Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-05-14
It Ia Fully Exposed by the New
York Prets in a Recent
Issue
Glazing Statements Mede by a
Democratic Statesman
Duly Answered.
Republican Policy Regarding Sug-
ar Saving the Country
seo.ooo,ooo a Year.

RIBEH from NluhndtuASfbAHf hflAFblth n
speech in the house the other day in
favor Of tree wool The New YORK Press
hns Ia en- the principal statements OF
Mr. Stevens TO put thereto answers
which will be read with interest and
profit Here are the eleven statements
with answers following
L. The trouble with the attempt to
protect the wooden manufacturer by
enormous prohlbitory duties has been
the trouble which has been found in at
tempting 70 build up every other indus
try by this artificial method.
This artificial method has made the
manufacturers Of the United Stetes
more numerous, more valuable and more
varied than those Of any other uation IN
earth, ana has maintained the American
scale of wages at a higher point THAI
has been known ~ any country on the
planet. Every democratic president Of
the United S ates whose glory time has
left undimmed aud whose name and
memory are considered worthy Of IN
voking IN any democratic national con
venton today, was protecLonist. JET
PERSON and JACKSON we're ardent pro-
tectiouists, and il alive today would in
all probability oppose with all their
might every prominent measure which
the democratic majority in this congress
has brought forward.
Every democratic president who has
espoused the cause Of free trade, from
Polk TO Cleveland, brought defeat upon
his party The names Of dead free ira
ders do not blazon democratic banners
today. They are forgotten. Their ca
jeers brought nothing but dis ster. Tn
der 80 called free trade tariffs the foreign
Workshop, AID not the American work
shop reaped the profit. No American
railroad could build an additional mile
OF track without first sending TO Engi nd
for the rails The American system Of
protection alone changed all this, and
under il the United States last year for
the first time became the greatest pro
Queer Of pig iron in the world, 18th over
100000 iron workers receiving nearly
double the ages paid for similar labor
abroad. IL is today the greatest wooden
manufacturing country in the world
The same grow Tn and the same preemI-
hence must soon be gained ~ the United
States ln the glass, pottery, lumber, cot
ton ods and other industries.
II. FIR wool may mean 10 the fu-
tura perhaps the openif & Of new markets
TO American manufacturers
Any American manufacturer who
aches for free raw material and a foreign
market, may, under the Mckinley bill,
have mis- raw material free 10 90 per
cent at it's value That rs 20 say, the
government refunds all but per cent OF
the duties collected lst as soon as the
manufacturers goods are ready for eX
port Why do not those " no are chasing
the chimera OF foreign markets take all
the rec raw material they want, and 20
out and capture the markets OF the
world?
Ill Reduced taxes and lower prices
always mean h. creased consumption.
Low tariffs mean st gnatlon of BUSH
ness. dis ster IN the financial world, IN
creased consumption Of foreign goods,
decreased employment for Americans,
and harder times generally. Good
prices for la. or and for commodities
mean increased consumption and conse
queut increased production, employment
at good wages, prosperity and progress
to both Individuals and the natl H.
~. Our republican friends have al
ready found that lifting the taxes from
coffee and sugar has gwen more coffee
and more sugar to every American con
sumer
An republicans believe in lifting all
taxes on all necessities OF life which We
cannot produce Free trade means the
oppos te Il means; Raise the I ational
revenue 10y taXUR whatever the people
are bound TO or must have One illus
tratiou: The Mills bill did not lift the
taxes" from sugar The republican tar
i'll saved the people S6o.Ooo00Oa year
Y. The proportion Of wooden goods
D. 4, al