New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-02-07

duction here and the cost Of production
IN England be not equalized by the duty,
then our cost Of product must go down,
or he must 60 out. Our laws have III
vited 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 our wages shall be lowered to keep
people away. Well this is not the time
to discuss immigration but while people
arc coming, I am glad they have not yet
imbibed the gentleman's ideas and have
not yet begun to clamor for lower wages.
To sum 1t up, if this protection gives
us money and men, and our vast coun-
try needs both, it may show why we have
50 wonderfully prospered. If it does,
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.
But what do you say about the farm
er? Well, on that subject I do not pro-
fess any special learning, but there is
one simple statement I wish to make,
and leave the question there. If, with
cities growing up like magic, manufac-
turing villages dotting everyeligiblesit site,
each and all swarming with mouths to
be filled, the producers of food are worse
Oft than when half this country was a
desert. I abandon sense in favor of DO
htical economy. One other thing I have
noticed in this debate, when the gentle
man from Kansas (Mr. Simpson, gets a
little money ahead, he does not put it
into stocks in these immensely profit
able manufactures; he has too much
sense. He adds to his farm, and has
others add. Example is richer than pre-
cept.
If the hope of agriculturists is in Eng
lish free trade, they had better ponder
on the fact that while the wages of arti-
sans have increased in England $e.43 per
week since 1850, the wages of the ugri-
cultural laborers have only increased 70
cents, and while the Landcash1re opera
tives in the factories live as we'll as any,
body except Americans, the agricultural
laborers are no better than the coatinen-
tai peasantry.
England's example will not do for
agriculture. Here let me meet one other
question, and let me meet it fairly. We
are charged with having claimed that
the tariff alone will raise wages. We
have never made such claim in anysuch
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 equal
ly so, and one can get her labor at one
half less, nothing but tariff could main
tain the higher wages, and that we can
Prove. We are the only rival that Eng
land 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 con-
slant power to increase our wages assures
us also continued progress. If you wish
us to follow the example of England. I
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 our territory,a then we may
take our chances for future which by
that time will not be unknown.
Nobody knows so we'll as I do how
much I have failed to present even my
own comprehension of the great argu-
ment which should control this vote. I
have said not word of great fall of
prices which has come from the compe-
tision of the whole world rendered DOS
sible by protection and substituted for
the competition OF single island. have
said not word of the great difference
between the attitude Of employers who
find their own workmen their best Gus
toners in their own land, and who are,
therefore, moved by their own best in
terests to give their workmen fair wages,
and those who sell abroad and are there
fore anxious for low wages at home, and
on whom works unrestrictedly that per-
nicious doctrine, ''as wages fall profits
rise" These and much more have I
omitted, for there is a limit to allspeak-
ing.