The San Francisco call., 1904-06-23

Britain, OF Germany and OF France Where
do We get the market for IT? Ninety-seven
per cent Of this great Droduct-one-third the
worlds product-hnds a market among our
selves in the United States. And yet Of this
product last year we sold TO foreign countries
i speaking now Of the manufactured
products-more than four hundred million DOL
lars. % per cent Of our total exports, ana
our total exports made and make US the great
est exporting nation on earth.
Made by labor? Yes. made BY labor that
works fewer hours than any labor on earth
Made BY labor that conseryatively estimated,
received 81 T5 against the average OF the
competitive labor in the world Of 81. Oh,
gentlemen. il is not a few rich men that
make markets: nay nay. II IS the multi
piled millions on farms, in mine and In factory,
that work to-day and consume tomorrow,
and with steady employment and good wages
give US with eighty millions Of people,
market equal TO two hundred millions Of
consuming people anywhere else on earth.
The farmer buys the artisan product The
artisan. being employed. buys the farmers
product The wheels 20 round You cannot
strike one great branch OF labor in the re
public without the blow reacting on all pro-
ducers- Well. are YOU satisfied with the com
parison from the manufacturing standpoint
II not let me give you another illustration
that will perhaps 80 home TO the minds OF
men more quickly than the illustration have
Take the Postoface Department. that reaches
all Of the people. and no man is compelled TO
pay one penny. 1t is voluntary taxation.
From March. 1860 the year that Lincoln
came into power 10 March. 1861. in that
twelve months the total revenue OF the Post
office Department in all the United States was
eight and half million dollars. Keep that
in your minds-eight and half million dol
lars How much do you suppose it cost 70
the department? Nineteen million. II
took all the revenue and much more and
e-qusrter as much more from the treasury
10 pay for that postal service. Why. gentle
men, the city postotfice Of Chicago last year
collected more revenue by almost one million
OF dollars than was collected by the whole
department in the United States in 1850.
REDUCED POSTAL RATES.
How is It now7 We have reduced postal
rates over one half since 1860 on the average.
Last year the postal revenues were s134 000 600
against s.. coo 600 in 1850 Keep that in
your mInd-SI34 COO 600 And the whole serv-
ice only cost s13s. OOO. COO. We had a deficit
Of 81 oO0. .OO0-3 per cent, and we would not
have had that deficit had il not been. under
the lead OF the Republican party looking out
for the welfare OF all the people and
Quoting the Government from a business stand
point under the lead Of Mckinley. followed by
Roosevelt. there was established free rural
delivery that cost SO 100000
Great heavens. the Republican party from
1850 until this moment moves on-does What
good common sense dictates ana the country
grows to II.
The Republican party is a national party
and believes in diversification of our indus
;ries and the protection of American capital
and American labor against the cheaper
labor elsewhere on earth What do the other
people believe in? For sixty years went out
the cry OF free trade throughout the world
free ships upon the sea. On other questions
has always denounced the Republican policy
Of protection as robbery, and whenever clothed
thrust dagger into the very heart Of pro-
lection
US see. Just before the close Of the last Con
gress New York's eloquent son, Bourke Cock
ran. member OF the House Of Representa-
tives, got the floor and he preached an old
fashioned Democratic sermon. free trade and
all that kind Of thing. and he did IL well, and
there came from the minority side OF the
louise u
crying and hurrahing and applaudng I
never witnessed before In that House. because
delivered to them.
They are trying 10 convince the people that
they ought TO come into power under the lead
Of Gormsp in the Senate and Williams in the
House. They have been trying to give the
country Dovers powders.
DROPS INTO FABLE.
oh" said distinguished colleague follow
ing the astute Senator German. If we come
INTO ,ov-er while protection is robbery we will
say TO you that we will journey in the direc-
tion Of free trade, but We Will not destroy
your industries over night
Great God, think OF It. They won't kill you
outright. but they will starve you to death
day by day. They want TO be on guard TO
protect the people who are dwelling in peace
and prosperity under Republican policy.
II reminds me Of the fable Of Aesop. You
know the record in one Of his fables that the
wolves said to the sheeps discharge the dogs
who were their natural protectors-''and en-
ploy US and will take care of you" Does
the capital Of this country and the labor of this
country want 10 be under the care OF the wolf
German and the wolf Williams and their fel-
lows? I do not think What a country
this is. And. Republicans. we have got to out
line the policy and lead the people in caring
for it. Why. like the women; not
only have TO take care OF ourselves but more.
as one of our women said, we have to take care
Of the men. The Republican party not only
has to care for itself, but has 10 care for the
minority by a wise policy. How has II been
doing ft2 We preserved the Union under the
policy and leadership Of this party. Do you
hat de-
mand for armistice and negotiation and
cornnrornise nominated Mcclellan in 1864 and
moved heaven and earth to defeat Lincoln?
Do YOU recOlect when the constitutional amend
me1ts were submitted they said nay nay,
and then, after they were adopted. the Demo
Gratis came into power temporarily in
Indiana and Ohio they passed acts taking
back the assent of the States. When the first
battle was fought against greenback money
back in the seventies, out in the Middle West
whatever they were on the Atlantic coast,
they were natists in the West. From step to
.step through all these forty-four years where
IL you measure time by advance, we have
lived two centuries as compared with any
pulled back pulled back. and when ac-
complished-and II is not necessary to march
move into our old quarters and squat down
there and make faces and say, You going
to send the country to hell"
MAKES COMPARISONS.
But We do not mind it. We move on Why.
or decent conditions? Take the country under |
the administration OF Grover Cleveland and
compare Il with the country under the admif,-
istration OF William Mckinley and under Theo-
dore Roosevelt. II a man will dwell in COM
rarison for a moment and make a fair com
parison. If he would not indorse the policies
OF the Republican party he would not believe
one though he We're raised from the dead |
Mckinney, Roosevelt: the Dinghy tariff thai
restored 10 Us economic prosperity; the gold
standard that settled for all time the matter !
OF sound money; the short, triumphant war
with Spain: the Philippines and Porto Rico !
coming under our nag, and freedom TO Cuba is |
a record that Will stand in the future second
only to the record made by George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln.
Imported anarchy struck down our great /
President when partisan strife had almost
ceased. The world paused in wonder and in |