The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-14

OOdIu. Inc expression Is unmlSCakaDle
! The people have been wronged, an,
; they know it; it is time to speak GU
: upon the subject.
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!. WHAT CARTER COSTS THEM.
The farmers of the state of Montan
have direct interest in the approach
, ing election. 1t comes home to them a
it comes home to every man who has
money to spend for the necessities o
life. The republican party endorses The
Mckinley bill. Carter's vote makes hin
responsible for that bill. His vote to
day is taking an additional fifteen pei
cent. out of the pockets of every farmer
and laboring man in this state. Are
Carter's services to Montana worth the
extra money? Is the love Of Carter per
Sc 60 strong in the breasts of the toilert
Of Montana that they will submit to be
plundered to enrich the money-bugs OF
the East? There is no exaggeration
in the question. A perusal Of the bill
will convince any intelligent voter of the
truth OF what we say. An article, that
cost him forty seven cents before the
passage of this grossly unjust measure,
costs him sixty-two cents now. Your
storekeeper will assuIe you it is so.
Your bill will prove it. Every addition
al fifteen cents, that you are paying
without additional results for your
necessities, is being extracted from your
pockets by Thomas Henry Carter, and
handed over to the already wealthy
manufacturing class.
The agriculturists of this country
number over seven and one half millions
Whenever they have TO buy protected
article worth one dollar, Mckinley and
Tom Carter force them to pay for it one
dollar and sixty cents. If each individual
OF this class purchases in year S1CO
worth of goods, that represents to him
or her a dead loss OF $50. To the whole
body of agriculturists, it means yearly
loss of moro than s46OOOOO0O Think
what that sum means! II the farmers
of this state are content to hand over
their share of this enormous amount to
eastern manufacturers, they will vote
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said. II they would have it in their
power to retain the greater portion Of it
for themselves, if they would see mort
cages removed, farm lands and farm
buildings improved, if they desire reason
able reward for their arduous labor,
they can help to accomplish these de-
sirable ends. That is the meaning of
vote for W. w. Dixon. A vote for Car
ter means that on an expenditure of
$6l.9O for wife's' store bill, the farmer
or wage Garner has to pay to this tariff
god S2O.76. One-fifth of it goes to swell
the surplus where it Is not needed, and
four-tifths to supply luxuries for the
capitalists. That is one thing our
darling boy" has not failed to do for
Montana.
To compensate HIM for his extra loss,
the farmer receives from this admins
tration-fine words. Practically nothing
more. In their opinion he is a poor,
simple fool. He is fair game, a bird that
can always be caught with the same
mouldy, ill-smelling chat. 'This great
industry says the report of the
committee on ways and means,
is foremost in magnitude and import
ance in our country. No prosperity is
possible to other industries if agricul-
ture languish. In so far as the foster
ing care of government can be helpful,
it must be faithfully and forcibly exert |
ed to build up and strengthen agricul-
ture." The farmers of Montana will
please bow down to the earth in token
of their gratitude. They are fostered,
but it is by one-eyed stepmother, who
assures them that their troubles arise
chiefly from most damaging foreign
competition in the home market. Far
mers are easily fooled, Mckinley be-
lieves. He assures them that the i'm
portations OF farm products into this
country last year amounted in value to
s65, l23.5l9, and the Inter Mountain
swallows the absurd statement, and
swallows it whole. 1t did not know, or
it did not choose to tell, that to back up
this utterly absurd sum total Mr.. Nc
Kinley was forced to quote importations
of sugar, tea, coffee, fruits, tobacco, ami
mails and fbers, the last including wool,
hemp, jute, etc. What does the sugar
industry in nine-tenths of the states
amount to? 1t is practically unknown
in thirty-six OF the forty-two states.
How much tea and coffee are raised in
Montana or in this countrys The ami
mails imported are chiefly breeding
stock.
What are the honest, straightforward
facts Of the matter? Is the American
market crowded with foreign ac.
ricultural importations? Last wear
there were imported into this
country 2.3Ss bushels of corn;
1,946 of wheat; OF oats, % ,324 bushels;
wheat -four, 1,155 barrels, and of rye, 16
bushels. What an utter sham it all is!
OF corn we did not import sufficient to
feed the consumers of one small village
of our 100000 inhabitants. Wheat
brought in the enormous revenue OF
20, and the farmer ia asked to be-
lieve that he is crowded out Of the home
market. Why, the home market has no
scope for him. He is forced to buy in
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