The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-01
Republican Protection and Free Silver
Are One and the Same.

KepuDllCan FEOLSCIiOH anu FESS ohNCA
Are One and the Same.
Mr.. S. B. Parish, a mining en-
gineer working for London and
Boston capitalists, just returned
from Mexico, makes public the fol
lowing statement of what any one
may see there regarding the infu-
ence of silver and gold money. He
says:
"When in Mexico ten years ago
| could not buy a single piece OF
mining machinery made in that
country, nor could | find anything
manufactured there except scapas
and plain cotton cloth. But with
the fall in silver bullion Mexico
could not afford to pay 50 for 81
and import foreign manufacturers,
so home manufactures started up
everywhere. Labor wages and
local prices are unchanged in
Mexico, but you can now buy for a
silver dollar or less that which for
merly cost a gold dollar and more
when imported. You can now buy
anything there in the way of mining
machinery of local manufacture.
Canning establishments have been
erected, and where formerly you
could not get anything in that line
at less than 81 a can, all being i'm
ported, you can now buy all you
want of local manufacture at %
cents in silver per can. Ginghams
can no longer be imported from the
United States. The best are now
made there in factories stimulated
into existence by the high cost of
gold.
GA young Mexican manufacturer
told me that the development of
Mexico in the manufacturing line
was now going on at such pace
that in few years it would be a
considerable exporter of manufac-
tured goods into the United States.
He said that the difference between
the price of gold and silver bullion
gave Mexico 100 per cent protective
tariff, and that the enactment of
the Mckinley tariff for the United
States would not keep out the ex-
port to the United States of Mex
lean goods which would be shortly
inaugurated.
"When | first conducted mining
operations in Mexico" continued
Mr.. Parish, "there were no candles
to be had in that country except
the Goodwin and Snyder candles,
which were imported from the
United States. The only candles
of local manufacture were the or
binary tallow dips of revolutionary
days. Now first class mining can
dies manufactured in Mexico can be
obtained at a reasonable cost, and
at such figures as prohibit the i'm
portation of the United States
product.
"The same thing can be said of
soap and many other articles of
manufacture.
'tBesides all this, Mexico has
already begun small export trade
into the adjacent silver basis coun.
tries ON the south, which will in
time grow to such proportions as to
practically exclude imports to those
countries from manufacturers in
gold basis countries"
Now if our workers and manu-
facturers of this city will read the
above testimony carefully, and it
may be thoroughly relied upon for
accuracy, they must at once see,
when they apply the same facts to
all other silver basis countries, that
this exclusive gold basis standard
that is now being foisted upon the
United States is all and exclusively
in behalf of foreign, non-protec-
ton policy, that must destroy
American manufactures and pro-
ducers.
The whole movement is inspired
abroad by an un-American people
to force this country in wages,
labor, and manufactures down to
the level of starvation conditions,
by a band of conspirators intent
upon fattening at the expense of