Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-04-01

1s11oas - Answers.
41.le1AAA 1IssAs no Jssr ssas ssd
49, ssk N tsadsncy 81 The 40
~ 0OCnt1no whore they re
st1olrghfo0k III Standard OH Tfugt q
HAadc aGetesGiion or capital. Yet
M4Akhao 4hAS % do With the tariff The
Nestern Union Telegraph monopoly,
~ ineu5NnCe combinalfOn, the trust
tately 5oFm0d ~ the express com.
NnMas1-hON ~ they influenced BY
petsecllOn The tari6. far from GREAT
IN thSe0nditions favorable 10 the or
EanixetiOn 0f trusts, he's been the means
by which many or them have been de.
styOyed, and this will DO clearer when
consider tho circumstances under
which 4 = most likely that I trust will
Undsr ffss trads The trust would be
supreme. For than W would BE- COM
plstely ut the mercy Of Great Britain
Tor our supply Of many articles, and
this condition would b. realized: Be-
tore lafEe supply q. . commodity
lectAd In = few scapOfts, there TO pass
through the hands Of : few exporters,
who lind . trust the most convenient
meAns Of raising the export price to
foreign consumers. And this ID Just
what hos actually taken PLACES again and
again, % that there ID no country In the
world that contains more trusts, more
obnoxious mon0polies, than Great
Britain, the home OF the economic
hel0ey OF free trade. The country 10
really plnstered over with trusts.
Protection offers no inducement to
trusts but II they arc formed We can
control them. Free trade offers every
lnducement to trusts, and when they
are formed. puts them beyond our
resch. Which system will the people
prefer?
Question NOD Hots dos p~rotection beaeas The
farmtrs HoaM Ne b better Of under FREE trade,
Protection was adopted by the found
err Of the government for the special
purpose of ~benefiting farmers. The
members Of the first Congress we're
nearly oil either farmers themselves or
represented farming constituencies.
Agriculture was practically the only in
dustry Of the people, and they saw their
produce rot on their hands year after
year for want Of . market for it. To
create . market for this produce was the
prime object Of the early legislators.
There was not . r0bber baron among
them. Their policy was . farmers pol
icy, pure and simple. Later statesmen
down to Blaine and Mckinley based
their advocacy OF protection on the be.
Lief that Il benefited the farmer most of
81.
To-day, eleven million acres of the
best farm land in the world 10 lying
waste in England, 100000 persons an
nnAlly leave the agricultural districts,
and tho condition of agriculture 10
simply depforable. Free trade has all
but ruined the English farmer. So it
has dealt with agriculture in India. Ii
tact, u own experience and that of
the whole world il that = revenue tariff
means death to the farmers prosperity.
For ome years American agriculture
has been depressed. though in less de-
gree than agriculture in foreign coun.
tries, becaueo OF 0ver-prOduction. The
free trade demagogue took advantage
OF the situation to urge his pet theories
upon farmers, who more steatfastly
than any other class of citizens have
turned q deaf ear to the free trade
siren, and formed the main bulwark OF
American protection from the time OF
Washington down. The demagogue ~.
sures them that the remedy for their
Ills 10 to b0 sought in foreign markets
for their produce. II 10 exactly the
argument used to persuade them to
consent to . revenue tariff in 1915.
But when that tariff had been voted
they discovered how they had bsen
fooled.
We are approaching very close to the
Nne whore, under normal conditions,
our own people will consume oil ouf
farmers produce. There are nc more
such vast tracts Of ~unoccupied wheat
lands 40 we're brought under cultivation
during the last twenty years, snd the
diversiacation Of industry + esulting
from consistent protection for . few
years more will place our farmers IN a
position where prices Of their. produce
will be regulated independently oil
that time comes, and it is close a hand,
farmers will be more than ever inter.
ested in protection. These ave the
teachings OF common sense and ex.
pefience. The only evidence that can
be produced against them 10 the insin-
core, partisan vaporings of tie free
Question No. !. Il foreign ,eorlme. are en-.
| plDBsd MN ID Ouv tdcioriea aud machinS shope. OF
what adrdatngs 1AsprOteti0n 10 the Ame kcdn Cit.
4Ass - lsOSci uu0DttOAsy Ouc INV Ia
wolves not merely . discussion OF the
tariff, but also of the ethics OF restrict.
ing immigration. "Is it des rable, =
asks our correspondent in effect. ito in.
crease the prosperity of our own PEG.
pie il foreigners Immediately some in
and share in that prosperity 7" And i,
can only ho snswered by dividing it into
two separate questions: l. IL Il desir.
able to Increase the prosperity Of our
countryf 2. Should We allow foreigner
TO come in and share II?
The frat Question must be answered
In the affirmative. OF course No should
do everything to make our own country
prosperous, and We have done -. The
only reason foreigners have for coming
to the United States ID to better theil
condition, and statistics shov that
whenever under free trade Oul
II - 4 L