Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-09
america from an English
Paint of View.

~ssc's" Point of View.
r,omas B. Reed of Maine deliv-
Nnn m~asterly speech in the House on
81 nuestion, he presented some in
a oniuions of British free traders
hes the prosperity of the United
rrder protection, and especially
s,acIiou affects the working people.
vortion of his speech is as follows:
Pcu hare an article in the Fortnight
lHaas wherein j. Stephen Jeans, a
msv trpe.trade writer, In December,
declares that: America has for
us enioyed an amazing degree
!, s,arity. SO much so, indeed, that, to
eloouent words of Edmund Burke,
I[aiities which in all other cases are
nishteu and raise the subject have
y ,endency to sink it. Fiction lags
ruth invention is unfruitful and
.anation cold and barren.
EsSan / read these words l recalled q
~ this House. and said how differ
Ky mon look at the same thing.
NJ il a cool-blooded Englishman
IN taking of the not unreasonable
use his very ~words-which his
Io,rmen entertain that the greatest
,Iai m the world, and probably III the
I'M history, is once again 10 be found
~ AT the feet of British industry and
unerce, declares that America has
|. many years enjoyed an amazing de
: If nrosperity. SO much so, indeed,
\, be has 70 use the words of Burke TO
! that he cannot even describe it. And
IN this very hall a member OF the
rmittee of ways and means, himself a
Irntryman of Edmund Burke, and
hose wonderful ~eloquence moved TINS
.0rhly as | never saw it moved before,
owed himself amid laughter and ap-
sue on the Democratic side, TO com
n this amazing prosperity TO a pro
rged debauch' from which the country
mn rescue itself only by the free use oil
! Wmmittee's dilution OF the orlglnal
[yerage. fLaughter.l 1t seems, some
bH. almost a dissertation to put the
Is over against the figure of speech.
Here is a little book of letters of an
itr. Mr.. Carr of the Cardiff Mail, to
wife. 1t is full of expressions of sur
[~ ever this wonderful country, 'phe-
[nensi prosperity extent and strength
the enormous interests created by the
nerican policy of protection,
f-0nIy last November, w. III. Mitchell,
English lecturer fresh from a three
|nhs visit to our country, addressed
! Textile society of Bradford, Eng,
4 was here in the interest of trade,
eDce what he had to say smacks
trade. The Importance, says
of America as a trade out
was very obvious. 1t had
100000 people who spent more
Oney on dress than any other people on
y face of the earth. Again, in spite OF
wonderful development which had
ken place, the possibilities, he might
y the certainties, of future progress
se maryelously illimitable.'
" Marvelously illimitable.' These were
very words. How the mouths of the
sItle society of Bradford must have
altered as he detailed to them the hopes
had that such fruitage would be lifted
their very lips. LLaughter.l But OF
at. by and by.
Without further quotation, unnneces,
U for this audience, for whom all that
foreigner can say is but a reminder, il
remains to ask if this prosperity
y been at the expense of the labOring
an, Of those who furnish service wheth.
Of brain or muscle. If it has been al
er expense for one / say down with it.
pc lowest depths of the Wilson bill are
y half low enough for such q civiliza'
"That, however, can hardly be so,
On the testimony itself. 'Sixty-five
lilons of people, who spend more money
lrpsg fbQn unU nfhnH nnnnlAf an aa 18th
% whose 'c~ertainties' of progress in
At direction are 'marvelously illimita,
have evidently not been sacrificed
the Moloch of accumulated wealth.
ltor Carr, already quoted, says this
RenIy IS the paradise of the working
an All the bigotry of freee trade can
wipe that out. The further my in
Eales extend says he the more ocn'
as0 become that the real truth of the
auer Is that in this country a workman
ss twice as much as he would in Eng
ua and the cost of his living, except
tne matter Of rent and clothing, is
NY the same. Even in the matter OF
aallg the difference in not great, ex'
y as II Is brought about by the general
VI much better clothing"
competitor of the American Sheen
Raisers.
.ader the Democratic idea of tariff re,
~, Inc lowest class of beings are to
Eune the competitors of the American
~ nerders and flock masters. Free
n simply means that the sheep industry
as country must surrender to the
~ husbandry of foreign countries. In
Ess peeen on the free wool feature of the
Sson OIL, Binger Hermann of Oregon
auced some statistics of much import,
winch are impressive with meaning,
saOuid be carefully considered in con,
u0n With the rio tariff