The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-10-18

NO1O.
cheaper. ls there anyDody IN this country
who wants things any cheaper than thsy
are nowi Does the farmer want less price
for his wheat, or his corn, or his barley, or
his sheep, or his stock: Are not prices
| low enough, farmers of Minnesota Does
the merchant want the prices of the
articles he sells reduced in price? Does
the workingman want less wages? Who
wants these cheap things?
Ny fellow citizens, nothing is cheap
that comes from abroad to the American
people. IApplause.] No product of agri-
culture is cheap from abroad if it leaves
the American product to rot in the
ground. No manufactured article is
cheap to this country il it takes from the
workingmen of this country days labor.
And the old men in this audience, If they
will let memory sweep back, will recall
that when things are the cheapest men
are the poorest. And when the prices Of
articles are lowest they are the hardest tt
get, and that is the trouble now. But
there are good many people living now
who did not live under the old Demo-
cratic revenue free trade tariff prior to tho
war; The old men had the experience,
and the young men have to have it; and
are now enjoyingit. And experience, my
fellow citizens, after all, is form OF in
struction the most efficient and enduring
Sometimes we have to go through the
school of adversity. We have been at-
tending that school for the past 18 months.
The tuition has been free but the ultimate
cost has been very great. 1t has been .
sort of compulsory education. But I be-
lieve its lessons will be practical and
permanent
Necessities Taxed, Luxuries Free.
Governor Mckinley then showed that
the new Democratic tariff law reduced du-
ties on whiskey, leaf tobacco and HAVANA
cigars. which were sarcasticallY referred
to as "prime necessities" The duty ON
statuary, paintings, pearl buttons, opium
for smoking and other necessities" had
been reduced.
Well, now, Of what does their free list
consist! They put on the free list articles
which, according to the importat!ons of
the preceding year. would amount to 81,-
1000, and A8, 900, 900 of this was the
farmers wool, or nearly one half; S9.000,-
it were manufactured articles, and 81 ,W0,-
600 or more of it was paintings and statu-
ary. Your statuary is now free. An
article of necessity! But your sugar, an
article of luxury, is taxed.
This is not all, my fellow citizens. They
have destroyed the splendid commercial
treaties made by the administration of
President Harrison with the Southern and
Central states, made under the provisions
of the law Of 1890, which opened up that
market to the -four, and the bacon and the
hams of the farmers of the United States;
/, trade with Cuba that increased 81, ,O00,-
600 in single year, principally agricul-
tural products; and with Brazil that in
creased 100000 in single year, prin-
cipally agricultural products. .,,.
Lost Confidence Must BE Restored.
Ny fellow citizens, our chief trouble now
is to get confidence back to the people.
Our chief embarrassment comes from this
lack of confidence, and not from the
money Qf the country. Some people think
our trouble 3 the money. All the mnny
we have got is good. Our trouble il to get
it ont in circulation among the people.
The banks are full of money. Money was
never less employed than it is today, and
what we want is something to fetch it out.
The way to get the money is to create
demand for the labor and the products Of
the people. For when labor is stopped
wages are stopped, and wages are one Of
the chief factors in the distribution of
money.
The Democratic party is the most re-
markable party in history. It is for any,
thing to get power, and then it is never
for anything which got it power. 1t was
for free silver in 1892 in some of the states;
and when it used to have the house of rep
resentatives, and we had the senate and
the presidency, they used to go through
the idle ceremony of passing free silver
bill, but since they have got into power
and can do with silver just what they
want to do with it, instead of giving to the
country what in many of the states the
leaders of the Democratic party said would
be done, they have given to silver the
worst blow it ever received.
Well, could you expect, my fellow citi-
zens, any other result? Are you disap-
pointed! Why, who elected Mr.. Cleve-
land and Democratic congress? Every
body who was dissatisfied voted for him,
and everybody who voted for him has been
dissatisfied ever since.
Not only, my fellow citizens. has this
administration interrupted the prosperity
of the country, but it has to some extent
interrupted the patriotism of the country.
1t has been cutting off and suspending
the pensions of the soldiers. never have
advocated excessive pensions; but be-
lieve every man who served in our war
and was disabled is entitled to have PEN
sion from the government of the United
States. And I believe that when a soldier {
has once been put on the pension roll of
the government-put there by competent
authority-he must not be put off until
after the fullest investigation, in open,
broad daylight, permitting the pensioner
to meet face to face his accusers and the
witnesses against him, and then If he is
to be on that roll, every patri-
otic citizen and every patriotic soldier
would approve. But there must be no
of fraud against him. Why,
they sometimes talk about our soldiers Is
though they enlisted in tho service of
their country for greed and gain; a
though they entered the army for the pay
and pensions that were in it. Why, then.