The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-05
STRONGLY ARRAIGNED.
Senator Dolph's Vigorous Condemnation
of Free Trade.

senator DOiphs vigorous Conueuhation
of Free Trade.
''The men who are constantly en-
deavoring to make the agricultural and
laboring classes dissatisfied with their
condition. and who seek to array them
against the manufacturing and wealthy
classes, are not the true friends of the
farmer and laboring man. There will
not be in this country general dis
tribution of the wealth of the country
per capita. The government is never
going to issue money for gratuitous
distribution. There will never come a
day when wealth will cease to be the
product of labor usefully employed.
The prosperity of every class of our cit
liens is intimately connected with the
prosperity of every other class. blow
aimed at the manufacturing classes
will fall heaviest upon the agricultural
and laboring classes. Ny sympathies
are with the great army of laborers A
considerable portion of my life has been
spent upon the farm and at hard man.
ual labor. All that have or have ac-
complished is the result of hard work
7 have no use for man who despises
labor and will not work.
1.-THE two stock arguments made by
the advocates of free trade are: First,
that of unrestricted trade, the right to
buy where we can the cheapest; and
second, the securing of wider market
for our exports. | have, on several oc-
casions, discussed these propositions at
length in the senate and shown their
fallacy, and l do not care at this time
to repeat what l have heretofore said.
1t is sufficient to say that to buy where
we can buy cheapest-that is, to buy
goods abroad for home consumption
with the privilege of bringing them
into this country free of duty-is for
consumers in this country to avail
themselves of the poorly paid labor OF
Europe and the pauper labor of Asia;
to prefer the welfare of foreign manu-
facturers and foreign laborers to our
own; to stop the manufacture of things
we need in this country and to depend
upon foreign countries for them; to
take employment from our own people
to give it to the foreigners: to reduce
the standard of wages in this country
to the standard of wages in other coun-
tries
Let those who wish advocate the in
terests of England, of China, of India,
and prefer the welfare of foreign labor
ers to that of American citizens For
myself, prefer the interests of my own
country to those of any foreign nation,
and the welfare of American citizens to
that of the pauper class of Europe, the
ryots of India. the coolies of China. |
want nothing l consume land no true
American does) cheaper than it will be
manufactured under sharp competition,
consistent with fair returns to capital
and fair wages to labor, by nation of
sixty-seven million OF people, the freest.
most enlightened and most energetic in
the world
Free trade does not mean that Gus
tom houses are to be abolished and no
revenue collected by duties on imports,
but it means tariff system similar to
that maintained by Great BrItain-a
system of tariff for revenue only-du-
ties laid upon articles which do not
come into competition with domestic
productions, and the free admissions of
articles which do come into competition
with articles of domestic production.
1t means, first. that goods manufac-
tured in foreign countries shall be adj
mitted into this country free of duty if
the condition of the revenues admits of
II. 1t means that the half-starved, IN
derpaid and unemployed millions of
Europe shall be given work which I'M
der protective tariff would be done
by American laborers. enabling these
American laborers to live comfortably,
to educate their children and be-
come independent 1t means that the
pauper laborer OF India and China shall
be brought into direct competition
with American worhingmen. 1t means
either the closing of our mills and fac
tories or that the return for capital in
vested in manufacturing Industries
shall be reduced to the rate OF interest
in the old countries. and that the wages
of our workingmen shall be reduced to
the starvation wages of laborers on the
eastern hemisphere. In word, 1t
means leveling down in this country
of the condition of American laborers
to that of the ignorant, half-starvcd,
half-clothed masses of the countries of
Europe and Asia 1t means that the
wheels of progress shall stop; that the
development of our resources shall
cease: that the prosperity we have en-
joyed under republican rule shall be
destroyed.
eff some evil genius, determined to
blast and destroy the Pacific coast. had
presided over and controlled the
house committee of ways and
means. no more certain and speedy
scheme could have been devised
for that purpose than the bill re-
ported by the committee to the house.
The people of that portion of the union
west of the Rocky mountains are al
most entirely engaged in agriculture.
numbering and mining. Manufactures
are in their infancy and, as yet, COM
paratively unimportant: wheat grow
ing, wool-growing, the raising OF cattle
and horses. fruit raising, hop growing,
fishing. lum bering and mining are the
principal industries. Every one of
these industries will be stricken down
and destroyed or made Improbable by
the passage of the Wilson bill Sen
ator Dolph's Speech.
REED ON THE NEW TARIFF GILL.
The Maine Statesman VIII vigorously
ha+ rho CeIIar f-nnsniracy