The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-02

great aHU rirN lncrcuv. TIL" gentleman
from lltnui> (};r. 81 .cfJ has noticed
tnat men t,:.e here and he docs not
want ti"'ln to com D: hence Ur /, willing
tn It oar wages ~.tHll he lowered t. lr -
people away. We'll, this - MT the time
to discuss llpmI-rHtIun. but while people
are coming, | am glal they have not
yet lmblD4d tn" gentleman ideas and
have not yet begun to ClalnOr for lower
Wages.
To sum Ii mp, if this protection gives
Us money ami men, and our vast coun-
try needs lUth, It may show why we
have so Wonderfully proSpered. If it
does. am inclined to think that the
way to have two jobs hunting one man
- 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: We'll, on that subject do not pro-
tess any spe, ial learning, but there is
one simple statement | wish to make,
and leave the question there. If, with
cities growing up like magic, manufaC-
turing villages dotting every eligible
site. e,'ch and al swarming with mouths
worse off than when hllf this
country was a desert, l abandon
sense in favor of political
economy One other thing | have no
ticed 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
oHI fn
others add. Example is richer than
precept.
Ii the hope of agriculturists is in
English free trade, they had better pom
der on the fact that while the wages of
artisans have increased in England 81. .43
per week since 1850. the wages of the
agricultural laborers have increased
only - cents. and while the Lancashire
operatives in the factories live as we'll AS
anybody except Americans, the agricul-
tural laborers are no better than the
continental p"asantry.
EnSland's Example viii Not Do
for agriculture here. Let me meet one
other question, and let me meet it
talrIy We are charged with having
claimed that. the t riff alone will, raise
wages. We have never made such a
claim i'll any such 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 equally SO, and one can get
her la or at one half less, nothing but
tariff could maintain the higher
wages, and that we can prove.
We are the only rival that Eng
land fears, for we alone have with
i'll our borders the population and wages,
the raw material, and within ourselves
the great market which assures to us
the most improved machinery. Our
constant power to increase our wages
assures us also continued progress. If
you wish us to foilow the example of
Eng. and, l 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.
and then we may take our chan"es for a
future which by that time will not be
unknown.
Nobody knows 50 well as do how
much | have failed to present even my
own comprehension of the great argu-
ment which should control this vote. |
have said not word of the great fall of
prices which has come from the compe-
tltion Of the whole world. rendered DOS
sible by protection and substituted for
the competition of n single island.
have said not Il word of the great differ
ence between the attitude OF EMPLOYERS
who find their own workmen their best
customers in their own land and who
are therefore
Moved by Their Own Best Interests
to give their workmen fair wages, aud
those who sell abroad and are therst tore