The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-11

sonable taxation and restraint" pon
such OF our citizens within our own bor-
ders, as desire to exchange the products
oil their labor with people beyond oU bor-
ders. That THIS is the policy of ne re-
publican party" we know. That il rs the
dictate OF enlightened patriotism" mere is
no proof, and It does not conf y 20 COM
mon sense.
Who are the people in this cour,ry upon
whom reasonable taxation and 'estraint'
Is now imposed because they wish to ex-
change and do exchange the products of
their labor with the people OF ioreign ma
tlons? Are they criminals wine desire to
exchange stolen goods, or honest men who
have made more Of certain product than
their fellow-citizens can use?
Their numbers are large. Between 1850
and 1855 the average yearly value Of what
they exchanged was. SIS, Ss0,65l, repre-
sentlng the yearly wages o. earnings of
2,6O02l0 persons. il the earrings of all are
averaged by the known earnings OF II per
cent. The reasonable taxation" imposed
upon the exchange averaged between 1881
and 1888 exactly Sl99, S07 ,233 yearly, and
the restraint" imposed upon the ex-
change was 50 great that s94, 509, 324 worth
OF the products that went abroad were
yearly invested abroad in foreign ships,
mills and industrial enterprises, furnish
ing employment to foreigners, because the
senders could not afford to bring their pay
ment back to this country and have an
average fine OF 80 per cent deducted from
II at the custom-house. The country was
drained OF its wealth, of the products of
labor, at the rate of So. DOS. 324, at the
dictate of enlightened patriotism" and by
the policy OF the republican party" It
Is Mr.. McKinley's proud boast that since
1859 we have exported, in excess Of the
value of material brought into the country,
s., 56l 100000 worth of our products and
81 ,532 100000 worth Of our precious met
ais, making total transfer abroad OF our
national wealth of S3.093, 100000, every
dollar of which has been invested abroad
to build up foreign nations. To transfer
our national wealth TO foreign countries
by encouraging exports and discouraging
imports, by forcing our exports of wealth
TO exceed our imports of wealth-has been
the policy of the republican party" but
the enlightened patriotism" is hard to
find.
The people in this country who desire to
exchange with chose without" are our
farmers. From "A to IS per cent. of all
our exports are the products of agricul-
ture, the remaining small amount being
made up of the products of our oil wells,
fisheries and mines. 0ne-half the male
workers in the United States are engaged
In agriculture, and over one-fourth of
these have no market in the United States.
The absolute freedom OF exchange thin
our own borders and among our citi-
zens," which Mr. Mckinley saws they may
enjoy untaxed and without constraint. has
no value to them. Our own citizens" do
not want and cannot use one-fourth the
product of our farms. Three-fourths Of
our agricultural product is sufficient to
feed every one in the United States, and
one-fourth can be and Is sold abroad, the
farmers being subject to the reasonable
taxation and restraint, which it is the pol
icy of the republican party to impose upon
the payment, after it comes into the coun-
try and before the farmer receives it.
Here is an interesting little table which
every farmer may proftably study. He
would not do i'll to keep it pasted in his
hat: