Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-02

mcnt: and we demand such a revision of
the tariff laws "a will remove their
iniquitous inequalities, tighten the OPP
prcssions and put them on a constitutional
and equitable basis.
But IL making n reduction of the tax IL
is not proposed to injure any domestic in
dustries, but rather promote their healthy
growth. FROM the foundation of the gov
eminent the taxes collected at the custom
house have been the chief source of fed
cral revenue. Such they must continue to
be. Moreover, many industries have come
to rely upon legislation for their sue
cessful continuance, so that any change
of the law must be ut every step regardful
OF the labor and capital tGus involved
The process of reform must be subject, In
execution, to this plain dictate of justice.
We dcnounce the Mckinley tariff law
enacted as the eliminating atrocity of
class legislation; we indorse the efforts of
the democrats of the present congress TO
modify its most oppressive features i'm the
direction Of free raw materials and
cheaper manufactured goods that enter
into their consumption md we promise
their repeal as one of the benefcent re-
suits that will follow the action of the
people in cntrusting power 10 the demo
cratic party.
Since the Mckinley tariff went into OPP
GRAFTON there have been ten reductions Of
the wages of laboring men to one In
crease. We deny that there has been any
increase of prosperity In the country since
the tariff went into operation, and point TO
the dullncss and distress, the wage reduc-
tions and strikes in the iron trade as the
best evidence that no such prosperity has
resulted from the Mckinley act.
We call to the atten ION of thoughtful
Americans that after thirty years of Ic-
strictive taxes against the importation of
foreign wealth, in NJ excellent age for
agricultural surplus, the homes and farms
of the country have become burdened with
real estate mortgages of over 81, 500, 900, 600,
exclusive of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agricultural
states of the west there Appears real es-
tate mortgages averaging Sl.65 per
capita of the population, and that
similar conditions are shown to exist in.
other agricultural exporting states. We
denouncc The policy which fosters no in
dusty so much as 1t does that of the
sheriff
Trade / terchangc on n basi, of recip-
rocal advantages to the countries partici-
patiug is n time honored doctrine of the
democra &c faith, but we %denounce with
shame the reciprocity which ~iuggles with
the peoples desire for enlarged markets
and frGcr exchanges by pretending to es-
tablish closer trade relations for n couu-
try whose articles of export are almost ex-
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other countries that are also agricultural,
while erecting custom house barriers of
prohi bitive tariff taxes against the richest
coun tries in the world that stand ready TO
take our entire surplus products and cX-
change therefor commodities which are
the necessaries and comforts of life
among our people.
We recognize in the trusts and combin-
ntions which are designed TO secure more
than their share of the joint product of
capital and labor the natural consequence
of prohlb tive taxes which prevent free
C mpetitiou, which is the life of honest
trade, but we believe their worst cvi $ can
be abated by law, and we demand the
rigid enforcement of the laws made to
prevent and control them, together with
such further Legislation in restraint Of
their abuses as experience may show to
be necessary.
The republican party, while protesting
a policy of rcserving the public land for
small holdings by actual settlers, has