The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-01
THE TARIFF QUESTION
THE HOOP DE DOODLE-DOO SAL
TATION-ARMY CAMPAIGN.


Der of the Peoples Party, but when
the Popublist U. S. Senators and Free
Silver Republicans voted to not
amend the present tariff law they con
signed all the people Of the United
States to starvation and ruin.
This is one Of the tricky little
arguments" now spread abroad by the
Republicans. The man who, parrot.
like, repeats it thinks he invented it.
The politicians know very well thai
the crisis of 1893, the most destructive
that ever swept over any nation in
the world, an era of almost universal
bankruptcy, among corporations and
individuals, took place when our peo
pie were all living under the McKin'
ley tariff, and had been living
under it for years. II the McKin-
ley tariff, full-blooded, and entire
could not give us prosperity in 1893
how will an approximate on to the Nc.
Kinley tariff restore the whole people
to prosperity in 1896? Answer that
question-ye howlers!
Suppose the amended tariff led to
the manufacture Of more goods how
would that help us? We quoted last
week, from Dun & Co.. their state.
ment that false hopes, created by
the newspapers bloviators, led the
manufacturers, last year, to manufac.
ture more goods, and now the mer-
chants can not sell what they have on
hand and are going into bankruptcy!
And why? Because the people have
no money to buy the goods with. We
have 1884 in circulation to-day for
each man, woman and child, while we
had 1925 in 1865. Then we were
prosperous: and now we are impover-
ished. 1t is a shameful trick and
fraud to say to weak minded people,
who are out Of work,-"you would be
busily employed at good wages if we
had the Mckinley tariff law again. :"
Under that tariff law. as the census of
1890 showed, there were, in that year,
nine million mortgages, on real es-
tate, given for four billions of dollars of
debt in the United States; besides the
chattel mortgages, the corporation
debts, the municipal debts, the in
dividual unsecured debts, etc., etc.
After thirty years of high tariff the
country was practically bankrupt.
The Republican party was driven out
of power in 1884, and again in 1892, be-
cause OF the ''hard times" We do not
charge all this to the high-tari It
was the decrease in the volume of cur
rency. And now the scamps propose
to wipe out the greenbacks, decrease
the currency still farther, maintain
the gold standard, and at the same
time get back into power by telling
the fool people that the corn-salve of
applied to a sore on the
big-tOe of universal wretchedness, will
cure the consumption of the nation.
The knaves who will thus practice on
the credulity Of simple. minded voters
ought to be horse whipped.
Suppose we had the Mckinley tariff
in full blast again how would it help
Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Da-
kotas? What protected industries
have ,ce hereo
Don't you think the lumbermen
can still steal the states pine with
out 81 additional tariff protection?
Or are the farmers so rich that they
want to give g. thousand more, to
the Lumber Trust, which will not per-
nit citizen to buy dollars worth of
lumber at their mills, but fixes the
price at which it is to be retailed-as
high as they plase' Do they need any
more protection? Can't the fat SOW
get along without being creased by
the lean farmer?
And there are the paper-makers
who grind up poplar trees to manu-
facture their material with. Do the
poplar trees need protection from
the poplar trees of Canada? You
can buy the land for ten dollars an
acre with the trees on it. Do you
want any protection under such cir
cumstances?
There is tariff on hay and straw.
But did any of, you farmers ever haul
a load into town, to sell. and find an
ahead Of you, with load
of the same kind, hauled from Lon.
don, across the Atlantic, or even from
to under-bid you?
And yet the scamps are getting up a
tin horn. kettle-drum, Salvation
army, poke bonnet campaign for Nc
kinley, on just such fraudulent pre-
fences. And after robbing the work.
ingman Of his home. by usury, based
on dear money and cheap property,
they are now buzzing into the ears of
the poor, hungry, unemployed work.
us the Mckinley tariff
again and every belly will be full and
your eyes will pop out with fatness."
And to the house painter, the archi.
tect, the plasterer, the brick layer.
the carpenter, the stone-mason. the
plummer, ETC.. they intimate that if
they don't have protection" the
owner Of the land will send the ma
terials Of his house over to England
TO have it built there and shipped
back again!!! And as the election re-
turns show that the fools exceed in
number the sensible men there will
be millions led off by just such tom
fool arguments"
What practical tariff protection is
there for the wheat-raiser, the barley
raiser, the corn-raiser, the Uat-raiser,