The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-10-19

when they speak add to the aggrepa :,
OF human wisdom. Every time Nr
Bryan speaks he subtracts something
from the sum total Of human knowledge
Bryan is the only man that Americ
every produced who could travel around
the world and come back knowing less
than when he started
My friends, the greatest economic and
financial lessons In the worlds history
nave been taught to the American peo-
pie during the last ten years, in the prac.
ticaI school OF experience. And any man
IN America, who has been 40 foolish a.
not to learn, or so obstinate as not to
heed those mighty lessons. il indeed n
hopeless subject upon whom to waste
| the 0ratOry and elOquence of man.
Let me impress upon you that the
| welfare or the destruction of this nation
| 90 not depend upon the wisdom and vir-
tue OF any one man. 1t is the majority
| that rules. And as the majority decides
| so must the course and the fate OF the
government be There are two great
| political parties in this nation today
struggling for supremacy. They are ad
| vOcatlng policies that are directly and
diometrically opposed to each other.
They cannot both be right Now, if the
party that is right triumphs at the polls
and puts its policies into effect that will
produce prosperity. But what wish to
particularly impress upon you il, that
when that prosperity comes it is not
limited merely to those people or to
that party that advocated the right pol
ICY; when the prosperity comes it comes
TO all the people Of all the parties, both
Co those who were right and those who
were wrong
On the other hand if the political party
which Ia wrOng-hOwever honest it's indi-
vldual members may be-triumphs at
the polls and is unable to place its prin-
clples and policies into effect, poverty
and disaster, as the direct result thereof,
fall upon the nation. But what | wish
you to especially remember is that when
that poverty and disaster do come.
| those misfOrtunes are not limited to the
people who voted for the wrong theory.
Those disasters and misfortunes fall
equally and impartially upon all the
peOple-bOth those who voted right and
those who voted wrong. This is a new
political illustration of the old saying:
That the rain falls alike upon the iust
and the unjust"
Let me remind you that the welfare Of
nation is insepaTa ably associated with
the prosperity of it's people. A nation
will not progress while the people are
starving and destitute; and likewise the
people cannot thrive while a nation is
being bankrupted and destroyed. There
fore. it is not only your political duty,
but TO the interest Of your enlightened
selhshnesS to associate yourself with q
work in harmony with political organ
izatiOn that stands for the upbuilding of
all the legitimate material Industries of
this land. Now, the two great branches
OF human endeavOr which make up the
sum total Of the worlds production in a
material sense are the raising of products
from the soil on one hand, and the man
ufacture of useful articles on the other.
And these two branches of human indus
try, while they are separate from each
other in one sense, are very intimately
related in another sense. Each of these
industries leans upon the other, and each
in turn is supported by the other. And
whatever your position is in the scale Of
human industry, it is your manifest duty
and it will likewise inure to your per-
manent prosperity to ally yourself with
political party that stands for the
stability and progress of both. Ally
yOursely with party that stands for pro.
ductlOn on the farm and production in
the factory. Not political party that
stands for one Of those things or the
other, segregated and separately; not
political party that stands part Of the
time for one and part of the time for the
other; but political party that stands
all the time for both. And that party
is the republican party. And when |
make that statement | don't ask YOU to
take my word for it, | merely point you
to the page of your country 3 history for
proof Of what | say.
The Tariff.
do not believe that in the lights and
shadows OF our recent experience as n
nation | need indulge in any extensive
remarks tonight explaining the workings
and justifying the results of protective
tariff law in the United States. After
what we have been through as a nation
within the past few years, it seems al
most like an insult to the intelligence of
American citizens to begin talking tariff
to them. But inasmuch as the leaders
of the democratic party upon the heels
OF their great national failure are again
advocating the free trade system-tbe
same that produced our former failure
| shall for few moments, at the risk of
wearying you, say a word or two about
the tarln system as connected with
American prosperity.
First. Let me say that every manu-
factured article on earth, when it is sold,
must bring enough in the market to pay
for the labor that went into the article.
If it don't, the manufacture of that
article, under those conditions, must
cease. No man will long continue to
manufacture goods at loss. That is
as plain as that two and two make four
Second. There is vast difference be-
tween the price paid for labor in America
and the price paid for labor in other
countries. That is admitted by every
body and proved by statistics galore.
Third. Now, then, if labor ia one-third
cheaper in England than it is in America
the ordinary manufactured article can
be produced one-third cheaper in Eng
land than it can il America.
Fourth. Ifthat cheaper manufactured
article produced in England is admitted
to the markets of this country, free of
duty, one OF two things is bound to hap
pen; either the English article will under
sell the American article. and our article
remain unsOld, or the price OF the Ameri.
can article will be cut to meet the cheap-
er price OF the English article.
Fifth. Ii the American article remains
unsOld, that means that the American