The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-01-24
1 { DENN1s ON pnorECmoN

EDITOR RUNIoN:-Yo ou ask il Dennis does
not favor a protection between states
No, he does not. But he thanks the
editor the suggestion which causes
this article.
Iwould state, to commence with, that
no one deplores sectional hate, strife and
prejudice more than Dennis does. In
fact, h4lays the foundation Of all our
class ard misrule and the consequent
usurpation OF the peoples rights, to sec
tional hate and prejudice, fostered and
stirred up continually by political dem
agogues and the any-way-to-getrthere
office seeking class to blind the voter so
that he is unable to see that he is being
robbed and legislated against, until from
sheer poverty and dependence he is un-
able to assert his manhood. The enorth-
western and western farmer has been
particularly unfortunate in the distribu-
ton OF the loaves and the fishes, and
still they votes forprotection to our in
fant industries, not knowing that they
get the worst OF their bargain every time
Dakota and Siberia are the last on the
harvest calender. If the world is short
IN it's bread supply, we get barely enough
to pay for raising. Ii there is enough
:syithadt ogc quota, we have to market
our crops at q loss, and in q market open
to competition from all the world Our
surplus products OF grain, beeves and
pork are free OF duty to all the other
states, and to all the world, as far as
United States laws are concerned. Let
us see how protective tariff serves us
in turn.
Massachusetts, surplus product, or, in
fact, of all the New England states, is
manufactured and designed to be traded
to the northwestern farmer. The oper-
atives in the New England mills pay us
no more for our products than the pau
per operatives OF Europe are willing to
pay us. Then the laws-of our own
making-step in and forbid the farmer
to exchange with the operative who will
sell his products the cheapest unless he
pay a fine on, for instance, cotton goods.
I'll mention few articles: Carpet warp
or wrapping twine, we pay a duty OF 10
cents per pound; on muslin, unbleached,
215 cents per yard; on beached muslin,
valued at 10 cents a yard, 3R cents per
yard; on calico, 215 cents per yard; on
thread, cents per dozen. New England
gets hides free, and enjoys a protection
on leather OF so per cent, and on har-
nesses and shoes, 35 per cent. To Penn
sylvania we pay a bounty on coal OF 70
cents per ton; on pig iron, S7.2O per ton;
on steel rails, SIT per tor, making -our
railroads cost 81 800 more per mile; on
glass, from 1 to so cents per squarefoot
thereby making a business block cost at
least $500 more than it would without
a tariff. To the southern states we pay
a tribute OF 31155 cents per pound on sugar;
211s cents on rice; on oranges, SLIGO per
thousand on lemons, 50 per thousand.
On rything that we do not produce
ourselves, we are paying a tribute to
other states or sections.
Is III any WOnuer, then, tnat all the
wealth goes from the producer to the
manufacturers? Charity begins at home
and no man does himself, or his family
| Justice when he votes taxes on himsel
and his earnings to the benefit OF othel
people. What difference does it max,
to the Dakota farmer whether Pennsyl
vania glass-blowers-just from Austria
make So or $40 per day; They will pay
no more for our surplus food product!
than if they blew glass in Bohemia. Still
ii we want the product OF their labor, WI
pay a premium OF 1913 per cent simply
because they do their blowing in al
American factory. Where is the justice
or sense OF it. DENNIS,