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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 17. 1894.
HE AMERICAN
PLAN IS BEST
Couc'uded fr. m Tagu 8.
outstion 1b a finuneiut tiuestiim nnil not un
utdottrtal ouo, as ba bioii ootumonly rap
poaed. It luiiuttry were curried on by industry,
that li to say, if rowmtrcli exohanget
wero the direct tart' of rood, 'hen
problem to bi M'lvfii iroald, ludood, b
alreotly au Indnetrlal anottioe.
Ou t'uo coutrury, industry li carried on
by curreucy Mid wagee MM paid In money.
Coustqueutly tho nowtion uuilor Oontlu
erutiou in u ilunnciiil oue.
Tbatjtbtj principle lnvoWd In Proteo-
tion and rea Tra.lo are certainly tluaa
cial principles and are baae.l on tho laws
of the MCBBMlon ami contraction of the
curreucy circulation, is plainly evident
from the ecouoroic history of our country
this whole history of these two economic
yitemi la the (Jolted stales tolly justify-
lnetbe theory res pec tun; Unit futidaiuou
talprinciples I have set forth .
A HIT OK HISTORY.
I will, therefore, pass 111 teview the his
tory of I'rotoctlou ami rVce Tiade iu our
country, t hut each cue of you may jude
the historical facts for himself.
'At the close of the revolution:." says
Carev. "the trade of the United States
was free and unrestrained In the fullest
enae of the term, According to the theory
of Adam Smith. Kicardo Say, the Edin
burgh reviewers aud the authors the En
clopediu. Tlie American ports were frrely
open with scarcely auy duties whatever, u
the merchaudiie and vessels of all na
tions." This certainly an ideal 1'" roe Trade epoch.
Iow if the theory be true as free Traders
affirm ouijht we not expects to encounter
great uatural prosperity during this re
markable Free Trade era
But listen to what Wolator says of this
period of our hiatory.
"At the close of the revolutionary war
ays Webster- there came a period of de
preesion and distra such as our people
bad not felt during the w.rsl crisis of the
war itself. From the ship owuer to the
day laborer all were deetituse of employ
ment and many were destitute of bread.
British ships came freely aud l'ntih ships
came plentifully. The cheap labor of
England supplied u with everything all
of which passed through our porta free of
duty. Nevertheless farmer, mechanics,
manufacturers, artisans, day laborers all
in Que were eubmerged iu the geueral
Free Trade calamity.
Now Bancroft is itlll more explicit con
cerning this Free Trade epoch. "The
British says he had tue the trade of the
states woolly In their hands, aud the cou
etaut draiu of m uey going abroad pro
duced a ureat scarcity of money a home.
From forty to fifty th-'Usaudpouuds sterl
ing in coin were shipped uioulhly to Eug
laud. And this scarcity of money made
the produce of the country cheap and
worthless to the absolute rum of the far
mer aud the beggary of all." Another au
thor, Mason. I believe, says of these ev.l
days, that "deprecation seized oa every
species of property.' And that the direct
cause of all this national disaster was
Free Trade, is evident from the assertion
of John Stewart Mill, the great Euglish
authority on rree trade wno openiy
avowts that "it was -says he :he Jeias
tafioai of cur English Free Trade system
upon American industries that prevented
tile rapid recuperation of the L'uited
Slates after the peace of 1183."
