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

you collect form a 90 per cent tariff you
must import list twice as many tnmmSier,;
ever occur to you that every additional
tumbler you import you diminish just that
f nsfs ProanetISn A. hS snea y pS !yi Hn iss
production at home you diminish the labor
employed at home, don't you? And when
SSo home ai yon dim, t 1 e IMP wasss Of q the iao9 labor or
that As employed. for where there Is one
days work and two men to do II either OF
them will get as much as though there were
two days work ami only one man to do 1t.
daughter and APPLAUSE When you dimln-
ish the tariff you do ii for only one pur-
That Is what II is done for. That is the
objection they make to the law OF 1890, that
we discouraged Importation. Wen, we did.
daughter and applause.)
Home Industries Encouraged.
We discouraged me Importation of every
I rotuct that we could produce ut home
tApliause.I Aud we did 1t that we might
encourage the making OF the product at
home, that we might find employment for
cur labor at home, AID give to the farmers
of the III tied States consumers of the
products of their farins. ,Applause)
said ints m neausst a .ss a and s Sa 's see p the effect f.
All. but they say We get things a little
cheaper. Is there anybody in this country
are nowP Gaughter3 Does the farmer
want less price for his wheat, Or his corn,
or bis barley, or his sheep, or his stock?
nesota? Does the merchant want the prices
of the articles he sells reduced In price2
Does the workingnan want less wages?
Who wants these cheap things! daughter
My fellow citizens. nothing is cheap
nothing is cheap that comes from abroad
20 the American people II 1t e%nforees idle
pliuse.l No product of agriculture is cheap
from abroad IL 1t leaves the American prod.
uct to rot In the ground. No manufactured
article Is cheap to this country IL 1t takes
from the workingmen OF this country a
days labor. "a voice: "Hear. hear."I And
the old men In this audience, II they will
wher things are the cheapest men are the
poorest. Applause) And when the prices
or articles are lowest they are the hardest
to get aud that Is the trouble now, as my
many people living now who did not live
under the old Democratic revenue free
trade tariff prior to the war. The old men
had the experience, and the young men
have to have 1t, and-are now enjoying 1t!
Great laughter and applause.) And ex-
p%erience. my fellow citizens, after all. is q
form OF instruction the most efficient and
enduring. Sometimes we have to go
through the school Of adversely. We have
all been attending that school for the past
has been free Qaushter), but the ultimate
cost has been very great. 1t has been q
sort Of compulsory education. Qaughter,l
oul Il ptittft u lCSSOIS wiz oS BAhSAiSSA
But what duties have they reducedP Let
me give you just a few of them. l cannot
stop to go through the entire bill. Now,
they are reducing duties not alone to in
crease the revenue, but to lift the burdens
from the shoulders of the poor people OF
the country. That is another one. Now,
let us see how they have done 1t. They
have reduced the duty on leaf tobacco AID
Havana cigars 81. 434. UG'-articles or necss-
people Of The country. Wausbter.1 They
lave reduced the tariff On liq1o-s and
Frer ch brandies 81, 1872 .O00. They have re-
put t. - a. law of 1890. upon foreign
liquors, to $3.50 a gallon, so as TO give the
poor men and the farmers Of the country
a chance. daughter and applause.) They
rave REDUCED the tariff on lacas and ina
ports S1.5S7, 900; on silk dress goods,
pushes and velvets. worn by the masses,
SO 7aO. 900. Now. this will he cheering news:
Blooms for the Hungry.
They have reduced the duty on artificial
flowers and ostrich feathers s265 600; on
chinaware. s., 233,OOo on paintings and
statuary. $4,000; on pearl buttons; $224,-
600: on plate and cut glass, SIZE, 900; on
on imported jeweiry $4,000. What q com.
fort this will bring fadr nsh tho,, Gro. u..
consist? These are a part Of their reduc-
tons; what does their free list consist OF?
They put on the free list articles which. ac-
cording to the importations Of the preceding
year, woulu amount to SAL. 1000 and SlS,-
| 600 600 of this was the farmers wool, or
nearly one-ha;f; $9,OvO.OOO Of 1t was lum-
Der; SO, 600, 600 or more Of Ii were manu-
featured articles, and 100000 or more Of
1t was paintings and stetuary. Your statu-
AIRY Is now free. Uaughter.) An article of
necessity! But your sugar, an article of
luxuI y. is taxed.
This IS not all. my fellow citizens. They
have destroyed the splendid commercial
President Harrison with the Southern and
Central states. made under the provisions of
the law of 1890, which opened up that mar
ket to the -four, and the bacon, and the
hams Of the farmers of the United States;
q trade with Cuba that increased $14, 000,-
600 In a single year. principally agricultural
products; and with Brazil that increased
nearly So OO. 900 in a single year. principal
ly agricultural products. All these are cut
of, but they were very careful TO put a
provision In their law that the treaty with
the Sandwich islands was TO be kept sacred.
l suppose after the failure of the admins
tration In the Sandwich islands In another
matter they thought they would be very
generous in this other-the matter OF sugar.
(Applause.) We had i treaty with the Sand
witch islands made In 1861, and under that
treaty their sugars were admitted free In
consideration that they admitted certain of
our products free, and that treaty stood
without modification until the tariff law
to and Including No. 16 Dutch standard. we
made sugar free from all the countries. so
that the andwich islands had no advantage
over any other sugar growing country In
the world. And the treaty went on. When
the .emocratic party put a tariff Of 40
per cent on sugar they made an exception,
that that tariff should not apply to the sugar
coming from the Sandwich islands. And the
result Of that Is thar the 40 per cent tariff
from which they are exempted. payment
goes into the pockets Of the sugar producers
of those islands as n direct bounty, be-
cause the sugar coming from the Sandwich
islands Is no cheaper TO the American con-
sumner than the sugar coming from Cuba.
The people of the Pacific states pay Just
as much for the free sugar from the Sand.
witch ilsnaus as we pay in Minnesota
and In the East for the tariff sugar that
comes from Cuba.
.,on, / am not questioning, my fellow
citizens. tie propriety or the Justice OF pre-
serving sacredly the treaties of the govern
ment. | only speak Of this TO SHOW how
inconsistent the Democratic party Is In
keeping Its obligations with the people.
When the Republican party took the tariff
OF sugar. K said we will not break down
the sugar industry In the United States,
and so we viii give to the cane producers
and the sorghum producers and the beet
producers. we viii give ;hem a bounty equiv
alent to the tariff. And we did 1t. The
tariff cost tue people $4,000. 900: the bounty
cost $~ll.'sO.O00. And we thelght It was
a good contract aud we promised I'm the
law OF $50 that that bounty should stand
for fifteen years. and the people accepted
that as q solemn Obligation of the govern
mert. invested their money, built great
plants for the manufacture OF sugar and