The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-29

| petitOrs. AS farmers we are directly
interested in the American system OF
protection. English statesmen since
1916 have formulated the English system
which is tariff for revenue only. Must
not man be intensely un-American
who will deliberately adopt the English
/ in preference to the American system;
| Tariff for revenue means that duty
will be placed on the tea, coffee, sugar,
spice, ETC., in fact on everything we
do not produce, whilst all the capital an
! labor invested in our manufactures must
accept the deadly competition of Euro
pean labor and capital. If we become
sufficiently unpatriotic to adopt the En-
| glish in preference 20 the American sys-
tie n, then immigration of itself will stop,
simply because the condition of labor
here will be no better than In Europe.
on the other hand the American system
| of protection brings emigrants TO this
favored land in a constantly increasing
stream, thus lessening our exports OF
raw material, giving us a home market
for the products of our farms and saving
TO us the burthens of freight, which al
ways impoverishes the exporter of raw
material. This view of the industrial
question is forcing itself even on the
minds OF British statesmen. Howard
Vincent, who represents Sheffield in the
British parliament, has visited many of
the countries of Europe as
well as the United States,
to study the industrial question,
and on his return to England declared
that England must abandon the system
of tariff for revenue" or be ruined. In
speaking of the United States, he says:
81 have seen with my own eyes the
enormous prosperity of the United
States, and | have noticed there the al
most complete absence of tie ill-fed,
under-paid workers who were to be seen
on every side in other countries. He
further assures his English constituents
that there is no longer any hopes of
capturing the American markets, and
that "eX-President Cleveland and his
program OF radical reform have been
sent to the rear" This member Of the
English parliament has the honesty to
acknowledge that the prosperity of this
country is due to the American system
of protection and that England must
adopt similar system or be ruined. Pro-
lection supplemented with reciprocity not
only preserve the American markets for
American labor and capital, but we are
getting possession of tn South American
markets from which heretofore we were
excluded. Whilst these important re-
suits are being attained through the IN
strumentality of Blaine and Mckinley
everything which we purchase is cheap
er than before the Mckinley bill went
into operation. Two years ago we paid
sixteen cents pound for binding Irvine
one year ago we paid fourteen cents, but
last harvest we bought it for less than
twelve cents. Cotton ties made now in
America are sold cheaper in the south
today than when foreign manufacturers
supplied them. The whole history of the
tariff proves that whenever we paid a
high price for any product of the work
shop, it was the foreigner who got the
high price. With these facts staring us
in the face what must we think of the
patriotism of Jerry Simpson, who advo-
Gates the repeal of 1.-THE Mckinley bill
and all kindred tariff laws" placing US
again at the mercy of foreign manu-
facturers, who on all occasions merciless-
ly plucked the silly American goose
whenever we were foolish enough to
give them the power to do so? The
sober second thought of the Kansas
farmer is making itself felt when the
Emporia Standard, an Alliance paper,
declares that ''the Alliance was seized
upon by wild-brained and reckless dema-
gogues who ran it to suit their notions
and crankisms" And now to supply
the place of these intelligent farmers
who no longer will listen to the vision
airy theories of "wild-eyed dema-
gogues" the leaders of the Alliance
are moving heaven and earth to
form a union with the once
powerful Knights of Labor. When we
reflect that the Knights of Labor have
on all occasions been the most relentless
enemies of the farmer on the transporta-
ton question, union with that organi-
cation is not calculated to inspire us with
high opinion of the ability displayed
by the leaders of the farmers move
ment. The Knights of Labor in their
declaration of principles assert that as
the value of land depends on the
density of population in the immediate
neighborhood, consequently the I'M
earned increment of the land right
fully belongs to all the people and not to
the so called owners. A union with
such opposing forces will necessarily be
a union of the lion and the lamb, with
all its destructive results. Yours res
pectfully, ONE OF THE MACS.
Glen Mary Farm, Jan. %, 1892.