But at las: the people themselves beuan
to understand rue cause of all their
wees. Teey loudly petitioned cougress for
the Protection tariff of 11S of which 1
have already spoken and the happiest re
sults immediately followed for the whole
nation. "Agricultural, ' said Hurrtmau,
"under the Protective tariff of IT88 become
immediately more extended aud pros
perous; commerce increased with wonder
ful rapidity: all branches of domestic tride
prospered; our revenues exceeded the
wants of onr government; the people be
came contented and industrious: and the
whole country was on the hi jh road to
prosperity. "
pbotsctivs Tariff a nHUSOi
This Protective policy so unlike the
n u--us Free Trade system that preceeded
it proved so highly beneficial to the coun
try that for over twenty years this same
policy waa followed by all our presidents
irrespective of part7. when in 1309-10 the
embargo and non-intercourse acts were
passed, which virtually suspended almost
all foreign trade with the United States,
and the effects on our home tiade and
commerce were highly beneficial. So much
o that the high Protective tariff of lsl2
was the result. Toe soutu itself, for the
first time in our national history was
drawn into tie Protective movment, and
this Denocratir. tariff of lSlii was tao
highest and mist beneficial tariff ever
readied since the foundation of the govern
ment up LM&
In 1S16, however, a Free Trade reaction
et in and by I818 doties were Anally low
ered to the Free Trade schedule, when,
as under the preceding Free Trade policy,
ruin, beckruptcy and disaster inevitably
followed. Indeed, tho panic became gen
eral and the devuatatnn complete.
Thomas teuton graphically describes
this second Free Trade era as follows: "Jfo
price," say he. "for property, no sales ex
cept those of the sheriff and marshal, no
purchasers at execution ssle but the
creditors and some money hoarders; no
employment for industry; no sales for the
products of the farm: no sound of the
hammer, save that of the auctioneer knock
ing down property. Distress was the uni
versal cry of the people; relief, the univer
sal demaud, was thundered at the doOfl of
our legislatures state and federal."
This sad condition of affairs continued
antil P424, when, ss after the previous Fr- e
Trade epoch, Protection again camo t, the
rescue, and its saiutory effects were as Im
mediate and profound and no less remark
able than in !7-t. "The relief waa general
and profound, " says V"..tster: and Clay
makes of this ptr.od the following re
markable statement: "If," says Clay, "wo.
the term of seven jea's were selected to
measure the greatest prosperity of this
people since the estab'.isumsnt of the
constitution, it wonid be exactly that period
Which immediately followed the passage
of the protective tariff of 184 "
In its wake followed the pioteclive tar
iffs of and ln.W But iu .fi tue
cry of Free Trade arose clamorously from
the slave states and South Carolina raised
the flag of secession, as I have already
tated, and the Clay compromise of 18m
followed when Protection was forever
abandoned by the Democrats to satisfy
the slave holding oligarchy of the south.
But the same as in fminur Free Trade
periods, business immediately set In; our
markets were flooded by foreign goods;
prices fell; thousands of workiugmo be
came idle and were reduced to starva
tion, no market for farm products: th
public revenues decreased over 25 per cent. ;
the government was obliged to borrow
money even for its current expense -the
same as at the present hour--government
aecuritiee waa also at a ruinous dtscount
when finally came tho terrible- crash of
181)7, the like of which our country had
never before seen.
Under iho pressure of these bard times
the Free Trade horde of the south were
beaten back and the Whigs triumphed on
u protective tariff platform. Hut the new
president, Hurrisou, died shortly alter bis
inauguration and Vice-President Tyler
took the presidential cbair. Tvler, how
ever, was a Free Trader, and his treacbory
and lnconstatenclee prevented the Whigs
from raising the tariff nntll 18412, when
business depression began to be dissi
pated. Prosperity began to return. But
at once tho south again raised It old war
cry of Free Trade against northern pro
perty. As usual northern Democrats
were dupes of southern Democrats-pre-campaign
promises were, as at tbepresent
hour, transformed into oost-campalgn de
nials, and the Free Trade tariff of 1841)
was the result which is known iu history
as the "stave holder tariff."
Wo have seen all Free Trade periods In
variably followed by business depression
ami disaster. And I have attributed this
to the fatal contradiction of the currency
always connected with a Free Trade
policy.
Now what proves this precisely to b
true,is;thut depression end disaster did not
immediately follow tho slave-holders of
'40. Indeed depression could not follow
it, because powerful causes set iu at once
from other sources to expand the cm -reuey
to a fur greater degree tliat it was
possible for Freo Trade to contract it, as
long as these expanding causes of the c.ir-
reucy lasted. After a few yaara,howevar,
those subsided, when Proa Trade was left
alouu to produce its i.utur.il and inevitable
reunite. Tin s. at over heretofore b
uaiue immediately it parumbusim'st
stagnat:on und pumc ensuing.
