Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-13

lieve in bimetalism, and who believe pro-
tectlon without bimetallism IS impossible.
who see that the depreciation OF silver
acts as bounty on exports from silver
using to gold using countries equal to the
divergence in the value Of gold and silver.
bounty equal at this time to 100 per
cent, thus neutralizing any tariff we can
adopt, who therefore insist, and rightly,
that to enact a protective tariff without
at the same time restoring silver to its
place as money, would be folly, and who
see the utter uselessness as p;otectionists,
of giving their support to the republican
party, if that party insists on negativing
protection by joining it with gold mono
metallism, you will make the defeat Of
the republican party inevitable.
Unite bmetallsm to protection, and
you will not only unite two policies iden-
ticle in aim, but you will make possible
the enactment Of a true protective tariff,
for by so doing you will gain the good
will, aud for a measure embodylng high
protection and bimetallism, you can COM
mand the support of those senators who
have heretofore acted with the republican
that party is to become the party Of gold
monometallism, and without whose votes
no protective tariff bill can pass the SEN
ate.
The responsibility rests with you, the
manufacturers of the east You can force
the republican party to adopt the above
platform. By dong SO you can save the
protective system. Ii you do not do so,
you will loose the sympathy and you will
ALLEVIATE the support OF those who put
bimetallism before protection, and with
out whose support the passage of any
protective measure is impossible.
BY endorsing such a platform as that
already endorsed by sixteen republican
senators and approved in substance by a
number Of other senators, you can force
its adoption by the republican party, you
can re-unlte the republican party, make
republican victory and the supremacy on
true American principles, the financial
and Observation-Disclosures of the United
States, assured, and make possible the re-
storation in all its integrity, Of a true
protective system. The agricultural
classes will no longer give their support
20 protection unless justice is done them.
They are impoverished by low prices for
their produce, prices fixed in competition
with the agricultural labor Of silver u.s.
ing countries for the European markets.
Three fourths of our exports consist Of
the products of our farms. With agri
cultural staples we pay our debts abroad,
aud the prices our farmers receive for
their products are so low, and the burden
of our debts, which they so largely bear,
SO great, that they are reduced to poverty
and despair. The fall in farm produce
must be checked, or our farmers will be
ruined. They ask for legislation that
will raise the prices they receive abroad
for their produce, namely, the restori-
tion of silver to it's place as money. If
Jous utiC Will uOO dlu Uuc
farmers IN restoring bimetallism, if you
will not assist them to pass legislation
that will bring them better prices for
their products as we'll as for the products
of your mills, you cannot expect, and
YOU WILL not get, the support of the far
mers for protective tariff such as you
hope will enable you to sell your goods
at remunerative prices.
Therefore urge you to sign and return
promptly the enclosed blank, SO that the
senators who have already endorsed the
above platform can see that you, the
manufacturers, understand that bimetal-
lism and protection go together. and SO
that, if they see promise of restoring
silver as money. by joining their forces
with the free trade party, they will not
hurriedly throw over protection. if they
see no prospect of securing the restoration
of bimetallsm through the republican
party. Yours Respectfully.
WHARTON BARKER.