The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-19

manufactured products IN the past ic~ years
AMERICAN IMPORTS
Take I'D The list of American exports to-day.
Now. you hnd not only wheat and cotton. To-
bacco corn. beef a.su meat prpdect>. but you
md q constantly increasing list ~ exports
These are The very manufactures ia Which,
conirAy 10 az the teachings and AZ '-' ln'.E.Vs
~ The prufcstluu4>ts The hign e>t ~stt arg laia
10 American labor. Why. lo~-ciilkvns. " -
no longer q question ~ wages paid 70 me 4AhNf-
lns man in the industries ~ the coeNiA De-
steam and coal " hlch work a. chtApi4 LOT ~
a. ans people On The globe. while The Vases ~
human i4hur are but a small ana lnci0rA'AA
part ~ the cost 81 production
but aside from that u - found that y Ia De-
come almost a trui~m to-day that hign-prlccd
labor. which H. always conlpetent and Mtrl-
rEeni labor and cheap products go together
almost the world over AZ u iAO> "a the
witches uiade AZ Waliham- Mas. and Elein.
m II j. thus IN our great icSomotifr cnsihes.
IL n thus IN our carpets, IN New vrAi inrAl-
rurc. Ia Michigan. and IN iron aud steel 9o.i>
ia numocrlc>> varieties "a H. Ia the very li>t
of products that pay the highest daily vases
10 our labor that We md We are able 20 90 our
and com pete with other peoples and take from
them our share ~ their markets where such
thing can BE- sold.
The manufacturing supremacy ~ the world
viii soon come under competition 81 modern
times and Will pass 10 whatever country -
the largest and cheapest supply of the greas
materials ~ industry and can dlstri bAie thrG
with the highest Intelligence and through the
best business methods. We have to-day o.
FAR the two fundamental materials q N
dustry are concerned, coal ana IRON IRE. u.
premacy which other country IN The world
can dispute W approach
WONDERFUL RESOURCES
BY the assemblage u these materials close
together ia Alabama We can manufacture
foundry PIX iron chearsr than in Belgium or
England or elsewhere ~ the world ~ me
use ~ modern appliances for mininx. the
steam shovel etc. we can gather UP the ore
that lies near the surface on tie shores ~ the
great lakes. carry IL hy waste trans InrtaiiOn 10
tie cities ~ The east and produce B->~,mer pig
ana steel rails and otht! products cheaper tAAA
England and Belgium
IN under these conditions II with these
bourtics III providence IN this new country, II
with our sSll Tor inKcntng and adopting the
inventions W The Durla. II with our cheaper
trans ortAt.on. II v tn The nuoyant enterprise
~ people developing new country. We are
hereafter NJ lax ~ production. i VIII be be-
Nau~. We decline 10 rise 70 The opportunities
providence has bestowed upon ~.
We are told hf .our prutcctlun opponents
that our attempt 10 get outside ~ the Uniict.
states ANA sea! against other people. or 10 lei
other people come inside ~ the Y nltcd states
% sell against U.s.. means "A DEGRADATION " labor
and 4 ammunition ~ wages ~ the American
"ufkiuEMAM 'st- VIZ tNtts iafnlrI ~ Us
country know that Tor the price ~ every uuslci
o- wheat IA h> o~u market he must lnuA -
the lnarkets 10 England Vlerc wheat l. sold
10 competition with the cheapest agriculture
The farmer I'll Dakota pays ten times as
much FOR his labor a. the farmer In India
I.e farmer In Jefferson county paws i've 20
seen times ~ much - The farmer ~ Austria
aud nGn-AriA anu Russia but hc has 70 pat
down hi wheat ia England side hr side With
Russia. India ana Austria. From the very be-
ginning NJ our expectation 81 cereals We had
this competition and that = the Nay with our
manufactured products.
