Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-25
I will read the balance of Gov. Fifer,s

speech:
THE farmers are always poor and always
will be poor. They can not concentrate wealth
IS in the corporate industries. There is no
danger from the farmers. We never hear of
election frauds among them. They are easily
governed; but in large cities the republican
form Of government is q practical failure and
SO admitted by the trainers of the State con-
stitution of 1870. who gave powers to the gov
ernor to hold them ia check
Mr.. Simpson. l want to say to you.
Mr.. Chairman, that 1 am in favor of this
bill, Because 1t will place certain arti-
cles on the free list, because it will help
the Southern farmers. Every bill that
takes tax Off from their energies, off
from the products of their labor. is in
the interest of every other man in the
United States. whether he lives in the
North or in the South. l want to saw to
the Southern cotton planter that want
to see him relieved from every tax upon
his industry, simply from selfish inter
est, If from no other cause. For cotton
we trade corn and wheat; and the south
erD planter is large buyer of Kansas
corn, and the less he is robbed, the less
money is taken from him by a robber
tariff, the more he will have left to buy
Kansas corn with. So, from a selfish
point of view, if for no other reason. [
am in favor of this bill.
How does it come, Mr.. Chairman. that
labor needs protection? How does it
come that some men in this country are
In position to grant to labor protec-
ton? What is labor? Is not labor the
factor that produces all the wealth of
the world? Whether it be on the farm
or IN the factory, is not labor the force
that produces the wealth? How is it.
then, that some gentlemen are in DO
sltIon to grant privileges to labor? How
does 1t come that labor needs protection
in this country?
How does it happen, then, that we, af-
ter this long period, are gradually fall
ing back into the same old conditions of
society. and that we to-day are filling
the whole land with criminals? Why
in the city of New York alone last year
there were eighty-one thousand arrests
OF criminals, many of them made GRIM
lnals by law. Why? Simply because
they were deprived of their natural and
inallenable rights of access to the great
storahouse Of wealth, the earth; be-
cause of the monopolies built up under
this Ubiquitous system of protection.
My friend from Michigan Mr.. Burrowsl
"let the cat out of the bag" in regard to
this system. Speaking in favor of the
protective tariff, and showing how dis
astrous it would be to put certain arti-
Giles on the free list, he read dispatch
dated at Ottawa, Ontario, March 10th.
as follows:
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, March 10.
Anticipating removal of duties from coal
imported into the United States, a syndicate of
American capitalists have bonded several val
liable coal areas in Cape Breton and Pictue,
Nova Scotia, to enable them to compete with
the Pennsylvania mines in the New England
market, If coal is put on the free list.
That shows you what grows out of
this protective tariff system. Under
that system these monopolies have
grown up and capitalists have bought
up the mineral deposits of this country
everywhere that they can discover them.
Over in the neighboring commonwealth
of Virginia there are 200, 900 acres of the
best iron deposits in the United States,
hut those deposits are not developed,
they are not used, because they would
come into competition with the iron
mines OF Lake Superior and Pennsylva-
MIA. And that land is assessed at the
low valuation of $3.50 an acre. That is
the system of monopoly which the pro-
tectiVe tariff tends to foster.
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