The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-03
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| the wages paid labor at home and III
competing countries and to adequately
protect American investments and
| American enterprises
OUR FARMERS AND THE TARIFF.
Our farmers have been hurt by the
changes in our tariff legislation as Sc
verely as our lahorers and manufacture
ers badly as they have suffered. The
| republican platform wisely declares in
| favor of such encouragement to our
| sugar interests as will lead to the pro-
duction on American soil of all the
sugar which the American PEOPLE use"
1t promises to our wooden interests the
| most ample protection. Never was "A
more serious wrong done to the farmers
of our country than that so unjustly in
| tlicted during the past three years upon
| the wool growers of America. Although
| among our most industrial and useful
| citizens their interests have been practi-
| cally destroyed and our wooden manu-
| facturers involved in similar disaster.
| The republican party can be relied upon
| To correct these great wrongs if again
entrusted with the control of congress.
RECIPROCITY.
Another declaration of the republican
platform that has my most cordial sup
port is that which favors reciprocity.
The splendid results of the reciprocity
tariff law of 1870 ore strikine "n nnd s, ,"e
gestiye. Tho href nor;od thev Y,aro +,
force, in most cnses only tbree yeors 60
was not long enough TO thoroughly test
their great value, but sufficient to con-
ciuslvely demonstrate the Importance and
the wisdom of their adoption. In 1892
tanned the highest noint in orr b;storv
tbe iW oa cur TMportS :, ' nad year
14S, a sum greater by 500 O60 600 tbon
the exports of any n,eyious yenr In
1893, owing to the unfriendly tariff
legislation the exports aggregated only
$3.50, 100000. The increase of trade
with the countries with which we had
reciprocity agreements was S3h60 XIX
over our trade in 1899 and Si6'14072I
over our trade in 1891. The oniy com
tries with which the United States
traded that showed increased exports i'm
1893 were practically those with which
we had reciprocity arrangements. The
and SpoiS tomchng 81" nrt tns co@ Wmty
and Porto Rico was announced Sentem-
Der /, 1891. The growth of our trade
with Cuba was phenomenal. In 1891
we sold that country but 114.441 barrels
of flour, and in 1892, 1866, 175; in 1893,
GIG, 4O6, and in 1894, 22,24S. Here was
S''"'i' "N"' w pSi etht,
our explorations OF Hour to Cuba for the
year ending June 30, 1894, the year fol-
lowing the repeal of the reciprocity
,leu,y, le,t 10 olo,Voo barrels, a loss OF
t t,uars maiI Oh our trade win mat coun-
~ ais. hiuny slllilar examples might be
Snem Vi our increased trade under reci.
pho'i ad pu' tno t nus peeh sh9Wm OF
;me v'c IT, VI ,ne iesislatioh OF 1910 10
justify ps res'ora'ioh.
DIR SOJDIEps AMI sAIrops
M LII
HI, soiu itt ana sallors Oh tne Union
snouiu he n DC neglected nor for
So..eI' Tue so'erIiileni Wnich they
s;n ,eh WI. ,iiusl no! MAKE their condi-
o ,U h a., th Wy tIeu.lhe Inem as suppli-
aro I ,n uiirir DISTRESS. Dou4tiess there
thn he n, uuem pvnSaHn aDusgs and frauds IN
"nyornmont h,,t tn an uiioWeu ny the
5admin;strnt;;o pu' ,fe Pohry governing tIe
must alwavs ho "a fa;r .ne 2on snsa bureau
nI;oont shorld 80, e. , ,ihs sP
"rohs perpetrateu ny ahother
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
The nlcdgo of tbo national ,,,a.fo,,
that orr civil laws ..shaIi ha sp,,sta;,ad
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