The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-10-27
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Sioux Falls Forum: If Republican
speakers are to be credited, all that any
country needs Is a high tariff, in order to
be prosperous. This cure for poverty is
simple. II is within the reach OF any
nation on the face Of the earth. The
most exclusive nation of which the world
knows anything is China. 1t secluded
itself from the other nations of mankind
for fifty centuries. England unlocked
the door in 1912. and compelled her to
trade with foreign nations. China
should have been very rich and very
happy according the doctrine of McKin-
ley. Was she found so? Is not China
today regarded as the nation most
typical of cheap labor, OF extreme power
ty, nation wasted physically and NOR
ally? 1t should, en- the other hand have
been the reverse, if McKinleyism is
correct.
1t Is idle for speakers to waste time
trying to prove that Thomas jefferson
was Mckinley protecti0nist, or that
Abraham Lincoln was Of the high pro-
lection school. No nation can become
rich by taxing its citizens any more
than man can lifthimself by the straps
of his boots. Nothing on any theory of
government can ever justify tariff tax
beyond the difference in the price of
labor and interest on capital. On these
t1yn rvrp do S,,{x fou nee
mandatory may be justified for Il
limited length of time, but the eternal
fact holds good all the same that tariff
is tax. 1t is so or it fnrfeits its object.
A tax on American salt is for the purpose
OF keeping out foreign salt, so that the
salt makers Of the United States can
charge higher price than they could
If foreign salt came in free. Now If salt
can be made as cheaply in the United
States as elsewhere, then the tariff upon
salt is a fraud upon the consumers. Ii
the abolition OF the tariff would close up
the salt works of our country, it is better
that the people should pay more for their
salt rather than permit an article of
such indispensable Importance depend
on foreign nation for supply. But the
great trouble with all this business is
that man is so selfish he insists upon
deceivlng the public ss to his profits and
the maker Of salt, together with the
makers Of thousand other articles,
comes down to Washington and forms a
lobby demanding, not what is merely
necessary to keep atloat their business,
but insist upon robbing the consumers
by duties wholly unnecessary.
The American people are today being
robbed by high tariff. The high tariff
is one of the engines of oppression that
are robbing the consumer by appealing
to his patriotism. The American is an
intensely patriotic creature, and he is
easily robbed by those who understand
how to appeal to this sentiment. At
present thousands of men are travelling
the country talking the most arrant nom
sense on the subject of tariff. The high
tariff is the glory Of the east, but it is a
terror of the west, and it is amazing to
see how many men are still charmed by
the music that is piping their own fu-
nerals.
Sioux City Journal:-A Southern land
agent who is working in South Dakota
to get farmers to 90 south has become so
impressed with the firtllity of the South
Dakota soil and the general air of pros
perity III the state that he may return to
the south to induce his neighbors to join
him in movement to South Dakota.