Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-25

buy tin plate" This is what the
Press means, but it suppressess the
three words 'farm products worth"
in order to bunco the farmer. Our
total exports of American coin (gold
and silver for the seven years 1888
to 1880, less reimports, amounted
only to $4,818,255, an average OF
only $659,751 yearly, not enough
to pay the bar-bills OH ocean steam
ers of Americans crossing the ocean.
We did not pay for it in our gold
or silver coin, as the Press knows,
and we did not pay for it in our
gold bullion, for our total exports
/ Of gold coin and bullion, including
all interest on and redemption of
our foreign bonds, for the twenty
years from 1870 to 1890, exceeded
our imports by only s57,9e5,Soa.
"Thc tin plate mills already
built or projected under the new
tariff have capacity of 100000
pounds a year, which, at the pre-
sent average imports value, means
about 100000 annually, or in
twenty years $14O,OOO,00O" worth
of farm products "that will stay in
this country" And rot?
The Press dares not tell the whole
truth. But by suppressing three
words in one sentence and four
words in another, it deceives and de-
ludes the readers into believing that
we pay in our money and not in
our labor products for what we i'm
port.
Every Protection bunco-steerer
who seeks to delude and deceive the
Republican farmer with this bunco
knows that every dollars worth Of
our imports is the foreign payment
for our surplus cotton, corn, wheat
and pork sent abroad to find all ex-
change market for something we
want. But he imagines that the
Republican farmer is such a fool
as to believe that when this pay
ment for our farm labor does not
complete with the products of our
mill labor it does not disturb the
money market, but that foreigners
will only exchange for our gold
coin that which completes with our
mill product, and what is protect
ed" must be paid for in gold.
1.-THE War on the Farmer" wag-
ed by the protected tariff trusts
through their hired men is a war Of
deception, of lying, of forgery, OF
downright swindling, as this tariff
picture in the Press proves beyond
a doubt to any thinking man. II
was less than three years ago that
the American Economist, "official
organ of the Protective Tariff Lea
que" in defending the sugar trust
said:
In 1882 the value of molasses
sugar, sugarcandy and confection-
cry imported was $780, 91 1914
The American Economist would
like to see that money retained in
the United States.
This vast sum expended for for
cign sugars relieved European coun.
tries, mainly England, from paying
to us a like sum in gold.
We wish to keep the money, and
the goods representing money, for
the use and consumption of Amer.
leans, so that the profits on the
goods produced to pay for the sugar
and the profits on the sugar should
be both American.
But when the Republican sugar
trust refused to pay its campaign
assessment of 100000 it was "put
over the fire and had it's fats fried
out" The "$1OO,00O,OOO0 in gold
that was formerly "sent out of the
country yearly to buy" our sweeten-
ing now remains here because the
Mckinley bill put the raw material
on the free list and reduced the pro.
lection from $45, 100000 yearly to
100000! Before 1890 we paid
for it in our gold. Since 1890 We
have paid for it in our surplus farm
labor.
How much longer will the Re.
publican farmer of this country
permit the hired men of Tariff
trusts to bunco them with such
nonsense as this?
Every dollars worth of imported
product is sent here rs payment fol
American labor in the United
States. The Protectionists are try.
ing to deprive that American labor
which produces on the farm NOR,
than we consume-of all payment
for its surplus that may complet,
. with mill-machine owner. Eigh
ty per cent. Of our surplus labor il
, on our farms, and it is the prosper
ity of farm labor the PROTECTIVE
Tariff League has been organized t,
destroy. It has no other object
: Who can imagine anyp-N. Y