Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-30
Mr.. overstrset Rev,swsd

EDITOR INDEX: \ school boy, should
he choose TO take the trouble, could
learn from any of our histories that a
conflict of arms had been waged be-
tween the north and south. 1t is con-
coded 10y all and disputed by none that
a war, and a very destructive war at
that, was waged from 81 to '65, that
the right of secession was abandoned
and the seeding states returned back
TO the Union of states that they had
tried to withdraw from. That much,
doubtless, Mr.. Jess Overstreet may
have learned from history, but after
listening to his speech delivered at the
court house last Friday evening, con-
clude that he never read history at all,
but has learned his lesson on street cor
ners, listening to the rabble. lie fought
the war all over again and he himself
was the central figure, with the balance
of the republican party shining as the
lesser lights or rather only rejecting
the small pittance of light that the
grand central figure sees fit in his mercy
and goodness TO emit.
Farmers. mechanics, laborers. are you
willing to believe anything that was
spoken that evening concerning the
future OF this country? Read, reflect
and be unimpassioned before coming
to conclusion. Will you allow your
selves TO be misled by political tricks
tiers, mouthed 10y men that know nothing
about political economy as the source of
wealth?
Mr. Overstreet said that 'only per
cent. of the wheat raised in this
country was exported, and that if you
removed the duty of 20 cts. per bushel
from wheat, that India would pour her
cheap wheat into our ports"
Now let us study the above PROPOSE
tion candidly and see what there is in it.
The latest reliable statistics at hand
in my possession is the report of the
commissioner of agriculture for the
year 1856, published in 1887.
On page 373 we learn that for years
1881. 81, 49, "a, 50 the expectation of
wheat was respectively 81, %, 20, 20 and
20 per cent. and the average for the five
years 27.9 per cent. So much for his
yeracity in that particular.
Now as to his cheap India wheat, on
page 413 we learn that
India produces. go. .2S7 900, 900 bushels,
and consumes. .240, 600, 900 bushels,
having surplus of. 47,OO0OO0 bushels.
The United states (see page 4O9)
Produces. ....... .435 ,6S5,524 bushels,
consumed. ....... 31l .231 ,Ol6 bushels,
a surplus Of. .12i, 453 AIS bushels.
Farmers do You think India is going
to deluge us with her IL million surplus?
Now, l ask Mr.. Oyerstreet or any re-
publican to show us how India can COM
pete with us in our home markets and
then explain to us what he intends to
do with our l24 million bushels surplus.
Theorizing about home consumption
won't go with us for the bare fact stares
us in the face and the surplus still piles
up. q
Now as to price. He affirms that the
tariff increases the price of wheat 20
cts. per bushel. Now let us see if facts
Will sustain him. The present tariff
has been on wheat good many years
and if prices are governed by that law
they ought to remain firm. On page
S75, the value of the crop is by years as
follows: 1881, S1.l9.3; 50, $0.Ss.1; 'S3,
S0.9l; "a, SO.64.5; 'S5, SO.77.l and 'S6.
SO.6S.7. Please explain why it has
dropped with existing tariff a?
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