Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-03

the better prices which he would receive.
Not Open MINIS hut Open Mills.
1t is not an increase in the volume of
| money which Is the need OF the times, but
an increase In the volume of business. NoA
an increase of coin, but an increase OF con-
fdence Not more coinage. bur a more ac-
tive use Of the money coined. Not open
minis for the unlimited coinage Of the silver
of the world, but open mills for the full and
unrestricted labor Of American working
men. The employment of our mints for
the coinage of the silver of the world would
not bring the necessaries and comforts OF
'ife back to our people. This will only
come with the employment Of the masses.
and such employment Is certain to follow
the re-establishment OF a wise protective
policy. which shall encourage manrfacturir &
at home.
Protection has lost none OF it9 virtue
and Importance. The first duty OF the Re-
publican party, IL restored TO power I'm the
country, will be the enactment OF a tariff
law. which will raise all the money neces-
sary to conduct the government, economl-
cally and honestly administered, ana so ad-
justed as to give preference to home man
ufactures and adequate protection to home
labor and the home market. We are not
committed 70 any special schedules or rates
of duty. They are and should be always
subject to change TO meet new conditions,
but the principle upon which rates of duty
are imposed remains the same. Our duties
should always be high enough to measure
the difference between the wages paid labor
at home and In 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 severely
as our laborer3 and manufacturers, badly as
/ they have suffered. The Republican plat
form wisely declares In favor of such en-
couragement 10 our sugar interests as VIII
| lead TO the productiol on American SOIL or
| all the sugar which the American people
| use.'
Ii promises TO our wool and wooden In
| terests 1.-The most ample protection a guar
! anty that ought TO commend Itself to every
| patriotic citizen. Never was a more griev-
/ Gus wrong done the farmers of our country
/ than that so ~unjustly inflicted during the
| past three years upon the wool growers or
| America. Although among our ns)st indus
J trious and useful citizens, their interests
| have been p practically destroyed and our
WOODEN manufacturers involved in similar
| disaster. AT no time within the past thirty
six years, and perhaps never during any
l previous period, have so many OF our wooden
factories been suspended as now. The Re-
| publican party can be relied upon to correct
| these great wrongs, If again entrusted with
| the control of congress.
Reciprocity.
Bbi VI ~
| platform that has my most cordial support
\ is that which favors reciprocity. The splen-
4 did results of the reciprocity arrangements
that were made under authority of the
tariff law of 1890 nre striking ana suggest
i've. The brief period they were In force,
in most eases only three years. was not
long enough to thoroughly test their great
value, but sufficient was shown by the trial
to conclusively demonstrate the Importance
and the wisdom of their adoption. In lS92
the export trade of the United States at
tanned the highest point In our history. The
| aggregate of our exports that year reached
the immense sum Of Sl.030,27S las. a sum
| greater by 500, 600, OO0 than the exports of
any previous year. In 1913, owing TO the
threat of unfriendly tarifa legislation, the
| total dropped to $SiT ,6G5.19i. Our exports
| of domestic merchandise decreased S1S9,00o,-
| 900, but reciprocity sill secured us a large
| trade in Central and South America, and a
| larger trade with the West Indies than we
| had ever before enjoyed The increase or
trade with the countries with which we
| had reciprocity agreements was $3,56O,51o
over our trade in 1892, and SIC, 4io,I III over
| our trade in 1891.
The only countries with which the United
| States traded that showed increased ex-
ports In 1893 were practically those with
which we had reciprocity arrangements.
The reciprocity treaty between this coun-
| try and Spain, touching the markets of
| Cuba and Porto Rico, was announced Sept.
| /, 1891. The growth of our trade with Cuba
was phenomenal. In 1891 We sold that coun-
| try but 1f4,44l barrels of -four: in 1892,
(, 3G6, 1T5; In 1893, 81 6,406, and In 1894. Co.,
PAS. Here was a growth of nearly 500 per
| cSnt, while our expectations of four TO
| Cupa for the year ending June 30, 1893, the
| year following the repeal Of the reciprocity
| treaty, fell to 3I9,SJ6 barrels, a loss of
nearly half our trade with that country.
| The value of our total exports of merchan-
| disc TO Cuba In 1S91-the year prior to the
| negotiations of the reciprocity treaty-was
| $12,224,SSS; In 1892. SIT .953,519; in 1898,
| $24, 1871 Cos; in 1894, $40, 125,32i; but in 1893,
| after the annulmsnt OF the reciprocity agree
ment, it fell TO only SO. SS7 ,66l. Many sim
!! liar examples might be given of our in
| creased trade under reciprocity with other
| countries, but enough has been shown Of
the efficacy of the legislation of 1890 TO
| Justify the speedy restoration Of its reci-
procity provisions. In my judgment, congress
| should Immediately restore the reciprocity
| section of the old law, with such amend
ments, Ii any, as time and experience sane
ton as wise and proper. The underlying
principle of ais legislation must, however,
be strictly observed. 1t is to afford new
markets for our surplus agriculture and
manufactured products without loss TO tho
American laborer OF a single days work
that he might otherwise procure.
Foreign Immigration.
The declaration of the platform touching
| foreign immigration Is one of peculiar inn
| portance at this time, when our own labor
| ing people are in such great distress. | am
In hearty sympathy with the present legls-
| lation restraining foreign immigration, and
| favor such extension of the laws as will
| secure the United States frcm invasion by
| the dabased and criminal classes of the old
| world. While we adhere to the public poll
cy under which our country has received
| great bodies of honest. industrious citizens,
who have added to the wealth. progress and
power of the country, and while we well
come to our shores the well disposed and in
| dustrious Immigrant who contributes by his
| energy and Intelligence to the cause Of free
| government, we want no immigrants who
| do not seek our shores 10 become citizens.
! We should permit none to participate in
the advantages of our civilization who do
not sympathize with our aims and form OF
| government. We should receive none who
come to make war upon our institutions
and profit by public disquiet and turmoil.
| Against all such our gates must be tightly
| closed.
| Our Soldiers and Sailors.
The soldiers and sailors of the Union
| should neither be neglected nor forgotten
The government which they served so well
must not make their lives or condition
| harder by treating them as suppliants for