The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-16
AWoEFuL Wall.

wealth producers have beeu taxed to
pay two billion Of the principal AID
two billion Of interest 10 will nov
take two billion bushels Of wheat 10
pay what ~ left Of q. No wonder
the people OF this country are dis
turbed In their sleep as they cannot
tell how coon the day may come
when class legislation may bring
ABOUT conditions that would require
four billion bushels TO satisfy the de-
mands OF the bond holder iIIste I'd Of
the two billion they now want.
The shove item was first printed In
an eastern paper about six months
ago, and has since been copied ty all
the free trade aud calamity papers
Of the state and run as original, its
latest appearance In that capacity
being In the EE industrial Conrert,
OF this city.
AZ IL usual with such items, this
one is not only misleading but II
also untrue. For instance Il will not
take two billion bushels 81 wheat to
pay the National debt at this time.
Two billion bushels Of wheat at IS
cents, the prize In this market last
Thursday morning would bring ST.
$50, 200, 600, aud the National debt,
including what IL known a. the war
debt, made necessary by the action
Of these same free traders or their
partIsans, the greeBbAcks In circuIa-
ton, and all other obligations OF the
government do not amount to half Of
the more than one and q half bill
lions, stated.
Another thing TO be taken into
consideration l. that the "wealth
producers" Of this country have not
been taxed" any more than any
other class Of people to pay that
debt. II the record nf this same ca
lamiiy bowler wbO stole that item
and laid Il before his readers rs n
sample Of his own scaldIng, crocodile
tears for the dear people, could be
looked up, II would doubtless reveal
the fact that twenty years ago he was
claiming the National debt would
never he paid. More than three
fourihs Of IL has been paid, and far
from being = strain and burden upon
the people Il has proven the greatest
blessing that ever came upon this
land. II taught us the great princi-
ple Of protection, and has established
IL as one Of the fixed rules Of this
government beyond the power Of the
free trade Democratic party To abrO-
gate, or abolish IL.
IL killed tue established sentiment
that England should be the work
shnp and the United States the farm,
aud In its stead has created the SEN
timent that the United states should
he both workshop aud farm. II has
In less than thirty years created II
home demand for 30 per cent. Of our
farm products. where we formerly
only consumed about forty per cent.
Nor is that all; this increase III the
home demand for farm produ cts has
been brought about In the face OF an
increased number of farms and acres
under cultivation, which 10 easily
more than third greater than what
Il vas at the close Of the war. There
Is not little TO boast Of in all this.
Strange to say there Is nothing In
the above in reference to the upward
tendency In the price OF farm pro-
duce OF all kinds. A year ago when
everything was low Ia price there
was al least the shadow Of an excuse
for saying that It might require yet
more wheat TO pay the National
debt, but now with the prospects
bright for advanced prices, II would
take less wheat To pay the O5liga-
tinn. But the wheat does not nay
the National debt, at all, IL 10 the
men who import goods into this
country from foreign lands who are
paying Il, and Il IL right that they
should. How much imported stuff
IL used In the state Of Kansas, direct
~ and indirectly, at this time? All
articles We consume, with q rare
exception or two, perhaps, are made
in this country, and at less price,
too, than what we paid for the very
knives and forks we used TO eat our
dinners with that were imported,
aud they were not SIS good ms our
home made ones, either.
II the National debt had been such
a burden upon the wealth producers
Of this country as IL intimated In the
above item, the value OF farm prop
erty In the United States would
not have increased tenfold. The
value OF The farm products from
year to year would not have in
creased until now Il IL over go per |
cent greater than ut the close Of the |
war. The value OF manufactured ar |
ticles would not have Increased over
1000 fold. The value Of mining |
productions would not be greater
by over 800 per cent. than at the close |
Of the war, nor would there be even |
so much as q dollar Of increase In
the wealth Of the country, since
the wealth producers must make the
money before It can be added to the
wealth Of the country.
IL . cause 10 SO poor that &c needs
up with silly subterfuge,
OF which the above is q sample, then
Il 10 time such q ''cause" be aban-
doned by men who think and act for
OF course, these men
who want office or men who want to
feed of the discomfort and fancIed
wrongs Of other men, need not do SO
unless they like.
The Democratic Dickinson county
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