Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
function is no longer to obey but tx
command!
COMPARISON WITH MEXICO.

command!
COMPARISON WITH MEXICO.
Do not tell me that we can not main
tain the parity of the dollars and then
point to Mexico far your evidence, as
has been your uniform practice. To
undertake to compare this tremen-
dous country with its teeming and en-
terprising population equalling in
creative power over two hundred mill
lions of Europeans, with such COM
paratively weak Republic as Mexico
is no fair comparison or parallel. Mex
leo is an infant; our country a giant.
Mexico has scarcely succeeded
in maintaining for herself visible
spot upon the worlds map. We are
by common consent regarded as the
foremost people upon the globe.
Mexico is destitute of international in
fuence; at the council table of the
nations she is Systematically ignored.
Her trade and commerce while grow
ing rapidly of late is as yet compare
lively insignificant, and necessarily
must be. Mexico lacks the great es-
sentials; business, trade and commerce
which are the perpetual absorb
ents OF money. Let man take silver
bullion to the Mexican mint for coin
age, and the trouble is there is not
much to buy with the coin, for Next
co has but little to sell. The very
contrary is true of us. Let every one
bring silver to our mint, and we will
coin it into a full fedged American
dollar. We will put the eagle on one
side and the Goddess of Liberty on the
other with the superscription added,
not in the money power, but "In God
we trust" We will through the pow
er OF the law, the law being backed by
the power of public opinion, make this
silver dollar an actual dollar that will
stand in need of no redeemer. We
will invest it with the character of
absolute, primary money. We will
not dishonor it, send it forth an or
phan, discredited coin. We will
make it an unqualified legal tender.
We will clothe it with every essential
function possessed by it's yellow
brother. With such a dollar, enjoying
the prestige of the greatest nation on
earth, the owner will have no difficult
ty He can buy with it thousand
things each in almost endless quanti-
ties. He can buy our cotton by the
millions OF bales, and our petroleum
by the millions of barrels; OR rice
and tobacco in enormous quantities;
he can buy our wheat, corn and other
grains by the millions of bushels; our
beef and pork by the untold millions
OF pounds; he can buy our machinery,
our butter and cheese, our iron and
steel, our boots and shoes, and so on
and SO forth to the end of the almost
1nterminable list. Thus you see where
Mexico is inherently weak, we are ex-
ceptionally, constitutionally strong;
what she sadly lacks, we abundantly
possess, viz: the capacity to transact
wondrous amount of business, to
carry on am immense trade, and to
prosecute an ever and ever increasing
commerce; and it is in these indus
trial channels that money is absorbed
like dry soil absorbs the rain of
heaven. The capacity to rapidly alb
sorb money in business, carries along
with it the consequent power to main.
tam the equality or parity of the dol
lar. We can therefore successfully ac-
complish what Mexico can not even
dream of attempting.
THE TARIFF.
The Wilson bill, had it not suffered
the Judicial amputa ton of the income
tax provision, would have been not on.
, ly revenue measure, but a protective
measure as well. We now have the
Dlngley law. How is this new law 90.
ing to affect the business of the Iowa
farmer? While a member of the Fifty
second congress and serving on the
committee of agriculture, the house
authorized the committee to report
how the then Mckinley bill was affect
; ing the business of farming, 1 was
assigned the special subject of live
stock and my report was printed in q
separate paragraph. What had occa-
sion to say then concerning this in
dustry is SO entirely applicable to the
present that l will read you an extract
from that report:
LIVE STOCK RAISING.
There is probably no class of our
citizens who are SO thoroughly handi-
capped by the protective system in
the prosecution of their business as
the farmers of the Mississippi valley
who are engaged in the raising OF
hogs and cattle. However profuse the
prophecies and promises of 'shome
market" this happy condition has not
as yet materialized, and the prospect
that this point may be reached is now
more remote than ever.
i "The hog and cattle feeders of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kan.
sas and Nebraska are compelled to
raise their animals not only on high.
priced land, but must also provide
shelter and feed during long co, .:1,
ued and rigorous winters. IT, - nat.
ural disadvantages, which IRE alto
gether unavoidable, ougns not to be
supplemented by other adverse condl.
lions contrived by law and enforced
by government authority. IN large
portions of the world the low price OF
land and exceedingly favorable eli
matte conditions are significant advan.
tages enjoyed by the competitors Of
the western stock-raiser.
| "Now, is any man so well gifted as
to be able 10 suggest single valid
reason why the western farmer should
be loaded down with artificial burdens
in addition to those imposed upon him
| by his natural environments? The
self-evident duty of government is, or