The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-11-26

y ANDlANAs TIL
3enator Beck on Farners aud .
Tariff.
The lroquols club had banquet IN !
Chicago last week. at which numbers Of
Democrats made speeches 10 response 70
lossts. senator J. b Beck, Of Ken
lucky. responded 70 the toast. -The
Treasury Surplus and TsriG" and now
That there n no election pending, 70 .!
good time for every person 10 read such
speeches, and investigste the subject, :
that they may Be better able TO vote In
leiligentiy tWo years hence
The speaker began by paving tribute
10 the marvellous strides in wealth and
population Of the great West. and ex-
pressed the belief that he would live 10
see Chicago outstrip New York in pop
What. he asked, had this TO do
with sarifs and taxes and surplus rev.
enue? II had, he asserted, everything
10 do with II. To be great and COM
manding in this proud position the West
must tighten the bur lens of labor and
production. regain our lost carrying
trade on the high seas, and send our
manufacturers 10 Mexico. Central aud
Soush America. the West Indies, China.
Japan. the Congo, aud elsewhere. instead
cf giving them up 10 England. France
and Germany. Chicago was the prac-
tical eastern terminus Of the great trans
continental lines to the Pacific coast.
These corporations we're given public
lands larger in extent than Great Brit
ain aud the French empire to cheaper
transportation and open up trade with
China, Japan and the great Asiatic coun-
tries.
.Can you afford TO support policy
that diverts the commerce TO the British
Canadian line, which IL now abont com.
pleted with its extension. through ocean
steamers. to oil the ports Of Asia. and the
continental islands Of the Pacific? Yet
our tariff taxation and our antiquated
navigation laws exclude Us from COM
petition for that trade - eGectuslly - u
the American railroads had never been
built. am speaking TO the merchant
princes OF the world. You know that
machinery owned BY few men 10 now
driving human labor from our manufac-
turing establishments One person now
produces what Il required seven to pro.
ducc thirty years ago You know that
We have surrendered the trade IN man
utactUrsd goods. with l.5vO, COCOON ol
people ON the earth, 10 the natious oi
Europe In order 10 enable few protect
ed monopolists TO extort double prices
for their products from 6O.Oo0.OOO o.
, American taxpayers. You know tina
our machinery IL now more than equa
} IL Productive capacity to all the human
: muscle in the world; that II can produc'
{ in six months ell that this people car
consume in twelve, that IL 10 the slave o
! it, owners, and when idle consume
! nothing that human labor produces
; but the families Of the men who ar
I. hired to operate Il starve while II is idle
( and while lie owners hold their surpIu
I products tilI scarcity forces higher pri
: lces, which must come when competition
: from abroad is prohibited BY protective
tariff legislation. You know better thai
< any other body Of men that nineteenth
I of our exports are agricultural product'
y which with our vast railroad system an
; its daily increasing capacity and d
a cheapeuing OF transportation BY comps
o tition and inventions, coupled With th
{ donation OF public lands 20 the people Q
: al the world Who will come and tax
! them, are vastly IL excess Of the cor
}. sumptive capacity Of this country, an
4 that surplus is increasing year BY yea
4 II is 90 great nov that the foreign pric
4 or the surplus regulates the home pric
! or The whole crop. when wheat tails /
e Liverpool Il falls In Chicago. Whe
; -lcofton falls in London it falls 10 Ne
q Orleans. When tobacco falls 10 Paris
e falls IL Louisviile, and 90 through sIl u
q list al goods = ported.
= swhst can tne Chicago merchants .
ford 10 pay Mr. Dalry,nple, the gre
= Dakota farmer. for bic wheat? Simp
Althe Liverpool price. less the cost ,
in ,ransport alton by land and sea, with II
= commissions, interest, insurance and
1, reasonable profit on the venture dedu
tsied. Mr.. Dalrymple only gets what :
I. mains. III he ships Il himself he is !
= better Oh. When he gets 10 Liverpo
ofha meels the wheat from India, the Bl
4. tic aud the Black See. He gets just VII
= -Ithey get for : like article. He has