The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
They Favor the American System.

They Favor the American System.
The platform Of the Iowa Republic
cans favors the American system of
protection and demands that farm
products shall share its benefits equal
~ with the products of other indus
tries. Mr.. Richman, temporary chair
man of the Iowa Democratic Conven-
ton, referring in his opening address
to the tariff plank of the Republican
platform, said:
sWhy, every schoolboy knows that
the American farmer meets no compe-
tition in the American market, and
that consequently to talk of protecting
him against foreign competition here is
sheer absurdity. You might as we'll
talk Of protecting the Chinaman
against his competitors of foreign tea
in the Chicago market, or the Green
lander against the competition of for
eign ice in the Greenland market.
The whole thing is stuff and nonsense.
And, what is more, the gentlemen who
assembled in Des Moines a month ago,
to frame this tariff utterance, knew it
to be stuff and nonsense. Their object
was simply to hoodwink the farmer.
The facts and figures given to the
public in the reports of the Bureau of
Statistics of the Treasury Department
furnish ample refutation of Mr.. Rich
mans statement, and also show which
party is trying to hoodwink the farmer.
From recent issues of that bureau we
learn that during the year ending June
30, 1889, there were imported into this
country the following articles entering
directly into competition with Ameri-
can farm products:
Breadstuffs, valued at....s sos, 724
Woo1 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. !q'sn ;na.stts. laS,s5s's i
Domestic animals (dutfable) ......... 3,936,7G6
Lac hses; S sass % and an esbsr sabstitutesj.:. g q .iss, ass
ToSscco nmanufacturedi. 1o S,sSs's ssS
Meats and dairy products........... 1,774,,39l
The Importation Of dntiabie articles
Of food and live animals last year
amounted to 1887, 1887. and about
an equal amount of the same articles
were admitted freeo Of duty. So it will
be seen that even the moderate protec-
ton afforded by the tariff is not suf-
Acient to give American farmers the
exclusive control of their own markets.
But the principal benefit derived by
the farmers from the American policy
Of protection is in the building up Of
diversified industries, giving employ
ment to o vast army Of toilers in facto-
iries and mines at liberal wages, there
BY creating here the best market in the
world for the products of the soil.
And the American farmers are too we'll
informed on this subject to be hood
winked by the sophistries of the free
traders. In fact, they constitute the
bulk of the party OF protection that
stands immovably against the assaults
Of foreign interests. Inter
Ocean.
The First Duty Of the Next Congress.
Gen. Weaver. Iowa's Ishmael, in
directly and Internationally did the
country good service in the last Con-
gress. By his obstinate course, taking
technical advantage Of the rules which
govern the House, he succeeded in
checking progress in, Liquidation 70,
wssks together, and thus ultimately
disappointing the hopes Of the country.
How was such . course even in
directly beneacialfs Insthis respect:
By his selAlh and unpatriotic insist.
oeo0apn III rights undsr til! rules,
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