Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-06-14
WHEN TT WILL COME.
DEPRESSION WILL END WHEN
DEMOCRACY IS ROUTED,
Kestore The lac1kin,sx L,v,.


received from one OF Its readers a let
ter, incl0sing his subscription for an
other year, In which he writes:
It is harder 10 get these 9. l send you
than It Was to got ton Two years ago lam
farmer aud out OF debt, and believe my
case is fair sample OF all the farmers
through ghout the great State OF New York
all property on the shrink. Please tell US
whom this end will como.
We cannot, of course, name the ex-
act date when the prevailing depres-
sion will end, says the editor in reply,
but 1t is safo TO say that it will last
until the farmers and workingmen re-
store to power the party that is
pledged to protect their respective in
dustries. It will not end with the en-
actTent OF the tariff bill now pending
in the United States Senate, that Is
sure, although the Democratic organs
persist in declaring that the Wilson
Voorhees, German atrocity is framed
in the interest, OF farmers and
workingmen. Let us SEQ how 1t
will benefit the farmers. In the first
place, it will save: American farmers
the trouble OF raising sheep for wool.
them to market to be sold as mutton.
away for future emergencies. This, it
will be- seen, will give the farmers
more leisure. In the second place,
American farmers will have no further
occasion to RI sc hay. Hay being on
the free list, Canadian farmers, with
the cheap labor Of Canada, will be
able to supply all their needs, This
will give our ia, m ,rs still more leisure.
Eggs, milk, tutter and cheese being
on the free list, why should the Ameri-
can farmers worry about raising chick
ems and cows or making dairy products,
when the Canadian farmers are not
only willing, but eager to take all that
labor and worry of their hands.
The bill, on the whole, will enable
Canadian farmers to food our markets
with the produce that formerly const;-
tuted the basis of the prosperity of
our own husbandmen. The Canadian
farmers will be very busy. while ours
will have nothing to do. Then when
the American farmers have spent all
the money acquired from the sale of
their sheep they can mortgage their
farms to the Canadians and still live in
idleness: only there is the inevitable
foreclosure in prospect. AS the Ameri-
can farmers will not be abe to com.
pete with tho Canadians, where will
they obtain money with which to buy
clothing, books and other comforts and
luxuries? We are sorry to say the bill
does not provide for that 1t. simply
seeks to give them leisure. The Cam
adams may be willing to send over
their secondhand closhing and books.
They ought to be when we make them
q present Of our whole market. So
much for the farmers.
We think that the wcrkingmen
know that the bill seeks to gil item
q plenty of leisure SO. When the
factories and mills shut down again,
because they cannot compete with the
cheap products OF European manu-
facturers, our wsrAingmen will have
time to hang around street corners
and discuss the prosperity they form.
erly enjoyed under the Republican
policy OF protection. The bill will
pace. on our market English made
clothing that can be bought very
cheaply. But where will the work
ingman get money with which to buy
even the very cht ap clothing il he has
no work? Unfortunately, the bill
makes no provision for that. 1t sim,
ply provides that in America the work
ing people shall revel in leisure and
poverty, while in Europe the wage
earners must slave night and day for
pauper's pittance.
The end of a1versity will come when
the principle Of protection again pro-
walls; when the American husuandmal
raises the wool used by Am rican man
ufacturers in making clothing for
American workingmen: when the
products of the soil are s)ld to Ameri-
can consum srs, and when our own home
markets are closed to the products of
foreign cheap labor. Our correspond
ent can Judge q; to how soon this de-
voutly to be desired consummation can
be reached. A new Congress is to be
elected next fall. and ii the farmers
and workingmen are alive to their own
best interests. the next Congress will
be one whose first act will be to restore
the Mckinley law, under which they
formerly pr0spered so abundantly.