Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-08

facts are that while formerly we paid
about $6O,OOO,OOO per annum in duties on
sugar we will now pay about $13,000,000
in bounties and these bounties will be
paid to farmers all over the country for
production Of sugar from beets and sor-
ghum as well as to southern sugar plant
ers. Thus we are saving over $41 100000
per annum, every cent of which goes in
to the peoples pockets and no Democratic
falsehOod can wipe that out
If there is any one article more than an
other in which the people of New Mexico
are deeply interested that article is wool
and the solution of this question lies in a
nut shell. Almost every country on earth
produces wool; they all want the best
market for wool, ours being the best
market, they naturally desire free trade in
that article and free trade in wool means
the utter ruin of the wool growing inter
ests of America and especially of New
Mexico where we depend so largely on
that product. Since the enactment of the
Mckinley bill the wool growers of this
territory have been prosperous and con
tented, their tlocks are increasing and i'm
proving and they will continue to increase
and improve as long as they are protected
by the wise policy of the Republican
party and no longer. Another very i'm
pOrtant New Mexican product is lead, our
mountains are full of it. Under the rul-
ings of Mr.. Cleveland's administration
lead ore was imported from Mexico free
of duty; the result of this. anti-American
policy was utter stagnation in that bust
ness wages fell, mines were closed and
Mexican lead ore produced at forty cents
per day monopolized the market. Then
the Mckinley bill was passed and as if
by magic all this was changed, Mexican
lead was barred out, our mines were re-
opened, wages rose again, and every
miner who sought work procured it east
ly and protitably. During the last twenty
five years we paid to England and Wales
over $500, 037, $4,000 for the single article
of tin, and last year alone we paid them
1913 5000, 900. 90 for the same article. After
a bitter struggle, every Democrat in Con
gress voting against it, a duty of2 to 2.1
cents per pound was levied on foreign tir
by the Mckinley bill. This part of the
bill took effect four days since and Ions
before that time twelve or fourteen tir
factories in different parts of the country
l had been in active operation, mines hav,
been opened, millions of capital have beer
invested, thousands of men are proftabl,
employed and a new industry has beer
successfully inaugurated Now what vii
this new industry mean to America? |
will mean an annual consumption o
1,0O0,000,000 tons of iron ore, 100000 tont
of limestone, 100000 tons of coal anC
coke, 100000 tons of pig iron, 5,5OO,00(
tons of lead, 100000 pounds of talloN
and oil, 100000 pounds of sulphurit
acid, 10000 900 feet of lumber and $4,000,
900 pounds of tin, and will give direct EN-
ployment to $4,000 working people who
will earn about $23,000,0 100000 per annum
= Is this great and continually increasing
industry worth encouragement or is i
not? The Democrats say it is not, anC
they are straining every nerve to dis
courage and prevent its establishment
among us, but the Republicans who have
either originated or revived every grea
industry in the Union declare that il
spite of the virulent opposition of the free
traders at home and abroad, Americi
: within six years Ito which time the pres
ent duty is limited) will fully supply al
her own demand for tin in all its varieties
The Democratic and Mugwump candi
date for the presidency being under tn
direct influence of the gold monopolist
Of Wall street has declared war upon sill
yer to the disgust of the ablest men of hi
own party who would gladly get rid o
him if it were possible, which it is not
Here again the Republican party mani
tests its readiness to encourage every
American enterprise, by passing a bill
which provides for the coinage of $500,
900 ounces Of silver per month. With thit
encouragement the white metal at once
advanced in price, every agricultural prod
fol INN Oft riu
New York Sun, a Democratic paper, say
that the rise in silver will put about 800,
100000 per annum into the pockets of tn,
producers of wheat and cotton alone. Nov
add to this the very important facts tina
under the Bland Democratic act the pric
of silver in dollar fell to 70 51-100 cent
and three weeks after our silver law wen
into effect the price rose to 90 40 cents
, producing an enhancement in value 0
our silver coin being over $90,000,0O(
Every Democrat in Congress voted agains
I this increase of our individual and ma
tional wealth. lean only glance at tn
magnificent reciprocity policy of our in
comparable Secretary of State, James G
e Blaine, which has already thrown ope
the ports Of Cuba and Brazil to America
= commerce, to be soon followed by rec
procity treaties with all the Spanish
American republics. 1t is estimated tina
Cuba alone will consume 100000 barrel
= of American flour and it may very safel
be said that the demands of our Spanish
;, American neighbors will consume our eI
? tire agricultural surplus and compel us
l. largely increase our crops of all kinds
No such far reaching policy as this ha
= been adopted since the birthday of tn
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