The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-10-27
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county were the weakest efforts we ever
listened to, coming from speaker OF
any prominence whatever. Almost any
Democratic speaker could present the
Republican side OF the tariff question in
a much stronger light than he did. The
TACT is, the captain has relied SO long
upon carrying his points by appealing
to the old war prejudices that he is
utterly at sea when appearing before an
audience in any other role. He touched
the silver question so lightly that it can
be said he barely made reference to this
important question, due probably to the
fact that when here two years ago he
| he spoke an hour and half almost ex-
clusively on the money question and
lndeavored to point out the falacy
OF jus: the position his party in this state
took at fankton in the hopes of catching
some Populist votes. This tins he con-
fined himself wholly to the tariff ques-
tlon, and, rs stated, sorry mess he made
of it. We give him credit for one thing,
! however, he stated tine position of the
two,old parties correctly on the tariff
question fairly that no Democrat
could take exceptions to it-which is
more than most Republican speakers do.
The great body OF them try to convey the
impression that the Democrats would
wipe out the tariff entirely, us if the ex-
penditures Of the government were not
so enormous as to require tariff, which
il compiled on revenue basis only,
would be more than sufficient to protect
any industry in this country and make
up the difference in wages many times
over. lie admitted that the Republl-
can party believed in protecting home
Industries for protection sake and then
tried to show how it operated to the ad-
vantage OF the South Dakota farmcr-in
which he failed signally. He sang the
same old Siren song about the home
market with which the Republican party
has lured the harl-earned dollars of the
western farmer inio tho pockets of the
manufacturers and corporations for the
past thirty years and in the face of this
fact that after years of most exhaustive
taxation on imports this or any other
country ever had, two-thirds OF all the
cotton in the southern states goes to d
foreign market to be sold, and after
every mouth is fed, every back is clothed,
every want Is satisfied that the Ameri-
can farmer can satisfy S700,O0O00O to
$1,ooo,0oo,0O0 OF surplus products from
the farms must either go to waste or
hunt a market in foreign lands. 1t has
been SO since we hayesany statistics from
which to reckon-back as far as 1920.
He acknowledged that Liverpool fixed
the price of wheat for the world and ad-
vlsed the farmers to abandon wheat
raising-a confession that tariff on
wheat was made to catch suckers. He
better have said il we bought more goods
OF Great Britain, which already takes
over half our wheat, possibly they would
buy more yet, this stimulating the price.
| The India and Russia wheat is a low
grade, soft wheat. few minutes after
ward he bewailed the fact that through
repeal Of a reciprocity act Cuba now
taxed our flour $4.25 when formerly it
was only taxed 81, thus vibrating on
the wire back to the Dakota wheat
raiser. What difference does 1t make if
the Dakota farmers are to follow the
captains advice and abandon wheat
raising? The year before the reciprocity
business went into effect the farmers of
the United States exported LOG. .1S1 ,316
bushels of wheat and two years after
ward ll9,9l2,6S3 bushels (see report of
Agricultural Department. Why has
reciprocity been confined to sugar mo-
lasses, coffee, tea and hides, anyhow?
They all come from southern countries
which have no manufacturers, that's
why. Why not spread this reciprocity
business around a little so that some one
else can get little benefit from it be-
sides the manufacturer?-th farmer for
instance, who are obliged to find a
foreign market for 20 to so per cent of
all our exports? He spoke Of the $50
| Mckinley duty on horses: said the reason
itdid not operate to advance the price of
western horse flesh was because there
was an over supply Of them-another
home market bubble busted" In fact he
couldn't name product of the western
farms that there wasn't an oyer supply
of-still he wanted to pile on the tariff
and increase the price of everything the
farmer had to buy. He tried to show
that the lowering OF duty on barley
would bankrupt the poor farmers through
deluge Of Canada barley. Just how a
Canadian farmer can raise barley on
land worth from FIVE to ten times the
value Of the western farm, using fertili-
zers, employing the same methods. the
same machinery and higher priced la
lofn anything and stand the transport
alton chargesand 30 per cent ad valorum
tariff Gke Wilson tariff ond then bank
rubt the American farmer is more than
the average man can discover. This
| Nduato SuilltlU VI lllU
orators is the worst OF rot. There is not
as much difference between the condi-
tions under which the Canadian farmer
operates and his brother seventy miles
across the lake as between the farmer in
Iowa and the farmer in South Dakota
Knock down the thrift walls entirely be-
tween the United States and Canada and
the American farmer could eat the Cana
dian up, body, soul and britches. lie
| tried to convey the impression that the
principal reductions made by the Wilson
I bill were on luxuries and of no heneti,
to the common people, when book lying
on the stage back Of him gave the lie tc
all he said. The amount saved the con.
scmer annually OH the wooden schedule
alone is over $I63,OO0,OOO, while lumber
binding twine, grain bags. cotton. bag
gtng, copper, salt and agricultural inn