Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-10-27
CHAS. JENKINS, Manager.

AMI built up all over the country.
giving employment to every labor
ing man AT the highest wages ever
before paid in any country on earth.
Hand in hand with the high price
of labor went the price of farm pro-
ducts. by the tariff, foreign COM
petition was to II certain extent shut
out. and "a splendid home market
built up at every mine. mill and fac
tory in the United States.
In tn e fall of 1854 the Democratic
party, under the cant of reform and
tariff for revenue only" carried
the country and elected Grover
Cleveland AZ president. At once
the Democratic batteries were lev
elcd at the Republican tariff. or.
more properly speaking, at the in
dustries and home markets which
had been established and built up
under il. For ten years an incess-
ant fire has kept up until many of
our mines have been closed and
our markets destroyed. That they
would have been restored under the
Mckinley tariff of ID no intelligent
person can doubt, but before that
law was fairly in operation Clevc-
land, reform and tariff for reve-
nue. only" by the combined efforts
of the Democrats and Populists,
were again elected, and now We
have the Wilson bill and prices to
correspond. This law is good
thing for the coal owners and min
ers of Nova Scotia. 1t is good for
the lead owners aud miners of Can
ada and Mexico. II is good for the
wool growers of Australia. II is
good for European manufactures
operated by cheap labor. II is also
good for the farmers of those for
eign countries who supply the min
ers and employees with provisions.
But how is il with the farmers and
laboring people of the United
States! To all, an injury, to many,
ruin. We read in certain book of
standard authority that charity be-
gins at home. IL that be true, then
is il not the part of prudence and
common sense for us to look to our
interest and the interests of our
own people and country first, and
those of foreigners afterwards:
The farmers of Cherokee county
are much interested in the develop
mcnt of the mineral resources of
the county. The price OF farm pro-
ducts depends largely on the price
paid for labor in the mines, and the
price of labor depends largely on
the price of lead, coal and zinc.
The miner who receives two dollars
per day will buy more produce and
pay higher prices therefor than If
he received one dollar per day.
While the Democratic party is rain
ing its destructive blows at the in
dustries and markets of this coun-
try, under the pretense of "tariff
for revenue only" the Populistic
statesmen are providing about cry
ing for free trade and the unlimited
free coinage OF silver. How intelli-
gent men can stand up and advo-
cate these propositions before the
American people is beyond compre-
hension. Free trade, like "tariff
for revenue only" means the reduc-
ton of the price of labor in this
country to a level with the cheap
labor of Canada, the pauper labor
of Europe and the Peon labor of
Mexico, and that in turn means 40
cents for wheat, 10 cents for butter
and 5 cents for eggs as against Re-
publican tariff prices of 81 for our
wheat, 3 cents for butter and Is
cents for eggs. II means 50 cents a
day for labor as against = in pros
porous tariff times. It means an
army of trnmps and unemployed
people. Il means strikes, distress,
and suffering. But little less per