Show MUCH KNOWLEDGE NO JUDGMENT secretary of 0 agriculture Aerl cultura SI orton in the june has haj an article togi let la which he says thero theft are twenty one outside ot at the he united states to trade alth aith where there lit one to swap mth inside of ica boilers lilii ailers in the abstract that is fa quite true except that quite sixteen ot of the twenty one on the outside do not need what wo we produce of 0 the others we have not much chance to trado trade in anything except food products and textiles te bo cause in their country labor Is so 80 much cheaper than lei in ours that there la Is but one way in which bevan we an compete with the nations ot of europe in trading with them and that Is 13 to reduce the wages of our workingmen even at present tho thee attempt on the part at 0 corns people to reduce wages has haa culminated in al a convulsion that at this very moment II 11 a threatening the very pm of i our government would it t riot not be le leaetter better if t we could use the wo we leave have at t our command to make the clio in our own land prosperous we leavo lave more mines than any other country why not so utilize those mines that the t men who obtain the mineral from froin them aborn an axi hanga that mineral tor for what others can produce suppose lepi instead tead of on ant republic ours was divided right I 1 i now into on our a anil ill by live hundred miles of 0 ocean nil all around would not the chief anxiety of each see llon flout be to get the trade of oc the other three would it not t be a worthy ambition would not the th statesmen find and the orators and the newspapers of via the different countries te be suring assuring pomplo that it they could set get the trade of the other three ahree countries nearest abat it would te be all that they would want why cannot we secure bacura that trade just as well without the five hundred miles allies ot of sea rolling between our different sections why cannot thino things be arranged us as they OILY were twenty live dye years ago when the silver of nevada was in beautiful structures tur in new york chicago and st louis when itly iby tho this potency of 0 the treasure which the west was pouring into the lap of elie last east an ali impetus was given to all the business of the east was not that better than the present arrangement would it not bo be better to fix things lei in this country so that the hie two millions of men who mho are idle would be earning some rome money which they in turn would pay to merchants mtr chants and uio tho artisans artisan near them w which bich in turn would gravitate to the east in payment of at goods purchased hated there or would materialize in little bomea why not make a gle to havo have the people of this country generally prosperous rather than to lo wear our lives out in the approval by england of a financial polio policy y on oil thin side which was made solely lit in li en n glands be behalf half As to foreign trade I 1 the only place wo we can look for any great advance will bo be in the spanish american colien countries trim As those countries grow there aill te be a market for our agricultural implements our household furniture pianos locomotives and an a thousand things bich which a we poss possess ess but to secure that tha trade trad c we are d doing positively nothing we ought to be running steam lines there our government ought to get behind organizations of our own citizens and rush putli railroads into those countries and it jonghe to call a conference no 0 o that wo we could have a common coinage colna ge with all those south lands there would lie be sense irk in that but the idea of trying to ar arrange rang L our country in such a way ax an will bring around such a reduction of wages al will enable us to compete with the pre pauper it labor of cluro europe e in the ordinary markets 0 of f ill the word world cannot bo be done because hi cahim the workingmen of Aure america 1 will work a at t no such wages they would rather tear the government to pieces Secie tary morton Is 14 a most brilliant man a most wonderful scholar but on tile two most important questions that conceio the people of the itlie united states slates to wit the silver question and the tariff question he Is wholly absolutely radically w wrong rang |