Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-20
R0L1TICAL PUSzLfS

fULITICAL PUZZLES
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WILDCAT BANKS coNy1craAao.A ,.n
sdEsAcRicuLTunAL pepARrMeNr.
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~ith rAsn-casvstaadss ssi..e. :. 49,
Z s~ks-xAe ceavies lAss- 1890 !.
Denoerasis States.
Especial Corrsspondepca,
~" YORK, Oct. 10.-The absolute a.
seuce OF ex-President Cleveland n H.
sss.er OF acceptance touching the n,o,os
s.sion OF the Democratic niatYa,,r H.
Inc re-estlblishment Of stats banfa AMI
wildcat currency calls afrcsh the .ttar-
aon OF the people here to that mh;sc.
ihe sentiment Of the large maio,itv ~
people, OF the country Is so clearly against
uns proposition that It is not SURPRISING
'nat Mr.. Cleveland failed to tale tbe
matter mp. as he could only condemn ths
proposition II he were to discu.a r. n
any way.
Wildcat History.
Some interesting facts have t-ac.nt,v
come 70 the surface here with reference
70 tne history Of the kind of currencv
70 which the Democratic platform mn.
s return. An official publication
sssned IN 1858. when state banks and
scate bank notes were the only kind Of
money that the country had, gives
INST O 75S broken, closed and worthless
state banks in the United States. or
a ! number 1S9 were In tie state of
New York, sixty-three In Pennsvlvan;a
sixty-four in Ohio, sixty-eight in iliiana
q SO on through the yarious states
north and south. The editor Of Thomn-
son,s Detector estimated at that time
mat the loss of bill holders in the pre-
ceding ten years had amounted to S75.-
vVv,voO, an average Of more than thirteen
dollars for every family In the land.
ANS Same publication also showed that
ina there was a discount Of from / to
per Q on the bank notes of banks in
various states-thoee from North Caro-
lima, Illinois, Wisconsin and Virginia
being discounted at from 5 to Z per cent.
when offered in other states.
Democrats and Laborins Men.
The record of the Democratic party
with reference to the laboring element
OF the United States is receiving a good
deal Of attention hero Just now. The
somewhat remarkable fact that the con-
vict lease system prevails in nearly every
certainly Democratic state is leading
b ~workingmen of the country to con-
slider seriously the attitude of that party
toward labor. They remember that the
Democratic party In the house, both when
the Mills bill was considered and when
the Mckinley bill was before that body,
voted against the Republican PROPOSE
ton to exclude convict made goods
from the country. They also remem-
Der that MI. Cleveland, while governor
OF New York, vetoed the bill abolishing
convict labor In prisons, and that he
also vetoed twice the anticonvict labor
bill sent him by congress for his sigma
ture. They also remember that he pro-
posed in his message Of Dec. q, 1856,
that government prisoners be employed
In the manufacture Of such articles as
were needed for the government.
81 A<S8eo SyBt6m IN the SOuthA
1t is in the south, however, at present
that these thoughtful workingmen find
the strongest evidence of Democratic
hostility. They find hat out Of twelve
solidly Democratic states, where the
party can follow its own inclinations
without the fear of losing the state,
leased convict labor is openly put into
direct competition with workingmen.
Convict camps, they find, are scattered
over nearly all of the solidly Democratic
states, and appeals Of w~orkingmen
against the leasing Of convict labor to
be put into competition with them are
disregarded. 1t is only in solidly Demo-
cratic states that this happens, and the
workingmen of the country are begin
ming to seriously ask themselves in the
light of these developments whether the
Democratic party has any regard for la
Dor or laboring men.
What the Agricultural Department Has
Done
One of the most remarkable of the
series Of misfortunes which has befallen
the Democracy is the attack made by a
Democratic newspaper upon the de-
partment Of agriculture. 1t has given
the Republicans just the opportunity
they wanted to bring sharply to the
attention of the country, and particularly
the farmers, the benefits which the
present administration has brought to
them. As soon as Uncle Jerry Rusk
was made the head of the department
of agriculture and a cabinet officer he
consulted with President Harrison about
plans which he had for opening to the
farmers of this country without re-
striction the markets Of the world.
When this administration came into
power it found vexatious restrictions
and in some countries prolonged quar-
antine, with discouraged and hampered
exporters of live stock.
The meat and provision trade, and
through that the farmers who supplied
it, was greatly hampered and practi-
cally strangled by oppressive regula-
tons abroad, which excluded their meats
from many ports and required such I'M
reasonable things as to be almost pro-
hibitory. This condition has been great
Iy changed and greatly improved by
the present administration. Restrictions
against the admission of American pork
have been removed by Germany, Den
mark, Italy, Austria, France and Spain,
and from September, 1891, to April,
1892, more than 80, 000, 600 pounds of in
spected pork had been exported. An
equally satisfactory plan was adopted
with reference to the cattle trade.
The requirement of the British gov !
eminent for the immediate slaughter of
cattle brought there from America de-
preciated their value in that market
from ten to fifteen dollars per head, as
compared with Canadian shipments.
This e losses of millions of dollars
to the cattle raisers of the United States.
All this has been changed by the Repub-
ican administration. BY al elaborate
system of inspection established by y
government the governments and cattle
dealers of foreign countries were ecu
WINGED of the safety of admitting on,
cattle and beef
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