The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-09-04
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
CLATE R. TINAN.
Official Pauer Of the CITY and County
rHEY CLAIM roo 1uch.

THEY CLAIM TOO nUcH.
And now our friend Longstaff up a.
Huron on the Jim" "sicks" the Huronite
on US anent this prosperity business
and what picture OF dlreful woe John
draws of Democratic men and measures
all through Cleyeland's eight years of
Office. lis a wonder we lived through
it. Wonder il any Of these Republican
rOoters we're on earth in 1873? Talk
about panics, hard times. busted banks
and bankrupt merchants! The SO called
hard times of the past few years are
nothing compared to it. The times are
largely what the people make them
and 1t is an interesting fact that the Re-
publican press worked over time from
March 4, 1893 to March 4, 1897 to the end
that the people might be made to be-
lieve that Ruin stalked the land from
forest to plain like hide0us nightmare.
While the Wilson GOrham bill was
more protective measure than rev.
enue bill, the defcit., under it were
due almost wholly to the unexpected
ruling of the United States supreme
court declaring an income tax uncon-
stltutional. and partly by lack Of de-
mand for goods that caused reduced i'm
ports and revenue. The abundance of
products from the farms could not help
matters because the tremendous advance
of agriculture in the United States has
OutgroWn our population to an extent
that makes foreign demand necessary
to the successful tilllng of the soil. In
other words, the "home market" humbug
has become more and more apparent as
a political scheme to catch the farmer
vote every succeeding year. Had the
same shortage in foreign lands occurred
last year or the year before its beneficial
effect would have been the same then as
now.
The supposltion that the Wilson bill
or any other Democratic measure was
responsible for the price of wheat, or
corn or oats. or Of live stock is an absur-
dity. The bill was so thoroughly con-
structed on protective lines that Cleve.
land refused to sign it aud with the ex.
cepttons of raw material-which effected
but an unconsiderable few Of the farm
ing population-was fully as protective
to American industries as the Mckinley
bill.
There has not been year in decade.
but what the price OF farm products has
been governed by the fore ign demand,
and until the past two years n ine-tenths
Of our exports have come from the farms
The heavy exports of manufactured goods
under the stimulus of the Democratic
tariff bill has reduced the proportion
somewhat, but just now the exports of
meats and breadstuffs will exceed any
previous years. 1t is we'll enough. we
suppose, for tho Republican organs to
make showing, but we would be
pleased to have some of them be a little
more explicit. For one thing, we would
like to have some one of them show
wherein, and how the Democratic tariff
bill, or any other Democratic act. ef-
fected the price of single article from
the western farm with the possible ex-
ception OF wool-whlch, incidentally,
fell in price steadily under twenty five
years of Republican protection.
Given the American farmer a bounti.
full crop and a brisk foreign demand he
may be able to withstand all the tariff
robbery, trust-fostering and transporta-
tiOn iniquity put upon him, and to an
extent that will enable the rest of the
country to thrive on the hard earned
dollars flched from him, Eut when it is
asserted that higher tariff, more pro.
lection and restrictive on commerce
than the last, brings prosperity, the as
sertion is false. No taxation of one in
dustry for the benefit Of another bnt
what takes from the strong for the bene
fit Of the weak, and the weaker industry
is in precisely the same position as the
pauper who receives outdoor relief-il
consumes the earnings Of Others.
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