The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-11-02
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The declaration OF the Democratic
NOlga Tribune in favor of protection has
attracted very wide atten tion.-SiOux
Falls Press.
We don't see why it should. A Demo-
cratic newspaper--if the Tribune can be
termed such-which advocates protection
presents 10 greater anomaly than Re-
publican newspaper favoring free coin
age of silver. We do admit, however.
that any western newspaDer-Democratic
or Republican which thinks all that
ails the the country Is insufficient pro-
lection presents spectacle that the
word anomaly cannot well express.
1t was readily admitted by Republic
cans that the Wilson bill! did not lower
the tariff over 10 per cent-and for
which the last congress was unmerci-
fully scored by the Democratic party,
from the chief executive down. The
Wilson bill is simply McKinleyism IN
der another name, and is sufficiently
protective in its character as to enable
our iron and steel furnaces. our carpet
works, our cutlery factories, our agri-
cultural implement, shoe and other
manufacturers to sell thousands upon
thousands of dollars worth OF goods an
nually upon European soil.
The Tribune said:
wonder il it is not time to begin to
talk about protection and high prices?
1t seems to us we have had quite sutii-
cheney of low tariff and low prices.
While we are raising the largest crops
the world ever saw, we can't pay our
debts; while we have more gold and
silver than any other nation on the
earth, we hayn't a cent in Our pockets.
Within the last year hundreds of
factories and mills have started up, fur
nislling employment to thousands of
men. II their was anything in the
home market theory the products OF the
western farms would be higher instead
OF very much lower than a year ago. But
as matter Of fact, il every manufac-
turer in the United States was running
Oh full time today it would not raise the
price of potatoes, oats, corn or a single
product of the western farm. Why?
Simply because the eastern and middle
states have produced crop OF every
thing equal to their own home demands
and the excession transportation charges
fOrbids the competitor of the western
product. Potatoes are selling from 80
to 40 cents in Chicago-less than 700
miles away-but the best offer Chicago
men would make for potatoes in A5er-
deem was 8 cents. Would the Mckinley
bill, il it were in force, regulate this:
1t SHOULD be as plain to Tom Bishop as
to any other man that any tariff which
will afford sufficient revenue to carry OH
the expenses of this government must
/ in the very nature Of things give ample
protection. Even the Wilson bill, with
its $50,Oo0,o00 or so annual deficiency
has given all the protection required.
| 1t is high time that the west was look
ing out for itself and paying less con-
cern to the profits OF the eastern manu-
iacturer; anu IL all existing parties west
Of the Mississippi should unite upou
this settled policy, the west could not in
years get back one tithe of that it has
contributed to swell the Golfers Of the
eastern m0nopolists and trusts.
| Tho Tribunes position does better fol
Rhode Island or Massachusetts than
South Dakota. 1t should know that tne
west not only has to fight the eastern
manufacturer in order that 1t may buy
clleaply what it has to consume. hut II
has to compete with even greater odds
the eastern farmer-who is directly in,
terested in high transportation, that the
products of the west may not wipe him
ont. When to these two factors must bt
added a third-0ur own newspapers
God save the western farmer.