Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23

who liked of suicide to Mulligan and
afterwards rose in the Hose of Repre-
sentatives to take the country into his
confidence.
But with all his astuteness, he over
reaches and defeats himself. What is
This appeal for subsldy-for the pur-
chase of trade by tax money, except a
confession that high tariff taxation has
failed on the vital point of producing
! trade? Mr.. Blaine admitted as much
| il the last campaign wheu he argued
that 1.-The Home Market" was the only
| market for Americans.
Now we are told that If we will
spend as much in bounties for ocean
trade as we have spent for railroads in
the Home Market" We can have some
other market besides the Home Mark
| ct. 1t is the cry Of the horse leech's
daughter, give! give! u'-more and
higher taxation to do what high taxes
have undone.
AT an immense expense of public
and private money we have built
system of railroads in the Home Market
| to move to the sea board the products
the Home Market will not consume.
Eighty per cent. of these are agriculture
al,and so the farmer pays railroad cap
italiZation. The Federal, State and
county subsidies to these railroads-and
such subsidies reach in gross an incon-
ceivable mount-do not in the least
tighten the railroad tariff which is uu-
iform)y calculated on the capitaliza-
ton.
This is statement of fact, not pro-
test. The evils OF the railroad tariffs
Will cure themselves, as they are un-
supported by law.
Rut what iS nrnnncpI 10
bearing this burden and the added
burden of ocean tariff both ways, pay
ing heavy Custom House tariff tax
on all purchases, the agricultural pro-
ducers, who are almost the only expor-
ters, shall proceed to pay export freight
on manufactures in order to enable the
protected manufacturer to send abroad
What would break down prices if it
were thrown on the "home market"
No assurance. however brazen, short
of that which enabled Mr.. Blaine to
read in the House the damning proof
of his own corruption, would have
been adequate for proposing this
scheme of plunder to a people so rob-
bed as the people of the United States
already are.
We have no export trade of manu-
factured goods worth mentioning, be-
tdu1S VIZ toi III lSotiiStS u duC III
ufactures to the home market. When
this is conclusively demonstrated, the
answer of these experts in public plum
der is that more money must be paid
to the favored class. We must pay
freight for the manufacturer by giving
public money to steamship companies,
so that they can afford to carry to for
eign markets American manufactures,
which are there to be sold to foreigners
cheaper than they are sold at home
as they must be as long as our market
is closed and foreign markets open to
free competition.
This effrontery is SO great that it
max Mr.. Blaine almost admirable.
He is man of many sides in anchor
casting. 1t is hard to believe that
person of such assuran CO is the ST. me
man who cringed to Fisher, "almost
went down on his knees" to Fishers
clerk, and writhed IN the anguish of
the humiliation of the first exposure
thas he was an ordinary jobber and
vulgar corruptionist. What other man
in the country could carry so well the
load that this man carries-that he
increases? Who else than
James G. Blaine could take the world
nte his confidence and argue that
W where government is "a matter Of
favortism," casting anchors to the
"indward is the highest statesman
ship and public jobbery the chief
among political virtues?-R Republic.