failed "
is, cannot expect to succeed, but though
lu- fail here to-day; like our great leader :,
m mightier tribunal. which will finally an
for forever decide this question, we shall
ny more than conquerors. for this great n
an ton. shaking off, AS it has once befor
di the influence Of a lower civilization, wi
he go on to fulfill it's high destiny. till ov.
IL the South as we'll as over the Mort
he shall be spread the full measure of tn
to. amazing prosperity which is the wond
tha of the world
lis Given nm Ovation.
IN Throughout Mr.. Reeds speech he WI
nd frequently interrupted with applause, al
IN at times the Democrats Joined in tt
be, general laughter at his w1tticism
nu- When, at 1 30 o'clock, he glanced at t
;es- clock, which noted that his time had e
upt pred, the eloquent Republican enter
the upon his brief peroration, there was
tense stiffness throughout the house. T.
ON closing reference to that former ilfust
9Th Gus leader, Lincoln. was made in a lo
of voice, which could have hardly be
llso caught had not everyone on the flo
all and in the galleries been straining
Who catch every word. As he closed his Il
his hand was raised high in one of the fl
ace gestures which marked his speech. 1
any the hand fell and his speech closed the
slt- was burst of applause which swell
cps into a great demonstration, as the {
It le- thusiastic galleries gave shouts. hurra
nat and sharp Whistles which are often hea
PIE, in theaters, but seldom in the halls
:oiy congress.
Just Speaker Crisp.
,orr While the demonstration was going
nat- Speaker Crisp relinquished the chair
lzed Mr.. Hatch of Missouri and resumed |
and old seat which he occupied in the d.
hoforo ho 1Uoa o1pv0tad tn tho SnO0 L