Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09

increased in any such proportion. III
1867 imports of goods were valued az
$40, 746, 80, or $1.2l per capita; IN 1891
imports were but 81, 235 40, or only SO
cents per capita. Meanwhile, the con-
sumption of wool IN manufacture here
has risen from 1914, $4,000 pounds IN
1867, or 90 pounds per capita, to 432,
100000 pounds in 1891, SO pounds per
capita. Reckoning both imported and
domestic goods, the consumption per
capita has increased scarcely any, if at
all. though the price of WOODEN goods
has declined at least onehalf.
The increased imports must be at the
expense of a reduced production by
home industry. But there is no evil
dence that the price of goods to con-
sumers would be lowered. The Ameri-
can goods are now kept low by COM
petition between home manufacturer rs
the imported goods are reduced in
price in order to sell at all. With
lower duties and destruction of the
home manufactures the foreign makers
could charge what they please, and
they would also have to pay more for
wool than they do now, because the de-
mand TO furnish goods for the Ameri-
can market would be greater. 1t is,
therefore, very questionable indeed
whether consumers would get their
goods cheaper by q single cent.
Thus the problem OF revenue remains.
MIR. Springer must somehow contrlve to
raise Sc, 800, 900 in place of the revenue
on wool, which he proposes to cut off,
and Sl7 800, 900 in place Of half the dut-
les on woolens, which he proposes to
reduce. Where will he get the needed
$24 900, 900? The duties as they stand
raise that sum without taxing American
consumers penny, while giving en-
ployment to thousands of American
workers, whom Mr.. Springer would
drive out Of wool-growlng and wool
manufacture. In what way is he to put
an additional tax on these laborers, even
while he deprives them of work and
wages ?-Nea0 York Tribune.
Some Pertinent Suggestions for the South.
Though thou shouldest bray fool in NOR
tar with a peStle yet viii not his foolishnesS
depart from him. "Prouerbs, XVI, %
BIZ. BOWSer Of Texas writes to the Dallas
News, showing why the Yankees are long
on cash while the SOutherners are chronic
ally short. These are some of the items in
the account: eve sell our cotton at
cents per pound and buy it back at 20. We
sell wool at 20 cents per pound and buy it
back at 30. Sell hides at IL cents and buy
them back in boots and shoes at 81 to IS.
We rush our wheat off to glutted markets
by the carload and buy it back by the 100
pounds. Sell broom corn by the ton and
buy 1t back by the broom. Send our hogs
to Kansas City and Chicago ana get them
back in bacon, hams and lard. Sell beef
steer in Chicago for S25, and when we
have purchased the manufactured articles
from the horns, hair, hides ard hOofs and
the packed beef from the carcass we have
paid near $3.50 to get HIM back, a profit to
the Yankee of about S125.
The manufacturer becomes millionaire
and the Eastern farmer grows rich supply
ing the populouS cities with the products
Of his farm, while our Texas farmer grows
poorer and more dependent and deSpon-
dent with each succeeding year.
Reproducing the above and comment
ing on it, the Manufacturers Record
says:
Texas will never attain its full measure
of prosperity whilst ships from the State
nearly 1000, 900 bales of raw cotton year,
and buys back from New England cotton
goods for its 100000 inhabitants: while it
buys from other states hundreds of thous-
andS of tons of coal, though 1t has an
abundance OF coal unmneG; While it buys
It's steel rails from other sections, though
1t has IN and around LlanO BeSsemer ore
enough to make rails for the whole coun-
try. These things must be changed.
Everyone in Texas knows this, but
for many year to come the people of
that state will continue to vote for
Millses and Regans. denouncing the
while industrious people in other states
who are engaged in cheapening manu-
featured products by increasing the sup
ply as 'monopolists," and they will
wonder why they remain poor through
''selling the skin for sixpence and
buying back the tail for shilling to
quote phrase 240 years old.-Econo-
mast