Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-08-21
Protective Sentiment in the South
Being Built Up by Increase
of Manufactures,
Figures Show the Remarkable Pros
perity Ensning from Re-
publican Policy.
Charges Against the American Sol
diers in the Philippines Prove
to Be Groundless.

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the south is gradually building up
strong protective sentiment is not sur
plising when it is seen from the cen
sus reports that while the value of her
farm products in 1880 exceeded tile
value Of her manufactured products by
more than $200,00O,00O, in 1900 the
condition was reversed and the value
of southern manufactured products ex-
ceeded those of agriculture by $780,
003,O00.> Both the manufacturers and
the farmers of the south are seeing the
advantages of protection for the devel-
opnent of manufacturing industries,
creating quick, steady, and remuner-
ative markets for the diversified pro-
duets CT agriculture and giving to the
farmers of that section advantages
which they have never before pos
sesed
Does it signify nothing to the voters
that the American savings banks de-
posits have increased from 81, SIC, ,597,-
O23 in 1895, the year that Mr.. Bryan
was preparing to launch his great
boom, to $2,S45, ,691 800 in 1902? While
these figures. represent but a compara-
lively small proportion of the peoples
savings, a comparison of them speaks
eloquently of the prosperity promises
made during the Mckinley campaign.
The figures of the tin plate industry
Of the United States comprise a thorn
which sticks in the democratic flesh
like barb of SORROW: The census fig
ures for 1900 show a most remarkable
growth in this industry. In 1890. only
only ten years before, practically no
tin plate was manufactured in theS
United States. The Mckinley tariff
placed on it duty of two and two
tenths cents pound. This action was
denounced by every democrat as an
outrage and crime perpetrated
against the American people Every
single man Of the democratic political
leaders. politicians. and statesmen is
on record in statement to the effect
that tin plate could not be manufac-
tured in this country and that the duty
would simply increase the cost of the
products Of the people. The 1900 CEN
sus found G6 separate tin plate manu-
factories in the United States. with a
capital of twenty-one million dollars,
employing fourteen thousand wage
earners, paying them wages of ten mil
lion dollars year, and turning out a
finished product annually valued at
forty-one million dollars The tin
plate tariff showed the genius of Nc
Kinley. He believed that the indus
try could be created, and he dared to
put his belief to the trial.
The charge against the American
soldier in the Philippines of riot. rap
inc. incendiarism. outrages, brutal |
bloodshed, and torture We're all embod- |
led in Corporal O'Brien's testimony be-
fore the senate committee last winter. |
The democratic party in its thirst for |
campaign literature, seized upon these |
remarks with an avidity marvellous to |
behold. but their hopes and desires of |
spreading these remarks upon cam
paign documents were thwarted by the
testimony of Captain Mcdonald which |
branded every word of O'Brien's as a |
falsehood, and the speaker as a falsi-
fer.
g. Whatever may have been the inten-
ton of the democrats to use O'Brien's
testimony as campaign literature in |
spreading the gospel of anti-imperial- |
ism, has now been set at naught by the
indictment of O'Brien and his arrest
in Boston, the home of the anti-inl-
perialist squad On the charge of perjury
in giving testimony before the, senate
committee.