Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-09-12

crease b the value OF farm lands, Local
causes, notably the competition between,
new farm lands and old farm lands tend
here and there to obscure what Is happen
Ing, but 1t Is as certain as the operation
of any economic law that In the country
as a whole farm values will continue to
Increase as the partnership between man
nfacturer and farmer grows more .inti-
mate through further advance Of indus
trial science. The American; snanufac-
turer never could have placed this nation
at the head of the manufacturing ma
lions of the world II he had not had be-
hind him, securing him every variety Of
raw material, the exhaustlessc resources
Of. the American farm, developed by the
skill and the enterprise Of intelligent and
educated American farmers. On the. 9th
err hand, the debt of the farmers to the
manufacturers is equally heavy, and the
future of American agriculture Is bound
up in the future of American manufac-
lures. The two industries have become,
under the economic policy of our govern
ment, so closely interviewer, so mutually
interdependent. that neither can hope to
maintain itself at the high water mark
of progress without the other. Whatever
makes to the advantage Of one Is equally
to the advantage Of the other. F..
So it Is as between the capitalist and
the wageworker. Here and there there
may be an unequal sharing as between
the two In the benefits that have come by
protection, but benefits have come to
both, and a reversal In policy would mean
damage to both and, while the damage
would be heavy to all, 1t would be heav-
lest and 1t would fall soonest upon those
who are paid In the form Of wages each
week or each month for that weeks or
that months work. y:
No Inn ,rk
be modified from time to time to fit new
exigencies but the genuine, underlying
principle of protection, as it has been en-
bodied in all but one Of the American tar
If laws for the last forty years, has
worked out results SO beneficent SO even
II and widely spread. SO advantageous
alike to farmers and capitalists and work
ingmen, to commerce and trade of every
kind, that the American people, if they
show their usual practical business sense.
will insist that when these laws are mod
flied they shall be modified with the ut
most care and conservatism and by the
friends and not the enemies of the pro-
tective system. They cannot afford to
trust the modification to those who treat
protection and robbery as synonymous
terms - "a = ~ ..'-.s
! In closing what have to say about
the system of promoting American indus
try let me add word Of cordial agree
ment with the policy of in some way in
Guiding within its benefits by appropriate
legislation the American merchant ma
rine. 1t is not creditable to US as a ma
ton that our, great export and import
trade should be well nigh exclusively in
the hands of foreigners. r.
It is difficult to know it our opponents
are really sincere in their demand for
the reduction Of the army. If insincere
there is no need for comment, and if sin
cere what shall we say in speaking to ra-
tional persons Of an appeal to reduce an
army of $4,000 men which Is taking care
Of the interests of over 10000, 900 people?
The army is now relatively smaller than
1t was In the days of Washington, when
on the peace establishment there We're
$500 soldiers, while there were a little
less than 100000 of population; smaller
than 1t was in the peaceful days of JEFF
ferson, when there were 800 soldiers to
$500, 900 population There is now one SOL
dier to every j. 400 people In this country
less than one-tenth of per cent. We
cannot be asked seriously to argue as to
In these figures. The army as 1t is now is
as small as it can possibly be and serve
Its purpose as an effective nucleus for
the organization, equipment and supply
Of a volunteer army in time of need, 1t
is now used. as never before, for aiding In
the upbut lding Of the organized militia Of
the c6untry. The war department is en-
gagged in systematic effort to strengthen
and develop the national guard in the
SEVERAL states-as witness. among many
iother Instances, the great field maneuvers
at Manassas which have Just closed. II
our opponents should come into b6wer
they could not reduce our army below Its
present size without greatly inipairing it's
efficiency and abandoning part of the ma
tional duty. In short, In this matter If
our opponents should come into power
they would either have to treat this par
ticular promise Of the year 1904 as they
nov treat the promises they made in 1896
and 19O0-that is, as possessing no binding
force-or else they would have to embark
on a policy which would be ludicrous at
the moment and fraught with grave dan
ger to the national honor in the future.
( Our opponents contend that the gov
eminent is now administered extrava-
gantly, and that whereas there was "a
surplus of $4,000, 600 in 190o'l there is "a
deficit Of more than $40, 900. 000' in the year
that has just closed.
This deficit is imaginary, and is obtain
ed by including in the ordinary current
expenses the sum OF $50, 000, 900 which was
paid for the right OF way OF the Panama
the treasury. Comparing the current or
ordinary expenditures for the two years,
there was surplus Of nearly $4,000, 900
for the year 1900 and Of only a little more
than IS. 000. 600 for. the year that has Just
closed. But this diminution of the annual
surplus was brought about designed1y by
the abolition OF the war taxes In the in
terval between; the two dates. The acts
Of March 2, 1901, and April II, 1902, cut
down the internal revenue taxes to an
amount estimated at $1o5, 0o0. 600 a year. In
other words, the reduction of taxation has
been considerably greater than the reduc-
ton in the annual surplus. Since the close
of the war with Spain there has been no
substantial change in the, rate Of annual
expenditures AS compared with the fs-
cal year ended in June, 1901. for example.
the fiscal year that has just closed show
ed relatively small increase in expendi-
ture, excluding the canal payment al
ready referred to, while the year previous
showed a relatively small decrease. - :.
The expenditures OF the nation have
been managed In spirit of economy as
far removed from waste as from mig
lgardliness, and in the future every effort
will be continued to secure an economy as
strict :, as is consistent with efficiency.
ONCE more our opponents have promised
what they cannot or should not perform.
The prime reason why the expenses Of the
government have increased of recent
years is to be found In the fact that the
people after ma ure thought have deemed
# wise, to have certain new forms of
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