The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-08
eUITERwoRTH RlpDLEs a.

The Ohio Congressman Talks Again and
Expos-s tho Absursslty OF the Mckinley
lsiIi-1t Gives TIn-Whistle Tariff to
Farmers Necessity OF = broad B1arSzes
For Our Farm Pr0ducts-volisy After
voliey If Hot Shot For High Protection.
Speaker Reed is mighty man when
IT comes to making members of Congress
vote as he wants them to vote, but he
has not yet acquired the power of put
ting gag into the mouths of a few
members of Congress. Outside Of Con-
gress Blaine continues to breathe out
:hreatenings and slaughter" and. en-
boldened by his example, Congressman
Butterworth has INDUCED his soul by
giving vent to some more fine reciproc-
ity talk.
Butterworth, as is well known, has
long been a strong advocate of reciproc-
ity with Canada. He is not one of
those blind leaders of the blind protec-
tionists who think it good thing to
shut ourselves up with tariff bolts and
bars and shave nothing to do with
abroad"
In his celebrated attack on the Mo
Kinley bill it will be remembered that
Butterworth complained of our policy
toward Canada in these words: Against
our own countrymen here on the North.
in whose veins courses the same blood
that courses in our own-united to us
by destiny which is above the control
of Kings or Congresses-we shut the
door, we refuse even to accept their
lumber, but send our children shelter
less to bed rather than have a fair ex-
change with them"
In that strain Butterworth went on to
show that under President Grant q
treaty was negotiated designed to open
the avenues of trade between the north
ern part of our continent and the south
ern. not only providing for a free ex-
change of manufactured and natural
products, but opening up the canals and
railroads in order that the healthful
tide of our commerce might sweep
North and South, as it does East and
VEST
But this treaty was not confirmed.
What prevented it?" asks Butterworth,
and he answers his own question:
The avarIce in certain localities. The
opposition was dictated from the potato
patch, from the cabbage patch, from the hop
patch. Laughter and applausel And be-
fore the bill Is over you will see my honored
friend in charge OF the hop brigade, associ-
ated with the cabbage cavalry, endeaVortng
to persuade the farmer that his highest good
Is In combining ourselves to a market where
we do not sell now more than three fourths
of what we produce
After Butterworth had made such q
brave onslaught on McKinley's queer
measure-with its duty on eggs amount
ing to '.just one omelet year to each
of our people"-some persons were led
to suppose that he would vote against
it; but party pressure was too great
even for a man with mo star of am
bition above him that would tempt him
to climb on false ladders"
So Butterworth keeps up his spirits
by talking against the bill he voted for.
His latest talk was suggested by Harri-
sons little reciprocity message to Con-
gress transmitting Blaine's letter on the
same subject
Butterworth has very positive opin-
ion that we have carried this protection
business too far, and he rejoices that
there are signs that a halt is to be
called. Here is the way in which he
expresses himself: 1.-THE country does
not believe such high rates are essential
to adequate protection. There is no
nation in Europe where the Govern
ment shows less inclination than our
own to mind its own business and let
the private concerns of the people
alone. When conventions are brought
to approve policy they do not under
stand, and applaud particular acts of
which they have no definite knowl-
edge, we have reached perfection in
political machinery. In the presence
of such trying conditions it is refresh
ing to read the message and letter mem
toned. pointing out the necessity of
multiplying the opportunities of our
people by enlarging the area of our
trade and commerce."
The prospect OF the party for 1892
does not by any means please the Ohio
| Congressman and he asks: what is
our situation as a party? The tariff I'M
revised, and no consoling prospect that
the Senate will do more than transpose
| the exorbitant rates than abound in the
present schedule"
Then he comes back to the subject
of reciprocity as a means of widening
| the farmers market, and complains
bitterly of Congressional policy that
would narrow the field of our commerce
| and snub the nations of this hemis-
| phere, with whom alone we could hope
| to secure enlarged and favorable trade
relations We make prefer of plan to
| give farmers sugar at reduced rate,
but we won't let him sell his corn or
pork in order to pay for his sugar. We
pacify him by pointing to his home
market, as If we had to stand guard
over it to keep him from losing it Yes,
the farmer has a home market and he
holds it by title above the power OF
Congress. He is shown a tariff schedule
which runs the whole gamut from snap
beans through peas, onions, peanuts,
squashes, cabbages, eggs oranges, hops,
corn, rye, and wheat-all of which is as
useful to him as a duty on tin whistles.
McKinley's farmers tariff" is further
derided by Butterworth:
What use TO him (the farmer) is a tariff on
| is duty on corn? We can't bring a peck
from abroad. But we have succeeded in
shutting ourselves ont of the Canadian mar
ket. where we sold over S2l.O0e. O0o worth of
farm products each year. "But," says the
adversary, I'VE shut the Canadian out of our
market" Yes, we burned the farmers can
| die at both ends. We euchered him by shut
ting him out of the market where he sold a
large part of his surplus and kept our peo-
pie from buying Of the Canadian what we
don't produce in kind and quality at home.
And what are the protected manu-
facturers doing to deserve the high pro-
lection that we are giving them at the
| expense OF the farmers? Butterworth
| answers:
In the meantime it Is claimed With a show
OF justice that the favored ones are charging
your home folks more for the output of their
plants than they charge foreigners for many
lines OF goods And there aFs those who
deem IL possible that the people will ap-
| prove Of that course of conduct. rely ing on
Republican Senate to disregard the pro-
tests of those who suffer.
And what fine attack is this on the
present rage for high and higher duties:
Irepeat again-and the approving echoes
are coming back from all points of the com.
pass-that every Increase IN the rate of pro.