The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-10-18

he has not been talking effectually. This
as the free trade side Is concerned, in this
generation. The Democrats have not been
able to put into law their view until WITHIN
exercised themselves in PLATFORM declafa-
lions and in oratory One would think they
might have been consistent II tneT ,, paaI'
forms, but that is not true. Some Demo
cratic platforms distinctly recognized the
force and effect of tariff legislation upon
American interests and american erica WAVES aG;nx
that would protect these, but then again
there appeared declaration IN ia 70 Oh
tariff for revenue only policy e wnlcn c oIr
league in the senate, Mr.. Voorhees,, declared
in a letter to Bayless Hama to be sreap
nonsense.
the country has endowed the Democratic
party with power to deal with this question.
For the first time there has been as 4Sa
Democratic party. There came time when
the Democratic party must stop mak fn
platforms and begin making laws. 1T a may ~
what Condition they found the country IN
when they assumed this responsibility.
tables or statistics or historical treaties to
solve that question. Our appeal IS 70 tne IN
dividual memory and to the 1ndlv1dual eA-
In our responsible government the country
was in the s
Highest State of Prosperity.
sour foreign trade was larger than 1t had
ever been in the history OF this country, anu
the beauty of it was that 1T was somethlng
imports You all realize what that means;
it means that we were selling abroad more
than we were buying from abroad mere
is not q farmer here who does not know
that he tests the question as to whether he
has prospered on his farm by casting the
balance between the value Of what he
brings to town to sell and the value OF Wnat
he buys In town and takes nome.
'"That is not all. Everybody Knows t tnat
everybody was busy. Everybody knows thas
every mill was running. Inc comforts VI
greater than ever before. But Wheat was
low and some Of our farmers became as
contented. Some one told me OF D oe o.
the farmers whether they had ever known 9
time before when. it took four bushels OF
wheat to shoe horse. But what 40 we
has gone lower than ever before IN, the ne
memory of any farmer who. hears me. 1t
has been hard to get enough Of 1t IN the
shape OF flour b e has been nns So CHEAP
it has in some places gone Into the hog
trough. I said some years ago that tne
American workingman had the most favored
lot Of any workingman, in the world, ana
that this was evidenced by the fact that
| the gates Of Castle Garden always swing
inward to the Workingmen se tha isnd our ~
| promise as we'll as the swallow KNOWS oNSt t 4
| land of summer. could not say taat TO
day, because the gates OF Castle Garde a,
| have been swinging outward. We DO moi
need anybody here who thinks that ne
knows of better place, and am glad tina
to such the gates have sM ng % nrotab'
employment for labor when the owner o.
the mill would just as soon shut GOWN al
"Now what brought the present condition
about? It is important to know, because tn
party or the policy that brought it about
that is responsible for bringing 1t an i12tIt
Carries frf 4ao Wese5 0i to suppo
that we could change the tariff policy o
this country from the Mckinley bill to bil
framed upon the lines of the Chlcaso pat
form
without Disaster?
1T can see how some sanguine professor
might insist that we could get out Of tn
rough water after awhile; that there was :
very smooth and calm sea beyond, but
cannot see how even half,Wltted MAJ
pass from the protective policy of the Re
publican party to law on the lines of tn
Chicago platform without a CONFUSION II
to nut that platform into legislation intro
duced an element Of uncertainty that mad
it impossible for any manufacturer or mer
s GO de p party any Credit for
cerity In August last a year ago congress
assembled, and after dealing with the Sher
and means na: 81 the house Of representative
and charged it with the euty Of having
tariff bill ready for action at the regula
session, and the promise e was mace n 1na5
put into law. Instead Of getting a bill
speedily through, this condition of uncel
tainty and distress was prolonged through
1,olo nd no
around before our Democratic friends ha
passed BILL. And then they passed a bi
which, according to the judgment Of MI NJ.
so unlike Democratic promises, so full OF
, Party Perfidy and Dishonor
that he would not attach his name to i
The Democratic party owed it to this cou1
! try if it would maintain it's competency
deal with such questions, to pass bi
Wsen Sassed they Would BY on
,, Democratic party had had consistency !
+ their platform of declarations; if the cou,
try could have what they were Hase ke
diminished, but the trouble about. It a
5 was that there was no coherence Of belle
) among them, and nobody could tell whs
'These gentlemen now tell you that the
D want to break down the fence; that Is whs
: Mr.. Wilson told his English friends the oil
: fences. Now, fences are for two purpose
+ I was raised on a farm and have had SON
0 experience. They are to keep things Q,
: or to keep them in. one or the other. TT
: fence around the corntield is to keep stoe(
J. out, the fence around the pasture is
6 keep stock in. What does tearing the
: down imply? That all of this range stoc
r outside will get into our pastures and tn.
: our, cattle will share the range with ther
!, I start with this proposition, that there
b not enough grass on the range for the ca
!. tie that are out there already. I make tn
! second proposition, that the grass insit
q our fences is better and the cattle slick
u and better in bone and richer in conditit
e than these out on the range. II we equali
e these things and let these wild horned III
e hungry stock from the range into our e
e closed fields we won't have as much era
for our own stock as we had before Thu
talk to us about wanting more foreign ma
+ kets. In the tariff bill of 1890 we intr
r duced
d A Reciprocity Policy,
!, securing markets Of enormous pre- sent val
y to the farmers and manufacturers Of tt
y country and of possible value that c.
II hardly be calculated, and we had these ms
= kets without endangering the wages of a,
= American workingman.. BY putting sug
l. J. on the free list we saved every farmer