The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-04-18

farmers were assured by democratic
orators and democratic newspapers
that if they would turn in and cleo,
Cleveland and democratic congress
they would shortly have prosperity
on scale never before equaled--.
prices for all farm products would al
once adyancestovaxhigh figure, and
all ire farmer k lNS buy would 60
correspondingly low; that the "great
markets of the world" would be open
ed up for American farm products.
What is the situation today? Are
the "markets of the world" tumbling
over leach other" to purchase our
farm products? These are questions
the American farmers are asking
themselves. The farmer takes no
stock in the utterances of democrats
that the country had gone to the dogs
under republican rule and that they
are the receivers appointed by the
great tribunal, the people, to
straighten out the tangled affairs.
Next year the farmers will have an
opportunity to show their disappro-
val of democratic methods, they will
vote with the old party that favors
building up large manufacturing
plants that employ an army Of men
to eat up the surplus Of the farm,
and have the money to pay for it.
They now realize that the trade of
one American workingman is worth
more to this country than that Of five
hundred breech- clouted Hottentots.
The best market is the home market,
and the less freight you have to pay.
The value of protection is aptly put
by Eli Perkins: When [ travelled in
Canada, twenty years ago, it was a
great reservoir of raw materials with
hardly the vestige of mandatory.
At that time she bad not made
reaper, locomotive, organ, piano,
railroad Car, felt hat, rubber shoe or
a piece of broadcloth. She made
little cotton cloth and knit few
shirts and stockings. She had reci-
procity with the United States, and
we bought her raw materials and paid
for them in manufactured goods.
What made the change?
John Mcdonald, the Mckinley of
Canada, threw up reciprocity, put a
protective tariff on all these manu-
featured goods and moved the manu-
factories into Canada. Two cents on
cotton built up twenty big cotton
factories like the one at St. Catherine
and Thorold. Protection made Troy
move stove factories to Toronto and
set 700 men to making organs at
Bowmanville. Protection started
furniture factories all over the Do
minion, made locomotive works in
Toronto, and car shops that rival
Pullman in Montreal. Protection
captured industry after industry as
protection captured pottery, nails,
glass, tin and iron in the United
States. Still they lacked pig iron.
They believed they had ore beds but
capital was timid. Now they have
put 81 ton tariff on pig iron, and
a $50. tariff on bar iron, and ore beds
begin to open up and steel works are
starting. But there is a free trade
party in Canada called the liberals
who want the tariff taken off. They
say: eff we buy these things in the
United States they will cost less
money" They forget that if they
buy them in the United States their
own factories will be idle and that we
will have their money and they will
have their idle men. The John
Mcdonald Mckinley policy will al ]
ways make prosperity. It will al
ways make big wages, keep money at
home and keep the boys at work.
Canada is smart,