The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-04-15

-. RevshlIcan Plan q ar the Da.ent Y
Corporations Alone.
The dsmocrstic party = trying 70 -
rouetixe the real wealth IL the country
u. wheat. corn. cotton. pro isions
and other articles Of international e.
change.
The price OF all ommoditiese exported
b. us under the republican tariff
against return cargoes IL subject 20 the
limitations ~ the European gold sup
DIV. and u In . universally admitted
iact that there Is not gold enough in
Europe 70 carry on the international
trade Of the modern world. The re-
publican secretary Of the TREASURY, the
late Mr.. Window. admitted this in his
reports. and he reiterated IL in the last
speech he ever made.
Yet while this il admitted. we put 4
tax averaging sixty per cent. on the
buying power Of all the surplus the
Mississippi valley exports TO Europe.
chls tax Is not levied on the outgoing
commodity, for the constitution for bids
taxes on exports. The same end Is
reached. however by levying the tax
against return cargoes Of manufactured
goods The surplus Of Europe Is chiefly
In manufactured goods. II can paw in
manufactured goods 10. our surplus far
higher prices than il can pay in any
other why. But we are not allowed 10
take the surplus Of Europe. The tariff
forces us 10 sell for gold or for few
selected nrti les Of raw material. No
one can fail 40 see that this limits both
the quantity and the price Of our valley
experts
We ship q cargo " wheat or cotton
q Eng land or Germany. We demand
gold for importation 70 America. The
answer Is: I'VE have no gold for ex-
port There Is barely enough to make
our clearings here. Our governments
have demonetized silver. We need
your goods. hut we are practically out
OF money, and II you demand gold only
we cannot trade"
This is not said in so many words. for
business men do not take time for $50
many words" They simply decline 10
trade. Then the seller looks around
for something he can buy with his val
ley products. which. offered in exchange
for gold only. have gone to "a less than
Living selling price. As measured
against the scarcity of gold in Europe,
they become too cheap to bear the cx-
pcnse of exporting. lie finds on cxami-
nation that il he buys raw sugar and
ewother like articles. he can get them
into the United States without being
fined for II. So he exchanges them for
raw sugar and other articles needed by
our trusts and sells to the trusts what
he is allowed TO bring back as return
cargocs.
OF course. this Is not Intended to he
accepted Us statement Of the details
of the trade, but il is a fair and accu-
rate outline Of the general course OF
our valley trade with Europe. But for
articles Of foreign production now on
che free list, we would have no exports
at all, for there is not gold enough
loose in Europe or in the world TO move
out any considerable portion Of the sur
plus we produce or could produce in the
Mississippi valley II we were allowed to
exchange II freely on its merits at its
exchange value In comparison with
what we need most in exchange for IL
And this must always be remembered
that where for our valley surplus Of
agricultural exports we are allowed 70
take foreign products in exchange. it
isonly and always for the primary
benefit Of manufacturing corporations.
The republican party is in favor Of
free trade-for the trusts only.
All articles on the free list. all
articles we can bring in from abroad
without being fined for il under the
Mckinley bill, are for the use Of manu-
featuring corporations only We are
forbidden to bring in a single dollars
worth Of any article that is in a shape
an which we are likely to be able to
use Il Mt once.
Convince the republican party that
free trade in any article will help the
trusts and they will put that article on
The free list az once.
See how this works out in the IIarri-
son.lilainc s'rcciprocity" Spanish
America i farming country with no
manufactured goods To sell. 80 the re-
publicans say to the exporters Of the
Farm products Of Mississippi valley:
''hu Nour IdTfu products 10 the SDutn
American farmers. who have nothing
20 sell in competition with tho trusts.
and You can trade all you like rs long
- you do not try TO buy anything the
trusts want to sell you.-
There is nothing new about this. II
y simply the old republican plan Of
Tree trade for the trusts only. We src
only allowed TO buy abroad what the
trusts want bought. and we are only al
lowed 70 sell abroad in the measure Of
shc quantities Of foreign products the Y
trusts are willing to have imported.
"c must either accept this or bid for
r"'d only with our exports. which /
means no trade at all abroad and ruin
Gus prices at home.
This j. the trouble with cotton now.
and except in European famine years
J. y the trouble with al the products OF y
The valley.
The republican rule works both WAYS.
~ : protection for the. trusts only"
ana free trade for the trusts only
y Louis Republic.
A FAMILY ROW.