Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-03-16

export specie, gold, $S4, 939, Dol ;silyer,
sos, 97s, 265; total export gold and sill
yer S1S3,912,sl6; import specie, gold,
Sis, 232, SOC; silver, $35, 259,447; total
import gold and silver, SD, 1871 OLD;
total export over import gold and sill
yer, $l29, 420S02, How do these fig-
ures suit you my proteetionist friends9
They surely did not suit the editor of
the Toledo Blade. He had the same
figures before him have and the fig
ures for tho months of July to the
last of November which have not
he left them uumenhoned for fear
they might enighten somebody. His
article was not written to enlighten
people, it was written to hoodwink
the innocent victim of the American
protective tariff cabal, the tillers OF
the soil and the millions of working
men.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1881 we have "balancein our favor"
of S156, ia, $3.50; this means we sold so
much more than we bought. The
Toledo Blade says this gratifying
fact is worth more to the country
than all the theories Of free traders"
The editor of the L. B. could have
told his readers how much of this
enormous sum was received for our
farm and dairy products and for other
things which we sold but he is silent,
he has nothing to specify. He has
the figures he could show for how
many dollars worth of butter and
cheese, or wheat or -four or steel rails
was sold, but he has no time to men
ton such things. But l will mention
one thing, the only one Of which l
have the figures within my reach. One
of our exported articles for the year
mentionedis specie, gold and silver
to the amount of SiS3,912,Sl6. De-
duct this sum from tho balance in
our favor" and what is there left from
the Boosting editorial OF the Toledo
Blade9 Where are we coming to when
the editor Of the leading paper of the
Republical party, which party used
to be called the party of moral ends,
sits down to his desk and writes edi-
torials which cannot stand the analy-
sis of an American farmer, whose only
science is to make calf drink out of
pail and when he spells calf always
forgets the (which is in calf ? How
long will Americans follow such lead
ers?
Not long ago I asked Democratic
editor for good protectionist paper
which wished to read and he recon-
mended the Toledo Blade as one of
most honest protection papers in the
land. IL this is true, what an abyss
OF dishonesty must the subsidized
press Of the country be? Advocates
Of tariff for millionaires only" should
look for bigger guns, for guns of such
light caibre are not dangerous to free
traders. They cannot make a breach
in the ranks of the advocates of ''tar-
itf for revenue only"
For over twenty-five years we were
told by the advocates of ''tariff for
only" that we would be-
come immensely rich if we only would
tax ourselves high enough and lay our
foreign trade in shackles, and after
we have done this for thirty years
these organs tell us we sold last year
over ninety million dollars more goods
than we bought, when we actually sold
more than one hundred million dol
lars of our precious metals-our gold
and silver. Whence do they get their
Yet there are people
who believe them. The old Romans
used to say against stupidity the gods
combat vainly.
A You've DEMOCRAT.