Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-04-20
THE TARIFF.
JESSIE. April lG. lsss

EDITOR COURIER.
What would be the result if our
people We're showed up ON the same num-
Der of acres as Great Britain and lleland
~ so square miles less than the terri |
tory of Dakota alone, then cake all tine |.
rest oi he states and territories away
from us. the!! force us to go an average
of 5000 miles for the bulk of our food
and raw material. carry it home. manu-
factu:e and carry out So per cent Of this
again 5000 miles to the markets Of the
world. MI. Editor, what would happen
our people under our tariff for robbery
if placed under the above circumstances?
We would have no paupers in our coun-
try very soon for they would all die off
like rats with poison put down in their
holes. Although we have one OF the
most fertile, most productive, easy titled
countries on earth. yet we barely live.
The masses not clothed comfortable and
scarcely decent, and on a continual
strain to keep the wolf from the door
with II people to the square mile, then
every few years our manufacturers lock
out enough aborerS to tramp the whole
world. and if we had Britain's popula-
tion. 29O people to the square mile, what
then. yes, what then? Don mention it.
| We are blessed with natural advantages
above every other nation on earth and
plundered in proportion to our advan-
lages Mr. Editor. heartily endorse
your admission that the tariff has notIl-
ing TO do with the price OF wheat but
has Il great deal to do with growing
wheat ut Il loss in our country and the
tariff operates on the enterprising farmer
who sends abroad for seed wheat for the
good of himself. his country and people
l'i.en he is taxed 20 cents per hushel
bat that is Il fall sample of the benefits
md blessings vonchsafpd to the farmer
bN protectionist a,iyo,ates. Supply All,
d II and rules the market. never ac
cuse the tariff for the low price Of Wheat
eXcep, that II has driven our best Gus
.umers away To develop other Wllea
t!t nus VIZ VIZ plii i''l
Wn.. M"Culiacll's article long that to COY,
iu' hln o hi- half coiumu obliged IL
pIaisi .ltsi;.!msniS. ~ NAT llie GENT,
ain,"r wants is not wild harangue but cole
| nt"ouVd faces and reasons. 4 may cry =
have been ro,ned. Smith s Il tlli"f. Rrolncr,
are ~! beng robbed hGl lni"~s he can pre- ",
that his watch IS gone an" that Smith las cot |
~ l:.ik il ali wind and HIS broii.,ts Viii soon &c
lireu.
lsr. He inquiries what w"nA he The result il
tn people OF lr ni,eL staes We're corrnilet
upon The sam" nuiIhrr ar contained 10y
Great Britain. and II high tariff prevailed.
Ans. Oar people would probably he in The
pos.l'on OF the German people. The popula,loI
OF lnied Germany is Very nearly great az rha
OF III, United States and ail contained III an are,
on fourth greater 'han that of Ca aifornia.
Supports al immense Standing army. ts protective
tariff is higher than that of the United Staies;anC
Nc' the people are happy. prosperous, we'll be
haStd well fed and well clothed. Mr.. McC. say.
that we under such cirsumsances would die of of
like rats with poison because of the tariff fol
HoBEERY. Mr.. Nee. mus1 have a poor opinion
OF The American people. He Is probably no
ware Of the fact ina1 free trade England ha,
100 i'0) pAuptrs while, by the census of 1850, ,hs
United States h:s less than 100000 paupers
These figures are better than talk about the poo
being robbed and piundercd. lie advocates put
ting their labor in competition with that of th'
chinese. He would reduce them all to panpcrism
l.2,i. Again, lie rays that the COURIER admit
thar we nav. no ow in Il foreign market ayains
. luuiau " heat. but that we have to sell in tha
foreign marke, h:cansr W. can get more than a
home. lie also jumps 10 the conclusion that IT,.
tlan WneHl Wpulu NOT come lHiO tus country J.
? our tariff on export wheat was removed becaus
Great Britain would pay more for it than America
Ans. Ii is over pr"dnction that is to blame fo
tn. low price of vii, at not the tariff. There is III
duty on outgoing wheat. We have a snrp'n
which we Americans can not raise nj the prescn
price with profit: the Indian wheat can be soil
for less than it brings now ~ profit; but. compe
tin. against white American labor, the East In
dian does NOT have 10 sci! it for less: With a re
moval of duty from wheat and u heavy India
and South Am. rican crop the home market wonl
undoubtedly be affected uisAStrOusy. lie argue
,at the price in the foreign market is is invarabl
This i. not true II is always changing. In tim
. Of ov,r production at home th. go per cent tari
n VIII at may lnenn nothing. We have TO sell T.
n any price; In time of droIth or unproduction ,
ica it ould prove u vital thing to our whei
grow .rs. That is the tariff on wheat now doe. !
u. mi ch good. You say II any man will devise
.rh"ne to bring Indian wheat into our market
cent. per bu.hel the wise men will rise up ~
bis memory. move in this direction 10 the sbe