Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-12-15

resources and diversilies our indus
tries" Yet tax great enough to
protect labor and yield sufficient rev.
enue to sustain the government amid
the upheavel of rebellion, was play
thing compared to the tax that. is
needed now after twenty-five years Of
development and diyersifcation.)
Co., The foreigner pays the tax.
$50 then, the American buyer of for
eign goods gets them for the same
price that he would without the tax,
yet the manufacturer is protected, so
are his workmen)
109 Manufacturers cannot make
goods HERE and sell them HERE if
foreign goods are not kept out by the
tax, they would shut down and throw
their men out of employment" (Yet
these same manufacturers can make
their goods here, pay insurance, COM
missions, and freight on them to the
reciprocity countries and undersell
these same foreign competitors.)
Without pausing to ask in what
school of philosophy the above logic is
taught, let us return to the statement
made by Mckinley. that, There will
be less to do at home the more we
have done abroad" You can hear the
crack of the oVerseer's whip in this,
but is there boy in Iowa county, old
enough to do chores, who does not
know that the axe with which he splits
kindlings, or the scoop shovel used to
throw corn to the hogs was paid for
by something made or raised on the
farm, and the making or the raising
was done BEFORE the exchange was
| made? Is there a girl old enough to
"set the table," who does not know
that before the dishes, knives and forks,
table-cloth and groceries were brought
into the home butter, eggs, grain, pork
and beef must leave the farm, and the
greater the amount and better the
quality of goods brought to the home,
the greater the quantity Of farm pro-
duce necessary to pay for them?
Does the boy old enough to strike :"
at his fathers anvil not know that the
new iron overhead in the shop was
placed there by the same hand that
beat out its price beforehand on the
anvil, and the more work done in the
shop the more need of new iron and
the more money there is in the black
smiths pocket to pay tor it? Which
shop is doing the more business, the
one with all kinds and sizes of new
iron on hand, or the shop that gets it's
iron for repair-work from the scrap
pile in the corner?
Does the mechanic stop to inquire
when buying his stock whether it is
"made abroad y? If it turned out
that he had been getting stock "made
abroad for less than he must pay for
stock " made at home" would he dis
charge part Of his workmen because of
| it?
Is it necessary to say that what is
true of the home, the shop and the
farm individually, is true of the
United States collectively? Is not the
entire country made up Of homes,
farms and shops ? Does not the same
team that hauls the new binder, the
load of lumber, the box of groceries to
to the farm, haul the produce from the
farm that pays for it p? Would the
groceries, the lumber or the binder
come to the farm if the produce did
not leave the farm? Do not the same
cars that unload their freight at Miner
al Point reload with freight that leaves
that city? How long would cars loaded
with goods continue to pull into your
city if nothing was sent out from your
city? Mckinley would have us be-
lieve the more goods that come to
your depot from abroad" the less
there will be made at home"
How long do you think the great
steamship lines that gather the pro-
ducts of all lands and unload them at
our ports would continue to do so if
no goods "made at home" were re-
turned in exchange If you will use
the front part of your head you will
see that there will be more to do at
| home the more we have done abroad.
How many farmers make their ak
handles at home? Notsone farmer in
ten you say makes his ak handles cat
nome" You say it don't pay for them
to do it at home, for they can get all
the ak handles they need by making
or raising something on the farm to
exchange for them. And when goods
"made abroad which we need can be
obtained cheaper by exchanging goods
made at home for them, it is every
day business sense for US to do it.