Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-11-01


interests OF the south.
Nothing affords the republicans Of the north
more pleasure than TO welcome 70 fellowship
this great body OF representative American
citizens who propose henceforth to stand up
for American interests, not in one, but In all
sections Of our beloved country.
On the sugar Topic.
you will expect me to refer to your chief In
dustry the production Of sugar In the Fifty
first congress. the committee on ways and
means, seeking to frame law on the principles
Of protection, wishing on the one hand to give
the people free and cheap sugar, and desiring
on the other hand to do no harm to your chief
industry, recommended On abolition OF the du-
ties upon sugar up to and including No. 10
Dutch standard. Then, mindful az the repub-
lican party has ever been Of our own indus
tries, the committee gave to you two cents
upon every pound Of sugar produced In this
state and throughout the country sum equal
TO the duty then imposed upon foreign sugar
imported into the United States We thus gave
the people free and cheap sugar and at the
same time we gave to your producers with
their invested capital, complete and absolute
protection against the sugar produced BY the
cheaper labor Of other countries
IN 1880 we paid eb5 90, 900 out Of our pockets
for the sugar we consumed, not merely to pro-
tect the cane planters OF Louisiana. but In Of
feet to help enrich the sugar producers OF the
world, because your product was insufficient to
meet our entire consumption Only about one
tenth OF the total amount Of sugar we con-
sumed was then grown In the United Statea
The republican party believed that 1t was bet
ter policy 10 put sugar on the free list and pay
bounty 10 every sugar producer In our own
country. In this way we paid out as bounty
about I'll. 900 900 annually ind saved SA.00 700
each year 10 the people Of this country,
Repeal OF tho Bounty.
The democratic party In congress last A.
gust repealed this bounty, made duty OF "
per cent, I'D vslorem, and then the house
passed Q supplementary bill making sugar
FREQ 20 that we ore to have neither bounty nor
tarif.
my fellow countrymen, the question Of the
tariff 10 o business question. do not know
how II may seem to you, but | would rather
have my political economy founded upon the
everyday experience Of the planter and the
manufacturer and the tradesman than on the
learning Of the professor on the experience Of
the farmer, the mechanic, the factory hand
than on the theories Of the college faculty.
Men whose capital Is invested In productive
enterprises, who take tho risks Of business
men who spend their capital and energy In the
development Of our resources-ars In favor Of
our protective system
THE planter, the farmer, the rice grower
the miner, the vast army OF wage-earners from
one end Of the country TO the other, the chief
producers Of our wealth, men whose capital 10
their brain and muscle, who aspire to better
their condition and elevate themselves and
their fellows; the young mon whose future Is
yet before them, and which they must carve
out with their hands and heads, who are With
out the old Of fortune these are steadfast OIL.
lies in the great contest for the preservation
Of the American system,
All Industries lnterdependent,
''One Of the great lessons Of history which Is
especially pertinent to your people Is that
agriculture cannot rise to Its highest perfec-
tlon and reach its fullest development without
the old OF commerce, manufacture and the me-
chanical arts, All are essential to the healthy
growth and advancement Of one another The
progress OF one insures the prosperity OF the
other. There are no conflicts, there should be no
antagonlsm between them. d They are irterdo-
pendent and are Indispensable to each other
Whatever enteebes one Is certain 10 cripple
the rest
washington, In his annual address to con-
gress In 1925, referred to a former and success
full endeayor to encourage agricultural prog
ross and diversity IN industry, and emphasized
his views BY declaring tho object Of too much
consequence not to receive q continuance Of
their efforts in every way that shall appear
eligible
president Jefferson wrote in 1915, that he
who Is now against domestic manufactures
must DO for reducing us either to dependence
on Great Britain, or DO clothed In skins and
1.-Two like wild beasts In deps and cayerns.'
IN his fourth message John Quincy Adams
said that the great interests Of On agrlcultur-
al, commercial and manufacturing nation ore
SO locked In union together that no permanent
cause Of prosperity TO one Of them can operate
without extending its influence 10 oil the
others
president Monroe, In his inaugural address
In 1877, said. Possessing as we do all the raw
materials fruit OF our own soil and industry,
wo ought not to depend upon supplies from
other countries While We are thus dependent
the sudden event Of war, unsought and unex-
pected cannot fail to plunge US into the most
serious difficulties
jackson, in 1898, declared that upon the
success of our manufactures, az the handmade
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