The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-15

S900,000,0O0 in Spanish-American farm
products-their only exports-and took
notes for $200,000,000, with which it pur-
chased American farm products.
Our American mill-owners intend to
capture this whole Spanish American
market for mill goods and to receive in
payment for our American mill-goods the
100000 in Standardization farm
products now sent to Europe, as we'll as
the Sl00.000,000 now coming here.
They are plotting for billions, not mill
ions.
If any man doubts this l offer him the
proof. Export and Finance is the name of
a new weekly journal established in this
city at 3 Bowling Green, devoted TO the
financial interests Of the manufacturers of
the United States and the exporters of
South America" Under date of March
q 1t sends out prospectus which begins
with this paragraph
Instead of the eleven hundred millions
Isl, l00G00,000) dollars OF Spanish Ameri-
can commerce farm products) annually
going to buid up and enrich the great
commercial and manufacturing industries
of England, France and Germany. these
millions lin farm products should all
come to the United States. With earnest
and patriotic effort we can secure them.
Every true American should lend a help
ing hand.
Every dollar of these eleven hundred
millions" represents farm products. Every
dollars worth of goods for which they are
exchanged is the machine products of
mills. Only two hundred million are
tropical products which cannot be raised
in the United States and over nine hun
dred million dollars worth of these
Spanish American farm products will
enter directly here into competition with
our own, as they now do in Europe with
our exports, being made up of breadstutis,
provisions, cotton, animals and other
articles, the price OF which is now driven
down here to the lowest possible point
because we raise more than we can con-
sumo.
In so many plain words this organ of the
plutocratic machine-owners of our mills
declares that with earnest anG patriotic
effort we (the plutocratic owners of mill
machines) can secure them" these 81 ,100,-
100000 worth of Spanish-American farm
products) in exchange for our American
! machine products. A part OF this plan
was defeated by the democratic senators In
the last congress-the bill TO give Amer
lean machine products transportation to
South America at the public expense.
"Erery true Americdn should lend q help
| ing hand" and the italics are its own, to
dump this eleven hundred millions" OF
farm products on us as the payment for
! American machine products, enabling
our machine-owners 10 supply the farm
| products as well as the machine products
! consumed in this country.
| AS the total value of the farm products
! consumed in the United States in 1880
mos only = he Nh -roft -
bonanza machine farmers and mill ma
chine owners propose to destroy every in
/ dependent farmer and make every man
in the United States either machine
J lord or a wage slave. Let any man who
doubts it write to Export and Finance, No
. Bowling Green, New \ ork.
The Farmer Must Go.
! The American farmer must 60. He has
sold his birthright in freedom and indie
| pendence for bloody shirt and British
! flag. Men are living who will see the day
when every tiller OF the soil viii wear a
serbs collar unless something can be done
to put little manhood and touch oil
self-respect into the republican voters who
/ "prefer to be buncoed rather than know
] the TRUTH" and who prefer TO become
serfs rather than believe the American
! mill-owner is not their best friend"
AS the wealth which could purchase
/ armor and build castle once enslaved
/ the half-naked and defenseless poor OF
| Europe, so the wealth today which can
! buy machinery and dispense with human
| labor is bound within the next century to
enslave the people of the United States
/ From that there can be no escape for our
/ grandchildren. Plutocracy will triumph
again as it has always triumphed, and his
tory will repeat Itself on this continent as
on every other.
Over eight million farmers, comprising q
majority of the voters of the country, once
! formed bulwark against which plutocracy
might have dashed in vain. Each man
was an independent sovereign, owning his
land and lord of his acres. His product
was all wages. There was practically nc
raw material for that was air and sun
light, furnished free. The machinery used
was his own, and its profits were added &c
his own wages. His farm labor furnished
all he used or enjoyed, and when he ex.
changed his surplus corn for French sill
or English broadcloth every cent of value
in every yard OF either represented his
wages. He had made the silk or the
broadcloth on his farm, out OF seed and
sunlight, in natures laboratory, at nc
other expense than his labor. When ht
sold the silk or broadcloth to his fel
low-citizens what he received for it wal
wages for his farm labor.
Capital controlling machinery first en-
tered into competition against his farm
surplus, to cut off his foreign wages re
ceived Tor labor for foreigners, but before
doing so asked for protection against tht
foreigner y who exchanged machine mil
products for our farm surplus. 1t meant
protection against the exchange by the
American farmer of his labor for foreign
wages not against the foreigner.
Congress. TO protect the machine, fined
the American farmer 80 per cent. on every
exchange of his labor products that en-
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