The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-07-18
WHY SHOULD THPr

ducts while reciprocity afford.
foreign market where no impos,,
levied on their shipments. With,
lection the home market would
stroyed because American Labor
subsist on European wages, Will
out reciprocity the foreign ma,
American breadstuffs would be-
rily limited. These are the reasa
the farmers of this country nm
the future as in the past to VOTE
publican ticket. Why shouldnt
Inter Mountain.
To the unread and the unthipk
above very misleading and very
cerpt looks mighty nice on pan
there is nothing in it. The apri
schedule of the Mckinley tariff
duty of % cents a bushel on WI
cents on corn, a cent or two on b
slight duties on a few other ia
ducts. Now there is a little bari
ped over from Canada, 1t is a
barley and brewers want it to ma,
best beer. There is also a lit
wheat imported across the bordel
and then a stray steer is sent oy
Mexico, and occasionally an al
imported without consular certif
breeding purposes. A few eg
chickens and a few bushels of !
are also brought into the count
Canada, probably enough to give
three dozen old grannies over
little pin money, but the great
the farm products of this co
without competition from abroad
duties were put in as a bait to c;
farmers vote. Practically the far
no protection.
This country has the finest
tural lands in the world. We raj
farm products than we consume,
fore farmers are exporters, but t
port under great disadvantages.
surplus which goes abroad fl
price of that which is sold in tn
market, and the very fact that til
surplus to sell abroad is evident
there is an over abundance in Il
market, and that abundant sup
cording to the known prime
political economy, operates to ket
prices. Manufacturers combine
up prices, the farmer cannot. OIL
can. he does not and hence he is
mercy of the foreign buyer. Al
again. his wheat must come in
tition with Indian wheat which il
with labor at six cents a day. III
.nubbed or cut down at every !
his weary road to independence.
He may, however, find some c
sation in reciprocity-that is. FIRE
Reciprocity is simply another Il
trade. Blaine is pretty mu
free-trader. That fact impelled {
whom the Inter Mountain swi
that Blaine was ION the wror.
in his reciprocity scheme. The
was bitterly opposed by McKinlc.
ter ct a. But they finally gave y
it in after putting a barbed wi
around it in the shape of 'at the
of the president
without reciprocity says thu
Mountain. 1.-The foreign market W.
necessarily limited" But the
Mountain was swearing the VI,
tariff would work the emancipa
The farmers of the United States
Blaine preached his reciprocity
20 the senate committee. for it u
remembered the Mckinley measu
passed the house did |
template reciprocity. When it
he senate and Blaine had Undue
Body to incorporate his feature
vent back to the house, VIII,
Bland. in order to shape it so t
'armers of the country could res
'eal practical advantage from the
moved the following amendment:
That in all cases where it can b,
~ proof satisfactory to the seer,
he treasury that any goods. W
merchandise imported into this
been purchased abroad by ey
If farm products for such goods. o
such goods have been purchase
he proceeds or avails of farm p
II foreign countries. such goods.
" merchandise shall be imported
There was an amendment that
10 the farmers of the country a W
rood. 1t would have enabled Il
'xchange their products in foreig.
ries for such goods as they nee
1t provided for a trade b
hem and foreign producers of
upplies. dbl it pass? Not by a la,
1t was urged by the Nc
ties that IF the proposition were a
t would abolish our tariff syster
and it would take away fl
the revenues that we're receive
hat system" And so the amer
vas killed. In the face of this I
he republican talk about reciprot
ng in the interest Of the farmer
'alpably insincere for controversy
'hy should the farmers support