Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-10-29
OUR JERRY AND SHERMAN
EXPOSURE OF A DEMOCRATIC
FORGERY.
U ncle Jerry Takes Occasion to Expose n
DemocrRtic Forgery.

Democratic Forgery.
jeremiah NJ. Rusk has reached home
from Washington, and on his way made a
short visit in Milwaukee, and while there
he spoke freely about the campaign, and
the Democratic methods by which 10 de
ceiVe voters.
The Secretary of Agriculture was very
| emphatic on one point. lie said his mail
daily contained patches of letters from
| farmers 1nguiring as to the authenticity of
| the document. 1t is headed, Protectors
! Home Market and reads as follows:
had opportunity to take some stock in
| the combination IAmerican Harvester Com
| panyl and know what inducements were OF
! fered. An investigation will show that tins
| same combination is now selling or offering to
| sell machinery in Russia and Australia and in
| other wheat growing countries. This won't
| do and need not offer any argument to prove
| the weight or truth of the assertion. The first
| thing the farmer will do when he is acquainted
/ with the facts will be to make howl against
| trusts and protection that does not protect,
Whether justly or not he will charge it to the
| Republican party. am as certain as can be
of anything that this Mower and Reaper Trust
| will cost the Republican party hundreds Of
| thousands of votes at the next Presidential
election unless it takes firm stand against it
and trusts in general.-JGremlah M. Rusk.
| Secretary of Agriculture.
This matter is entirely a villainOuS
| forgery" said Secretary RuSk. II never
uttered or wrote the words to which my
name is forged, and | have hitherto re-
peatedly, by letter and in the public press,
emphatically denied its authorship. The
| forged handbills contain the same lam
| guage as q bogus interview published in a
Chicago Democratic paper in 1Sgl. At
| that time | denounced the interview as a
| fabrication instantly it met my notice /
| did not suppose that after this denial, pub
| liShed as il was all over the country, any
| one would have the hardihoOd to revive it
| for the purpose of deceivIng a class of our
citizens in whose interest my labOrS have
! been directed for several years. But it
seems that some Democrat with a too
facile and ingenious pen has seen fit to re-
vive it. | want to say once for all that
never uttered the words attributed to me.'
| Secretary RuSk now took up the work of
| his own department. telling what the ad-
miniStratiOn had achieved for the farmers
and cattle raiSerS of the United States He
| emphasized the successful eradication of
contagious pleurO-pneumOnia as great
work, which had SO far defed the efforts
| OF Great Britain, France, Germany and
| other European countries. He said that
| the regulations controlling Texas fever
| saved yearly to cattle growers three times
| more than the total annual appropriation
| tor the department; that by the proper
! supervision OF vessels carrying export
| cattle losses had been greatly reduced,
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| year as seYen-eighthS OF l per cent.
| From these causes insurance rates on
| cattle shipped abroad had been reduced
| from per cent. to about per cent, and q
| saving effected on this item alone OF So per
! head on every steer exported. The meat
and cattle inspection had resulted IN a
| modification of the restrictive legislation
| enforced by foreign countries against our
cattle and meat, and as regards American
| pork, in the absolute withdrawal of the
| prohibition which had beer enforced in all
| European countries but Grea0 Britain TOr
eleven years past. The effect OF these pro-
hbitiOnS had been markedly shown. he
| said, by the drop in our pork exports from
| 104000O00 to S2.000,0 900 the first year
they were put into effect. The
| sllTinkage continued until our pork
| exports reached minimum figure OF
57.C00.C0O. The removal of the restrictive
legislation and of the prohibition on our
pork products had already secured most
favorable results. We exported in the past
fiscal year nearly twice as many cattle as
| in 1889, and this is at an advanced price, so
that the value of cattle exported increased
from less than I7.G0B, 900 III 1889 to 3d. 0O0,-
600 i'll 1892. Exports Of dressed beef in
creased III the same time by 66 per cent.
| The withdrawal of the prohibition against
our pork products had been SO recent that
| its full effect upon the trade had been
| manifest for only few months. But,
| taking the four months of May, June, July
and August, and comparing tins with the
corresponding months of 1891, | found an
Increase of 66 per cent. i'll the quantity,
and this in spite of an increase in the price.
The following official statement from his
| department, not made public until now,
T! was produced by the Secretary 1t shows
the quantities and values of our pork
products exported to Europe during the
months mentioned in this year, as com
pared with the corresponding months of
| 1891: