The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-07-06
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
A WARNING TO THE FAEMERs.

Senator Il. Pettigrew of South Dakota in
the Senate, June is, se4
These r words of wholesome in
struction and if the farmers of the great
northwest read intelligently what the
senator has here explained, they will
be wiser concerning their interests as
agriculturalists than by the following
OF the vagaries of those vino believe in
fat money.
The senate has disposed Of about all
The items in this bill which are pro-
duced by the farmer, and what is the
result? The duty on live animals is re-
duced to 20 per cen ad valorem; buck
wheat, wheat, rye, corn, oats, oatmeal,
corn meal, eggs, broom corn and many
other farm products are practically on
the free list, and the duty on barley is
so much reduced that at least 10, 000,-
600 bushels will be imported as against
less than 2, 1000. coo last year.
Free eggs will bring in from sixteen
to twenty million dozens as against a
little over 1000, 600 last year. 1t fact,
the market for SIS, 600, 600 worth of
farm products is thus turned over to
Canada and taken away from the Amer
lean farmer. Sixteen million dozen of
eggs thrown upon h market of the
United States will break the price and
eggs will decline several cents a dozen.
Last week three car loads of South
Dakota butter and eggs were shipped
to this city, a thing that annot be re-
peated if this bill passes, for the nearer
Canadian farmer will have this market.
With free corn the starch makers of
New York will import their corn from
the Argentine Republic, and within
one year after this bill passes corn
from South America by the cargo will
be sold in New York, for the freight
per bushel from the Argentine Repub-
lie is less than half the rate per bushel
from Dakota or Nebraska. and the
farmers of Dakota and Nebraska will
be buying protected starch made of
South American corn. 1t will not do
to say we export corn and it can not
come here from other countries. We
export vast quantities of cotton, and I
presume few people know that 43, O00,-
900 pounds. valued at 81. $50, 900 was i'm
ported last year; yet such is the case.
Of this cotton 20, 600, 600 pounds came
from Egypt and is long. fine, staple:
yet every pound of it could De raised in
North and South Carolina if a duty was
placed upon it sufficient to compensate
for the difference in wages. Why do
you not put a duty on cotton and ave
this market to our own people? The
sugar bounty is repealed, giving the
death blow to the budding industry in
Nebraska and Dakota, which would
lave oon given employment to thous-
ands of people in those states.
A duty has been placed upon raw SUI
gar of II cents a pound, which equals
a tax on the people of South Dakota of
S7H cents per capita, as each person
consumes seventy pounds of sugar per
annum, making a total tax of $3.50, 600
per annum on the 4OO,O 600 people who
reside within her borders; and an adj
ditional tax of 4oH cents on each 100
pounds of refined sugar, which is a di-
rect donation to the trust and amounts
to a tax of 321 cents per capita, or a
tax of $40. 900 on the 400, 0OO people
who reside in South Dakota as a direct
contribution, per year, to the sugar
trust.
The population of Nebraska is 1,O5O,-
900, and their contribution will be a tax
of S7I cents per capita. or 1915, O00 on
the 1000, 900 people who reside in that
state, which goes into the treasury of
the government, at 3219 cents per CAPT
ia on refined sugar levied for the ben
eft of the sugar trust, or 1925, 900 per
annum from her 1000, 900 people.
l take these two states as examples,
as the two populist senators in this
body assisted in doing all this, and 1
want to give them a chance to explain
to the people why they did it.
-~--1 10000, r-,%L - ,nI- -
five would pay SLIGO per year to the
trust, just four bushels of wheat at 40
cents a bushel. imagine I see a Ne
braska or Dakota populist farmer, filled
with joy, hitching up his team and
starting to market with four bushels of
wheat, selling it for 40 cents a bushel,
n sending the money to the sugar
trust as his contribution to help main
tain the gang of vampires hat have
hung around this capitol for the past
five months, disgracing the nation.
With what elastic step and swelling
heart filed with joy, will this farmer
return home with an empty wagon and
an empty pocket to bless God in his
prayers that he has had the privilege
of sending a populist to the United
States senate who has assisted by his
vote in comforting upon him and the
people of his state the blessed chance
to make this contribution. 1 hope the
populists OF my state will not take this
too much to heart, for this bill places
lumber on the free list, and it is said
millions will be saved to the people by
having their lumber free.
Coinage of Silver.