Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-05

Resolutions which furnish : Problem 70
High TArlmtes.
Abraham Lincoln's pithy declaration
that You cannot fool all the people al
the time" is commended to the protec
tive tariff league with the substitution
of the farmers for the people. It i
possible that the league has already
made the discovery. Its officers ar
wrestling just at present with q set o
resolutions which are well calculated
to convey to the dullest minds the ides
limited at.
| The resolutions referred to were
adopted by the state grange of Califor
mia, at its last annual meeting, held al
MERGED, during the first days Of Octo
| Der. The grange, as our readers dc
not need to be told, is composed 81
farmers and apparently they belong t.
| the level-headed class of tillers of the
| soil Their action certainly shows
that they do not intend to take fol
granted, as some of their brother farm.
| ers at the east do, that the protection.
| lists are their friends simply because
they claim to be. The preambles and
resolutions, however, will best explain
| the attitude Of the California farmer
Here they are:
Whereas. report 1899. house of repre-
sentatives, SD congress, third session.
page u. contains the following:
First. The American protective tarffl
Sacramento, Cal. to contribute to the fund
in aid of the work of said league.
Second. A contribution OF s., 900 was
handed to the president of the bank of D.
Q. Mills & Co., with instructions to pay
same to league provided a committee OF
fve impartially selected. would decide (a)
that the present system OF protection by
tariff on imports Is just and equitable to
the producers Of agricultural staples as
long as there is a surplus of these to ex-
agricultural staples would be unjust or In
equitable as long as there is protective
tariff on imports. And.
Whereas, the said league refused to
submit to the above offer; and, whereas.
on September 4,of this year, 1900 farmers
gathered at the Interstate harvest home
meeting, at Marysville. Mo-. did submit
the issue of principle in the above PROPOSE
ton to Hon. William Mckinley. of Ohio. to
which no reply was made: and,
whereas, the American Protective Tarfn
league is assumed to be the representative
exponent of protection. therefore be it
Resolved, by the state grange of Cali
fornia at its annual session held at MERGED,
that we respectfully request said ta-in
league to forward to the secretary of this
state grange. replies to the following Ques-
tons:
First. Is the present system of protec-
ton by tariff on imports, just and equitable
to the producers of agricultural staples as
long as there is surplus of these to ex-
port2
Second. VIII bounty on the exports
of agricultural staples be unjust or in
equitable as long as there is protective
tariff on imports?
RESOLVED, that a copy Of this pream Die
and resolutions be at once mailed to the
president and secretary of the American
Protective Tariff league at No. 135 West ed
street, New York city"
The answer of the Protective Tariff
league will be awaited with lively in
terest, not only by the state grange of
California and the 1000 farmers of Mis-
souri-who asked the same question of
Mckinley, from whom they have not
yet heard-but by all thoughtful citi-
zens of the republic who are interested
in the subject as good citizens must be-.
If the league can answer in good faith
that the tariff benefits the farmer and
can show wherein, it can render not
only the farmer, but the entire COM
munity, great service. If it cannot
so answer, it ought to have frankness
and honesty enough to say so.-Detroit
Free Press