The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-09-03

has at no time provided enough revenue Tor |
such needs, but 1t has caused Il constant de- |
hciency in the treasury and a steady deple-
ton in the earnings Of labor and land. 1t
has contributed to swell our national debt !
more than $2G2. 0O0, 900, a sum nearly AS
great as the debt of the government from
Washington To Lincoln. including all our
foreign wars. from the Revolution To the
Rebellion. Since its passage work at home
has been diminished; prices of agricultural
products have fallen; confidence mas been
arrested, and general business dcmoraliza-
ton Is seen on every hand.
The Tariff Of ISDO and 1894 Con
trnstcd.
Tn total receipts uudcr the tariff Of 1891
Tor the first TWENTY-FIVE months of its en-
forcement, from September, 1874. to June.
lSo6, were S55T Ga. 32S, and the expcndi-
lures SGio.ilS ,3G4. or Il deficiency of SS2,-
SO3,Oi5. The decrease in our exports OF
American products and manufactures during
the first fifteen months of the present tariff,
as contrastcd with The exports of the first
fifteen months of the tariff Of 1890. was
S220,353,32O. The excess of exports over
imports during the first Fifteen months of
the tariff of 1890 was S2l3,912, 9G6. but only
500, 15S,623 under the first fifteen months Of
the tariff Of 1894, "A loss under the latter OF
S157 ,2l4,3iJ. The net loss in the trade bal
ance of the United States has been $780,
9S3,6O7 during the first fifteen months oper-
alton of the tariff of 1884. AS compared
with the first fifteen months of the tariff
OF 1880. The loss has been large. constant
and steady, at the rate of Sl3, $50, 900 per
month, or $500, 600 for every business day
of the year.
Losing i'm Both Directions
We have either been sending too much
money out of the country or getting too
little in, or both. We have lost steadily
in both directions. Our foreign trade has
| hnpn 1itniujGhpl md nnp npnnstin trnJn
has suffered incalculable loss. Does not
this suggest the cause of our present de-
preston, and indicate its remedy? Con-
fidence in home enterprises has almost Who'll
ly disappeared. our shops are closed, or
running on half time Mt reduced wages, and
Mt small profit. If not actual loss. Our
men at home are idle, and while they are
idle men abroad are occupied in supply
ing us with goods. Our unrivalled home
market for the farmer he's also greatly
suffered because those who constitute the
great army of American wage earners are
without the work and wages they formerly
had. If they cannot earn wages they can
not buy products. They cannot cam ii
they have no employment, and when they
do not earn. the farmers home market
is lessened and Impaired, and the loss is
felt by both producer and consumer. The
loss Of earning power alone in this country
in the past three gears is sufficient 10 have
produced our unfortunate business situa-
ton. If our labor was well employed, and
employed at as Cemuncrative wages as
in 1892. i'm Il few months every farmer In
the land would feel the glad change IN the
increased demand for hia products. and in
the better prices which he would receive.
Not Open Minis but 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. Not
an increase of coin, but an Increase OF con-
! fIpucp Not more coinage. but "A more lc-
tive use Of the money coined. Not open
mints for the coinage of the silver
of the world, but open mills for the full and
unrestricted labor of American working
men. The employment of our minis for
the coinage of the silver OF the world would
not bring the necess8ries and comforts OF
life 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 manufacturing
at home.
Protection has lost none OF its virtue
and importance. The first duty of the Re
publican party, II restored to power In the
country, will be the enactment or n tarlH
law, which will raise all the money neces-
sary to conduct the government, economl-
cally and honestly administered, and so al
justed as to give preference to home man
ufactures and adequate protection 10 nome
labor and the home market. we are not
committed TO any special schedules or rates
Of duty. They are ard should be always
subject to change to meet new conditions.
but the principle upon which rates or 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 laborers and manufacturers, badly as
they have suffered. The Republican plat
form wisely declares in favor Of such en-
enlargement TO our sugar interests as VIII
lead to the production on American SOIL or
all the sugar which the American people
use."
1T promises to our wool and wooden In
terests ..the most ample protection a guar
anty that ought to ommen Itself 10 every
patriotic citizen. Never was a more grew
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 most indus
| trious and useful citizens, their interests
have been practically destroyed ana our
wooden manufacturers involved in similar
disaster. AT no time within the past thlrty-
six years. and perhaps never during any
| 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.
Another declaration OF the Republican
| platform that has my most cordial support
is that which favors reciprocity. The splen-
| did results of the reciprocity arrangements
that were made under authority of the
tariff law of 1890 are striking and suggest
i've. The brief period they were In force,
L., ,,,e, A., only thrpp wears uns not