OACeM ok OUMMMOY kxpaxkion.
I will therefore enumerate (bo causes or
currency expansion, which tor a period of
ten yean counteracted Proa Trade con
traction, producing the only prosperity
thuL has been known to occur in our 00U0
try in Free Trade times. Those oenstl
wore: 1. The Mexican war from 1816 to
isib, winch created a deoMda for oW
10o,00vUQ0of supplies, a. The Buropeau
revolution from 1840 to ism, wbleb para
lyzed industries abroad and thus pre
vented exports from Kurope, but which
still called for large ipiuntuio of bread
stuffs froui ue. 8. Tho li ish faliuuo ileal
iug u Btill greater call for bread supplies.
4. The Crimean war giving aud extract
dinary demand for food supplies; utnl tln
ally, greatest of all, thu discovery of gold
iu California, Wblob oresteda vast maikei
for goods of all kinds, but which from HIX
to 1S6S poured pr.uoipally into our own
markets over fbi0,lVJ,WU in solid gold
colu.
'1'liese, indeed, were wonderful sources
of proa parity, and (Of ten years they were
able to prevent the calamities of Free
Trade from assailing us. But these causes
Of prosperity began toaubitdo in 885. then
lu 1887, there beiug ai abundance of rev
DUO iho tariff was again lowered, and
u ll.lt followed: Iho same ruinous results
I have alwavs siguuled lu Free Trade
times immediately th' circulation tell
My'ini,t inaiid In less than a year the panic
was complete i IVe tUousaud tallures
followed iu quick succession And though
but a short time before more Waaasurptal
lu the treasury which tree liaders coll
si.tei as u u itiouai c namity u w a.ter a
few short mouths 01 t ice Trade p.ncy the
national delu was lui-reasiug at u rate of
nearly fo. 000,000 per mouth aud soon the
discount of govorumsut securities was as
high as 10 per cent.
The tariffs of 1848 aud 1851 should be
Considered as one and the same tariif act
-the last set being simply nil increased
application of the same Free Trade priu
elples ou which the form 'r was based.
Both of them are UMt9W0M0jiuaiV tariff
And a- they were the last Free Prude tar
itts before tht war abolishiug slavery, tiie
couuectiou between Free Trade aud the
slave system is again appareut.
rrosiileut Buctuuan, who ou his early
politieal life w as a protectionist, bat who
became ut las: most nbiecc tool of the
slave boldiug oligarchy - or as I mis'ht
sav the aiaw-tsrinaa oligarchy has ge
graphically portrayed ihe lack of mouey
in these Free Trade times as the evident
cause of the distress that marked the two
last vears of bis administration. "With
unsurpassed plenty says be In all the
productions aud iu all the elements of
uatural weaitny our mauuiueiurtrs nave
suspeuded, our public works are retarded,
our private enterprises of different kind'
aro abaudoued. thousands of skillfull la
borer are throwu out of eiuployuieut aud
reduced to want. We possess all the ele
ment of natural wealth lu rich abundance
and yet notwithstanding all these advan
tages our is in a most deplorable coudltion
10 fur as its monetary mterest are cou
cern;d." Indeed, did we not see that as soon as flu
final Freo Trade poilcy was inaugurated m
ISs,: that s,000,UOO immediately left the
country, the circulation beiug contracted
in one year to that amount ': Tins certainly
was sufficient to produce reut bjsiuess
depression. Of wuat good, I ask, is great
wealth if you have uot the money the
ready ca-u in circulation to move it with
by which to make commercial exchanges,
which are made indirectly through money,
ISC mediwii of exchange?
As I have said, and as I cannot too often
repeat, it is tne scarcity of money m cir
culation the contraction of the currency
into the storing vaults with the bankers,
and the sending of it abroad to pay for
impcrta that inevitably leads to financial
distress under a Free Trade policy.
