Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-01
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
THE Markets Of the World"
Cedar RAPIDS Republican

! In one of his, notable speeches On the
Tariff. delivered good many years ago
Thomas L. Reed referred to the so-cali"o
| markets Of the world" argument. ill.,
duscd in by F'ree-Traders as one of the
| silliest of all their contentious. lie SAID
that tC hear these fellows talk you would
think that the markets Of the world
were an aching void waiting to be filed
but that when he went after them along
| the lines mapped out by Free-Tradcrs
| we were always soreiy disappointed al
the results. Continuing. lie said: This
| doc tiinc is not new. IL is as old AesoL
tie faDlist. One day there was dog
| trOtting along with a fine bit OF muttor
| in his mouth. He was a nice dog. moth
| ing the matter with him except that h"
had Il few foolish Free-Trade IDEAS in
his head. He came to "a stream brid3.d
| by a plank, and as he trOtted across, he
| saw tho markets of the world in the
| milYored depths below. ana dived afteI
| then The next moment he crawIed up
l the bank, the Wettest, sickest, nastiest
| most muttonltss dog thot ever swami
ashore"
Foreign trade is all right. Frce-Trad-
| crs have always commended that we could
| never get it under Protection. out nm
der the operation of the Dngley law
we have gone on extending our foreign
trade b. leaps and bounds-to such an
extent. indeed. that the total trade bal
anccs in our favor during the last ten
years exceeded the sum total OF the ia
vora ole trade balances in all our pre-
ViouS history.
1t simply passes human understand
| ing that the people of America should
b.. dissatisfied with indust rial conditions
as they have existed when it is only q
few years ago that the most serious
problem with which we had to deal was
! how to take care of our unemployed
When the shadow of Free-Trade rested
| upon this country and organizations like
| CoXey's and Ilalley's armies were wan
| dering over the country fed by CHARITY
| and sundry persons We're asking what
vas the matter with America. William
| is days work for every man wlo
| wants to labor There has beer, a DAY
work for every man who wants to Ia bon
for the last ten wears. To-day our chief
difficulty is that there are more jobs
than men. The man who looks aftet
! the crops officially in Iowa is ;laruied
lust now because there are not enotig!
| men in sight to gather the corn crop
and It ISM bumper crop either House
wives are una bic to get women to leir
with the housework Street commission
ers and contractors lind it difficult. tl
ind laborrrS enough to dc their work
The wages Paid are higher than We're
ever paid before in the history Of th.
world Our industries have expanded
until there is actually a scarcity Of cap.
itai to meet current demands. And yet
| i'll the face of these conditions llen are
shouting themselves black in tie face in
to produce idlenesS and misery and want
And MANY of them have been shoutirc
for it ever since our prosperity returned
The men vEc know tn" history Of tne
country, who have taken note of the
fact that every Free-T7'aGe movement
| has had TIE same result have steadfast-
ly opposed = return to these POVERTY
breeding policies and so far have been
able to preserve prosperity. Whether
they can much longer keep things as
they are is problernatir. There are any
number of people who have short memo
RIGS and there are hundreds of thou
sands of new voters who lave yet to
live as men under a F'ree-Tridc era. A
child OF a youth whose wants are sup
piled hy his Parents. is apt to give little
heed to economic conditions T day the
loudest Gly is "Tlle markets of the world.
the markets of the world
It is a seductive CRY. Like the dog
IN the fable. we shall probably imagine
that the shadow is substance and a
| larger thing then we possess. and dive
after it. IF we do there can be but one
| result-the same that hefeil the dog
Tom Reed told about whom h Wa con-
tending against the sophistries of ,ht
Mills bin.