The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-10-02
HE TARlEE BILL.
Congressman sprlnger's Addrcs. 20 the
People of Iowa.

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People of Iowa
William NJ. Springer. OF Illinois,
spoke at the opera house in Shenan-
doah, September is, TO a large audi
cnce, and in his remarks he severely
scored the Mckinley bill and rcciproc-
ity.
Mr.. Springer began his address by
reviewing the exports Of his neighbour
hood. almost exclusively agricultural,
showing their value in cash and COM
menting upon the absurdity Of the Me-
Kinley bill adding an iota to that value,
although its friends claim that it did
SO. The fve-cents- a bushcl protection
on wheat imposed by the bill was 4 de-
ception and snare. This country was
an exporter, not an importer of wheat.
The only wheat entering this market
from abroad was seed wheat. 80 with
the other sham protection in the bill on
grains and root crops They were only
placed there to gull, deceive and mis-.
lead the western farmers into the be.
lief that the Mckinley bill was designed
and enacted for their benefit
The foreign market was the only
savior at present of the American
farmer from the depression of trade in
evitable as consequences of that bill
To prove IT, when France and Germany
forbade the importation of American
pork the price of that pork fell. A
market worth ten million dollars was
lost to the western producer. ''Now, "
said the speaker, when European
crops are failure and there is great
deficiency in food supplies in nearly
every populous and Leading nation in
Europe. and we are blessed with good
and abundant crops here, and there is
demand for our surplus over there.
what do you find? Why, you find
the prices of all kinds of grain advance
in accord with the law Of demand and
supply, and the Mckinley bill i'm no
way or sense contributes to that re-
suit. II the western farmer gets this
year good prices for his grain and live
stock products it is entirely owing to
the foreign demand and the great
scarcity this year of these products ir
Europe and not because Of the McKin-
ley bill"
Reciprocity then came up for review,
and its connection with the salvation
of the Mckinley bill in congress was
shown by the fact that Mr.. Blaine him
self had denounced the measure, de.
daring that the Mckinley bill was a
blunder; that it opened not a port in
the world for the sale of another
bushel of wheat or barrel of pork. II
it were not for Blaine's tarcical sug-
gcstiou OF reciprocity as a sugar coat
ing to the horrid nostrum it was doubt
full whether it would ever have passed
the republican senate.
.'TLe educational campaign going on for
some time past in the west Is bearing fruit;
the people are getting their eXes opened 10
the ubiquitous nature Of the srin tax i'm.
posed upon them for the enri6hment OF the
rich and the impoverishmeut Of the poor and
are now coming out Of the darkness into the
light They find that under thiySnjust system
they sell all the products Of theft farms in the
cheapest market in the world aud are forced
to buy all OF their supplies in thu dearest mar.
ket in the world.
democratic i oonsros. and al srstic prs,,
dent aided by the peoples party and all other
good people, will do away with this Injustice
tnaCleu iOr Nnc Dcucht oi thr ulllloudiTes,
trusts and combines that contributed tho
money 10 place the present rep(-iican admin
istration in power II the people Il the west can.
not see their way TO do this then they can go on
paying tribute 10 protected misonaires until
they tax themselves into the pfrhouse The
struggle is for justice and freetNm against in
justice and slavery No true man can hesitate
rs 10 the side he will cast his ballot for"
The speaker closed impressively by
to voters to support the dem
ocratic party, which had no object or
interest in deceiving them and which
would administer this government as
it was not administered now. on the
principle of the greatest good TO the
greatest number, and not for the en-
richment of the millionaires and inn
poverishment of the laboring, toiling
masses