Si:;co the period of which President Bu
chanan speaks, Protuc'ion has been the
steady nolicy of our conutry. It has giv , n
us unbounded prosperity. Ani during
this long per'od, we have never been af
flicted with any great natural panic except
in lbTA, which was brought upon us in spite
of Protection as I will plainly show and
by the contraction of the curreucy which
characterizes Free Trade epochs.
prices and wages went up, nnd the circulu- Huperstructuro
lion continued to incroMM year by year rottuu.
until I8,"h. when the volume of circulation
wus precisely 100 per ceut. over 1850. We
had thou I&80, 000,000 of circulation ac
tual circulation and pries went np 81
percent, uuovo lNiti. i,ucu year pncea
i.ise aoOVC tlie year DClOrOi anil lOOTC is uo
perii.d of equal lengih lu the history of
tbl country when there wm tuob an un-
bounded prosperity in all dopuriment-r f
ur indusfry, to natiouM oeniin in
creased at i he rate of i.!Vi percent, per
ii ii ii mil. lu lK'iH I he circulniluii fell tufvi,-
000,000 below 1 s.-T, nnd price fell itOOCC
wo percent. They couiiiim ci n.ing again
when fue war begun ami Iho ,;rei libn 1. 1
re poured ouf all over tho country, and
touched lb" highest point overreached In
the United States in Ibi .', when they were
4 pri cent, higher 111 geld than In ISO, and
the circulation fUM In !, 178,000,000,
About this tun - a number of gentlemen
who hud utuaa sod a large .mi I'll of paper
money that had nlv liHcotnu depressed
through the null patrlotio working! of
of people of their own class started on u
wild hut after bouest money starteil to
impress the government with tho uncos
sitv ut coining Willi rapid strides back to
gold -started to bung this country by
lorii d maioUes to a gold currency. 1 hey
commenced to contract the currency for
tliut put pose, ami prices came down until
the country wss brought to tho terrible
crash of 1878,
We col until v all remember 'that. We
oertaioly ail remember that from i87u to
1870, after we hud commenced the coinage
of silver, this country passedi through a
period of daVKnOM aud gloom that hue
boon witnessed at any other time of our
history. And God grant if may never be
witnessed au'ain.
Let the latioier rememiior it and write
it OK hl wristlets, carve It. on his front
lets and wear as an amulet over Ins heart,
that (Odrve money is his sleepless and 00
forgiving toe, a roe whoso bosom never
swells with a sigh of of sorrow, whore eye
never moistens with a tour of pity. . . .
No oue can deny that it makes the life
struggle darker and harder, . . .
But the whole past history of our conn
try plainly ut tests tutu rue uaueiloes
make scores mouey. How then, 1 ask,
can it bo in favor of the Working classes
Indeed, for the people of this l'uited
States it has but one mMtnlOg which is
the absolute neglect of ourselves uud the
atlo of our Vast Opportunities, energies
ami resource not to the hiahttt bidder -
us ut ever other miction but in fact to the
Jotiv.it bidder seeing us foolishly throw
nway our magnificent home market for au
UnueslraOla worthless market abroad.
1 will here remark that we have had par
tial depressions, it is true, under protection
dining the last thirty years, due not to
business stagnation, as a result of dl
rectly depressing influences, but rather to
over production which a protective policy
is liable to produce iu Hie long ruu seoin
that it iu luce prosperity to tho highest
decree.
Wo must remember, however.that when
over production takes place under Protec
tiou that the yvorklug classes have already
leaped the advantages ot corresponding
Increase Ot hours ot labor at high wnge.
wblch certainly has beeu to their advent
age. Oa the other hand they reap all
another advantage when prices fall during
au over production crises, which is fur
more to the detriment of the manufacturer
utid rupitulit-t thuu to the workinguisu
t onsequcntlv in over production under
Protect lou 1 can see luuny mitigating cir
enmetanceo in raver 01 tne worxing noon
latiou, though, of coure. like all hard timss
it has its disadvantages.
ttut when tree trade olters us as a
remedy In over production to give, us they
plnimy urn; in, more nours i.f lu'tur but less
wages, their whole policv tuuds for more
rapidly and directly to over production
man Protection ever cau which repre
eats less hours of toil aud consequently
less piojuction while it has not giveti.
as has Protection, tlie previous advantage
to tho worKingmau ot the higher Wage
duo lo a protective policy. As to the sur
plus of production being reported mon
ensilv under tree 1 rade to foreign conn
tries than uuder Protection this is all an
illusion beeu i our manufacturers of
exports alreadv enjoy uuder Protection
every advantage in raw materials Freo
Trade can in any way give thorn.
must bo comparatively
PROTICTfuN BRINGS PRUSPIRITY.
