Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-09-05
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Tic benefit. BY it's defects, the nation
is Obliged to borrow money to pay
running expenses, and personally. un-
der it's operations, my wages have
been reduced % per cent. The finan-
cial value Of the government. as well
as ourselves, has been disastrOusly
affected. The government. to the
value i'm dollars, for interest paid on
borrowed money, and % per cent.
1t is claimed that there has been
corresponding cheapening i'm our
clothing and the necessaries of life.
Fortunately the people can Judge of
this themselves.
At the present working level in the
ruin of tariff reform, under the man.
agement of the Wilson tariff law, the
dollar is just y cents worth of labor
beyond the reach of my days work,
tomorrow 20 cents. the day after 20
cents. and the day succeeding one dol
lar. Gold or silver neither has been
affected by either bill: hut, compared
with the Nc Kinley law az a standard.
under the operations of the Wilson
law, lose one dollar every four days,
two dollars every eight days. etc.
Undoubtedly my comfort and cOnve-
niences are curtailed just one dollar
and seventy-five cents per week-sev
en- dollars and fifty cents per month,
etc.
Now. under the actual state of facts,
l am cheapencd p cents each day.
l purchase the same quality of cloth
ing, at the old price, pay the same
old price under the Democratic bill of
fare for the necessities of life, the same
fees for professional services. and i'm
most cases the same old price for old
reliable paper, the same old bill meets
me i'm the morning for hotel and fare,
etc. This il personal. balancing.
nOurgrOuping gorcollective nature,
az the nation, the forced issue and
sale of over a hundred and fifty mill
ion dollars and upwards worth of
bonds. at per cent.
At this rate of interest a note will
double itself i'm Twenty-Five years.
three hundred and twenty-fOur mill
ion of dollars i'm twenty-five years.
We are called ON to pay out over six
million dollars yearly for these bonds,
besides at maturity we will have to
pay the principal i'm full. A snug little
fortune for Democratic reform!
Papers filled with glaring notices
such as these: There il no mistake
but what our carpets and other do
: nestle manufactured articles are fOrg-
ing themselves to the front i'm Euro
pean markets. Such misleading state
ments az these lie at the door OF
: exaggerate our slight improvement
in business for political purposes and
: effect The treasury statistics for the
last fiscal year show our export OF
carpets nine-tenths less than our i'm
port. The statistics also show the
: value of carpet imported for the last
: ten months to he nearly ten times the
, value of what we exported during
the same period.
What other few manufactured arti-
cles which are invading foreign lands
are not reached under such favorable
conditions as our carpet exchange?
The fiscal year is closed and we
! have an opportunity Of comparing
: the operations of the Mckinley bill o
!, 1894 with the present Democratic law
D of tariff reform. The Mckinley law
: gave l2h per cent more raw material
: to our industries than the present
Under the German law our exports
have decreased. Our exports i'm lss-
were:
Corn to Germany.--.-.-....- $9,UO,Ws
: Corn to France 5,WU,WN
i Corn tOCuDa--. -''re''N'
Y Our exparts in 1885 Were;
: Corn to Germany.,..........-... 81 .O0 ,Wk
Corn tn France. .....-....,..---.--, 9I1,Ns
. Corn tOCuha. l,Un,UF
I Our imports Of wooden and cottel
n goods, under the German law, hav'
h increased to four times our export
70 of the same goods. This In thechanc
our labor has In foreign markets To
r our finished production. Our impor
d of manufactured articles, which IL tn
r production Of foreign labor. has al
NJ ready developed to that extent tina
e. it is robbing us OF rightful labor an
,f slowly but surely crippling our hom