The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-29
REPLIES TO MIR. TRUEMAN.
 (Communicated)

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 As W. Trueman admits that under | consumption and not oyer production was the real trouble of the last season of hard times experienced, it Is useless td prolong the argument about over-pro- duction.
 I take issue with him in his argument on buying goods where you can buy them the cheapest that seems to be good economy, but it is not, it is taking the narrow view of things, leaving out the larger ones. The fact is that that policy would close America's protected factories, then when our market was i'll the hands of the foreigners human na- ture would assert itself, and prices would advance to not only the protected price, but to the point of what the pub lie would stand; if the higher prices tempted reinstalment of native factories,
 then the foreigners would return to the
 originally low prices until once more the
 business would be in their hands and
 native manufacturing then, or after
 repetition of this few times. would be
 permanently discouraged, for when it
 comes to the test, we cannot compete
 
 we adopt the sentiment of former dem
 ocratc president of the United States,
 that fifty cents a day is enough wages
 for workingman. I sincerely hope that
 our workingmen will be always, as now,
 the best paid in the world, and enabled
 to live as human beings should live,
 with decent homes, respectable clothes
 and sufficient food of good variety and
 quality. Another reason why it is not
 good policy is, that as we are all more or
 less dependent on each other, that 1t is
 true that direct saving in the cost of
 an article may not really be so in tho
 end, the payment of a little more for our
 own production means money paid for
 labor employed and profits to the owners
 of the business that will be spent for the
 requirements of life and for luxuries
 that would otherwise be much restrict
 cd That is the buyer of knife, paying
 a small percentage more for the domes-
 tic article, can well afford to do so, be-
 cause in turn the tariff is protecting his
 industry or some on which he relies for
 business and profit. So that no injustice
 is done and the parties are all as well
 or better off than they could be under
 the opposite conditions. We are en-
 joined to have charity beginning at
 home. He that does not care for his own household is worse than an in6del.
 In explanation of Free Trade England's
 prosperity, I would call attention to the fact that it is a much older country than ours, has made it's wealth years ago, and that it's wealth is in the hands of few, that the poorhouse meuaces a large percentage of it's people, that when this country has been under protec-
 tive tariff that we have far outstripped England or any nation in the world in prosperity for the same period of time When we were suffering most two or three years ago England and Germany were having phenomenally good times working day and night to make goods | for our market, now I love them as members of Gods family on the earth, | but love my American nelghbors and l myself better, and if England and other | cheap labor nations want this market, | say so do we. It is the best market in | the world worth all the others put to- l gether. Facts are worth more than all | the theories in the world. Our laboring people under protection have had good pay, steady employment, lived well, are generally provident, as witness the homes by them and their deposits in saw ings institutions. You do not find this abroad Is it not fair then to state that what advocate is doing more to bring about ". Trueman's ideal condition than those advocated by him. His as- sertion that humanity has been cursed by labor-saving machinery is in my Judgment far from the facts.
 The invention of the sewing machine SO far from rulning the sewers, has so the wants of the public by the making of elaborately trimmed clothing and in other ways, that if any hing, employment is enhanced rather han lowered, and this is true of other nventlons the cost of articles made by hem has been so cheapened that the many can have them instead of the few. No, MT Trueman, demo- ,ratic ideas (that is the teachings and actions of the democratic party) are not n accord with your sentiments.
 Democracy in the abstract is all right md it is q good word to juggle with, as evidenced in its catching the foreign yote, as 1t stands with them over against 1 government. The hope of his people and government is in the re- publican party not faultless by any means, but with protection for it's lead ng claim, leaders who as a whole are not and it's record for loyalty { o the government, it stands for the best sood of our glorious land. ,
 I believe that we should be as individ- lals entitled to whatever property we inherit or earn, be 1t cash, land, stocks IT bonds, and that land is no more common heritage than any other proper y that the possession of these should be eft to the ability, application and econ- $