The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-18
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vitals of these industries. Our manu-
featured products at that time amounted
to about SIS, 200, O0O, 900 year. A gov
eminent policy that proposed to take 90
per cent off from the duties on that
amount of products could have no other
influence than to destroy confidence, un-
settle prices, lock up money and paral-
ize business of every kind. The business
CT this country did not recover from the
depression caused by Cleveland's tariff
reform until after the Mckinley bill was
passed.
A number of real estate dealers have
told me that they have had more in
quiry for farms in Kansas and have
made more sales since ths Mckinley bill
passed than they did during the whole
period of Cleveland's admins
tration. Our manufactured pro-
ducts every year are al
most double in value those of our agri-
cultural products. The employees in
those factories and the families depend
ing upon them for living comprise
nearly half of the population of the
county. When our manufacturing in
terests flourish they supply the funds
that purchase the surplus farm products
at good prices and the farmers flourish
also.
A marvellous fact about this matter, is
that the farmers of Kansas have adopted
platform almost identical with the
tariff reform platform of Cleveland, and
are fusing with the Democrats to re-
elect him for another four years of an
administration similar to the one that
brought on their misfortunes. A still
more miraculous fact is, that the far
mers of the Big Seventh of Kansas have
renominated for congress Jerry Simpson,
a man who goes farther in the direction
of tariff reform than Cleveland ever
dreamed OF going. Instead Of demand.
ing 20 per cent reduction, Simpson is
in favor OF sweeping the tariff all away,
trade in every sense of the word"
Absolute free trade would paralyze
almost every manufacturing industry on
which there is any tariff, and would
cause strikes and riots from one end OF
the country to the other. A policy that
would be more destructive to the pros
perity of the farmers could not be de-
vised than that of absolute free trade, as
proposed by Jerry Simpson. 1t would
lower the prices of farm products, raise
the prices of manufactured products and
put the taxes all upon farmers, even for
the support of the general government.
1t was "tariff reform" that did it. Now
will the voters of the country vote for
Cleveland and Simpson and have it done
over again, in an aggravated form? is
the question to be decided on the 9Th of
November next. The following from
Mr.. Dawes recent speech expresses my
sentiments and will bear repeating:
Two years ago the Republicans of
Kansas played. and, in punishment for
their action, heard something hit them,
which, he said, he should refrain from
mentioning. This year it is not in the
book that the Republican party shall be
beaten. eve have got to bedrock; we
have planted ourselves sqaarely on the
Republican platform, on Republican
principles and on the Mckinley bill.
We have no divisions; we have no
discussions; we have no knives in our
boots, and we are calling each other
no names but Republican brothers. We
have laid aside all our petty quarrels,
and we are standing up for Kansas,
the United States and good govern
ment. The election two years ago
gave black eye to the state that
is worse than the hot winds,
the drouth and the grasshoppers COM
bined. People have laughed at US in
in Iowa, and even in poor old
benighted Missouri. 1t is no laughing
matter in Kansas; 1t is a serious matter,
and we have suffered the penalty. Capt.
tai dropped out of the STATE; capital re-
fused to come this way, and the farmers
themselves have suffered grievously, for
the mortgage foreclosures pressed upon
them more heavily than would be the
case had not the Populists' theories and
demands created feeling of uncer-
tainty at the fountain heads of capital
'Now," said the speaker, 'things are
coming our way; God is with Kansas,
and it is about time for my old Republi-
can friends, who have gone astray, to
come in out of the wet"
DIR. E. P. MILLER.