I will now say that it is an historical
fact no one can deny that the fiftr-seven
years ot Protection in the United States
correspond exactly with the periods of our
greatest national prosperity. Whereas,on
the other hand, the darkest periods of na
tional distress and disaster have coincided
precisely with the forty-s-veu years of
Free Trade policies. As I lay, this is au
historical fact. Its inporance, therefore,
is fundamental, because It conclusively
proves that Protection must certainly fa
vor uational and on the other bund, that
Free Trade has always beeu and must al
ways be most Injurious to our national
prosp-rity.
Throughout this long period of over a
century we find but two exception i--oue
for each policy--to this general rule, this
universal law. as I may well call it.
First, the prosperity that followed the
Free Trade tariff of 186,1 have shown,
however, the numerous and powerful
causes expanding th currency at thst
time to ward off Free Trade calamities.
And as tr.e calamities set in immediately
after the loweri:.g of the tariff in : So7
which was but. a simple OOeUMttaftON of
th tariff af U4S, the tariff of 1848 is evi
dently condemned by the results following
lb.",7, when thepowerful causes of currency
expansion no longer existed as after 184ft
Oinsequeutly, this one single instance in
over one hundred years, of a few years of
prosperity under Free Trade cn prove ab
solutely nothing in favor of that anti-
American or anti-patrtotiQ policy.
Now as to the great psuic of 1873 too
18.!l which is the only instance of great
fiusucial disaster under Protection, itls
the easiest thing In the worl to show thas
it was brought on inspire of Protection,
which as all history aU'ets, ever tends to
expand the currenry. Whereas the psnlc
of 1873 wss the direct and evident result of
the rapid and unwise n,ntrartiin ot th
currency, when our government withdrew
millions of greenbacks from the circula
tion and suddenly contracted the currency
to return as speedily as possible to smcii:
payments.
I do not ssk any of you who may favor
the Free Trade the iff, to take my word,
nor my opinion respecting the coises of
the national disaster of 1878 iimler Protec
tion. I will cite an authority which cer
tainly Willi you mut have g'eut weight
It is none other than the opinion of the
Hon. Kogor Mills of Texse, who is cer
tainly the best authority on Free Trade In
tht United bister.
Now In this passage of the honorable
gent from Texas I am about to quote to
you, he not only plainly affirms most
graphically Illustrate how the panic of
1878-77-70 was In no wise due to Protec
tion but directly due to th rapid confine
Uon of the current-,' tu rslura totjin in pay
menfi, but at tho sa e time and iu the
amu convincing languago shows alo
how tho Fit Trad prosperity following
1810 Is In no wise to be placed t the
credit of Free Trade, but to bo directly as
cribed to the wonderful expauslou ot the
currency by reason of the discovery of gold
lu California,
Thus at one single blow this greatest of
American Free Traders destroy for 1'iee
Traders of present aud future times, Ihe
only historical facts lu the whole history
of our country, seeming to be In any wuy
favorable to their injurious Illusion.
Mi. rover, the following lines from Mr.
Mills set forth the truth in n clear light
that expansion and contraction ot tho cur
reucy are the fundamental law of national
prosperity aud business depression -the
same as 1 have endeavored to impress upon
your minds this evening.
Though somewhat lengthy I coold uot, 1
tntns, mane unaer tne circumstances a
more appropriate quotation from a better
source.
CaUHS Or THE PANIC OF 1878.