We are able to sell our clocks aud watches
cheaper - the railroads " India because we
can make watches cheaper az Waitham and
tlgin than In switzerland or England. We are
able 70 -ei locomotives ~ Al the nations q the
world because we can make them with high
priced skilled labor cheaper than any other
country can with it, cheaper labor and YET we
have been told this phrase. The Markets ~
tn. World means nothing. aud j. empty
delusion. and that there = no market in the
world which can compare VITA the American
market 20 the American people
THE HOME NARKEr.
OF course there is great deal in that the
home market to every people j. the large mar
ket Thre.-f0urth~ " All produced by a people
IL j. not that mean 10 surrender
the home market. our very ability 70 70
out and sell In competition implies our
ability 20 stag az home aud sell in CON-
petition with the same people. And yet. fell
low citizens let u never lose sight Of the fact
thar u we are 70 eel our products we must
take III exchange fer them the products 81 the
people 10 whom sell.
There j. no Such thing a. oEc-~ided trade
between nations. II l. the Interchange ~
products for products. when We keep out the
price and the only prc. that other countries
can pay for what We produce. we kill our trade.
For four years past We have been selling 70 En-
gland s.tse.Vfi or sgDWV.sy worth OF things
more than We bought and "A large part of oar
people have tbs uxnt IL patriotic duty 20 abuse
her for taxing al these thing, from v For
wears past she has bought from " <s.lsu.sD or
- ttss more thar. we have brought from her
Has -he paid " n money
u was the most surprising thing about En-
glanda~ walked down By the Bank q EE-
gland ana those other banking institutions
which have branches In South America. india.
Australia. Africa and Canada-the most sur
prSing thing 10 me. say. was that the entire
money % England Is but little more than
t7,spJt.r Ia our currency. II England UNDER
took 10 pay " Tor What she buys We would
have the whole ~ her money in three years on
this side OF the Atlantic
She exchanges a. far a. possible her pro-
duets. her Tin plate and manufactured goods
Tor our wheat. corn and other food products.
AMI az We buy coffee ft,s.n Brazil we pay her
~ orders on England. as We buy tea. spices
and silks from China and India we settle for
them BY draft on the surplus which England
owes ". IL, therefore. Ne wish larger markets
We must accept and seek larger importationl
to pay for what We send out
Why. fellOw-citizens. suppose instead OF In
the year i-si wool had been put on the free list
ten or twenty years ago the people of the Ar
gentine confederation would not to-day be
pressing you 20 strong in the wheat market 81
England. They-would be sending w. the WOO
which We excluded from America. and recelv.
| ing from " In exchange for that wool sucf
| products a. make and they need. Because
4 Ne would mol take tntlr Wool without ~
| at least ~ and more than 80 per cent. because
we shut her out ~ these markets. because ~
prefer 10 make our people forego their neces
~ary wooden cloth. aud dress in shoddy. W
have driven her from being good customer o
| ours To be a dangerous competitor.
THE NEW TARtFr BILL
| But fellow-citizens. shall not pursue Thu
argument any further. | shall not go ~ Ar
/ special length into the other issues - thi
| intelligent audience like this that read tn
| newspapers and follow with vigorous intcres
the coarse ~ public events. that | believe "a
l tariff hill we passed in August measures a
the whole duty % the democratic party to ID
imerican people.
| Yet when / ~, down and compare tn
| bill. famed and nanglcd IL WAS in u
passage. with tins law in existence befcr
| IL see that IL launches the people o. TAI
| country upon new career with thei
faces toward Industrial prosperity. In place (
The cycr-dcepcning gloom and the ntful an
reccding waves OF prosperity that came To u
In spite % bad laws In the past am dcli-htc
20 lind. a. I fully expected 20 md. after
months absence from this country. the signs
revying industry and returning prosperity a
over the land
am equally delighted to ind that prospci
ity IL not coming back 10 in a food whic
would be bat Temporary. and leave US aga
| stranded In gloom. but u rising with the sloS
resisfieSs rise of tide that is 70 sta
with for many years In the futuv
would not imply by what has
said that the long stress of hard times throur
, which the American people have passed ha