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peen diminished and our domestic trade
hrs suffered incaIculable loss. Does NOT
fhis suggest the cause Of our present
depression and indicate its remedy &?
Confidence In home enterprises has al
most wholly disappeared Our shnn,
are closed or running on half time. al
reduced wages and small profit. if not
actual loss. our men At home Az. Idle.
and while they are idle men abroad arc
occupied In applying US with goods.
Our unfiNaled home market for the
farmer has also suffered greatly because
those who constitute 1.-THE great army
OF American wage -cArpers-are without
the work and wages they formerly had.
II they cannot earn wages they cannot
buy products. They cannot earn II they
have no employment, and when they do
not earn the farmers home market ia
leTsened and impaired. and the loss Is
felt by both producer and consumer The
loss of earning power alone In this coun =
try in the past three years is'Sufrcient
TO have produced our unfortunate bust
ness situation. II our labor was well
employed, and employed at az rernunera-
tive wages AZ IN 1892. In few months
every farmer In the land would feel the
glad change in the increased demand for
his products and In tina better prices
which he would receive.
Not Open Mist.. but Osen Mills
1t is not an increase In the volume OF
an increase In ths volume OF business.
Not an Increase VI coin, but an increase
OF confidence. Not more coinage. but a
more e1ective uss OF the money coined.
Not open minis for tn. unlimited coin
age of the silver OF ths world but open
mills for the fun and unrestricted la Dor
Il American workinsmen. The en-
rioyment % our rnints for tho coinage Of
silver would not bYing tho necessaries
and comforts Of N. back 10 our people.
This will only come with tina employ
msnt of the masses, md such employ
utnt IS certain to follow the -ostab-
Tshment OF a visa protective policy
which shall encourage manufacture
ing at hons Protection has lost none
OF It's virtue aad Importance.
The first duty ~ the Republican party,
Il restored to power In ta- country. viii
be the ~nactnettt ot "A tariff law which
will raise all the money necessary to
conduct the Eovernm-rt economically
and honestly alsI.lntst T =, and SO ad-
justed MS to give prur"re!fce to home
manufactures a;d adequate protection
t. ho;Hn h .I- and - sJr}. market.
W. ara not committed t. any special
schedules or rates o3 3uty They are
and should boz" always sl4h5r'Ct to change
to meet nov cout..ttuus hut the princl-
pie upon which rate, OF duty are iIn-
posed remains The same. our duties
should always % h.cn ct.puSh t. meas
mr. the difference brtwesH the wages
paid labor ut Lei.1,, and in coinpat!al
court,.,.4- arb - ALTERNATELY t,rot-Ci
American Investments and Am. clean
enterprises
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