Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

do not depend upon the amount O
money which may be In circulation u
the respective countries dealing will
each other. In this country foreign
commerce is sought to be discouraged
and consequently lessened, upon thu
ground that it takes the money out o
the country. We have been told tel
thousand times over that we ought t,
make our own tin plate and thus keel
ct home the $25,000,000 we annual!
send abroad to buy tin with. Thil
statement will not bear the slightes
touch of an examination. The truth
b, as every student of economies ant
even every ordinary observer of events
will readily understand, we never
send twenty-five millions to England
or Wales for tin.
1.-THE most rampant protectionist
will not upon reflection insist upon &C
foolish an idea. We always have sent
not s25, oOO, 900 OF money, but its equiv.
alent in wheat, cotton, hogs, cattle,
and other surplus farm products
This lie the way we buy our tin. What
is true Of tin is equally true of every
product and commodity entering into
the Unfortunately long list Of CONNER.
cial exchanges. Though it has been
repeatedly stated before, it will not be
emiss to restate the proposition here
and especially recognize it in it's rela.
ton with the business of the western
stock-grower, that no nation can long
continue to be buyer unless she be
also seller.
'tNo nation, whether large or small,
prosperous or bankrupt, can pay for
her imports with money. Money lie
not plentiful enough for any such pur.
pose. If the opportunity or privilege
to sell be withheld or destroyed, the
capacity to buy will cease. Take our
own case for an illustration. We i'm
port annually, say, eight or nine hun.
dred million dollars worth of prod.
ucts Of manufactures. If this amount
had to be paid for in cash, two years
would strip us OF every nickel. What
then? Our capacity to buy would be
exhausted and our foreign commerce
would be at an end. The only reason
we continue to import the tea and
silks of China, the coffee of Brazil, the
fruits and spices of tropical climes,
the products and manufactures Of
England, France and Germany II be-
cause our income from the sale of eur
surplus petroleum, cotton, grain, hogs
and cattle enable US to pay for these
imported articles. Deprive us of our
receipts from these sources and we
could not meet our expenditures.
"It is the knowledge of this univer-
sal, indisputable principle that ia
driving the western stock farmer in
to the conviction that the European
markets, especially that of England,
which buys nearly, and in some in
stances quite, as much as all other IA.
tisns combined, are worth preserving.
The eternal truth is breaking in upon
the understanding of the western
stock raiser that, if he must rely one
year after another, decade after de.
cade, upon the markets across the wa.
ter in which to dispose of his surplus
products, any regulation of ours inn
pairing the capacity of those people to
buy of us will react with incalculable
injury upon his business and prosper.
ity. While he is in this Mood philoso-
phizing upon these matters and re-
membering recent history, the un.
pleasant fact obtrudes itself that for
years he was outlawed in Germany
and France, so far as his sale of swine
products was concerned.
"The beautiful diplomatic reason
given that the American hog was os-
TRACKED on hygienic grounds has new.
or deceived anybody. Any one pos
sesstng the least practical information
upon this subject knows that the hogs
Of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and 9TH
or Mississippi valley states, enjoying
the eaceulent grasses and fresh cir OF
open pastures and fattened upon the
cleanest of all known foods, Indian
corn, are in the very nature OF the
case less liable to disease than hogs in
European countries, whose perpetual
habitation is the pig sty, constantly
reeking with abominable odors, and
whose food is largely composed OF de-
caying refuse of numerous kitchens
and manufacturing plants.
"The western farmer has lately been
discovering that the reason his hogs
were excluded was not because they
were infested with tEishina, bat be-
cause of retaliatsry legislation pro.
voked by the proAibitive tariff rates
sanctioned by our revenue laws. Our
refusal to buy of those people impair
ed their capacity to buy Of us. Our de-
clared policy was, and now is, to buy
nothing of them, 80 in pure self-de-
tense they are trying to improvise
ways I. buy nothing of us. Deprived
Of an opportunity to sell us their
wares, can we blame the English and
other European customers of ours for
investing millions upon millions OF
capital in the vast cattle ranches OF
south and central American states, In
the sheep ranches Of Australia, and
wheat fields of India? This is precise
" what is being done"
OBEDIENCE TO TEE NATURAL
LAW.
My convictions upon this tariff ques-
ton are well known. The lapse of
time serves only to strengthen them.
II all the nations of the earth would
conform their laws to the natural law,
to the Divine law which the Creators
finger has written in indestructible
characters on every physical feature OF
His universe, then the international an