Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-24
THE TARIFF BILL.
Congressman SprinSer's Address to the
People of Iowa.


William NJ. Springer, of Illinois,
spoke at the opera house in Shenan-
doah, September IS. to large audi
ence, and in his remarks he severely
scored the Mckinley bill and reciproc-
| ity.
| Mr.. Springer began his address by
reviewing the exports of his neighbour
hood, almost exclusively agricultural,
showing their value in cash and COM
menting upon the abSurdity of the Nc
| Kinley bill adding an iota to that value,
although it's friends claim that it did
so. The five-cents-a-b ushel protection
on wheat imposed by the bill was a de-
ception and snare. This country was
! an exporter, not an importer, of wheat.
! The only wheat entering this market
from abroad was seed wheat. So with
the other sham protection in the bill on
grains and root crops. They were only
placed there to gull. deceive and mis-
lead the western farmers into the be-
lief that the Mckinley bill was designed
and enacted for their benefit.
The foreign market was the only
savior at present of the American
farmer from the depression of trade in
To prove it, when France and Germany
forbade the importation of American
pork the price of that pork fell. \
market worth ten million dollars was
lost to the western producer. Now"
said the speaker, when European
crops are failure and there is a great
deficiency in food supplies in nearly
every populous and leading nation in
Europe. and we are blessed with good
and abundant crops here, and there is
a demand for our surplus over there.
what do you find? Why, you find
the prices of all kinds of grain advance
in accord with the law of demand and
supply, and the Mckinley bill in no
way or sense contributes to that re-
suit. If the western farmer gets this
year good prices for his grain and live
stock products it is entirely owing to
the foreign demand and the great
scarcity this year of these products il
Europe and not because of the McKn-
ley bill"
Reciprocity then came up for review.
and its connection with the salvation
of the Mckinley bill in congress was
shown by the fact that Mr.. Blaine him
self had denounced the measure, de-
claring that the Mckinley bill was a
blunder: that it opened not port in
the world for the sale of another
bushel of wheat or barrel of pork. If
it We're not for Blaine's arcical sug-
gestion of reciprocity as a sugar coat
ing to the horrid nostrum it was doubt
full whether it would ever have passed
the republican senate.
Tie educational campaign going on for
some time past in the west is bearing fruit;
the people are getting their eyes opened to
the Ubiquitous nature of the tariff tax i'm
posed upon them for the enrichment of the
rich and the impoyeriShment of the poor and
are now coming out of the darkness into the
light. They find that under this unjust system
they sell all the products of their farms in the
cheapest market in the world and forced
to buy all OF their supplies in the dearest mar
ket in the world.
But times will change all this when a
democratic congress and a democratic presi-
dent, aided by the peoples party and all other
good people, will do away with this injustice
enacted for the benefit of the millionaires,
trusts and combines that contributed the
money to place the present republican admin
istration in power. If the people of the west
not their way do this then they can go on
paying tribute to protected miliioaaires until
they tax themselves into the pOOrhouse. The
struggle is for justice and freedom against in
Justice and slavery. No true man can hesitate
as to the side he will cast his ballot for
The speaker closed impressively by
appealing to voters to support the dem
ocratic party, which had no object or
interest in deceiving them and which
would administer this government as
it was not administered now, on the
principle of the greatest good to the
greatest number, and not for the en-
richment of the millionaires and i'm
poverishment of the laboring, toiling
masses.
Savings Banks for Girls.
There is a splendid institution in
Germany that might be well initiated
here. On the birth of a daughter Teu-
tonic parents in moderate circum-