Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-06
BUTTERWoRTH RIDDLES IT.

VOiIey IF Hot SlOt For High Protection
Speaker Reed is mighty man when
1t comes to making members Of Congress
vote as he wants them to vote, but he
has not yet acquired the power of put
ting a gag into the mouths of few
members of Congress. Outside Of Con-
gress Blaine continues to breathe out
threatenings and slaughter" and, en-
boldened by his example, Congressman
Butterworth has indulged his soul by
giving vent to some more fine reciproc-
ity talk.
Butterworth, as is we'll known, has
long been a strong advocate Of reciproc-
ity tn Canada. He is not one of
those blind leaders Of the blind protec-
tionists who think it a good thing to
shut ourselves up with tariff bolts and
bars and ''havO nothing to do with
abroad"
In his celebrated attack on the Nc
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
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 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 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
West"
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 pat tch, from the hop
patch Laughter and applause. And be-
fore the bill Is over you will see my honored
friend in charge of the hop brigade, associ-
ted with the cabbage cavalry, endeavorng
to persuade the farmer that his highest good
Is I'm combining ourselves to 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 a 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 man with mo star of am
bition above him that would tempt him
70 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
! He gives his fullest sympathy to the
| South American reciprocity scheme and
says: 1.-THE patriot who fails to recog-
nize in the policy foreshadowed by those
papers great opportunity for renewed
| National prosperity don't read correctly
the signs Of the times. 1t is not diff
cult to discover in the restless discon-
tent which has grown up under the par
tial operation of our tariff sure har.
binger of the overthrow Of those who de-
fend and uphold the extravagant rates
of duty which are now imposed"
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: THE country does
not believe such high rates are essential
to adequate protect on. There is no
nation in Europe where the Govern
ment shows less inclination than our
own to mind it's own business and lei
the private concerns of the people
alone. Whom conventions are brought
to approve a 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 spcb trying conditions it is refresh
ing to read che message and letter men
toned, pointing out the necessity o.
multiplying the opportunities sf 2gl
people by enlarging the area OF oul
trade and commerce"
The prospect of the party for 169:
does not by any means please the Ohio
CONGRESSMAN and he asks: What il
our situation as party? The tariff un
revised, and no eonsoling prospect tina
the Senate will do more than transpos'
the exorbitant rates than abound in thI
present schedule"
Then he comes back to the subjec
of reciprocity as a means of widening
the farmers market, and complains
bitterly of a 'Congressi onal policy tina
/ ~ al e.
and snub the nations of this hemis
phere, with whom alone we could hop'
10 secure enlarged and favorable trad
! relations we make prOfer OF plan Il
give farmers sugar at a reduced rate
but we won't let him sell his corn o.
pork in order to pay Cor his sugar w
pacify him by pointing to his hon'
market. as if we had to stand guar.
oyer it to keep him from losing it. Yes
| the farmer has home market and h
holds it by q title above the power o
Congress- He is shown a CariE schedal.
which runs the whole gamqt from sna]
beans through peas. onions, peanuts
sauashes, cabbages eggs, oranges. hops
corn, rye, and wheat-all of which Is q
uSefu! 10 him as duty on tin whistles.
Mcklnleys farmer tarlH ls4urthe
derided by ButtsF~efth:
What use to him (ths farmer, IL tarlff o
wheat? We don't import any. OF wbRt kYal
is a duty on corn? We can't bring a pee
fiom abroad. But we have succeAled i
= shutting ourselves out ofthe Canadian mar
: ket where we sold over 1000 worth @
farm proIHcts each year. But says tn
adversary, 1--WE shut tho Ca adtan 90. Of ou
MARKET" Yes, we burned the farmers can
die at both tHds. We euchcFed him by shut
ting i'm out Of tho market where he sold
large part Of Eis surplus and kept our Psc
pie from buying II the Canadian what y
! don't pr, duca In kind and quality at home
And what are the protected manu-
facturers doing to deserve the high pre-
lection that we arp giving them at tn
expense of the farmors? Bustsrwort
answers:
IN the meantime It is claimed with q sho'