Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-02-08

England be not equalized by the duty,
then our cost of product must go down or
we must go out. Our laws have invited
money and men, and we have grown
great and rich thereby. The gentleman
from Illinois (Mr. Black) has noticed that
men come here and he does not want
them to come; hence he is willing that
pie away. Well, this is not the time to
discuss immigration. but while people are
coming I am glad they have not yet i'm
bibed the gentleman's idea and have not
yet begun to clamor for lower wages. TO
sum it up, if 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, I am
inclined to think that the way to have
two jobs hunting one man is to keep on
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
TESS any special learning, but there is
one simple statement wish to make, and
leave the question there. If, with cities
growing up like magic, manufacturing
villages dotting every eligible site, each
end all swarming with mouths to be
filled, the producers of food are worse of
than when half this country was 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.
adds to his farm, and has others add.
FIyq mnla ia richer than nracont
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 $2.43
per week since 1850, the wages of the
agricultural laborers have only increased
u 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
will raise wages. We have never made
such a claim in any such form. Free
traders have set up 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
labor at one-half less, nothing but tariff
coulu maintain the higher wages, and
that we can prove. We are the
Only Rival 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,
our territory, and then we may take our
chances for future which by that time
will not be unknown.
'sNobody knows so, well as l do how
much I have failed to present even my
own comprehension Of the great argument
which should control this vote. | have
said not word of the great fall of prices
which has come from the competition Of
the whole world, rendered possible by pro-
lection and substituted for the COMPETE
ton of single island. have said not a
word of the great difference between the
attitude of employers who find their own
workmen their best customers in their
by their own best interests to give their
workmen fair wages. and those who sell
abroad, and are therefore anxious for low
wages at home. and on whom works un-
restrictedly that pernicious doctrine as
wages fail, profits rise These and
much more have omitted, for there rs
limit to all speaking.
eve know, my friends, that before this
tribunal, we all of us plead in vain;
Why we fail let those answer who read
the touching words of Abraham Lincoln's
first Inaugural and rem remember that .n he
their predecessors. Where he failed we
cannot expect to 1 but though esSs
other DAYS. in the larger field before the
mightier tribunal. which will finally and
forever decide this question, we shall be
ton. shaking off. MS it has once before.
the influence Of a lower civilization, will
20 on to fulfill its high destiny. till over
the South, as well as over the North,
shall be spread the full measure of that
amazing prosperity which is the wondes
of the world"
Given an ovation.
Throughout Mr.. Reeds speech he wa