The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-04-07

mOraliZed on the neld OF a
single pledge it made to the peop,e. - toriff
been for many years denoin'alg me .ai ,rs
because some men became r1;h Inuet rnar
| operations and others poor. The nfSt yea.
of Democratic control has cured an Una.
and the prescription has proved quite as
effective on the poor as on the rlch' "
it has involved them all In a common loss,
Whit devastation and distress have been
wrought in a single year!
Let the briefest statement of The buSi,
ness condition at the close of the year t t%4
coalition at the end Of 1893: mIhe year
1892" says Dun's Review Of Trade, the
best non-partisan authority. has been the
This is the business endorsement OF thirty
years of Republican rule. Now mark the
change! Says Dun's Review of Trade for
1893:
"Starting with the largest trade ever
known, mills crowded with work and all
business stimulated by high hopes, the
year 1893 has proven in sudden shrlnkage
Of trade. in commercial disaster and the
depression Of industries. the worst for
fifty years. Whether the final results Of the
panic of 1887 were relatively more severe.
clearly show. The year closes with prices
Of many products the lowest ever known,
with millions Of workers seeking in vain
for work. and with charity laboring to
keep back
Suffering and Starvation
in all our, cities. All hope that the new
year may bring brighter days. but the dying
year leaves "a s,% only a dismal nsns1tn record. The ere re-,
given to-day exhibits a collapse Of industry
and business which is almost without prec-
e %ssH;v n The iron IN 'st ss; sustained toss NJ n, a
May 1. but by Oct. 1 the output had fallen
to "a. S95 tons, and the recovery to about
100000 tons Dec: l still leaves 40 per cent
wooden manufactures are idle, and, ex-
cepting a brief recovery in November, have
been ever since new wool came in p May,
eight months have been but LOG. 795. 400
pounds, partly for speculation. the price
having fallen 20 per cent for tieeces to the
lowest point ever known, against 212. $780,
OO3 pounds in the same months last year.
Sales Of cotton goods are fully one-fourth
below the usual quantity. The small ad-
vance attempted in boots and shoes a year
ago was not sustained, but with. prices as
low as ever the shipments of boots and
shoes from Boston are "a per cent less than
featured goods as a whole, but the most
important farm products are so low that
farmers find little comfort: Official and
ton that crops Of last year were SO short
that famine prices could be realized
TO add to the perplexities Of the situation
scribed, the Wilson bill, which recently
passed the house Of representatives at
Washington and is now in the hands Of the
revenues $4,000 600. The real decrease
would eventually, after we became more
and more impoverished, be far greater.
government far exceed its receipts and
when by reason of such a condition the
secretary Of the srt tr oae 0rg has been com.
that this is but the beginning Of bond is
suing to relieve the daily wants Of the
it is proposed to surrender Of the revenues
is more than one-third of the entire sum
received from customs in the last fiscal
theory of the Democratic free traders that
it will relieve the people of burdensome
taxation. Whether it does or not depends.
lieved the people Of employment. of work.
Of wages. Of prosperity and Of plsnty,.,and
some Of them of their homes. The bless;
posed relief from so-caiied "burdensome
taxation Such a relief is no relief.
The Wilson Bill
is not like any Of the early tariff measures,
but is one in which the changed condition
of the country and it's marvellous growth
and Development are utterly ter i tnn} sIav ano
rSff ionser e1 Kiss Pr0 They DO 'G net re ecas ias' ncy
appreciate the independence and dignity OF
labor. and cannot understand that the pro,
~tective policy under which we have had
such splendid prosperity is not to be de-
termined by geographical lines: The bill
is a narrow. sectional and provincial meas
ure. unworthy the great party which pro-
poses it. and wholly ~nnsuited to the needs
= The wilson bill turns to the past: away
from the present. 1t is for the plantation:
not for the farm and factory. AS 1t passed
the house it had for it's foundation princi-
pie frae raw material. It's authors argued
that with free coal, free iron ore, free lead
and free wool, the manufacturers of the
United States would be placed on an equal
iy with the manufacturers Of free trade
countries, and we therefore could not only
rnf0in Nnp nUn YnarEnfS h1f to0nfrn1 tho
markets of the world" Based upon this
argument, which | believe to be false, they
declared that with these great primary
ployment for all the workingmen Of the
country at good wages. And so in this form
the bill passed the Democratic house Of
ject of angry contention in the Democratic
senate.
Internal Taxes.
I have looked with some degree of Gaze
through the bill. I find nothing but irritA-
ton and aggravation to the great industries
of the country. No interest suffers by it
more severely than agriculture, and labor
Of all kinds seems to have been singled out
as it's foremost victim. l have examined it
carefully to find some section, paragraph,
clause or line removing the "great burden of
tariff taxes from the shoulders of the peO-
ple,'' about which We have heard SO much
for 50 many years from the Democratic ora
tors and have read SO frequently. in Demo-
cratic newspapers m, ana IN aPn latnorm asv o such / n nr"e
vision. 1t is true that sugar, an article OF
prime necessity. to every household, ana
which the law Of 1890 made free to the peo-
pie, has been fairfield at from 1 to Ia cents
per pound, every cent Of which will be paid
by the consumers Of the United States. But,
doubtless, in compensation for TINS added
of it, they lowered the tariff on tobacco and
extended the bonded period for the ware
housing of whisky and giving to the distil-
lers eight years in which to pay the tax.
Thnv rnStora6 tho tariff IN coal hnt then In
fairness they should be credited with taking
the tariff off of diamonds. They reason that
the manufacturers are few; forgetting that
the wOrkmen are many. They look to the
interests Of Importers, ignoring the farmer.
and oblivious to the fact that the agricultur-
ist is everywhere. Their blows are directed
people. but from them the country will yet
hear. for this is still a government of the
people. and the popular will has already
marked them for political overthrow. l do
not believe that the true interests of the
South, nor of any other section Of the eOun-
try, lie in the direction Of free trade, nor of
the revenue tariff legislation proposed By
Reciprocity.
To my mind. another hnrtful provision of
the Wilson bill, entirely unwirranted by
experience and unjustifable as q matter of
peais section 3 Of the act Of 1890, commonly
known as the ..'reciprociry clause: This, 1t
T waiI Ss Iif4 trade Des1;wswsan s t inaf Gnite ID sssies
and countries largely producing sugar, mo-
lasses, coffee, tea and hides, ard under
! eign trade profitable to the people and OF
the most promising proportions.
rocal trade have already been made with
the following countries: Brazil, the Domin-
lean Republic, Spain. for Cuba and Porto
pire, Great Britain. for certain West Indian
colonies and British Guiena: Nicaragua.
Honduras and Austro-Aungary: In these
government to secure enlarged markets for
the products Of agriculture. winch, added