Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-12

worked by the month on farm 20
| from 8 to dollars per month and board
or from $50 to 500 for years work. 4
mechanic got from IS cents to S1.0U ,
day. Clothing of all kinds was much
higher than at the present. Prin
calico was As to 80 cent.
a yard. muslins of all kind:
were the same at this time. England
had US wholly at her command and they
used us as the monkey did the cat paw
O, these blessed old Democratic DAYS.
How they long to so back to the old
flesh pots of Egypt, OF slavery and igno
rance.
Now, / want to answer some of the
inquiries of Farmer Doolittle. In the
first place there are only about s per cent
OF our products go abroad. Second, Kan
sas. being almost exclusively an agricul.
tural state, she can't possibly consume
her vast products until she turns her at.
tention to manufacturing interests.
Maine. Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Connecticut and New
York don't raise one-third the bread and
meat, potatoes and cabbage and fruits OF
all kinds, and it is such Republicans as
Afr. Doolittle that viii keep the state of
Kansas from consuming her products for
the next twenty years to come. lie Is
hauling the water and chopping the
wood for the Democratic party to feed
the engine Of free trade 90 destroy the
industries of America.
st. Louis, No., is about the largest dis
tributing market for hardware in the
world, wholesale. These wholesale men
sell hardware for less than the tariff on
it-nails at 3 cents pound. Now. does
anybody but free trade idiot imagine
that if there was no tariff on nails the
hardware merchant would give his GUS
toner bonus of about dollar Oh the
keg-the difference between the tariff
duty and the selling price: The presi-
dents message and the absolute idiocy
Of the Democratic platform! Our mer-
chants don't want to send to Europe for
their goods when better wares can be
obtained at home for the same or less
money: hence, most of them are in favor
of protection and home market, for
which the Republican platform con-
tends. The Democrat platform, on the
contrary, In effect advocates the taxing
of American merchants for the privilege
of doing business at home and letting
foreign peddlers come in and sell their
goods without paving for the privilege.
We will now take iron and steel.
When it was all made by Europe,
from 1884 to 1916, under a very
low duty or almost none-under this
free trade-every pound of our iron and
steel was made by foreign manufactures.
We paid as high as $50 ten for the
first we got, and in 1862 the congress
placed duty on the European product
of S2S ton and in the short space of
five years our American manufacturers
had reduced the stee! and iron rates S3S
on the ton, and by the year 1874, just
twelve years, we had reduced the price
to $50, or 500 of q reduction in twelve
years, and this reduction has still gone
on SO that at present we pay from $50 TO
$50 ton. Any honest man can see that
protection reduces the price instead of
it, as the Democratic party
would try to make you believe. In
twenty-five years we have reduced the
price of iron and steel STA on the ton.
The very same reductions have been
made III all manufactured products.
such as clothes and all kinds Of printed
md plain cambrics and mu.lins,
mats and caps, shoes and boots; in
| word, all goods that are pro-
and all kinds of
agricultural implements and mechanical
OOls, wagons and buggies. Labor of all
kinds has more than doubled. Thirty
i've and forty years ago the mechanics
md common laborerS had to work twelve
hours for days work at $780, down as
ow for common labor as 30 and 80 cents.
food mechanics commanded 75c to 81. 25,
While they all put i'll twelve hours day,
nd we had no strikes in those DAYS. Now
he same mechanics. for the same class
# work, only two hours shorter days, or
en- hours, they get $3.50 to $3.50: the
ommon laboror gets three times as much |
nder protection as he did under free
rade.
Now l want these low tariff gentlemen |
o get tariff for revenue pipe and smoke |
hese items for awhile. If they are too |
trong, or little too American for their |
aste, they can just slip over to France, |
,ngland or Germany and stay among |
he half-starved, oppressed European la |
orers, and 1 think twelve months would |
make them all good American protec-
OnistS.
| want to say a few words about this
reat country. All of Europe and Asia
,ok upon this as the greatest country in
ne world and we have stood for the last
IL years with outStreached arms invit
lg them to come and take up their
bode amongst US. We have the most
aried climate and soil: we can raise
lost of the fruits, nuts and figs. raisins,
,mOns. oranges, coffee, tea, sugar, cot
IN, hemp. flax, rice. and why not pro-
ect these industries until we shall be-
ONE self supporting: If we were well
rejected we would not have to pay out
one hundred million.
The time is not far distant when
mericans viii wake up to her own in
rest. We pay out for sugar 81, 800, 900,
l0lasses $500 900. tobacco :l1 100000,
otatoes 81 800, 400, barley $6,1J2. S25,
leese SO. 55e, 464, beans $4is, 000 pickles
/ 900, 900, wool S25 600, 600, eggs and
utter So, 23G. 900. All of the above
AIMED products ought to be made at
ONE and the money distributed among
IT manufacturers and farmers. This
56. 42J, 2S9 is money lost to the farmer,
le merchant and the laborer of Amer
a. 1t is money wasted to Americans.
J.. WILKINS.
HE DEPLETED ARKANSAS RIVER.