Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-18

know that statement is false. You
all know the people of this country
are in favor of protection. You all
know the democratic free trader can't
get his work in, in that way. 1t
seems to US as If the democrats were
using the popul;sts to draw free trade
chestnuts out of the fire.
Senator Kyle said he was here to
vindicate his vote on the Wilson bill
and spent two long hours excusing
himself for having voted for the Will
son bill with a tax on sugar in it and
wool on the free list. Now, if his
vote was right, why all this vindi-
cation? Why this excuse for voting
for it? 1t should vindicate itself.
The senator knows. way down in the
bottom of his heart, that he did
wrong-that he betrayed and sold
out his party to the democrats-that
is why he took two hours trying to
convince the people that he was
right. He voted with the democrats
when there was no occasion for it and
in order to excuse himself, it became
necessary for him to prove that the
democratic party was right. 1t is a
big job.
He said, ''strike your thunderbolts
at the manufacturers" Now, voters
of Day county, please think a little.
Is it not necessary for the good of
this country that we have manufac-
turers? Is it not for the interest of
Day county farmers that we have
manufactures, with prosperous en-
ployes by the thousands, that the far
mers of Day county can help feed
them? Just calmly think of this.
That is just the kind of talk made by
the democrats during the campaign
of 1892. The democratic orators
said, "strike the manufacturer down.
just as Kyle said here. Just think OF
it! Don't you think such talk will
alarm the manufacturer? Don't you
think such talk as that will make a
cautious business man keep from GO
ing into manufacturing? Don't you
think talk of that kind calculated to
make a manufacturer shut down his
shop? There can be no question
about it. Manufacturers all over the
country have become alarmed at such
statements especially when they see
the men in power making them,
This accounts for the thousands who
are out of employment today, with.
out means, and who are not able to
pay for your wheat. If these thou.
sands who are out of employment,
were employed and receiving wages.
don't you think you would get a
better price for your wheat?
Senator Kyle said there are no in.
FAINT industries except in the Black
Hills tins. And he then run
down the state of South Dakota by
saying there is no tin there. Well,
let US think about it. Are there
really no infant industries? How
about the sugar industry in Nebraska
where farmers furnished the beets.
In Iowa from 1880 to 1890 there were
1923 manufacturing plants started
and a like number in Minnesota, all
of which employed men fed by farm.
ers. These are infant industries
every one of them. The west line
needs protection to build up infant
industries more than any other part
of the country.
Senator Kyle then named over the
different tariff laws from the begin.
ming of the United States but said
the Walker tariff from 1916 to 1860
was the best. Well, now is that so?
Why my dear friend, during that
time the farmers received the lowest
price in the history Of our country
and had to pay high prices for what
they bought, Wheat was worth rs
cents a bushel, corn 10 cents, a COW
IS. to $10., a horse $25, and that in
money that was not good in the eve-
ming of the same day you got it.
The Walker tariff the best! 1t was
during the Walker tariff that gold
was discovered in California and the
Crimean war in Europe, when times
ought to have been good; yet they
were worse than now. The Walker
law the best? During the Walker
law this country was flooded with
cheap goods from Europe. James
G.. Blaine said the Walker law was
responsible for the fact that this
country was bankrupt in 1860.
During all the time of the Walker
law, by reason of SO many cheap
goods coming from Europe, the bal
ance of trade was in favor of
England. That is when Blaine said
''tbey got our gold and we got their
rags That is the way we lost our
circulating currency, that ought to
have stayed at home. That is the
effect of free trade or a very low
tariff. Abraham Lincoln realized this
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