Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-09-12
LINCOLN AND THE tariff
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lands now unemployed. 1t would also in
crease the demand for hay, oats, etc.
John Reimers, an intelligent German
of Grand Island. Neb., who has a ranch
of ZOO acres, has stated that large mum
bers of sheep were paStured in Wyoming
and then driven into Nebraska to be win
tered on hay, fodder and corn raised
there. and that the sheep owners of Wy
oming shipped into that state large guam
titles of corn from other states for Win
ter feed for sheep. especially for those to
be sold for mutton.
Thus the farmers who own no sheep
are deeply interested in sheep husbandry.
Free wool will substantially destroy
sheep husbandry and the market it makes
for farm products. And yet John REIN
erS is a free-wool Democrat!
THE total annual exports of corn from
the whole United States, from 1870 to
1889 inclusive. were only 90, TS6, S64 BUSH
els. or 80 per cent. of all produced. Ohio
produced about one-twentieth of the
corn crop. so that its proportion of the
annual export was 1.S3S,443 bushels,
while the needed increase of sheep will
make increased demand for nearly five
times the export market. and then the
foreign market will still be open to Ohio
besides.
THE food supply has increased more
rapidly than our population. In Il period
of thirty-nine years, ending 1889, the
population in the United States has in
creased 10 per cent, corn has increased
201 per cent. wheat 3S9 per cent, oats
Al per cent, swine &C per cent. and
cotton seed oil is just recently made an
article of food like lard. The necessity
for increasing our home market for corn
and oats is pressing. The Importation
of wool diminishes the home market; an
increase of our tiOckS eniargeS it. Our
policy is, import no wool, produce all
needed and enlarge the farmers market
Some Strong Points in short Paragraphs.
The increase in the public debt between
January 1, 1893. and August 1. 1891. was
$50, 0OO.0 600. So much for the fear of
free trade and its relief of the burden of
taxation from the plain people.
The great pacing race between the
famous teams. Perfidy and Dishonor, n
Cleveland and Reform, will end in an
easy victory for the former. The other
team will be lucky if it avoids being dis
tanced.
Immediate advances in the retail price of
sugar will do more to remind the plain
people of Democratic perfdy and dishonor
than half a dozen of Mr.. Cleveland's most
%sulphurous letters. There is little likeli-
1000 that the infamy of Mr.. Cleveland's
associates will soon be forgotten.
Census returns recently compiled show
that nearly half of all the families in this
country own their homes, and that more
than 20 per cent. of EeSe homes are I'M
1ncumDered. IL the lice trade Qreamer3
know of an anti-tariff nation capable of
making Il more striking showing thar
that. they canno name it too soon.
When the Republican party, in the
hour of the nations need, devised the in
ternal revenue system, the mOssback
Democrats howled themselves hoarse in
%denouncing it as 'the Internal revenue
tax" Today, when the system is neither
desirable nor necessary, those same zeal
Gus patriots are rejoicing in extending it
by converting it into ii cumbersome ma
chine to collect taxes on incomes. The
Democracy, which is already thirty-fivs
years behind the times, is still marching
resolutely backward.
Ten days ago a legislative founding
was abandoned on the front steps c. the
white house. Mr.. Cleveland said it was
not his; Mr.. Wilson r%epudiated its pater-
nifty; it had been born out of political we'd
lock. Last night as the clock struck II
Mr.. Cleveland opened the back door and
the waif was sneaked in to receive a
cowardly welcome in the house of him
who was responsible for the puny crea-
lures existence. The father of the income
tax and qualified protection neither dared
to accept his offspring before the world
nor turn it away to die,