In 1848, says Mills, mine of ;old were
discovered lu California, and they com
menced pouring enormous quantities of
that metal principally Into onr own mar
ket. so that by 1880 wo bad fMft (XX). 000 lu
circulation. Next year we hod more and
TBI THEORY AN ILLUSION.
Tho whole theory is an illusion from be
giniug to end un the part of the people
and a gigantic and unscrupulous falsobood
on the part of its promoters, whoso private
interests it favors, either us politicians to
obtain office ana eat at the public crib, or
sut stipcnded agents or foreign traders and
manufacturing combines from abroad, or
a non-producers who wish to livo on the
least money possible at tho expense of the
whole working population or the nation.
Indeed, to my mind, there is not a single
American aud patriotic element in the
whole question
1 rea illy admit mid, , vl-vd, 1 nui lianpv
to say that are many already here iu the
I'nlted States all the advantages the Fro
Trade principle is capable of giving us.
Under certain conditions the principle of
freetruue is perfectly correct and bineli
dal, provided It is exercised in their cer
tain bounds. k.vun of tho best things one
can abuse and it Is in extending the prin
ciple of Free Trade indiscriminately to
foreign countries that its application be
comes injurious.
It Isevideut that the United States form
one vast and united c-mmercial system
au undivided and and iudivlsable cointner
cial organization, incy constitute, one
body. Consequently, the same as to pro
duce health m the human body the How of
blood mist be free and unrestrained
througiioiit the whole system, so likuwiso
must the flow of commercial life be free
and unrestrained throughout the whole
Union. Money is. Indeed, the very life
blood of commerce, industry, national
prosperity, which, with froe commercial
exchanges, make up the vital force of com
mer lul life.
Therefore, Froe Trade here at home
among ourselves la th" normal and indls-
pensltde condition of trade between all ll:o
states of the Union. Tho same na one mem
tier in the human body doei not need iu
thu same raau -protection from another,
the same also, no one state in the In our
Union needs commercial Protection froni
another state. Hut wu must remember
on the other hand, that nations, like Indi
viduuls, are separatn and distinct orgui
iuMttnns. The same, then, as the laws
must always protect QM man from another
man, in liae manner must one nation be
protected from another nation, especially
a the present age Is one of oontlnual turlff
war. In wnich each country Is striving to
get the advantage of another country In its
roimnerrml lelntl .lis.
I ouseqiiently our home v rne Iradolsns
the free circulation nt blood In a man s
own vslns. Hut suppose u man were con
tinuslly to bleed himself nd put his blood
freely Into another miins veins. Would
It not eventually kill him- Now fwrign
Free Trail" or the sending of our money
ebroad to buy goods is precisely like the
above case of giving one's blood freely to
another, taking it fiotn one body to put It
lu another--because the hnim commercial
system and the foccifn commercial system
are as separate ami instinct as two per
ons.
(. Free Trade- ss I will call it I
therefore radically different aud absi
lutely the opposite to onion I lee Trull
Consequently, to hold up the blessings or
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I M e i ran' 'ii. iioiii mi oivii'i in iiiij"!.'. i ii
an unsuspecting nation the curses or fur
( Free Trade Is to inallciouBly decievo
tho people.
I hnvo endeavored to show; 1. That
Protection lias been advocated sinoe the
Vry foundation of our government by our
greatest null wisest statesmen, Irrespec
live of party, and consequently that the
American Protective system should be
Considered in a natural policy and uot ns a
party issue. That. Protection was i ll
ginuily n Democratic doctrine, under our
I rea test and wisest Democratic president
Free Trade having been forced on the
Democratic party uot by tho freo and iu
telllgent north, but by the slave holding
south: aud II. That the whole past hiBtorv
of our country clearly and emphatically
condemns Free Trade as most Injurious to
our national prosperity.
Indeed, I believe thst 1 have demon
(luted the above points as clearly as the
uatureof any quest ion of this kind will
permit in so short a space, and conse
quently that I have shown the absolve
error ana taisiiy oi ins iunaameuivi r, ln
elples of Froe Trndo. Therefore will not
dotaln you to examine even capidly the
question in ltB secondary issues aud de
tails. If the fundamental principle is
wrong, the whole question niujt lie wrong.
