Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-01
|NCyIFIED DISCUSSION.
|,+ional Committeeman Ryan
CDeaks on State and Ma
tiOnal Issues
|US ARE ON THE INCREASE.
roIIette's Reelection Would be a Ca
lamity--His Administration Has
Fomented Confusion.

consisting of numerous agricultural i'm
1 PIGMENTS and tools, of kitchen utensils
and household goods. carpenter tools,
etc. 1t will be seen that the domestic
prices usually exceed the foreign prices
as 100 per cent. in some cases. Guilt
Vators selling at home for $11, sell
abroad for $40.
Citizens Should be First.
Why should our manufacturers be aid
ed by our laws to charge our citizens
more for the same goods than they do to
foreigners? Upon this question let me
| give you some admissions from govern
ment publications in 1900. We find in a
! government publication the report of the
bureau of statistics, commerce and fl
nance, for 1900, undoubted Republican
auspices, large number of statements
and confessions. We are informed, for
instance, that the progress Of work on
| shipbuilding in the United States has
been retarded because makers Of steel
materials required higher price from
the American consumers than from the
| foreign consumers for substantially SINH
lar products. Also in addition to this
that American export plate makers are
interested in preventing the establishing
of plate manufactures among their GUS
toner nations abroad and to that end
bid low enough in foreign markets to
discourage foreign nations from entering
the field for producing their own plate
at home. The same authority contends
that this policy is short sighted and
shows how it has resulted in curtaling
the home demand. Up to April 1900, it
had resulted in a very positive shrnkage
in domestic consumption. Farmers had
ceased to purchase wire for fences; retail
dealers had complained for months on
account of the diminished sale of wire
and nails; jobbers had gotten in the way
of doing a hand to mouth business on
prices that had advanced from S1.35 to
$3.50 in the course of year
Farmers Wife Handicapped.
The wife of the American farmer is
compelled to use a sewing machine in
her home, produced by an American fac
tory, which costs nearly twice as much
as the same machine sold the housewife
of Mexico or South America. The Amer
lean farmer must pay more for the pillow
manufactured in his own country, out
of raw material furnished by his own
country, than the Russian peasant has
to pay for the same plow.
We now have combinations covering
almost everything from sugar and lead
to brOoms, soap and collins.
No Mercy to Corporations.
The Democratic party takes the posi-
ton that no mercy nor consideration
should be shown to any combination OF
capital that takes advantage of the pro-
tective tariff to mulct American consum-
ers. What is imperatively required is
revision of the tariff, such as will modify
the rates and place upon the free list
all foreign goods that are the subject of
domestic monopoly.
The much talked of trust question is
one Of great Importance to the American
people. How to regulate and how to
control the great combinations known as
trusts is the topic of the hour. The
Democratic party does not offer tariff
reform as complete remedy for this
troublesome question. We do claim,
however, that if all trust-made articles
were placed upon the free list it would
destroy a great advantage that the trusts
have over the small competitor and the
consumer.
Republicans Not in Earnest.
1t is amusing to hear the charge made
| hy Republicans in high station that the
Republican party has a much better rec
| ord on the trust question than the Demo-
cratic party, and the only explanation at
| tempted to be made of that charge is
| that it is claimed that in the second last
| Congress it was proposed by the Repub-
| lican party to submit an amendment to
| the federal constitution which would all
| thorize the federal government to control
| the trusts, and that by Democratic votes
it was defeated, The Well-knoWn fact
of the matter is that the Republican par
! ty as a makeshift and as campaign
| dodge, during the last days of that Con-
gress, did submit such proposition,
when they knew full we'll that the reso-
| luton would die a natural death, and
! that if it did not, it would take from
| three to four years before it could be rati-
| fed by the states in the manner provided
by law They forget to state that dur
| ing the last session of Congress the Re-
| publicans had an overwhelming majority
! in both the House and the Senate, and
| that not one step was taken by sad
| Congress towards passing legislation of
| any kind or description in regard to reg
| ulating, controlling or in any way inter
fering with the trusts.
When the Republican party and Re-
publican President announce their oppo-
sition to the trusts, as a proof OF tne ~
| sincerity. ask them if they are willing TO
| stand for legislation placing all articles
F.! selling abroad cheaper than at nome
upon the free list, and request promise
that bill will be reported from the
WAYS and means committee of the next
national Congress to this effect
Laboring Man Not to Suffer.
A very much favored argument USED
nv nrotectionists against a MODIFICATION
of the tariff is the one that the laborlns
man would suffer by reduction !, OF
wages which would necessarily folloM
any interference with the tarltt. l.
would seem as if this argument whlcL
has been so long and often used woulo
by this time be quite Thoroughly uhoei
stood. ol
Who are the parties that are SO mucf
interested in the laboring man! Are
thew not the trust barons' who have
grown immensely wealthy under the pro
feetiye system, who, during the discus
, sion of this question in each campaigl
shed crocodile tears for the !aborlns
men9 I have no doubt but what TIT
coal GOA, barons'' who are involved in tn
n r unfortunate so-called strike. ar
afraid to have the tariff modified for fea
tha laboring man would suffer by an!