New Ulm review., 1892-09-07
CONGRESSMAN HORR'S VIEW
What He Thinks Of the Political sitna'
ton in the West.
The Money Question Attracting the Nos
Interest. Common Sense Asserting
Itself.


there are worrying over the question o.
the amount Of money actually IN use u
The United States. find the farmers
and wordngmen of the country discuss
ing what they call "the money ques-
tion.o This comes largely from the
fact that General Weaver and the peo-
pie who compose the party whose ticket
he heads for the presidency are attrlbut-
ing nearly all the ills of life to what
they are pleased to call ''the scarcity OF
the circulating medium" J" 1t is the Gus
tom Of the speakers Of that party to
name over as many disagreeable things
as they can think up, and then by every
form of ingenuity possible they attempt
to attribute all these conditions IN some
way to the small amount of money IN
circulation in the United States.
Of course the tariff question through
out the Western States is receiving much
attention, and is being discussed largely
from the political platforms of the two
great parties Still I find very little op-
position to the Mckinley bill compared
with what I found two years ago when
travelling through this section. Then
every free trade Democrat was making a
determined effort to force the people to
believe that the Mckinley bill was going
to raise the prices of all the necessarles
of life, and work ruin generally to the
business interests of this country, espec-
tally to the people who till the soil.
That sort of talk is now seldom heard.
The bill has been i'll operation for two
years, and the people have learned that
none Of the predictions made about 1t
have come to pass.
We were told that the bill would pro-
tect the commerce of the country, would
prevent imports, and would cut of the
export trade. It has not worked that
way. Every one now knows that, for
the last year, when every clause OF the
bill has been in effective operation, the
imports have largely increased and OUT
export trade has also grown many mllll-
ons Of dollars, To the surprise Of all
the men who so vigorously opposed the
bill, the balance Of trade in favor Of this
nation under the bill that they said was
going to cripple United States has been
largely in our favor, and we have sold
abroad s2O2,0O0,0o0 more than the
amount paid for goods brought into the
country.
They persisted in telling the people
hat this bill would increase the price OF
the everyday necessities OF life. Such
is not the case. All kinds of tin uten-
sils are cheaper than they were when
the bin Went into effect. Carpets are
also much cheaper, Sugar, of course, is
very much cheaper. Indeed, they have
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failed to discover a single instance where
the workings Of the Mckinley bill have
added to the cost of any manufactured
article used by the people Of this nation
find as, a rule that the people Of the
great West recognize this fact; hence
F. hear none Of the clamor against the bill.
which heard on the corners of every
street and in almost every railroad ca
two years ago. The bill has spoken fol
itself, and its voice has Deen distinc1
and well understood. The operations
of the bill have brought the free trade
Liars to grief.
The result Of two years experience has
left the tariff question in such shape thai
the Democratic speakers find it very diff.
fcult to arouse i'll feeling against the bill
think can say, without fear ofcontra-
diction, that throughout the entire North.
west the Democratic party is without an
issue The free-trade plank in theirp plat
form and the declaration that all protec-
tive tariffs. are unconstitutional under oul
form Of government are a load too hea.
Wy for them to carry. The nomination
of Mr.. Cleveland has silenced thefree sil.
yer men, who make up the bulk Of tht
Democratic party in the West. Conse
quently, the campaign would be largely
devoid Of interest in this section of ths
country We're it not for the restless &C
i tivity Of the Peoples party leaders.
The whole stock in trade of this new
party consists in portraying what the,
are pleased to term the ssterrible condi
ton" Of the people; and there is a per
sistent effort on their part to show tha
the scarcity of the circulating medium
has brought about all this fancied mis-
cry.