Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-08-13
TARIFF TRUTHs-READ AND RE-
MEMBER.

This protected land of ours, where
the laborer is oppressed, the artisan
down trodden, is the only civilized one
on the face ofthe earth which has no
emigrants. Why is it?
During the year past the balance of
trade with foreign nations WAS in our
favor to the amount of $202, 1000 1000
Does that indicate that our protective
policy excludes our products from the
markets Of the world2
Geo. Washington and Abraham Lin
coin were protectionists. And yet by
the average patriotic American citizens,
these two statesmen will not be de-
nounced as friends Of monopoly and
oppressors Of the poor.
Free trade democrats profess their
willingness to foster by protection in
dustries that are in their infancy" but
they have already demonstrated their
unwillingness to assist the tin plate in
dustry of the United States, by such
measures.
If free trade would give US control of
/ the markets of the world, is it not
strange that the British press and the
! peoplesof England generally, should so
wish to see democracy triumph in the
presidential and congressional elections
in the United States2
The prices of large number of ar
ticles protected by the Mckinley act are
lower now than before the passage of
that bill. But our democratic and in.
dependent friends cannot cite a single
instance in which the price of an article
SO protected, has been advanced.
Democrats howl about Robber Nc
Kinley. and his infamous bill, and yet,
with a great majority in the lower
house, the first session Of the fifty
second congress was adjourned and the
house journal contains no record of any
measure offered as substitute for Mai.
McKinley's. Surely democracy has not
been duly jealous in its efforts to relieve
purueneu peopie.
In 1870 man employed as "roller" in
steel mill was paid 81 day. To-day,
a man employed in the same capacity
receives $40 per day. And yet the price
of the product of that mill has decreas-
ed ant you understand that? The
explanation is simple enough. The
general prosperity and development of
the country has greatly broadened the
market for this product, and quick sales
and small profits are the result.
There is not class Of labor employed
in any of the manufacturing industries
Of the two countries which il renumer-
ated so highly in England as in America.
And committee appointed by congress
to investigate the matter years ago,
proved conclusively that the cost Of
living there was greater than in the
United States. Is it not reasonable to
believe that the different policies of the
two nations has something to do with
this?
For every $50, 100000 worth of goods
imported into the United States, 100000
hand laborers are deprived of work and
an equal number of foreign workmen
are supplied with it. Our imports of
dutiable goods was $72,56S,70 less in
1891 than 1889. The difference was
manufactured at home, and gave en-
ployment to nearly 100000 working
men. Were these workmen robbed by
the protection of the industries that
gave them employment?
1t is argued that the west is not pros
pering under the protective tariff policy
in degree equal to that of the eastern
states. From 1880 to 1890 the greatest
gain in the assessed valuation Of prop
erty in any Of the manufacturing states,
was in Vermont, and the increase was
81 80 per cent. In South Dakota, an
agricultural state. the increase was
l040.s2 per cent. During the same
period New York shows gain of 42.36
per cent, and Nebraska 103.97 per cent.
England is very friendly to Cleveland
and his party. The Liverpool Journal
Of Commerce says: 'The democratic
party Of the United States may rest as
sured that II English sympathy could
carry the election of Grover Cleveland
in November, the White House would
be theirs" Grover is to be congratu-
lated upon haying made such sincere
friends on the other side, but his politi-
cal antagonist, and the standard bearer
Of the republican party, prefers to make
his at home.
A senate committee appointed to de-
termine the general effects of the Nc
Kinley tariff bill has made the following
report: During the % months from
June lst, 1880, to Sept. lst. 1891. the
average retail pricss of 2i4 articles of
common consumption among the people
declined 81 per cent; wholesale prices
OF the same articles declined .33 per
cent; prices of agricultural products ad
yanced 1867 per cent, and wages ed