The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-10-07
President Cleveland, in his last annual.
stated the Democratic doctrine as

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II think the reduction should be made in
the revenue derived from . tax upon the
imported necessaries Of life. We thus d.
rectly lessen the cost Of living in every
family of the land, and release TO the peo-
pie in every humble home Q large measure
Or the rewards Of frugal industry
Now to apply these facts and figures,
and the laws relating to imposts on d
few articles Of import, with which
the most Of people living hereabouts
are quite familiar. Take WOODEN yarn
for example,; it costs in Canada 60
cents per tb; in order to get it here,
we have to pay a specific duty Of "a
cents a poutid and40 per cent on its
value per tb, making :44S cents in all
or $1.08 cents a pound.
Ready made clothing, 40 cents a fb,
specific duty, and 81 per cent. ad val
orem. A suit Of clothes, costing in
Canada $40, costs here 5000. On
the Canadian tweed, costing 80 cents
q yard, which MI. Peter Ferguson
brought into the settlement last win
ter, he paid more in duty than the
original cost. =
The same thing is true of blankets
AS of WOODEN yarns, 40 cents specific
and 40 percent on the value. Manu-
fauctures of leather have a duty of
80 percent ad valorem. But the most
oppressive duty ON the necessities of
life, most felt by every woman and
child in our midst, who wears a cloak,
a dolman or an ulster, whether in
whole or in part wool. is where, regard
less Of cost, a specific duty of As cents
a pound and 40 per cent. ad valorem
are imposed by this highly protective
tariff of the d. o. republican party.
1t is now generally believed that
the railroad to Bottineau will not be
ironed this season because of the scar
city Of and the people Of
Bottineau county may thank the Re-
publican party and curse the tariff,
which sets a duty on imported iron,
and hot only that, but which enables
a combination of Pennsylvania manu-
facturers to limit the amount to be
manufactured; and the farmer will
have to haul his grain thirty or for ty
miles to market, thus reducing thu,
value of his product from 8 to 5 dents
a bushel; and these are SOME Of the
blessings of a protective tariff!
With the record Of poverty, distress,
blasted lives, living wrecks, starvation
and death arising, from: strikes and
lockodts all over the country, it may
truthfully be said, of protection and
republicanism, in the vigorous Ian
guage of the Very Rev. Canon Doyle,
concerning l%andlordism in Ireland,
at is one of the most atrocious. ~tyranpies
and one of the most b~loodstained systems
of organized vii Amy that ever cursed a
nation"
# we had a tariff for revenue only
and the people had had the blessings
of a modified free trade for the past
ten years, no such condition Of things
could have existed as was telegraphed
all over the country on the 18th of
January, 1886, where at Waterford,
Conn.,, 200 able bodied men with their
families attended the meeting Of the
board of guardians and demanded
admission to the workhouse. They
said they were' starving aid unable to;
get work, while at the slime time, in
the city of New York, $500, O0O, 600
dollars were being distributed among
persons! Here then is the great
of the hour, chrystalized by the
n. x. World in the following unsm-
language: i.
"On one side are arrayed those who find
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their profit in sustaining abuses whereby
The few are enriched at the expense Of the
and whereby what are really class
privileges Ore maintained. On the other,
tide are those who are awakening to 9 sense
# how they are being burIensd and reaifz-;
ng their claims to o better state Of affairs.
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The people can MP II niger be deluded into
he belief that there can be any honest 40
Of single fortu mes Of many mil
ions solely through public franchises
In this part Of tile COUNTRY We are
out few and our vote is insignificant,
outt our duty is pla IN, the work IS
us and bur exa, nple will be
powerful in the .ineu lcul alton Of right
md the condemnation o wrong. We
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