The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-04-22

an enemy 20 mankind, so the gentle
man assumed that the goods the PeO-
pie Of the foreign nations Of the world
would food us with, would be 3 great
Injury to as. tell you, gentlemen,
. that if foreign nations want to food
US with gOoda-if they want to give uB
good things and to let my part Of the
people have good thiugs,I am perfectly
willing TO tear down the dykes and
everything else that stands in the
way.
Mr.. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. viii
the gentleman yield for a question?
Air. SIMPSON. Certainly.
Mr. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR. If they
carry ont our cotton have they not
something to bring back in retuTnP
Now. if they do not bring goods, must
they not bring gold; and is not that
just as good for lis as anything else2
That is brought back in return for the
cotton.
Mr.. SIMPSON. All, that is just a
very part of the protective tariff
scheme. 1t is the old theory. They
first get a protective tariff and prevent
you from trading for goods of amy
kind by filming you City cents on the
/ dollar il you undertake to bring them
( in, the object being to compel You to
trade for their gold, on which there is
no tariT, and bring the country to the
/ single standard. That is one of the
Efforts Of the great gold monopoly of
tine country. You will be compelled,
under this law, to trade for this com
modify which the monopoly controls,
gold, and that is part of the hard
money scheme which has heen worked
ia this country for-so many years, my.
friend from Omaha, Mr.. Taylor. Has
the gentleman another question?
Laughter
Mr.. JOSEPH d. TAYLOR. Yes,
sir
Mr.. SIMPSON. Very we'll; what is
it?
Mr. JOSEPH d. TAYLOR, Why
you have not answered the question I
asked you yet. say if they carry Il
cargo Of cotton aboard, is it not true
that they must bring back some equiva-
lent?
MIR. SIMPSON. If they carry out Il
load of cotton and trade it of for
load of silk, that some of our people
here use occasionally, and of which we
produce but little, which some of our
people do want, they will fine the man
5 fifty cents Oh every dollars worth Of
silk he brings back in return for his
cotton. Is lie making "A good trade
, under sHch circumstances? What can
. he trade his load of wheat or his load
f of cotton or his load of corn off for
2 upon which he will not be fined as he
! brings it into the country?
t Mr.. J. D.TAYLOR. But if you can
t raise the goods here out of our own
. lands and make them by our own la
Dor, are we not in better condition
e than to purchase them from abroad2
I Mr.. SIMPSON. But it so happens
e that this is an agricultural country.
g It so happens that we have "A very large
g agricultural surplus here that must
q seek a market somewhere because OF
t the inability Of consumers il our own
y manufacturing districts to purchase
q what they need. The secretary OF
agriculture in his report year OF Sc
$ ago said that if the consumers oil
70 wheat bread had eaten but an ounce
II and three-quarters each more of wheat
3. bread we would have had no wheat FOL
II export. We have no market here. The
Il farmers must of necessity seek Il for
Z. eign market. Seeking that foreiEl
IS market, they must trade for goods in
[ that country, and as soon as they max,
e that trade you set your custom-house
o officers upon them and levy Il tribute
L of 81 cents on every dollars wOrtI
d that they trade for. How does that
IS benefit agriculturep How does it bene
q TT the agricultural laborer OF tn,
II country?
ii Why, Mr.. Chairman, We are driver
e, from the markets of the whole world
.e It is Il well-knOwn fact that there wa
II great failure of the crops ON thu
IL other side of the Atlantic, nearly al
d over Europe recently. Millions of PEG
pie are Gying-starviug OF about t,
10 die OF starvatiOn-at least they toll,
D. us 50 when they wanted to get a hun
+ dred thousand dollars or 50 for thu
g purpose Of hiring some good repUbli
N cans ship to carry over a cargo Of doul
AZ TO relieve them [laughterl, and yet sir
m because We cannot trade the product
IL Of Our farms for the products Of Iabo
Al in foreign countries, we are restricted
N to the markets Of this country by thu
"a tariff monopoly, and although there
IT, a demand for these products abroad
they are sinking lower and lower il
81 price every day, until today they az,
IN way below the cost Of production. How
n does this benefit the farmers Of Ameri
ca?
# Why, the western and the southern
., farmers have been driven into the cit
- les aud the towns OF manu1acturinl
~ states for their market where VOL
ii promised the farmers you would builC
= them an aEelnsiEa marlat- We ~.