St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-10
wArTERsoN's EUGhE NorE. 4
Tho louisville Warrior Hits Hard
for Free Trade.

A1CElly w d bcloOi:. llIC WHibS- pluillOu
Henry of Navarro of the Democracy,
addressed the Watterson club at
Louisville on jackson day." on the
tariff as demanded by the Chicago con-
vention and as presented i'll the Wilson
bill. Mr.. Watterson represents the
earnest. SINCERE element of the party.
and which has both the honesty and the
courage of its convictions, and believes
in gathering in the full fruits of the
victories OF 80 and'93. From his speech
we make the following extracts:
/ shall try to talk to YOU as Il patriot
and pot as a partisan; as a nationalist
and not as a sectionalist ar locali5t, and,
though as Democrat always. as an
American. first, last and forever. = r
An eminent member of the present
government said to me Just after the
elections of last November, lit seems
impossible nowadays for the party
leaders 10 make sure Of their yotersn'
He spoke III tore of genuine despond-
ency. How can you expect anything
else" L replied. "when YOU are always
deceiVing and disappointing them? The
voters are all right. They Know what
they want and what they mean. II is
that as soon as one of these little great
men gets into what he thinks big and
Il snug place that he casts about 10
see how he may keep it, and straight
way he SETS up for little tin Jupiter,
who knows more than nvbOdy elSu.
Then the people, finding him too great
man to be good for anything, turn
about and turn him out, often i'll sheer
peryersity. Men of real genius. of real
courage, of real conviction, of real ILL
Splration, Of real worth, do their duty
first and rho 70 nff
As Il consequence, the voters believe in
them and follow them, even as they
followed Clay through forty years OF
sun and shower; even as they followed
jackson through thirty years of storm
and battle; even as they will follow
you, if you dare to be as brave and
honest As jackson and as Clay.
FREE TRADE VS.. PROTECTION.
L do not claim nearly SO much for
free trade. | claim that it Will make
more work by creating wider markets.
| claim that it will decrease the cost of
living in greater measure than it will
reduce earnings. Tie question uf wages
Is question of supply ana demand,
pure and simple. III the crowded cities,
where men must work or Starve, they
take what they can get, and wages are
low. III new ard less crow ded COIN.
muhltleS. where opportunities are open
tn all and good men are at a premium,
wages are high. AS our waste places
are filling up, the problem is how shall
all who want to work be kept in
steady employment? Relatively, wages
are bound to go down as population
increases and labor-saving machinery
takes the place Of hand work, and the
problem Is, how shall we decrease in
fair proportion the cost of living? My
answer 10 the first problem is, by break
Ing down the barriers that shut lis out
from free commercial Intercourse with
the rest of the world, which wants as
much Of us as we want of it. And to
the second, by a falrer distribution of
the fruits of labor between the employer
and the employed. But, L am asked,
can these two things be done without
ruin to the American manufacturer? My
answer is that they can be done and
have been done to tine eminent
good fortune OF American manufactures
and commerce, and can be done again
with the same result: that we have had
good and bad seasons under all
tariffs, high and low; but that the
low tariff offers advantages to
the many by curtailiug subsidy and
limiting monopoly, While high tariff
pours wealth into the lap of the few by
the opportunities it offers TO combina-
OlOiio anu II dotS. Il VI DlbO4 punt ~
the operation of thirty years of protec-
ton; enormous wealth in few hands;
universal struggle to live among The
many: deeper, darker contrasts Of
life, and discomfort everywhere.
FROM THR FEW TO THE MANY.
appeal from the selfshness and
timidity of the politicians to the COM
mon honesty and common sense of
the people. appeal from the rapacily
of the American aristocrat. rolling i'll
luxury and wealth. to the simple and
homely genius of that Americanism
which won the Revolutionary battle for
liberty and made the constitution. l
90 not confuse the issue. l am not the
slave of a single idea. | know that
theory is one thing and practice is an
other thing. and that craftsmanship is u
practical science. But he is no states
man who does not hitch the steeds OF
action 10 the hackney coach of theory,
and even then-aS he stands with the
reins in his hands he must look far be-
fore, seeing not only with the e:eS i'll his
head, but ont of those eyes of the mind
that reach much farther.
The rUbber barUnS know their bnSl-
ness. They never 30 to sleep. They
relinquish nothing. Their rapacIty is
luSdlluDICs II was blIC IiISlOi Vi IlC
old slave power, that the more it got the
more it demanded. 1t might have had
emancipation, and its gradual and
peaceful elimination from the BODY cor
porate. 1t refused this, to end in blood
and flame, carrying with them vast
losses and cruel hardshipS. Yet. in
spite of the tenacity with which the
Southern people chung to slavery, going
to war to defend and maintain it, the
South would not have it back today on
any terms.
Mir. Wilson's moderate dose Of rev.
enue powders in protecti0nist capsules
is rejected by the prOtectioniSts as
vigorously as the slave owners rejected
Mr.. Ciay'S suggestion Of emancipation.
Like the Shareholders the robber DarOnS
yield nothing. They will not reform
themselves or consent thai any one
shall reform them. The work must,
therefore, be done from without. 1t
will never proceed from within. And
when il is done, if it lie done by states
men and not by the sword, the Ameri-
can manufacturer will rise like
one who has been in chains,
amazed, as the slave owner was.
to find that the theory he cherished
was 4 curse, and not blessing. The
| Chinese wall removed. the world will he
at his feet. Does national character
count for nothing? Does lard tcemIHg
with original resources count for Moth
ing? Are the creative energies and in
Ventive genius of people who have re-
versed the feudal policies of the old
world, to build fabric in the new
whose corner stone is competition and
whose watchword is Freedom 10 be
accounted nothing?
THE WHY'S AND WHEREFoRES.
The cry Of the poor goes up to God for
work. But there is 10 work. Why?
Because there is oyerproduction. Why?
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