The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-14

do not use the power of the ballot which we
possess, to subserve our own best interests
then we do not use the ballot to the best
advantage.
country by decreasing the value of our money
and making believe that 90 cents worth of
silver is dollar. The only way to i'm
prove our condition is to increase business.
Let US do our own manufacturing. Let us
do our own mining. let us preserve our own
home market-the best market in the world
Let us dedicate ourselves as patriots to the
American people. l believe in a tariff, and il
we ever needed a tariff in the world. we need
1t now. We want to stop borrowing. And we
want to stop having things charged at our
stores. And the only reason we ever had
anything charged up against us at the stores
is because we have no work. Now, what
we want in this country is a restoration of
confidence, of credit, the continuance of an I'M
questioned dollar, and then we want to adopt
an Industrial policy that will raise enough
money to pay the expenses of this govern
ment every day. And, In doing this, we will
protect American industries and defend Amer
lean labor.
/ believe it is the duty of this government
to encourage its own people, and to pass
such laws as will give to them the largest
opportunity to improve their condition, the
highest scale of wages and the greatest en-
enlargement to their skill and their labor.
We have in this country more free trade
than in any other country Of the world, but
it is free trade among ourselves. (Applause.)
With forty-hve states and 20 COO, 900 people,
we are constantly VlelnS WIN eaCh 0tAef IN
every section of common country for
the promotion of the highest interests of our
respective populations. We believe in free
trade in the United States in the same sense
that we believe in the equal and reciprocal
obligations which belong to every family.
We are only great national family. We
trade with each other with absolute freedom
and without restraint and engage in free and
unresentful rivalry in all the occupations
employments and industries of our people.
The triumph of one section is the triumph
of the others, all working together for the
general good.
When we have free trade with other coun-
tries it should be in those products which
we cannot produce ourselves, and which
we must have and in exchange for which
those countries Will take the products that
we make and grow and we should put a
duty on those foreign products that COM
pete with American products, sufficient not
only to supply enough revenue for the uses
of the government, but sufficient to protect
! the American people in their own occupations
against the products Of the cheaper and IN
derpaid Labor of. the. world. That seems. to
me to be the dictates Of an enlightened
patriotism, and 1t Is certainly one of the
great fundamental doctrines of the Repub-
lican party, and why should it not be so,
my fellow citizens? We are one nation; we
have one constitution, one flag; we have a
common destiny. The other nations Of the
world have their separate and Independent
political organization for the purpose of
working out for themselves the highest des-
tiny possible. They owe no allegiance to this
support, either in war or in peace, and If
| they want to come into. this country and
compete with our people, we say to them
You can do 1t upon condition that a tariff
shall be put upon your products, and that
tariff viii go toward sustaining the govern
ment, and at the same time will be defense
to our own labor and producers. That is the
whole doctrine of the tariff. If we ever
needed it, we need it now.
Which would you rather have for your
wages, the money with purchasing power
~ nj hA Ar11
limited in its purchasing power to a single
country or a single state? Would the farmer
prefer in payment of his products money
recognized good and equal the world over or
money whose value and purchasing power
is limited to one country? The thing called
money, and which we give our labor and
our products for is more valuable to us If
1t is good, not somewhere only, but every
where-not in one place, but every place.
has money, much little, to feel all the
time that its value cannot be affected by
hard times or deprecated in his hands BY
panic, but that rests all the while upon solid
and Interchangeable value recognized the world
over. Money does not depend upon what
we call tit depends upon its value When
you have earned 500 you want to feel that
you are worth $1O0. and that it will not be
diminished in day OF week or a month
or depreciate while it is in your hands or
when it goes out Of your hands. That Is
the kind of money we have in this country
now. The best money known to the civilized
countries of the world. 1t is to the interest
OF every workingman: it is to the interest Of
every citizen of the country, no matter what
may be his business, Co maintain that money
at its present standard.