River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-18

couldn't get anything for orr labor with wulch
20 buy them. The most prosperous country in
the world is the country that pays good wages,
There are lust two ways to maintain the
American work shop for the American working
man, TO preserve the American market for the
American producer. one way Is to put The tariff
The foreign product that completes with our
own high enough to discourage the foreign i'm
1rtation, and encourage home production. ZAP
p;ause.) That is the Republican way. The other
way 70 do ii. and II viii accomplish the same
thing, is to reduce the wages Of labor so low in
this country that no other country can manu-
facture as cheapiy as we can iAughteF9 In
thar way we tan keep the whole world out.
That is the Democratic, British, free trade, rev
Now I don't know what you think about II here
in Milwaukee. but | would ten thousand times
10 get into this country than to make ii harder
for the American citizen to live In this country.
4 voice: THAT is the way we think in
We ear i'm pd hnTe etoTy On pe etb
day o November. tApplausel
zens~af course II has-that the more work
there is the better the wages? That the more
labor. ana that the less employment there is
the lower the wages ~ labor. That when there
is one days work aud two men 10 do II.
neither Of them get as good wages as though
there were two days work and only
10 do IT. Free trade gives the days work
the benefit Of our own people. tApplause)
MIR. Villas Political Economy.
but they Thy hay" Senl, reduced v, nc
dnty, 30 my new lesson " ol,,i iaS
economy. lie says that free trade really in
read from his speech Of Sept. d, 1891. delivered
before the Democratic state convention at
Mflwautee-sWhat dismal prophecies have the
poIitic wool growers been wont 10 give us.
How they have Wanted the necessity Of protee-
tion to secure a price. Yet when did the
kinley bill And IaS having passed the law Of
far daVS az he psy
Sow have been taught by Democratic
orators and by Democratic political economists
that tariff tax, and that when we
took It on from an article i eheapened IL;
gone ~ in price since II has been made free,
then free trade is tax ana not the tariff
,be rolitlcat economy Of the Democratic Marty:
and II that be really true that when they have
priee' Mat becomes IL their theory that - free
raw material cheapens the raw material to
nets that they might 90 OUT and capture the
worlds markefs2 II Is most remarkable
liz price and pnftinc the tarln on sugar sends
down its price. u.aughter9
some Tariff inequalities.
''Bg. what duties lave they reduced for the
benefit Of the poor laheflng men q me country
npon the American people. Now let US see what
burdens they have rolled away from the shout
iers the American people. tieF nave reduced
ne tarin based on the uiportatioHs Of last year,
IN leaf tobacco and Havana cigars; necessities
10 every household aaughterl, - .434oy5 They
ave reduced the tariff liquors more than
81 30. 90. We put tariff Of y % upon French
arsnily by the law IL 1890 for The benefit Of the
sarmers II the country. They have reduced IL to
81 50 daughter.) They have resiaeed the tarin
IN laees ami embroideries, based upon the I'm
goods. plushes. velsets etc. s.. 7eO. 900. Nov
1T lowers and Poo fgf ts e. ooo On Pan
as and statnary. x4S2 oo0. The poor Of this
country, the plain people OF this country. the