Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05

Good Money Never Made Times Hard.
1T Is mere pretense to attrib-te the
reney is on a gold basis. Those who as
sert that our present industrial and hna nan
Standard have not read American history
ar,gn Of recent ees years We never had
greater prosperity in this country. IN
tban e the Of busy from s to iss
during all of which time this country was
money in its fiscal and business operations
than ever before We had: toe; proteetiye
collected for the government and an ae-
sppiied to the payment 1e Of the public DEBT
AI1et us hold fast to that which we know
" What sfo We want is to put the mones We al
ready. have at work When money is en-
ways been steadily and reInuneratively en-
euEng all TIE saaf fsos Of wpbo Say
money lack confidence in the stability OF
With hef ons nay ae5
the Hfe-blood of trade is checked and
lie Confidence by an act Which would en P rev
a neue5 9 9 an n aft Which en-
We cannot inspire confidence by advocat-
We cannot restore cdnadence. eipher ae the
in ouo present tariff legislation.
The TariE of 1894.
1.-THE only measure of a general nature
that affected the treasury and the employ
third congress was the general tariff act.
which did not receive the approval of the
claimed for that act there is confessedly
one which it does not possess. 1t lacks the
of revenue sufficient to supply the needs OF
the government 1t has at no time pro-
vided enough revenue for such needs. but
it has caused a constant deficiency in the
treasury and steady depletion in the earn,
to swell our national debt more than $685.,
Of tie goVernment from Washin ure nep to
Lincoln, including all our foreign wars
its passage work at home has been dimin-
1Shed; prices of agricultural products have
general business Decentralization is seen on
every hand.
Tariffs of 1890 and 1894 Contrasted.
The total receipts under the tariff act
of 1894 for the first y months of it's enforce
ment-from September, 1884. to June, 1896
81 ana 5e Of Th se de-
crease in our exports of American products
months of the present tariff. as contrasted
with the exports of the first IS months of
cess of experts over imports during the
first j. az months Of the ta az f., of 1890 was
nnder r. the tfe 81 q
has hs BEEN so % during ru the hrst Is
months of the operation Of the tariff of
Of the tariff r Of 1850 The loss has been large
and Cd ne for OF
ness day of this year.
Our foreign trade has been diminished and
our domestic trade has suffered ineaaeul-
of our present depression, and indicate its
remedy? CONFIDENCE in home enterprises
Saeed and sPs PT9ff s not ad ast 5a
they are idle men abroad are occupied I'm
hophe mai for the farmer has also great-
y suffered because those who constitute
ers-are without the work and wages they
formerly had. If they cannot earn wages
earn if they have no employment, and when
they do not earn the farmers home market
felt by both producer and consumer. The
R TO
produced our unfortunate business situa-
employed at as renunerative wages as in
1892. in a few months. every farmer in the
erased demand for his products and in the
better prices which he would receive.
should Open Mills, Not Mfnrs.
'.It is not an increase in the volume of
money which is the need Of the time. but
in the xoum pt of Not
confidence. Not more coinage, but a more
hints for the Unlimited Coinage so OF o fhe
silver of the world, but open mills for the
Workingmen en- The opening to the ie world
of our mints for the coinage of silver would
lie BACK to our people This viii o. only "
come with the employment of the masses,
the reesta blishment of a wise protective
policy which shall encourage manufactur-
Ing at home
The Party's First Duty.
Protection has lost none of it's virtue and
iican party party if restored to power yer in p the
country. will be the enactment of a tariff
law which will raise all the money neces-
sary to conduct the government. econom-
ically and honestly administered, and SO
adjusted as to give preference to home
manufacturers and adequate protection to
home labor and the home market We
or rates Of duty. They are and should be
conditions. but the principle upon which
rates of duty are imposed remains the
enough to measure the difference between
the wages paid labor at home and in com
American Investments and American en-
terpriSes-
Our Farmers and the Tariff.
''Our farmers have been hurt by the
badly as they have suffered. The republic.
such encourag cement to our sugar interests
as will lead to the production on Ameri-
can people use It promises to our wool
and wooden interests the most ample pro-
mend itself to every patriotic citizen.
Never was a more grievous wrong done
unjustly inflicted during the past three
years upon the wool growers of America.
& tzgn bsr ba%s b aaS
practically DESTROYED and our wooden man.
ufacturers involved in similar disaster. At
time within the past Sc years, and per-
have so many of our wooden factories been
can be relied upon to correct these great
wrongs, if again entrusted with the con-
troll of congress
Reciprocity.
Another declaration of the republican
platform that has my most cordial support