Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-09-03
TARIFF TRUTHS-READ AND RE-
MEMBER.

MEMBER.
The Henry Lister & Son immense
manufacturing plant is being transfer
red from Huddersfeld, Eng, to James,
town, n. Y. 1t will furnish employ
ment for hundreds Of men.
Owen Murphy, mill worker employ
ed by Andrew Carnegie, offered bail for
| the release of John McLuckis, one of
the strikers who was placed under ar
rest, and justified in the sum of s25 900.
And yet he is one of the down-trodden,
oppressed laboring men of America.
The New York Herald ldeul nnh.
llshes the following as political note:"
Cotton and WOODEN mills in Connecticut
are enjoying an exceptionally prosper
Gus season, and defenders of the Nc
Kinley tariff are winning votes there
by" The editors good sense and tend
ency to tell the truth evidently got the
better of his partisan discretion.
The democratic organs have ceased
their rantings about the Homestead
affair One reason is, that the recent
investigation developed the fact that
while English puddlers are paid only
$I.S2 per ton, the lowest wages ever
offered to the puddlers of the Amalga-
mated Association of iron workers, at
Homestead, was $3.50 per ton. Another
reason is that the lowest wages paid by
Carnegie, are for the production of ar
ticles which are the least protected by
the Mckinley law.
Under the protective tariff system the
industries Of the United States have be-
come diversified, and from a country
which yielded agricultural products
alone we have passed to one which
produces $s,OOo,O 900, 900 in manufactured
articles. Great Britain, 30 much older,
so much wiser, can boast of only "a ,500.-
600 of the latter. No wonder she wants
our market, and who can doubt that
once in possession of it she would drive
all other competitors from the field at
any cost.
Buchanan said of the free trade
period of the 40's and SOS: With un-
surpassed plenty in all the productions
and all the elements of natural wealth
our manufacturers have suspended our
public works are retarded; our private
enterprises of different kinds are aban-
doned; and thousands of useful labor
erers are thrown out Of employment
and reduced to want. We have
possessed all the elements Of material
wealth in rich abundance, and yet, not.
withstanding all these advantages, our
~v..siy in ios lavucuary interests Is In Q
deplorable condition.
Abraham Lincoln, when nominated
for the legislature in 1882, said to his
first audience: "My politics can be
briefly stated. am in favor of the
internal improvement system and q
high protective tariff. These are my
sentiments and political principles" |"
That narrow mind which thus advocat.
ed the robbery of his people, afterward
piloted the ship Of state through five
years of civil war. And yet in all those
years he never swerved from those con.
victions expressed in his first political
speech.
Should the farmers reason dictate 9
vote for free trade? Listen to Millard
Fillmore. president ofths United States
referring to the effects Of the free trade
tariff OF l846: The value Of our exports
of breadstuffs and provisions, which i
was supposed the incentive Of low
tariff and large importations fron
abroad would have greatly augmented
have fallen from $6S, 100000 in lS47 I,
$2l ,00O, 900 in 1851. with almost Ger
tainty of still further reductions in 1857
Not the poor arguments OF Q hot headed
office seeking partisan, but the firu
measured sentences of q president of th
United States. troubled over the cond
tion of his people. fearing for the we
fare of his country.
Every cent Of revenue raised by tn
! Mckinley law is required for the legit
mate expenses Of the country. Thr
the law serves . double purposes pr'
tecting as it does, the producer of u