The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01

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 ests Of the country are alono safe in the hands
 or the republican party. I cannot but com-
 mend your patriotic movement.
 | You need no assurances of the devotion of l the republican party to all the material inter- | ests or the south. No one charges that in all | It's industrial legislation for third of | century past 1t overlooked Q single southern
 interest. With little aid from the south and With almost It's entire representation In both | branches of congress standing in opposition to
 the republican party, still in the stormiest
 years of sectional prejudice, moved by no other
 consideration than tho good of the whole | country the republican party has sacredly
 guarded the smallest as well us the greatest
 interests of the south.
 | Nothing affords the republicans of the north
 more pleasure than to welcome to 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.
 l Dn 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 a 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 an abolition of the du-
 tles upon sugar up to and including No. 10 | Dutch standard. Then, mindful as 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.
 Tn 1889 we paid $55 000, 900 out of our pockets | for the sugar we consumed, not merely to pro. | tect the cane planters of Louisiana, but in ef- | feet to help enrich the sugar producers of the
 world, because your product was insufficient to
 meet our entire consumption. Only about ono- | tenth of the total amount of sugar we con
 sumed was then grown in the United States, | The republican party believed that 1t was bet | ter policy to put sugar on the free list and pay
 a bounty to every sugar producer in our own
 country. In this way we paid out as bounty
 about sli, 0OO0O0 annually and saved sA o,o0
 each year to the people of this country. Repeal of the Bounty. "The democratic party in congress last Au- | gust repealed this bounty, made Q duty Of A ! per cent ad valorem, and then the house passed a supplementary bill making sugar | free, so that we are to have neither bounty nor
 tarin
 My fellow countrymen, the question of tho | tarin is business question. l do not know | how 1t may seem to you, but I 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 oi l 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 the risks of business
 men who spend their capital and energy in the | development of our resources-are in favor oi
 our protective system.
 | ""The planter, the farmer the rice grower
 the miner, the vast army ofwage-earners from | one end of the country to the other, the chief | producers of our wealth, men whose capital is | their brain and muscle, who aspire to better
 their condition and elevate themselves and
 their fellows; the young men whose future is | yet before them, and which they must carve
 out with their hands and heads, who are with
 out the aid of fortune-these are steadfast al. | lies in the great contest for the preservation ] of the American system.
 All Industries Interdependent. "One of the great lessons of history which is | especially pertinent to your people is that | agriculture cannot rise to its highest perfec- | ton and reach its fullest development without | the aid 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 nc antagonlsm between them They are interde- | pendent and are indispensable to each other | Whatever enfeebles one Is certain to cripple | the rest.
 Washington. in his annual address to con- | gress in 1796 referred to a former and success | full endeavor to encourage agricultural prog i ress and diversity in industry, and emphasized | his views by declaring the object of too much | consequence not to receive continuance of
 their efforts in every way that shall appear | eligible
 President Jefferson wrote, in 1916, that he | who is now against domestic manufactures ! must be for reducing us either to a dependence on Great Britain, or be clothed fin skins and | live like wild beasts in dens and caverns.' Tn his fourth message John Quincy Adams said that the great interests of an agricultur- al commercial and manufacturing nation are so locked in union together that no permanent cause Of prosperity to one of them can operate
 without extending its influence to all the | others President Monroe, in his inaugural address | in lsl7 said: Possessing as we do all the raw materials, fruit of our own soil and industry, we 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 difncultles.'
 Jackson, in 1923, declared that upon the success of our manufactures, as the handmaid
 
 great measure the independence of our coun- try Good Advice in Bygone Years.
 What was true seventy-one years ago Is true to- day, and the words of the hero of New Or leans are as applicable to the present situation as the time In which he lived Let us accept the advice of the fathers of the republic Let us heed their patriotic counsels and walk stead. fastly in their faith. Let us preserve the mutual helpfulness and harmony of the indus. tries Let US maintain our independence-na- tional, industrial. indivdual-against all thu | world, and thus advance to the destiny thai awaits upon us and our prosperity
 Tn the truthful words of a true American who spoke as a seer and prophet forty years ago, we may still declare that industry has It's campaigns and it's battlehelds, and is not vel beyond the need of entrenchments and fortih- | cations. God grant.us the wisdom and virtue to press forward on the shining path thus opened plainly before us to the end that our labor may be fully employed and fairly recom- pensed. and that age after age may witness the rapid yet substantial progress and growth of our people in all the arts of peace, all the elements of national well-being"
 Well Named.