The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-03

am not surprised at the subtle sop
history that is being promulgated that
If we will but admit competitive
goods from abroad there will be inn
mediately thrown open to US an un-
precedented foreign demand for our
food products. It is the old argu-
ment which was used in 1886. Do not
misunderstood me. criticise
neither the enterprise nor
the method by which it is sought to
influence political results in this
country. l recognize the appropriate
ness of both. Admission to the
American market is worth contest.
Entrance to these markets on more
liberal terms, sometimes termed
progressive Republicanism, is
worth a well-organized and systematic
campaign and the expenditure OF much
money, and those of our people who
fail to comprehend the inevitable re-
suit of political policies must be ex-
cused for lending willing and unre-
Quilted service. So while l recognize
the conflict that is upon US and well
come it, too, l must warn the people
of Missouri of what is involved in
that conflict. They must not forget
that the admission of fifty millions
additional competitive merchandise
takes from our American labor the
opportunity of producing that fifty
millions of products. The production
of $4,000, 10000, of merchandise calls
for the expenditure of about $25, OO0,-
900 in wages. Should the propos-
ed policy prevail the men who now
receive these wages will then be out
of employment, and out of employ
ment means out of the market as con-
sumers of food and every other neces-
sity of life.
Is there farmer in Missouri with
so poor memory as to have forgotten
1894, when we consumed As per cent.
less wheat per capita than we did in
1892? Is there farmer in Missouri
who does not now feel the difference
between the consumption of more
than six bushels of wheat per capita,
2 as against the consumption of less
} than three and half bushels per cap
t ita during 1s942 is there farmer
with so short memory as to have
g forgotten the effect upon him of the
: loss in the price of live stock, averag
v ing over 81 for every horse, mule
h steer, COW, calf, sheep and pig be
: tween the years 1892 and 1896? l
: there farmer in Missouri who doe
: not now recognize the difference be
n tween an average price of S1S.34 pc
e head for every horse, mule, steer
i COW, calf, pig and sheep in 1905, a
1T against an average of only Sl3.4l il
II 1896-an average gain of nearly SIS pc
II head?
y Do not misunderstood me. | do nc
IL object to increased importations {
IS noncompetitive articles. Our import
t were never so large in the aggregat
lie and never so large per capita as nov
: In 1895 and 1896, when our factori,
were closed, million men out
of work, and million families out
t. bread, our imports were less than 81
a per capita. Now, with furnace
If ablaze, factories operated overtim
Ut no man sout of employment, exceI
J. from choice, we are importing at tn
2. rate of over SIS per capita.
l. welcome the Importation of tn
II things we do not produce. l WELDON
o the free importation of pig tin, IA,
Al silk, crude rubber and other ra,
n materials which we do not produc
: and which are consumed in our factor
}. les. ! welcome also the importation
OF laces and fancy carpets, and high
priced rugs, and decorated china, an,
a thousand other articles with whic
the wealthy of our land vie with eacl
other in filling their palatial homes
the duty on which pays for our battle
ships, our public buildings, and our in
ternal improvements. What is
battleship? What is public build
ing? They represent little else thai
labor. Granite in the quarry, iron ii
the mine, brick and tile in the clay
lumber in the forest, are relativel,
worthless; but mined, euarried, an,
shaped and fashioned, and put togethe
by the hand of man, the battleshl]