St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-13

and the beauty OF 1t was that
it was something like 100000. 000
larger in exports than in imports. You
all know what that means. 1t means
that we are selling abroad more than
We are buying from abroad. There Is
not a 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 valHe'
of what he buys in town and takes
home.
THAT Is not all. Everybody knows
that everybody was busy. Everybody
knows that every mill was running,
The comforts of life, as distributed
among our people, were greater than
ever before. But wheat was low, and
some Of our farmers
Became Disconnected.
Some one told me of a Democratic
orator in Missouri who appealed to the
farmers whether they had ever known
a time before when 1t took four bushels
of wheat to shoe horse. But now
what do we see? Wheat has not appre-
ciated, but has gone lower than ever
before in the memory of any farmer
who hears me. 1t has been hard 10 get
enough OF 1t i'll the shape Of flour some
times i'll the home of the wOrklngman,
but it has been so cheap that it has in
some places gone into the hog trough.
said some years ago that the American
workingman had The most favored lot
Of any wOrkingman in the world, and
that this was evidenced by the fact that
the gates of Castle Garden always swing
inward to the wOrkingmen seeking
our shore. The wOrkingman knows the
land OF promise as we'll as the
swallow knows the land of summer. l
could not say that today, because the
gates of Castle Garden have been swing
ing outward. We do not need anybody
here who thinks he knows Of better
place, and l am glad that to such the
gates have swung outward. 1t is i'm
possible that there should be profitable
employment for labor when the owner
of the mill would Just as soon shut down
as not. Now, what brought the present
condition about? 1t is important to
know, because the party OF the policy
that brought it about, that is re.
sponsible for bringing il about. carries
fearful weight of responsibility. Was
anybody foolish enough to suppose that
We could change the tariff policy Of this
country from the Mckinley bill to a
bill framed upou the lines of the Chi
cago platform without disaster? l can
s.e how some sanguine professor might
insist tnat we could get out of the rough
water after awhile; that there was a
very smooth and calm sea beyond, but
cannot see how even a half-witted man
could suppose for one moment that we
could pass from the protective policy of
the Republican party to law OIL the
lines OF the Chicago platform without a
convulson in business. The choice of
congress pledged TO put that platform
into legislation introduced an element
of uncertainty that made it impossible
for any manufacturer or merchant TO
go on with his work, if he gave the
Democratic party any credit for SINGER
lty. In August last year ago congress
assembled. and after dealing with the
Sherman bill organized the committee of
ways and means of the house of repre-
sentatives and charged it with the duty
OF having a tariff bill ready for action
at the regular session, and the promise
was made that it would be rushed
through and speedily put into law.
Instead of getting a bill speedily through
this condition OF uncertainty and dis
treSS was prolonged throughout whole
year, anj August of '94 came around
before our Democratic friends had
passed bill. And then they passed a
bill which, according to the judgment Of
MIR. Cleveland, was i'll its provisions so
unlike Democratic promises, so full of
party perfdy and diShonor that he
would not attach his name to it.
1.-The Democratic party owed it to this
country, if it would maintain its COM
potency to deal with such questions, to
pass a bill speedily, and, secondly, to
pass bill that when passed they would
stand by. If the Democratic party had
had consistency in their platform dec
laratlons; ii the country could have
known what they were likely to do, all
this uncertainty would have been di-
mlnlshed, but the trouble about it all was
that there was no conference of belief
among them and nobody could tell what
they might do.
A Canard Rehashed.
''These gentlemen tell you that they
want to break down the fences; that is
what Mr.. Wilson told his English
friends the other day, that he was en-
gagged in tearing down fences. Now
fences are for two purposes. 1 was
raised OH farm and have had some
experience. They are to keep things
out or to keep them in, one or the
other. The fence around the corn field
is to keep stock out, the fence around
the pasture is 10 keep stock in. What
does tearing them down imply? That
all of this range stock outside will get
into our pastures, and that our cattle
will share the range with them. l start
with this proposition, that there is not
enough grass on the range for the cat
tie that are there already. l make
this second proposition, that the grass
inside our fences was better and
the cattle slicker and better in
bone and richer in condition than those
out Oh the range. If we equaiiZe these
things and let these wild, horned and
hungry stock from the range into oul
enclosed fields, we won't have as much
grass for our own stock as we had be-
fore. They talk to us about wanting
more foreign markets. In the tariff bill
OF 1890 we introduced reciprocity pol.
icy, securing markets of enormous
present value to the farmers and man
ufacturers of this country, ard Of a
possible value that can hardly be calcu.
lated, and we had these markets without
endangering the wages of any American
workingman. By putting sugar on the
free list we saved every farmer sub
stantial sum every year in the price he
paid for sugar. Countries like Cuba and
Brazil and the Central American states
gave to us either free entrance or a re.
duced rate for many of our manufact.
ures and other products.
1.-The Democratic party in its mad de-
sire for tariff reform and for what they
call increased foreign trade has struck
down every one of the reciprocity
treaties. What is the result? Spain
has done as we might have expected
imposed the old duty Oh flour to Cuba
When a Logansport firm here in In
diana sent 10000 barrels of flour to New
York the other day for Cuba. the com-
mission merchants in New York sent
back word that they could not send it
and that it would have to be sold in
New York at loss. Minneapolis mill
ers also sent their -four with the same
result. The enormous market opened
without cost, a market which
no other country shared, has
been ruthlessly stricken down by
the party which says it is looking to en- Z
large our share in the markets of the
world. After years of the hardest
fighting and hegotiation-and great