Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-09-14

election
AS a party OF the minority it had
recklessly embraced every wild and
visionary scheme that was calculated
to bring it votes. When the people OF
this great nation awoke and found
that the democratic party was actually
in control, no wonder there was lack
of confidence, no wonder that foreign
gold left our shores, no wonder that
factories in anticipation of tariff re-
ductions closed their doors, no wonder
that storm of financial destruction
swept over our land never before
equalled since the prior democratic
days of $4,000.
Here in Iowa arguments filled with
sophistry and deception were used by
the leaders of democracy to win this
great state over to tariff reform and
free trade.
In letter written October "a, 1892,
by the governor of Iowa he says:
THE simple fact that the exports of
American farm produce increased so
per cent within one year after the
adoption of the revenue tariff of 1916,
that it doubled within eight years and
treblcd within fourteen years (all this
being a rate of increase which has
never been equalled before or since) is
conclusive proof of the immense advan-
tage which is conferred by a purely
revenue tariff upon the American
! farmer"
And yet this declaration was made
by iowa's governor in the face of Pres
ident Fillmores historical message to
! congress in 1851 on the effect of this
very tariff Of 1916. 1.-The values of our
domestic exports for the last fiscal
year as com pared with those of the
! previous year exhibit an increase of
! 3,GiG. 1922 90. At first view this con-
| dition of our trade with foreign ma
tions would seem to present the most
| fattering hope of its future prosperity
| An examination of the details Of our ca
! ports, however, will show that the in
! creased value of our exports for the
/ last fiscal year is to be found in the
| high price of cotton, which prevailed
| during the last half of that year,
which price has since declined about
one-half. The value of our exports of
! breadstuffs and provisions which it was
| supposed the incentive of new tariff
and large importations from abroad
would have greatly augmented, has
! fallen from Sos, 7O1 1921 in lSi7 to SEQ
! O51 1913 in 1850, and to S2l,siS,65S in
! 1851, with strong probability,
| amounting almost to a certainty, of a
! still further reduction in the current
year. The aggregate values of rice
! exported during the last fiscal year as
! compared with the previous year also
| exhibit decrease amounting to $780,.
| or, which, with decline in the val
ues of the exports of tobacco for the
-, tLaea - o,,ioIas ~ er tsr
etT"se III '''e"0 wv 81 'iei'' - ~''''''
! "Tbc poiicu whirl dictdtod io'c rate ~
| dttH on foreign merchandise, il 'rdS thought
I IN those lrhO promoted amt established it.,
! lrOUId tent 10 bcICft ne farming p0pUin.
! t0H Df this CpuUiirH, bY increasing the dc
m01,d and raising ne prize Of agricultural
/ products in foreign markets. The tOregO-
| ing facts, hOlrCrcr, seem 10 ShOlU htcOn-
! tcSt0biy mat 40 such result has tOlioWCd
! hcddOptj0H Of this policy"
! And now the governor declares, in a.
recent speech. that this tariff question
should be eliminated from the issues of
| the present camprirn, for nothing we
! can do now will effect in the least de.
gree this settlement.
The governor declares in the sam
.
nrotective tariff importations would
! largely increase and That thew ought
"a increase Let things come in
Hoods, il they win, and let the farm.
er's family get their share of the flood
of comforts, They can not come in
! witbout furnishing constantly a larger
market for the farmers produce and
| make him rich from the increased sales
from his farm
And this declaration is made in the
face of the declaration contained in the
message to congress from that great
nrototvne of democracy. Andrew Jack.
SON. when he declares "that the apri.
cultural interest of our country is so
| essentially connected with every other
and so snperior in Importance to them
all that il is scarcely necessary To in
wife tn IL your particular attention.
! that il is principally as manufactures
and commerce. tend to increase the
| value of AGRICULTURAL products and to
extend their annIicatiop To the wants
! and conforts Of society. that tbev de.
| serve the fostering care of GOVERN.
ment."
And the further declaration from the
same authority--preat democratic au.
thority Take from agriculture in
the United States coo, 900 men, women
and children and you at once give a
home market for more breadstu ifs
than all Europe furnishes us. In fact,
we have been'tOo long subject to the
policy of the British merchant 1t is
time we should become little more
Americanized and instead OF feeding
the paupers and laborers of Europe,
iced our own, or else in a short time by
continuing our present policy, we shall
all be paupers ourselves"
Bat it would seem that the Iowa ex.
ponent of the new democracy proposes
10 70 back to the British merchant"
and bids them to send their goods sin
floods" if they will. And in this same
letter the governor of Iowa declares
that. I'VE must have such a reduction
of the tariff as shall allow the Ameri-
can farmer to sell in every part of the
We rid, taking in payment whatever the
people with whom we trade have TO nav
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