The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-07-16


effect of large importations OF foreign
goods upon our currency. Most of the
gold In California as fast as il is coin
ed, finds it's way directly to Europe
in payment for goods purchased. In
the second place, as our manufacturing
establishments are broken down by
competition with foreigners, the cap
ital invested in them is lost, thousands
OF honest and industrious citizens are
thrown out of employment; and the
( farmer, to that extent, is deprived of
home market for the sale of his sur
plus produce. In the third place, the
destruction of our manufacturing estab-
/ lishments leaves the foreigner without
competition in our markets. and he con-
/ sequently raises the price of the article
sent here for sale as is now seen In
/ the increased cost of iron imported from
/ England"
President Buchanan, another democrat
/ ic president, had this to say when the
country was strl being operated under
democratic free trade measures:
I'm the midst of unsurpassed plenty in
all the productions and elements of ma
tional wealth, we find our manufactures
suspended, our public work retarded. our
private enterprises of various kinds
abandoned, and thousands of useful lab
orers thrown out of employment and re-
duced to distress"
About the same time Horace Greeley
had this to say in the New York Tri-
bune:
Who is hungry? Go and see. You
that are full fed and know not what
] IL l,,,x,s .ban a Va
a hungry mango and see. Go and
see thousands of men and women, boys
and girls, old and young, black and
white. of all nations crowding and jost-
ling each other almost fighting for a
first chance, acting more like hungry
wolves than human beings, in a land
of plenty, waiting till food is ready for
distribution. Such a scene may be seen
every day between eleven and two
o'clock around the corner of Orange
and Chatham streets. where charity Civ
es dinner to the poor"
German Wilson Bill With Its Train of
Ruin and Distress.
To my mind there is no better eX-
ample of what free trade means than
Grover Cleveland's two administrations.
As there are thousands of young voters
Cleveland's administrations, l shall re-
view their history. You who are older
will remember that under his first ad-
misstration the republican party had
control of the house. The house passed
it's free trade measure, but 1t was de-
feated In the senate, so that Cleveland
during his first administration operated
this country under republican laws
l republican tariff laws that protected
: every industry in America and not a
single democratic law was placed upon
the statue books during Cleveland's
first administration. We had gooc
times. the country was prosperous, ano
the balance of trade was in our favor
During the four years that Cleveland
operated the country under republican
= laws he paid off $3.50, 600, 900 of the ma
= tional Indebtedness. Then Cleveland
: was elected second time, and thu
y people gave him a democratic hous'
= and a democratic senate. He called
congress in extra session and repealed
the republican tariff laws. and CAV,
you a free trade measure known as tn
y "Gorman- Wilson bill"
a Cieveland's Second Administration.
n | am sure we can all remembe
= Clevelands second administration y
e human tongue can tell the story of tn
q misery and suffering during those fou
a years that Cleveland operated thi
n country under democratic laws. lnstea
j. of paying off any of the national indebt
e edness. s220, 600 600 in bonds had to b
lie sold to pay the running expenses Q
II this government; III railroads wit
g. mileage enough to reach twice aroun
tn the earth could not meet their obliga
= tions and were forced into the hand
ID of the receiver. During those four veal
of democratic rule the country witnesse
so 600 commercial failures, with liabi
tiles amounting to $500, 900, 600. on
hundred and seventy-five national bank
10 closed their doors, and the halanc
Ie of trade turned ruinously against u
"a If capital alone had suffered in thos
he four years it would have been ba
lie enough, but the greatest suffering wa
N among the army of men and wome
al thrown out of employment, and there
Al by deprived of the necessities of life.
J. God knows the conditions are ba
enough today, for in all the large elite
is of America men are begging for emplo,
- ment-a situation we have not see
ri since the last time this country ws
We operated under democratic free tra'
" laws. Cnarlty mas again lounu IL me-
10 essary TO feed the poor and such
III scene as Horace Greeley described
IL again a matter of reality in the lar,
ne cities, in the year when America HI
lis reaped its greatest harvest. Like Bal
Is quo's ghost, Coxey has returned to r
er mind the people that again a democra
Oh ic administration is in the saddle
re Washington; that another free ira
n measure has been passde, and aga
W Americas markets have been made {
dumping ground for the world.
o. Laws Control, Not Men.
is, The point that l desire to make Gle
O. in calling your attention to Cleveland
ee two administrations is that 1t is I
o. laws of this country which control
and not the man. 1t is the laws und
which we are operating that give y
prosperity or adyersity and to my mil