Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-06-13
THE TARIFF.
LA rOLLE

twice the space occupied by the President
Message.
Indeed, it may be regarded as La Fol-
lette's message to this District, and upon
the position taken by him in this speech
we are to decide as to his fitness for re-
election this fall
Looking at it thus a review OF that posi-
tion may be Of interest. as the time for
us to act il near at hand. There Is no
need of splitting hairs or multiplying
words in fine distinctions. Represen-
tatiye either does or does not represent
his constituency. For be it known that
Mr. La Toilette is committed TO tins NC
Kinley Bill both by voice and vote. Is
the Mckinley Bill in line with the needs
of this District! 1t is not. Draw red
line there, and La Toilette in supporting
it misrepresents his District. and in the IN
terest of the people must be defeated Five
Counties make up this District Eight
ont Of ten Of the people are farmers, and
the remainder obtain IA livelihood more or
less directly from the soil. Lrt us go
back little, when the Morrison Bill"
seeking to lower tariff taxes 70 per cent.
on the necessaries % life was before the
House, did he vote for it? No. Did he
seek TO remedy its defects by Amendment
or substitute, not at all, he voted to strike
out its enact ng clause, refusing TO con
slider it, Later, when the "Mlls Bill
sought TO extend the free list and redrce tax
alton per cent Oh the blankets, woo!ens,
iron, steel and chemicals used in this Dis
trict, did itreceive his help? Not bit oft,
b ut rather his unqualified opposition.
Now comes the Mckinley Bill, - increas-
ing in many ways tn" load of taxation and
cutting off as fully rs may be the
trade of our country this he votes
for. challenge him to,uame one nation,
truly great in the world = history that did
not have the world for its market.
Ills action in voting 2 cents per pound
bounty on sugar, repeating tariff on some
grades, is pointed 10 as creating almost a
revolution. " in his favor.
Whence comes this right to take the
peoples cash and hand it to sugar far
mers to make their business profit
able? When did the people surrender
their right in this matter? They de
mand an answer, but will search in vain |
for it through the long sentences of L
speech in which many trivial things find
space.
The people have not complained while
for years II dollars worth of labor gave
them only 81 cents to buy the necessaries |
Of life, but to have their moncy given as
a b,ibc to induce men to 90 into natur-
ally unproftahlc farming makes them |
pause by the way, why single out sugar
raiscrs 10 the exclusion of wheat ralsers |
in bestowing grltuity? ! can see why
the people, money might he given as
bounty to the Indians, but that an mdifstig !
among the whites should be the pet of our
wise men ut Washington passes under
standing. Is not one Industrious citizen |
as deserving as another. There are but |
1904 acres of sugar cane in Louisiana, |
cultivated for the money there is it, there |
il double that number Of acres of corn in |
l. District, cultivated for the money there |
Is IN it, al present prices there il mighty |
little money in it either Now why pass
by these farmers to favor farmers else |
where
Since our Congressman and his party |
set out to hire farmers tu raise crops then
wheat, corn and oat crops must not he
overlooked
Are we sure we get the force of this
bounty to sugar growers? Look at it, he |
gives by HI voice and vote $3.50 900 of |
the peoples money ESTIMATED on sugar
crop of 1881, to these men each year for
l. years This SUM equals 81 per cent. of
the yearly interest on the National Debt
Money among the people of this Dis
triet easily brings Z per cent interest |
this bounty would pay the interest on
sl07 ,42S.5 81 principal
II would pay the entire State debt of |
Wisconsin three times; why, this bounty |
equals more than S25 apiece to each head |
Of family in this State, if donated to
the voter, of |. District it would give |
each democrat republican, prohibition
and labor voter sl975O. In his haste to
defend this scheme of plumber it were
strange if Mr.. L did not find himself |
face to face with facts which subtcrfuge |
cannot hide
For instance, he says, I'VE are for |
their lhigh tuNcs) continuance, because of |
the radical difference betwees The United |
States aud any Of the competing countries
of the world 1t Is conceded sir, that W,
have great natural advantages over almost
all countries mot some Coustries, but all
countriesl, we reach from Manitoba on the |
north to the tropics on the south under |
us are the treasures of the earth, mighty |
rivers as they run to the sea waste a power !
sufficient to serye all the wants of all the |
people Of the world We have the |
natural conditions for an almost |
unlimited diversity of industry. We !
could maintain anyone Of these industries |
(marl you, we could not that we have,
Oh. no, yet for twenty-five years we have |
been protected y against the competition /
of the world if all the conditions Grover !
Cleveland said lit is condition not a |
theory that corfronts us'') which control. |
all the elements which constitute the value |
of production, were the same here that
they are in foreign countries"
Now see what follows But here all the |
conditions Of life, the environment of the |
individual are different Here the hmita- |
tions upon intellectual growth and devel-
opment, the social place, and the financial |
success and triumph of each person are |
fixed by his own character and power |
alone. care not what his birth or station. |
though born to an inheritance of power |
ty and toll and obscurity, if he be capable. |
if he be honest If he be industrious, # he !
have courage and pluck and persistence, /
he will win wealth and power ana honor |
and fame, All around him les inviting
and unlimited ppportunity