The McCook tribune., 1890-10-17


the tariff has :6c. ased the price of
crockery and cii:naware. when the fact
is that wi.niD the .ast nine years, un.
der that tariff system, which has en-
couraged tine production of china and
crockeryware within the United States,
the price has diminished from 80 to 40
per cent.
There are men here old enough to
remember the time when the picture of
the lion and the unicorn-the English
emblem of supremacy-was upon the
bottom of every plate upon our table
The price of such plate was SC great
as to justify the bouncing of the SER
want girl out of the window if she al
lowed one of them to fall upon the
floor. Today the price of such articles.
under the American tariff, and by
American production, is so cheap that
you can throw the whole table set right
through the motto, God Save Our
Home" and nobody complain.
"They complain of the tarltf on wool
with the statement that it has SO in
creased the price of carpets that the
labOring man can not save enough
money in year to buy carpet to put
upon his parlor floor. ask these men
to go over to the'poor laborer in Eng
land and Germany and find the labor
ing man that can save enough money,
under the European wage system to
even buy floor to put carpet upon.
''They tell us that tariff on wool
has so increased the price of clothing
that the laborer and farmer can not
afford to wear broadcloth coat. But
few weeks ago, in Chicago, l witnessed
the parade on Labor day of 10000 la
boring men. And I say to you that l
never saw so large a body of men to-
gether who universally wore such good
clothes. The labor parades in France
and Germany and Italy brought forth
thousands upon thousands of men
dressed in rags and tatters and many
bare-footed and bare headed, for the
reason that under the low wage system
they could not save money enough to
keep their bleeding feet from treading
on the rough stones and protect their
bare heads from the hot sun of heaven.
''The tariff system of America by the
enhancement of wages has made labor
respectable and honorable. 1t has furn-
ished employment to millions of men.
1t is fast transplanting the manufac-
turer from Europe to the soil of Amer
lea. 1t has added millions of men to
the consumers of the agricultural pro-
ducts BY the increasing of our home
consumption it has added to the price of
what is produced by the farmers By this
system there has been added to the price
of the agricultural products of this
country sum of money annually
greater than the whole amount of tariff
paid under the present revenue system.
''God gave to the people of Nebraska
a soil well adapted for the raising of
flax seed as well as of corn. Yet we
seem never to have found it out until
after the war tariff came along and a
tariff of 20 cents per bushel was put
upon flax seed and a tariff of 25 cents
per gallon ON linseed OIL
CLARK Woodman of Omaha, believ-
proftably devote portion of her land
chased the seed in 1870, loaned it out to
the farmers of this state and entered
into an agreement with number of
farmers to purchase all the flax seed
they rai.ed. La 1870, under the benefi-
cent protection OF he tariff, he con-
cluded 20 embark his money in the build
ing of .inseed Oil works in the city of
Omaha, investing capital of $780,
That little plant n.s grown from its
small beginning until today it has
capital OF 81, 100, 900. Its great mills,
smokestacks and warehouses tower up
above the surrounding structures, SO
that the immensity of the institution
can be seen from every hillside of the
city. During these twenty years of
growth that Institution has purchased
from the farmers of this state 100000
bushels of flax seed and has paid to the
farmers therefore $S.877, 900 in money.
During these twenty years 100000
acres of land have been devoted to
raising flax seed. 1t was the diverting
of 6,000, 900 acres of land from the rails
ing of cheap corn to the raising of
new product, which brought about
new source of revenue and created
diversified interests.
During this same twenty years this
institution has furnished employment
for vast number of mechanics and
skilled laborers and paid them the sum
of S2,4S5, 900. Its money has gone forth
to buy machinery-thus adding to the
laboring interests of the iron industries.
Its money has gone forth to purchase
lumber to build its big institutions
thus contributing to those who delve in
the deep forests. It has paid out its
money to skilled artisans, who reared
its massive structures-thus giving en-
ployment and adding to the revenue of
the carpenters.
During these twenty years the oil
and oil cake produced and sold throug-
out the entire expanse of the United
States has brought back to the state of
Nebraska in money SIG. 5000. This
institution has present capacity for
handling 5000 by5aels Of lax seed per
day, or about 1000, 900 bushels per year.
During the present season this institu-
ton will distribute among the farmers
of this state, for fax seed, more, than
81, 600, 000
Here is great institution, standing
as a monument of the benifcent and
wide pervading influence of the Ameri-
can protective tariff system, the bene-
fits of which go to the farmers alone.
Wipe out your tariff ;.t.i that big insti-
tuition must become "a waste place and
the farmers of. the state lose a million
dollars year.
TIE PRICE OF CORN.
'McKeighau tells the people in his
congressional district that the low price
of corn in 1889 was due to undercon-