The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-02-09

Speaker c. +. Crisp.
of rising wages is what makes a good
many men free traders, People With
Fixed incomes think that anything winch
raises wages is inimcal to them, ana
manufacturers who are III foreign mar
hets are naturally anxious to have wages
on the foreign standard. / confess 70
YOU that this question of wages is to
me the vital question. To ensure our
growth in civilization and wealth, we
must not only have wages as hlgn as
they are now, but constantly and steaai-
ly increasing.
Mr.. Reed EuIogized the American
Market
as being the best in the world, owing 70
the high wages paid here, enabling Wofh-
ing men to purchase largely OF the com
forts of life "!nstead OF increasing tins
market" he said, ''by leaving 1t to tue
steady increase Of wages that the hsufea
of the Aldrich report show SO conclusive
", and which have received the SANCTION
Of the members from New York, the sec
retary of the treasury ana the l)clhocfat-
ic bureau of statistics, our commlttee pro
pose to lower wages and SO lessen me
market, and then divide that market with
somebody else, and all for the chance Oh
getting the markets OF the world.
the contention, the orators ON the other
side say they are going 10 MAINTAIN
wages How can that he possible. All
things sell at the cost of production. II
the difference between the cost O. pro
dnction here and cost of production IN
England lie not equalized by The duty,
then our cost of product must go DOWN or
We must 20 out. Our laws have invited
money and men, and we have grown
M NV ha ~ n
from Illinois (Mr. Black has noticed that
men come here and he dees not want
them to come. hence he is willing that
our wages shall be lowered TO Keep neo-
ple away Well, this is net the time 10
discuss immigration. but while people are
coming ] am glad they have not yet i'm
bhea the gcntleman's idea and have not
yet begun to clainor for lower wages. 10
SUM it up, il this protection gives us
money and men, and our vast country
needs both it may show why we have so
wonderfully prospered. If it does, | am
inclined to think that the way to have
two jobs hunting one man is to keep Oh
making new mills, and to try to prevent
the committee on ways and means from
pulling down old ones
The Agricultural Glass.
But what do you say about the farm
or? Well, on that subject ! do not pro
! fess any special learning. but there IS
| enc simple statement | wish to make, and
| leave the question there. II, with cities
| grow Ing up like magic, manufacturing
| Villages dotting every eligible ste, Gael
| and all swarming with mouths to be
| filed the producers Of food are worse off
| than when half this country was des-
! ert, | abandon sense in favor Of political
| economy One other thing | have noticed
in this debate: When the gentlem N
| from Kansas lAIr. Simpson, gets a little
! money ahead he does not put it into
| stocks in these immensely profitable man
| nfactorics he has too much sense. He
| adds to bis farm, and has others adj.
| Example is richer than precept.
| .If 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 ~ 43
per week since 1850, the wages Of the
| agricultural laborers have only increased
| - cents, and while the Lancashire oper-
atives in the factories live as well as any
body except Americans, the agricultural
/ laEorer is no better than the continental
peasant. England's example will not do
j for agriculture.
Here let us meet one other question
| ard let us meet it fairly. We are charged
with la ing claimed that the tariff alone
will raise wages. We have never made
| Sucn claIin III any SUCH IlTlH. T'e
traders have set mp that claim for ns in
order to triumphantly knock it over. What
we do say is that where two nat ions have
equal skill and mechanical appliances and
market equally SO, and one can get her
labor at one-half less, nothing but a tariff
could maintain the higher wages, and
! that we can prove. We are the
| Only Rival Tint England Fears,
for we alone have within our borders th,
| 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
tinuons progress II you wish rs 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 invad,
our territory, and then we may take on
chances for future which by that tim'
will not be unknown.
'.Nobody knows so we'll as / do how
much | have failed to present even N,
own comprehension Of the great arCame"
which should control this vote. ! hav'
said not q word Of tho great fall Of price