The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-07-26
MR.. MANsUR ON THE TARIFF.

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MR. MANsUR ON THE TARIFF.
Following is part of Mr.. Mansur',
speech at Chiilicoihe:
81 am farmer and never repre-.
sented any people but they were large.
ly farmers. l should be an migrate if
went back on them. may err. but
never Knowingly betra, ed them, and
by the grace OF GUd never will.
| Cheers
81 have not joined the farmers alli-
ahce Dut always urge the farmers 10 do
30. But III doing this do not do as too
many organizations. DO not say YOU
Will heed no man if he 10 not q ,nembe,
OF your company. You can not afford
TO u" this. There are seven niIIion,
ana two-thirds OF farmers in the United
states and seventeen millions of WAGE
workers. Nearly one-halt live on the
iarms. or the seven millions and two
thlrus OF farmers, the average income
Is $500 per year. The entire income
Is less than 81, 800, 100000. Now. |
ask, have YOU been going forward or
backward! We know there ia tbat
abroad that is undermining US. We
Know our efforts are beIng stranpled
Was this the condition thirty wears
agof Was 1t SO before the war? I ask
you, why this change. Ii the cause be
human In character II certainly hus
come upon us since the war.
"Ihe democrats have never since the
war put single law upon the statutes
OF this country because they have never
had full control of all the departments
OF legislation. Remember this, that moi
one act complained OF by tho farmers =
alliance or union labor party was ever
put on the statute b .oks by the demo.
cratic party. Then il is lime for Won
10 think whether you can continue 10
i've under the misrul, of the republican
party. 1t you will only think of this as
you should you will see that You must
cooperate with the democratic party
| 10 secure relief.
"The thirteen years after 1850 were
the most fourishiug period OF all our
history. The farmers made lO4 per
cent. on their property in that time.
They never had done IL before nor have
they done it since. Manufacturers
made 80 per cent. during the same
period. What is the story since2 In
looo came the war. II is useless TO dis
cnss what led up to that war. If the
war was the cause OF the great change
That came, as the republicans will tell
you, II despite the results OF the war
we can still better our condition, why
should not the republicans forget the
past-if not for party's sake then for
themselves and families and for the
liberties of the law p
Here Mr.. Mansur, after apologizing
to the audience, removed his coat amidst
laughter and applause. He then con-
linned: 81 told you, the increase from
1880 to 1860. 1t was the last period
before the war and the most successful
OF all our history to all classes. The
farm valuations increased $3,373, ,OO0,-
900 in that time. From 1860 to 1880,
the valuation only Increased So, ,365, :
O00,OOO. In other words farming as
w per cent more profitable under demo.
cratic low tariff than ever under repub-
lican high tariff. During ten years of
| low tariff our farms doubled In value.
Under higher tariff the manufacturers
increased 200 per cent. against the far
mers "a per cent. for the same time.
"The seven manufacturing states of
the east have one. halt the wealth and
one-fourth the population of the United
States, They own in addition nearly
| all the railroads in their own and our
states. They make Us give each year
more and more aud become more and
more tributary to them. All questions
of national improvements must seek
| wealth in that district or il is not found
at all. The Santa Fe and Milwaukee
asked not dollar of bounty OF the far
mers through whose lands they passed
but each surveyed two lines and then
bid for bonuses. OF course the people
gave them the right Of. way and con-
siderable bonus besides. They did not
ask US to take stock but sold Il IN the
! east.
"The abnormal growth of wealth in
| the manufacturing states is something
appalling. In iiltsburg there are over
| one hundred milliOnaires and sixty of
them made it out of protected indus
| tries. Whenever legislation of that
class comes mp in Washington the in.
tiuences that are brought 10 bear makes
one wonder. Suppose 1000 farmers
| should come to visit me in Washington,
l should feel strongly impslled TO do
my utmost for theM.
SO these railroad and iron magnates
c"me down upon their repret entaIives
with force and power il IL almost i'm.
possible to Withstand. In the few years
that wealth has so abnormaily increas-
ed more than halt OF it 10 concentrated
in the hands OF $4,000 people. The
canse can not be mistaken. It is due
TO the tax imposed by u system of pro-
lection. You complain sometimes
about your stale and municipal tax
! tell you il id rs nothing compared to
your federal tax. YOu complain of the
former because IT comes in a tangible
form, because il comes az a tax, and
not as a price incorporated within "a
price, hidden and disguised to deceive
you"
AN ATTEMPT TO DErHRONE MAUD s.