The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-16

Reciprocity in the discretion OF
the President means that those who
have filed their places OF business
with goods upon which they have
paid tariff tax, more or less In am
cunt. may be undersold and ruined
in business by those who delayed for
the presidential discretion or it
may mean that after class Of politi-
cal favorites have filled their stores
with free goods, that others are pre-
cluded from like privileges because
that discretion" proposes to levy
protective tariff tax. The right to levy
taxes is wisely confided to Congress
and not to the discretion" of the
President.
Again to limit reciprocity to the
South American States is simply in
the interest of Eastern manufactur-
ers at the cost and expense of West
ern farmers. The South American
States lie both north and south OF the
equator, the extreme limit south be-
ing in about the latitude south, Of
Minnesota and Dakota north, and
producing about the same kinds of
crops as like ATTITUDES north. The
products which they exchange for
the manufactured fabrics of the pro-
tected manufacturers are coffee, rice,
hides, pelts, wool, dye stuffs, and
tropical products. What the farmers
of the agricultural regions need is
reciprocity with some countries that
will consume the surplus products OF
the farm, paying therefor an equiv
alent in the products Of that country.
The manufacturers of the East
have secured for themselves a home
market for the sale of their fabrics,
market in which all competition il
shut out by tariff designed to be
prohibitory. These same manufac.
turers buy their supplies of farm pro.
ducts in home market where the
prices are established in Liverpool in
competition with the pauper labor Of
the old world. They have q home
market while the farmers have a
home mortgage. The home market
the farmers OF the West are asked tt
build up is a home market for others
and with the financial legislation and
the tariff legislation involves the losl
of his home. When a farmer has al
he can do to meet his expenses and
the interest upon his mortgage, t.
increase his expenses as is done b!
the Mckinley bill, means the loss o
his home, He needs legislation tina
will treat the home with rs sacred
protection as it does the industries
The home mort gage Mnst be paid q
you must bid goodbye to the hone.
The friends Of protective tariff
cite the reduced price Of many manu-
featured articles Is proof that the ia,
has reduced the price. Ia asking yo,
to accept this conclusion unquestion
ed, they would suppress or ignor'
the fact that science and the mechan
ic arts have introduced 4ew processe
and methods in the production =
textile fabrics and in the manufac
ture Of steel and iron. which hav'
completely revolutiopized prices An.
production. in farming improve,
machinery enables . single individ
ual to cultivate, produce cad sssVr
as much as score of men could d,
thirty years ago, and similar stride
have been made in every other fiel'
of labor. During the sane period tn
financial and the tariff legislation Q
the country has been SO manipulate
that this increased skill in product
Jon goes to capital without much col
responding good to the producer.
The finances have Rse9 farmed GU
to Wall Street. and whenever tn
Shylocks and gamblers OF that stree
OF plunderers get in q tight place tn
government rushes in to help then
out by the loan of the millions Co
lected from ia,,cs by an unjust sy.
tenn of taxation. When labor petit
ions for free coinage Of silver an
that the government resume it's con
, troll over the functions OF money
our public servants instead, pass |
law to stop the coinage in 1891.
If the farmers and producers of tn
country desire to change these thing
they must retire the public servant
who have betrayed them into tn
clutches OF Wall Street and to tn
iron grasp of the Carnegies.
Every Republican congressman
from Iowa voted for Wall Street an.
the Carnegies and should be retires
to private life by the people whom
they haye betrayed