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manufactured into ciotli and then brought back here, when with 
our unsurpassed water-powers, our healthy climate, our cheap sub¬ 
sistence and unemployed labor, we could manufacture as cheaply 
as any other country? When you buy a yard of cloth made in 
Wisconsin you know what you are buying. Honest cloth—none 
of your shoddy, such as Great Britain sends here every year by 
the millions of yards. Indeed Great Britain imports rags from 
all quarters of the globe, which she grinds up and works into 
cloth. In a single year she has imported as high as 700,000,000 
pounds of rags. These imports come largely from southern 
Europe and Africa, and ten chances to one that you free Ameri¬ 
can citizens, whom I now address, who are too proud or too fool¬ 
ish to wear American cloth, have now upon your backs the cast¬ 
off rags of some Italian beggar or some other more disgusting ob- 
j ect. 
He said that he had observed with great satisfaction on exhibi¬ 
tion here a beautiful display of shawls made by the Waukesha 
Manufacturing Company, equal to any made at Paisley or Hud¬ 
dersfield; and good enough for the best lady that treads the earth, 
and she that would not be satisfied with such a shawl ought not 
to have any, and the husband, having a wife too proud to wear 
such, ought by the laws of the state be entitled to a divorce in- 
stanter. 
He desired to see agriculture and manufacturing go hand in 
hand, and then we should have real,prosperity. 
No country can become rich by the exportation of grain or 
coarse materials. All the profit is absorbed, and always will be, 
by the cost of transportation. 
In raising products for a distant market this question of trans¬ 
portation cannot be too carefully taken into consideration. To 
send a bushel of wheat to Liverpool or Glasgow costs more than 
its value at the place of production, while to send the products of 
the dairy will not cost over one-twelfth of its value. To raise 
wheat for export ruins the farm, while the dairy farm is constantly 
increasing in value. He would not further depart from his pur¬ 
pose of not making a speech than to say that he congratulated 
the farmers on their excellent display, which gave abundant evi¬ 
dence of the state's progress and their independence. 
