The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-01

told only few months since by Mr..
Blaine's special agent of the State De-
partment that "Chii has already driven
our flour off the west coast of South
America" and ''that the time is not far
distant when Chill, the Argentine Re-
public ard Uruguay will deprive the
United States of the greater portion of
its flour market in the West Indies and
South America, and will enter into ac-
tive competition with US in Europe"
He also assured US that we can not
compete with South American farm
ers in producing beef and mutton.
Reciprocity with South America means
amazingly little for suffering farmers in
this country. It would open to them no
large or important market for their
produce. To our manufacturing capi-
talists, by giving them free wool and
other free materials and subsidized lines
of steamships, (as Mr.. Blaine proposes),
largely paid for by taxes on farmers to
carry their goods to South American
ports, it might mean great wealth. That
is probably the ''milk' in Mr.. Blaine's
reciprocity cocoanut. Any benefit it
would bring to farmers is largely illu-
sorry. But reciprocity with European
countries-with three hundreds of mill
ions of civilized people and all the rest
of the world who want such agricultural
and other products as we can produce,
cheap and abundantly-would enable our
farmers, as we'll as manufacturers, to
enter on a career of prosperity unparal-
le1ed in history. Our ships would soon
be blowing every ocean and every sea in
profitable trade.
Gentlemen: think you must under
stand my opinions clearly. I think you
must have some conception of the char
acter of the Mckinley bill. That bill
will be passed or defeated before the
election. But if passed or defeated, the
fight must go on. The people of this
country will never quietly submit to
such awful spoliation.
If you take pride" in the Mckinley
bill, vote for my opponent. If you be-
lieve in restricting our markets for pro-
duce by retaliatory legislation in Canada
and Europe, vote against me. If you be-
lieve that the annual increase of our ma
tional wealth is So, 900, 900, 600, as the pro-
tectionists assert, and that farmers are
getting their equitable share Of this enor-
nous sum, vote against me. If you be-
11oN0 Gudb IL - JuSb duu C1But W bdX Ou0
man to add to the business profits of
other men, vote against me. If you be-
lieve it is right to foster combinations,
pools and trusts, whereby the cost of the
| necessaries of life are increased, vote
against me. If you believe that it is
| just and right to tax widow woman 110
per cent. on her clothing and that of her
children in order that wool growers (and
am one), or woolen manufacturers may,
| grow rich, vote against me, beseech
you. If you believe that sound public
policy and simple justice requires that
tax of 11o per cent. shall be laid on
| poor boys woolen hat and tax Of 116
per cent. on his pocket-knife, to enable
anybody to grow richer, pray you vote
against me; for the Mckinley bill, in
which my opponent will take special
| PRIDE" does all this.
| But if you desire low taxation; if yon
wish to take no money from any man by
law except for public purposes, if you
desire to make the condition of the
lives of the poor and unfortunate less
miserable; if you desire to cultivate
such relations with foreighn countries
as will open their markets to all our sur
plus products Of every description; if
you desire to arrest the blight that is fall
ing on farming and through farming on
every other interest. except the inter-
ests of trusts, pools and combinations,
and the immense fortunes which protec-
ton has created and is still creating,
think you should vote for me. 1 thing
you should do this in the interest Of
your wives, your children and your
selves, not in mine. 1 think you should
do it for your own honor, not for mine.
]. Q. SMITH.