Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-01
CHoRus-(As before.)


That hides should come in without paying.
And he we agree, duty free on the list
EXPORTER AND CONSUMER.
me rrickery Of !. Recent Article By
Senator Morrill, Ably Exposed.
Senator Justin S. Morrill,, Of Yer
mont, in the North American Review,
says: '.Happily, Mr.. Gladstone does
not sweeten free trade by another name,
and conceal it by what in America has
been styled its 'varioloid' revenue re-
form" There is no Democrat or tariff
reformer who wants free trade at once.
but to grow to that as the people be-
come prepared and ready for it. Mr..
Morrill, knows that to be fact. but is
trying to influence the Republican
voter-largely the farmer-to believe
that Democrats and tariff reformers adj
vocate absolute free trade or tariff for
revenue only now, and in advocating
tariff reform are trying to deceive the
people, thus making the tariff reformer
appear before the voter as tricky and
dishonest. Any man who will read and
honestly think will SEQ that all the
trickery and dishonesty is with such
men as Mr.. Morrill, What under
stand the tariff reformer to want is this:
Free raw material of all kinds, 50 that
the manufactures may be able to COM
pete with the world with his article of
manufactured product, and by SO doing
export more than any other country.
England has about IS per cent of the
import trade Of South America and
Australia, and of large portion of
European countries, and we, as manu-
facturers, with our burden of high
taxes on raw material, have to
stand by and see England taking
. from us and from the people
what honestly belongs to Us. Mr..
Sargent says that the only goods
he can export are the goods that the
cost is in the labor put upon them in
finish, and then says that the goods
where the cost is in the material and
made with little labor are the goods
that it is impossible for him to export.
This, to my mind, shows that labor COM
pared to the quantity of articles made
to the individual is cheaper in America
than England. Now, if you give the
American manufacturer free material
he will be able to export a great guam
tity of goods, creating a demand for
more manufacturers and more laborers
in this country. Supply and demand
regulate the price of both the manu-
featured article and the price of labor,
30 if free raw material had any effect on
wages it would be to advance them. In
connection with this you would have
more people here to consume the prod
uct OF the farmer; not only more people,
but you would give the idle people that
are already here employment, and by
so doing give them the wherewith to
purchase what they need for their daily
consumption. If the manufacturer had
free raw material he could stand a re-
duction in the tariff on his manufac-
tured article. at least as much as he
would be benefited by the tariff being
| taken off the material he uses, and in
that way the American consumer would
reap the benefit of free raw material by
being able to buy what he consumed at
| just that much 1ess-just the amount
that the manufacturer would receive in
his free raw material. In this way
| everybody would be benefited except,
| perhaps, the producer of the raw mate
rial, but that would be so small, not
only in loss of property but in numbers,
| it should not be thought of. 1t is our
duty to make such laws as will do the
most good and be the greatest benefit to
the greatest number.
Mr.. Morrill, says: 'Workmen in Great
Britain when out of employment have
no resource but the work-house. but
| American workmen generally own their
own homes, take their own newspapers
| and have money in the savings banks. !"
This is not generally the case, but very
| far from it. If Mr.. Morrill, will take
%N ho vr,i11 "a
Prof. Carroll D. Wright shows, that
there are 200. 900 men in Massachusetts,
able and willing to work who can not
| two of our best States declare that the
enough to bring up a family upon even
| in the most meager way unless supple
mented by the wages of wife or child.
''Three hundred and fifty dollars year
| is the average income of the working
men of our land and millions have not
| even this" In New York City there are
| whole sections where the overcrowding
| is greater than in the most crowded
quarters of London. 1.-TWO million men
| out of work means I, 500, 900 wives, 81
| O0O, 600 children out of bread, out of fire,
out of clothes, and many of them with
out a roof to shelter them" Letters
| and kilograms continue to pour in upon
DR.. Edward n. Small, of Sedalia, Mo-,
who thoughtlessly offered bonus to
| any one who would consent to be bitten
by his mad dog for the benefit of med
ical science. Has life really become so
cheap in this country that hundreds are
willing to sell it from 500 to S5OO?" "a
young man named William Miller, a
factory hand, tainted on the street in
New Brunswick. n. j., one Wednesday
night from sheer starvation. He was
out of work and had eaten nothing for
some time. He was exceedingly weak
and died shortly after being taken to
the poor farm the other morning." ''Mrs.
John King, of New Haven, Conn, was
found dead in her bed. Her three boys,
aged two. four and six years. were gath
cred around her half clad and almost
dead from starvation They were with
out clothing and reeking with filth
Mrs. King, according to the report of
DR.. White, medical examiner, died of
starvation" a
Our agricultural sections, too. arc
about equally as poorly of. Farms are
deserted to-day in England just when