The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-10-11


made by on American citizea here, IN the
. city of St. Paul. One week ago today
every tin-plate factory in the United States
closed down. SYhys Because the tariff
law of 1874 had SO reduced the duty upon
the foreign product as TO make it impos-
sihle for those manufactures TO produce
and pay the scale OF wages they had been
paying under the law of 1892, and 10000
men last Saturday night Were put out on
| the streets as the result of the law of 1894.
Not only the t0.G0o men engaged in the
immediate industry, but tho 10000 more
/ men that were making tho steel iagots aud
rolling them into the sheet steel to dip
them for tin plate were reduced in their
| employment by reason of the shutting
down of those mills.
When was in the city of Lincoln, Neb,
day before yesterday, in the great street
parade there was the representative of
what WAS said to be the largest brick COM
pany in that state, and the head of that
| firm WAS a Detnocrat-NOT N0W--and
| printed across the banner carried by the
idle workingmen was this inscription:
'Twenty-two million brick in 1Sa2-not
one in 1893 or 1894. 2
i And that is the story of every city of this
country, and in some line of industry or
| another.
Better than the law of 1890? Why, UNI
! der the law of 1890 we collected from Gus
| toms and from internal revenue enough
money every day of the two years and a
| half it was in operation to pay the ex-
| penses of the government, the interest on
| the public debt and pensions TO the sol
| diers of the country. And since 1892, when
| the new administration went in, and the
/. decree had gone forth that the policy that
had been in operation for thirty years,
I, under which our industries had been /
| builded up and to which every delicate
| fabric of enterprise has been adjusted.
| from that time down to this hour, the gov
eminent of the United States has not col
| leeted, any day of any week of those 10
months, enough money to pay the every
day expenses of the government And it
/ has been compelled to go out and borrow
| S50,000000 and issue the bonds of the
governmept--which has not been done
since the days of resumption Not only
been compelled to go out and borrow fifty
millions of money, but it has drawn upon
the gold reserve in the treasury-that has
been sacred ever since John Sherman es-
tablished it down to the inauguration of
President Cleveland, and fifty millions of
thatgold reserve has gone, to meet the
current expenses of the federal govern
ment.
Democratic Times of Long Ago.
But it Is only history repeating itself.
The last Democratic administration be-
fore the war was an administration of
loans and deficits and distress in business,
and the first full Democratic administra-
ton since the war is an administration of
loans and deficits and of universal distress
/ to the country,
Better than the law of 1890! 4here were
mistakes in the law-no great bill with |
5000 items could be passed without hay |
ing some mistakes-but, my countrymen,
whatever mistakes We're in the law, what |
eyer errors crept into that law, every one
of them was in favor of the American |
home, the American citizen, the American |
factory, the American farm. But of the |
$50 blunders discovered in the law of 1894 !
not one Of them is in favor of the Ameri- |
can people They have not even, by aeei- |
dent or blunder, made any mistakes in
favor of American enterprise, American |
industries or American homes
All, but they say: "Our tariff law is
better than the Republican law because it /
reduces duties. So it does reduce duties. |
Governor Mckinley then explained, |
clearly and simply, that reduced duties !
meant greater imports, and every article |
Imported displaced homemade article, |
and when home production decreased, /
workmen Became idle, business became |
stagnant, and hard times speedily re
suited.
When you diminish the tariff you do it
for only one purpose-that is, to epcour-
age importation. That is what it is done |
for. That is the objection they make to |
the law of 1890, that we discouraged i'm
portation. Well, we did. We discour-
aged the importation of every product
that we could produce at home that we /
might find employment. for our labor at
home, and give to the farmers of the 4,
United States consumers Of the products
of their farms. I
Cheap Things and Cheap Times.
All, but they say we get things little
cheaper. Is there anybody in this country
who wants things any cheaper than they
are now? 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?
My fellow citizens, nothing is cheap |
that comes from abroad to the American
people, [Applause.l 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 if 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 to |
get, and that is the trouble now. But
there ara a good many people living now
who did not live under the cid Demo- /
cratic revenue free trade tariff prior to the
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 adversely. We have been at
tending that school for the past Is months.
The tuition has been free but the ultimate |
cost has been very great 1t has been "a |
sort of compulsory education. But be- |
Eeve 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 importatIons of |
the preceding year would amount to $41,-
100000, and s1S,000,000 of this was the |
farmers wool, or nearly one half; $1,000 |
O00 of it was lumber; 50, 100000 or more of |
it were manufactured articles, and S1,o00,-
COO or more of it was paintings and statu-
airy. 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 J
President Harrison with the Southern and |
Central states, made under the provisions |
of the law Of 1880, which opened up that
market to the -four, and the bacon and the
hams of the farmers of the United States:
a trade with Cuba that increased S14,GG0,-
600 in a single year, principally agricul- |
tural products; and with Brazil that in |
creased S6,000,OoQ in single year, prin-
cipally agricultural products.
Lost Confidence Must BE Restored.
My fellow citizens, our chief trouble now