If the foundation 1 umodhd, th whole
IT LOWERS W AUL-.
Finally 1 will sny, there is one slugH
feature iu the Free Trade a) a: era its main
characteristic, I may say -which tome
unlemus the whole tlo-orv.and that ih that
Free Trade lowers ilie wages of the work-
iigiiisu. roll our ere 1 ads adversaria
forced to mlmi . Hat they hold it is u
great and salutary reform in favor of the
working classes to give (he toller less
wages mid more u rk, ii.nl of mon
wages and less work. I his is the lesson
and siibstuucu of their whole argument,
It is indeed the funiluiueutul principle
nud aim and object, of PrOO True in the
U lilt I'll States, u lie apostle-, UIKl tOSOU
ers proclaim. M l have mud, toll OVOwea
icndenoy and effect ot nee two to
lower tho wages of tl.o working popula
tion is to my mind the absolute condem
nation of the whole system. It in surely
ti,e iti wt fatal itep toward the imui dofrn-
dulloii of the American laborer who, wu
should not forget, la entitled to the iiialn-
I'-nnuco and dignity of au American cifi
li.
Miall wo thus reduce the vast majority
f our free burn citizens to the level of thu
impel slave labor of Muropur Wud for-
iid : :
llul, Bay the Free Tiadi rn, we must lower
tliewugeaof tho Aiiieilcuii w in klnciuen
ami cripple the pioiitu of the American
pi'oiiucei of law materials, that yve
iiiuy conquer iho markets of the
world which eel I itiuly sounds quite Well
in theory, Praotlcaily speaking, however,
It Mean the very worst kind of discrimina
tion against Ihe fanner, the minor, the
lumberman and tho laborer, lor the sole
benefit ami profit of the tumble "robbtf
iJiafttlfactttrfV1 whom Free Trailers abused
and blackmailed so shamefully previous lo
the late presidential election.
ll'.ll wh ' I I going t culiqiloi these cheap
inarki'lu of the world ai the evident 0X"
ponse of American tlodi and bloodf
11 iu hiii l,iu Ills agony on tho mount, that
grout drops uf (Went ami bloi .d, mingled,
rolled from Christ's brow, t-m, likewise,
would our worklugmen suffer could mo
with prophetic ej forOM what Free Ti auo
reserve for them and their cluldreu.
Will any one of tho kid glove advocates
of Froe Trade mice off tin ir tine clothes and
pulling their shoulders to the wheel help
th Door toiler of the earth conquer the
cheap markets of thu world iu, starvation
wage. Indeed, they oiler us freely their
ink and their empty words to this end,
but MVer the labor ot tMU bauds nor thu
sweat ot their blow.
1 hold Hint the mission of our democratic
nud Christian republic is to realize that
pructlral pint of I hunt's teachings nud
mission, which has iu view the gradual
elevation of the working classes through
the political nud social progress of our
American institutions. Aud lo this great
end our national policy should always
tend.
Consequently instead ot criminally at
tempting to degrade our working classes
under the Ireo Trude margin of more
hours of toil und less wages we should,
on the Contrary, ou the political principle
ol thu best wnges ami tho least hours or
work raise them up to the levul of a prog
lesstve humanity.
HuMt MA 11 KET hlRST,
Until we havo perfectly conquered our
own home untrue t to its tiniest extent
where prices aie sufficiently high mid
maintain the dignity of the American
workiugmaii through fair wages -until
every stroke of labor and every hour of
toll that can be done at home is done hert
aud at rair wages, it is simply crime
ugaiust humanity to foolishly attempt to
conquer the worms markets atiheevl
dent Iobs of reducing our own voting pop
illation to a:i industrial s'uvorv. like that
f the old world.
