Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

@edit-fT no goid or silver was used OF could
Be used, the bullion excess always going with
TIE merchandise excessL But any ono who
imAgines that reciprocity seeks for the mill
owner only the sIooo,o 1000 In the South
American trade is deceived
Europe sent the spanish-Amerieas el.Ioo,-
100000 OF mill goods, receiving 5000. .0oo, 900
IN spanish-AmericAn FARM products-theIr
only exports-and took notes for $500, ,00o,-
900, with which Il purchased American farm
products.
Our American mfll-owners intend 70 cap
ture this whole spanish-American market for
mill-goods and 70 reoeive In payment for our
American miIl-goods the s9o0,00o. 900 IN
spanish-American farm products now sent TO
Europe, as well as the sIoO, 100000 now COM
ing here.
They are plotting for billions, not millions
II any man doubts this I ofier him the proof
Export and Finance is the name OF new
weekly journal established In this city at No.
8 Bowling Green, devoted to the financial
interests OF the manufacturers Of the United
States and the exporters OF South America" !"
Under date OF March 81 It sends out a pros
pectus which begins with this paragraph
Instead of the ELEVEN HUNDRED
MILLIONS 1.1Oo. 700. .ooOl Dollars of
spanish-American commerce Efarm prod
uctsl annually going to build up and en-
rich the great commercial and manufae-
turing industries of England, France and
Germany, these millions lin farm prod
uctsl should all come to the United
States. With earnest aud patriotic effort
we can secure them. Every tT1se ABssrt-
ca" should lend a Aelpfss0 hand.
Every dollar Of these "eleven hundred mill
ions 7" represents farm products. Every dol.
lars worth Of goods for which they are ex-
| changed Is the machine products of mills
Only 5000, 100000 are tropical products which
cannot be raised In the United states and
over 5000, 100000 worth OF these Spanish
| American farm products will enter directly
here into competition with our own, as they
now do In Europe wtthApur exports, being
made up Of breadstuffs, provisions, cotton,
animals and other articles, the price Of which
is now driven down here TO the lowest possi-
bic point because we raise more than we can
consume.
In so many plain words this organ Of the
Plutocratic machine-owners OF our mills de-
clares that " with earnest and patriotic effort
we the Plutocratic owners of mill machines)
can secure them" Cthese S1,1oo, ,OOO, 900
worth of Spanish American farm products) In
exchange for our American machine products.
part OF this plan was defeated by the Dem
ocrattc Senators in the last Congress,-the bill
to give American machine products trans
portat1on to South America at the public ex-
pense. "Every true American should lend
helping 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 to supply the farm products as well as
the machine products consumed in this coun-
try.
AS the total value Of the farm products
consumed In the United States In 1880 was
only 81, SOC, 100000 the Plutocratic bonanza
machine farmers and mill machine owners
propose to destroy every independent farmer
and make every man in the United States
either machine lord or a wage slave. Let
any man who doubts 1t write to E1port and
Finance, No. s Bowling Green, New York.
| The American farmer must go. He has sold
his birthr1ght In freedom and independence
for bloody shirt and British flag Men are
living who will see the day when every tiller
| nj will
something can be done to put q little man
hood and touch OF self-respect into the Re-
publican voters who "prefer to be buncoed
rather than know the truth, and who pre-
fer to become serfs rather than believe the
American mill-owner is not their best friend" "
As the wealth which could purchase
armOr and build n castle once ensIaved
tho half-nalxed and defenseless poor OF
Europe, SO the wealth to-day which can
buy machinery and dispense with human
labor Is bound within the next century
to enslave the people of tho United
States. From that there can be no escape
for our grandchildren. Plutocracy will tri-
umph again as 1t has always triumphed, and
history will repeat itself on this continent as
on every other.
Over 100000 farmers, comprising q
majority Of the voters of the country,
once formed bulwark against which
plutocraoy 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 no raw material, for that was air
and sunlight, furnished free. The machinery
used was his own, and Its profits were added
to his own wages. His farm labor furnished
all he used or enjoyed, and when he ex-
changed his surplus corn for French silk OF
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, lat no other expense than his labor.
When he sold the silk or the broadcloth to his
fellow-citizens what he received for 1t was
wages for his farm labor.
Capital, controlling machinery, first entered
into competition against his farm surplus, to
cut of his foreign wages received for labor
for foreigners, but before doing so asked for
Protection against the foreigner q who OK.
changed machine mill products for our farm
surplus. 1t meant Protection against the ex-
change by the American farmer Of his labor
for foreign wages, not against the foreigner.
Congress, to Protect the Machine, flhed the
American farmer 80 per cent on every ex.
change Of his labor products that entered
into competition with American mill macbin.
cry products, and an average of 80 per cent
on every dollar his labor received In foreign
wages.
How did this affect the labor market9
Originally, 1000 bushels OF wheat, repre-
senting at the most 800 for seed and inter