The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-30
THE THREATENED "FeEEzE- =
1t viii BE the Kind That CrippIes Amer
lean Industry.

It VIII BE the Kind That CrippIes Amer
lean Industry.
Dun's Review is away off on its fear
that "a freeze may set everything
back" in business and industrial mat
ters There is no probability of an.
early injurious freeze" We have.
had cool summer, the temperature
for the year is still considerably below
normal, and as we usually have about
the same aggregate of heat each
year the probability is that there will
be no killing frosts until after all the
crops have fully maturei. If the two
great commercial agencies" as Blum
der Boies called them so frequently in
the campaign OF two years ago, will
weekly give the public more statistics
in regard to the steadily increasing i'm
ports of foreign goods into the United
States and the constant decrease in our
exports, under the WilsOn-Gorman
tariff, the people of the United States
will understand why the heavy bust
ness we ought to be doing is post
pOned from month to month. Brad
streets report FOR last week, did con-
tain one comparison by which the peO-
pie of the United States are given the
proof of the benefits derived from pro
lection against competing products.
under the Mckinley tariff. as compared
with their great losses under the Cor
man-Wilson tariff, as follows:
Exports OF whea. and -four during sha
seven weeks OF the new cereal year amount
In round numbers. to l.. OOOO 900 bushels IN the
70 fOH nna h. IL
was Is.0O0.OoO bushels, and Two years ago 1t
was 340OO.OOO bushels
It will be noticed that our exports of
wheat and -four during the past seven
weeks have only been a little more
than one-third of the aggregate of our
export of wheat and -four during the
same seven weeks of 1S94-being b.
OOO,O 900 bushels less than in 1898 and
1000, 900 bushels less than for the seven
weeks in 1894, Those markets of the
world" are steadily decreasing their
demand for American products and
constantly increasing their shipments
of goods into the United States under
the free lrade" of the Gorman-Wil-
son tariff. The Bradstreet's wheat and
Hour statistics are only part of the his
tory of the continuance of hard times.
unemployed labor and stagnated indus
tries in the United States. The week
ly reports of the great commercial
agencies" ought TO also give statistics
showing the steady and large increase
in the aggregate value of the imports
of foreign goods into the United States
The large increase in our foreign i'm
ports and the large decrease of our ex-
ports IS the freeze" that is setting
everything back" in the United States
We are buying more abroad than we
are selling abroad. That is the rea-
son why our gold is going 20 Europe.
that is the reason why our labor is not
fully employed. that is the reason why
good times do not return, that is the
reason why our business is stagnated,
and that is the reason why the heavy
business which ought to have been
done" is being postponed from month
to month. If the great commercial
agencies will weekly give the voters OF
the United States all the details of our
foreign commerce they will aid the
voters in wholly righting in 1895 and
1896 the wrongs they voted upon them
selves in 1892. The freezing" 20 bs
feared is the freezing out" of Ameri-
can labor and American goods in the
American markets--Iowa State Regis
ter.