Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-26

ly to European markets this syndicate
promptly draws from the treasury of
the United States SO cents Of each
dollar paid as tariff taxes. It then
blandly offers the "protected |" McKin-
ley farmer the Canadian price for his
wheat. Yes, our farmers wanted a
market right here at home without
any competition from outside. Well
they got 1t with a vengeance in the
Mckinley law.
Again in the matter of salt. Under
the Mckinley law those who import salt
in which to cure fish and meat, for ex-
port are permitted to draw back from
the treasury 80 cents on dollar of tax
es paid, butfarmers and those who
make butter and cheese for sale abroad
and who pay the tariff-tax on the salt
used, are not allowed to draw back one
cent of the tariff-tax they have paid.
Not even If their butter and cheese be
carried across the ocean on the same
vessel and landed at the same port as
the fish and meat upon which the
tariff-tax has been rebated.
While | am not dead sure of it, /
suppose this discrimination against
the farmers "developes the dairy in
dustry of the United States.
With this rebate system in vogue
giving the manufacturers imported
raw materials practically free, the
goods are sold in foreign markets
cheaper than they they can be sold in
this country as the tax on such goods
sold here is not related You have
no difficulty in seeing how this system
"dignilies and enobles the working
man who must pay more for these
goods than if they lived in the old
world.
No, the Wilson bill cannot put
brains into empty heads; not honest
tongues into demogogue's mouths;
nor money into undeserving hands.
In reducing the tax on raw materi-
ais imported, ii necessarily reduces the
cost of raw materials native to the
United States. 1t recognizes the right
of American citizens to buy goods
made here rs cheaply as they can be
bought by people three thousand miles
from here. BY reducing the cost of
materials to manufacturers they can
90 into the worlds markets with
goods made from American materials
or of materials taken from the forests,
fields and mines of the wide world,
there to exchange them in open and
above board trade. In doing this our
people will have in part at least, re-
stored to them n right, not IA privilege,
right which no civilized government,
of our day, save our own, has denied
its people. All countries truly great
except the United States make raw
materials free.
The Wilson bill when enacted into
law, will in some degree do away with
the kneeling, cringing, crowds of
"protected interests" that PROSTATE
themselves before Congress as so
many o:entals before Mogul or Sui
tan. 1t enforces the truth, needed
nowadays, that commerce, trade, and
business do not live, move and have
their being in the government or in
political parties. 1t will stir to life
Projections offspring benumbed with
the doctrine that industry and prosper
ity and happiness depend upon acts of
congress; not upon energy, capital
and intelligence applied to the re-
sources of nature. 1t recognizes that
If we are ever to have just and en-
during industrial structure, we must
begin at the bottom, and remove all
the rottenness born of generation of
class legislation and interference with
the natural order Of things; and it is
but first step in that direction.
+. Nj. DYER.