farms in that neighborhood? What would be the effect on railroads,
on freights, on business--what upon the towns through which they
passed? Stop making iron in Pennsylvania, and the State would be
bankrupt in an hour. Give us free trade, and New Jersey, Connecticut
and many other States would not be worth one dollar an acre.

If a man will think of the connection between all industries--of
the dependence and inter-dependence of each on all; of the subtle
relations between all human pursuits--he will see that to destroy
some of the grand interest makes financial ruin and desolation.
I am not talking now about a tariff that is too high, because that
tariff does not produce a surplus--neither am I asking to have that
protected which needs no protection--I am only insisting that all
the industries that have been fostered and that need protection
should be protected, and that we should turn our attention to the
interests of our own country, letting other nations take care of
themselves. If every American would use only articles produced by
Americans--if they would wear only American cloth, only American
silk--if we would absolutely stand by each other, the prosperity
of this nation would be the marvel of human history. We can live
at home, and we have now the ingenuity, the intelligence, the
industry to raise from nature everything that a nation needs.

_Question_. What have you to say about the claim that Mr. Cleveland
does not propose free trade?

_Answer_. I suppose that he means what he said. His argument was
all for free trade, and he endeavored to show to the farmer that
he lost altogether more money by protection, because he paid a
higher price for manufactured articles and received no more for
what he had to sell. This certainly was an argument in favor of
free trade. And there is no way to decrease the surplus except to
prohibit the importation of foreign articles, which certainly Mr.
Cleveland is not in favor of doing, or to reduce the tariff to a
point so low that no matter how much may be imported the surplus
will be reduced. If the message means anything it means free trade,
and if there is any argument in it it is an argument in favor of
absolutely free trade. The party, not willing to say "free trade"
uses the word "reform." This is simply a mask and a pretence.
The party knows that the President made a mistake. The party,
however, is so situated that it cannot get rid of Cleveland, and
con