Indeed our Americau institutions are a pi
teouB failure and a gigantic lie iu the face
i f suffering humanity, if we are not to do
politically nud s icially more for the work
ing classes tl.au the aristocratic govern
meiits of Europe. Wh-re, then, is the su
periurity of our form of government ii we
are uot to secure to the working popula
tion any economic advantages superior to
those eujoved by the Workiugmaii of the
old World? 1 will even nftirm that it the
economic advantages to the laborer en
joyed iu our country ure to be simply
those due to our vast UO rural resources
and are uot a direct consequence of an iu
telllgent economic system, established by
our legislators, then indeed is onr Democ
racy a lie ulso, and in no wise superior to
buropeau tonus oi government.
It would seem to me that the 1 uited
Stntes are on the eve, either of a peaceful
of it turn of our economic system toward
a more aud more equitable form of Do
mocracv carrying along with it all the pos
sible solutions ot tho vexed social prob
lems that now controut us and threaten
our very existence as a nation, or olse a
violent and bloodv civil war is again at
our very doors, in fact I almost Ihmk, at
t lines, that the elements of this revolution
are far more visible and turblent through
out the length and breadth or our land,
than were the causes of dmsster for ten
years previous to 1860. which culminated
however, in our terrible civil war.
If we sow the wind, wo shall certainly
reap tne winriwinu.
Iu the heat or old abolition tunes the
supposed recognition of negro slavery by
tho couRtitution wus often called "acovt-
nent with death nnd nn agreement with
hell."
Hut ns the patriotic North and West shed
freelv their best blood and treasure to
niuiutuin tho Union nnd wipe out slavery
forovery, if there wero unwittingly any
agreements and Covenant of the kind in
tnC constitution of our forefathers, thov
have surely beeu more than cam-clod.
Promotes
Digestion
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DYSPEPSIA
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Manufacturers und Dealer lu
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WILIIAM MASON, Manager.
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Ha vim: suffered from l)y
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Seed to try Bchdooi Bmmb
ltrm'.iui aiel after iniini; one
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better that I wan snoourand
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grateful to B B B.
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contains fifteen of
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ir.gs. Each part
these engraving
scriptive matter
the artift, ani
LABOR 1 IBUl EMANCIPATION.
If, however, after havlnir liberated the
Uaofc slave, onr great Christum republic
Is now through Free Trade to adopt a pol
icy t nnt mull on inevitaoiy rivit the
Chain faster mill heavier on tho white
slave of capital, then, iudoed, rar
friends may wo well exclaim that the i ;d
covenant with dentil anil sgrfoinout with
hell" hits lioen renewnd under a worse
form nnd a mine revolting aspect than
the nriuliinl.
Pot my part 1 am Willing to suetain tho
oanea oi rroteoiion to none labor and
Nal my convictions at nny cost, because
my reason and common sno, the put
history ami prusont iluplnraliln condition
tny country all prove to me ooncln
elv that Protection Is Indeed the true
cause of intior anil the llrst and foundation
stepping stone toward the progreiv
emiinlclpatioii of the working classes at
nur great reiiiilillc.
I hold, therelore, flint it is uM (inlv
actvlc duty, hut nlao a I 'In istlan duty
of tho highest order to boldlv advo
cslq the cause of Protection to homo labor
irrespective of party and
rlai ly as poulble thn llludous, the fnlla-
oies and fatal lendenole of Praa Trade
l,"t us not sell our birth rii(ht for a mew
of potM I IjoI us not criminally boi.'Ui to
degrade mr working population to the
brute level of the pauper labor of the nhl
world with the miTcilcs-i tioel of Industrial
lyrniuiy on its neck.
On the Contrary let n HP in our dii?
nltf aud manhood with a full sense Of our
hii n i ailing sa free men and t'hriHtian.
Let us llrst elevate onr own Working
cla-soi and develop the untold natural
riches of our vast ami fertile country to
the highest degree.
Then let us stop fnrtsnrd, ir we wish, and
conquer the world1 market. But let us
at the same time parry abroad to the toil
ersof luiiiiaiiltjrthr.niRhout, tho earth the
(rid tn(()irj oi tho sound and buinauo
economic principles that have first. Ind to
Ipatinn of ourowu tollsrs and
io practical work
through Christian
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