The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

aed1t-spe no gold Or silver was used or could
b used, the bullion excess always going with
khe merchandise excess But any one who
lmagfnes that reciprocity seeks Tor the mill
owner only the $1,000, Oo, 900 In the South
trade Ii deceived.
Europe sent the spanish Americas el.1O0.-
000, 900 OF mill goods, receiving 5000. 600. 900
IN Spanish-AmsTtcan FARM products-their
only exports-and took notes for 5000, OOO.-
600. with which It purchased American farm
products-
ture this whole Spanish American market for
mill-goods and to receive In payment for our
American mfll-goods the ee0o,000,0oo In
epanish-American farm products now sent to
Europe, - well as the I'll ,O0O, 900 now COM
ing here.
They are plotting for billions. not millions.
II any man doubts this l ofYer him tho proof.
Export and FINANCE Is the namo OF Q new
weekly journal established Ii this city at No.
Bowling Green, .devoted 20 the financial
interests Of the manufacturers Of the United
States and the exporters OF South America
Under date OF March 81 It sends out pros
pectus which begins with this paragraph:
Instsad Or tho ELEVEN HUNDRED
MILLIONS tl,1oo. 900. 900, Dollars Or
epanish- commerce farm prod
ucts] annually going 70 build mp and %
rich the crest commercial and manufAc-
turing industries or England. France and
Germany, these millions I'm Harm pred
ucssl should III come to the United
STATES. with earnest and patriotic effort
We can secure them. Evsrv er,ss Avert
con should LEND Aelpin0 hand.
Every dollar Of these "eleven hundred MILL
ions" represents farm products Every dol
lars worth OF goods for which they are ex-
changed Is the machine products OF mills
Only e20O, 600. 900 are tropical products which
cannot be raised IN the United States and
over e90O, OO0, 900 worth or these spanish
American farm products will enter directly
here into competition with our own, as they
now do In Europe with our exports, being
made up OF breadstufYs, provisions, cotton.
animals and other articles, the price OF which
Is now driven down here to the lowest posi-
Bile point because We raise more than we can
consume.
IN so many plain words this organ Of the
P1utOcratfc machine-owners OF our mills de-
clares that with earnest and patriotic effort
we tthe Plut0cratic owners Or mill machines)
can secure them" 1hese sl,1OO, 900 900
worth OF Spanish American farm products) In
exchange for our American machine products
A part Of this pinn was defeated by the DEM
ocrat1c Senators In the last Congress-the bill
to give American machine products trans
portation to South America at the public ex-
pense. Every true American should lend
helping hand" and the italics are It's own. to
dump this "eleyen hundred millions Of farm
products on us as the payment for American
machine products, enabling our machine
owners to supply the farm products as well as
the machine products consumed In this coun-
try.
As the total value OF the farm products
consumed In the United States In 1880 was
only - 800, OoO, 900 the Plutocratic bonanza
machine farmers and mill machine owners
propose TO destroy every Independent farmer
and make every man In the United states
either . machine lord or wage slave. Let
any man who doubts 1t write to Export ana
Finance, No. 5 Bowling Green, New York.
The American farmer must 60. He has sold
bis birthrtght In freedom and independence
for bloody shirt and British nag. Men are
living who will see the day when every tiller
OF the soil win wear a serf's collar, unless
something can be done to put q little man.
hood and touch OF self-respect into the Re-
publican voters who prefer 20 be buncoed
rather than know the TRUTH" and who "pre-
fer TO become serfs rather than believe the
American mfll-owner Is not their best friend
A. the wealth which could purchase
arm0r and build castle once enslaved
the half-naked and defenseless poor ol
Europe, 20 tho wealth to-day which can
buy machinery and dispense with human
labor = bound within the next century
- enslsve tho people Of tho United
states. From that there can BE- no escape
umph again as It has always trfumphed, and
history VIII repeat itself on this continent ..
on ever other.
Over s,o0o,o0o farmers, comprising /
majority OF tho voters or the country
once formed bulwark against which
plutocracy might have dashed In vain
Each man was m Independent sovereign
owning his land and lord OF his acres
His product was all wages. There wa.
practically no raw material, tor that was ai
and sunlight, furnished free. The machinery
used WINS his own, and its profits were addet
TO his own wages. His fArm labor furnished
al he used or enjoyed, and when he ex
changed his surplus corn for French silk o.
English broadcioth every cent OF value ii
every yard OF either represented his wnges
He had mnde the silk or the broadcloth on hi,
farm, out OF SEED and sunlight, In Nature'
laboratory,at no other expense than his labor
When he sold the silk or the broadcloth to BIZ
fellow-citizens what he received tor It wa.
wages for his firm labor.
Capital, controlling machinery, flrst enteres
into competition against his farm surplus, +,
cut on hts foreign wages received for labo
for foreigners, but before doing 50 asked TO
Protection against the foreigner ~ who ex
changed machine mill products for our farm
surplus. It meant Protection against the ex
change by the American farmer OF his labo
tor foreign wages, not against the foreigner.
Congress, to Protect the Machine, lined tn
American farmer 80 per cent. on every ex
change OF his labor products that entere,
into competition with American mill machin
>rv srnhlicfS and an AVERAGE n m nar cant