The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-09-14


reason why a policy should be abandoned
produced ares result of this Character. A mas
1t has been said, my fellow citizens, that
the manufacture of iron marks the pros
lection the product Of MANUFACTURED iron
consumed here, but but tha{ which has been BEEN
exported.
IN 1880 the imports of iron and steel was
the exports were $4,000, 600 IN 1890 the i'm
ports risen to So, Ooo,0 900 In 1898, the fiscal
year Of 1897 the imports sank to $12 900 900
| and the exports amounted to So 900.
| eighteen years under the republican policy
| Of protection, the figures were exactly
600 and the exports were $14, ooc 900, and in
1893 the exports were 900 and the
Imports had n mounted tied. to $40 CAP
| means that during that time the Euro
pean, the English and Belgian laboring
man at the beginning instead of the
American laboring man was doing this
manufacturing man fac work , then, and 1t means
eGT ehat at the the Of period
is doing his own work and receiving his
own wages to supply I not only the American
I spoke few moments ago. (Applause.)
Protection indicated.
| Now think my Fellow citizens, I have
| said quite enough, for / have wearied your
patience upon. this branch of the eco
nomical questions which for more than
What sy is Rag the
| policy of protection has received its COM
plete vindication; that the American peo-
| ton of all its benefits The results which
I have indicated can be traced just as
| statutory policy of the republican party
as if it had been a great creative operation
Of Mature and if the feRsDfan party
any historian of any way of thinking who
would sit down to write impartially its
| policy of the republican party persisted in
from the very day of its birth until the
day of its death had produced exactly the
| results which 1 have described, namely
perity to 100000 Of people:
from our minds the great struggle of two
years ago on the so-called money question
Here FL, in St Paul and everywhere through
and 1 think If remember It was during
democratic administration. any man
corner and open his mouth and begin
,ttoo talk about ut IT, to / and ne would
b aG GrDwd Gd Of 9
! patient of contradiction, dogmatic in state
ment and at the, same time candor COM
! more thoroughly and better argued than
the gentlemen who maintained that the
Throughout the United States. ''' 0'O'e
m MITES to . thsm - vas sSbly ara eshaus
can people. settle questions of that kind
very speedily, and they have settled that
ef Let us speak Of this dead issue, not
with regret: but with as little bitterness
cole desd of IS Silence Let the dead
| far as its own mourners are concerned.
| naughter) 1t cannot under present con,
grounds, it cannot upon the light Of en-, en-
! lightened selfishness created by the con-
1g b andef y which and vt ss gs AND
How wonderfully nature intervenes from
her prolific and beneficent resources. to
all this was in agitation the frozen gold of
the Kiondike was brought gg;ht upon the world,
50 that Of the United States, until dur
ing the fiscal year Just ended the ssop6 r roc ESS
| whereas, when this agitation began it was
close on to Co and nd no Is more Ma
always. and in this case one of the most
| efficacious influences to put to naught even
| for the so-called double standard, which
was really silver mono-me talliSm, has been
settled by the interposition of nature her
| My fellow citizens, not only has the bal
ance of trade become enormously in our
other sources. We have ceased to be a
debtor nation, not only by reason of the
T he s ieen secur which
to us to pay the, balances, in our, favor.
| The outflow of gold from the country has
ceased, and by the processes which have
indicated the inflow of gold, has begun,
l obtained the treasurer's statement Of
Sept. 2. 1898, showing the amount of gold
that has come back into. this country and
! is in the banks and private houses. On
| Sept. the gold in the treasury was $219,-
s2o,S72 The highest point before was in
raon Ssng and the oMes
was, in January, 1895, during Mr.. .Cleye-
gold old than it ever held in the palmiest
It Come S from It hasn dropped from the
heavens Nobody has given 1t to us But
eSp ebor
only grasped the markets of, the world and
redeemed the securities held by the old
world which We're, formerly used to drain
bankruptcy. Does any man in this audi
eeeed IN OF William npen
the principles for which he stood and rep
such results as those I have been describ,
ing would have been brought to pass? The
Of ge ee results Of aT fDm the
i
| largely to produce the distress Immediate
| ly preceding his defeat and the hope which
| caused the people to arise in united males
ty to new efforts of industry. and patriot
ism created by the election Of Mr.: MeKin-
did. contributed powerfully to bring about
the state Of affairs | have been endeavor-
Is there any man in this audience. what
| and 1 will grant they may be theoretically
as opposite to those that l have been sup
| porting tonight as the heavens are from
| the earth. is there any man In this audi
ence, that, soberly and deliberately, in the
| light of his own interests, would wish to
! change the condition of things so assured
| and SO beneficient unless he was perfectly
| sure that he could give something as good
| or better in return? And when you ask
| them what they have got to give. why
| this great and radical change should be
made by the American people after all
| their experience of joy and sorrow and
| sorrow and joy, with the alienation of
| conflicting politics. when you ask him
| what he has got to give in return it is 16
| to l. 1t is the iniquities of the protective
system. and that is all.