The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-07-06

vest at hand. For particulars. write
Geo. Finn Co., Leeds. Sioux City, la.
tent, a rebuke to the party in many
localities on certain specific rates of
the Payne law. Many of the farmers
Joined in this attack. THE high cost
OF living" as a result was the slogan
employed by the great consuming
public, and with that as a pretext
the principle CT protection has been
overwhelmed and engulfed.
The proposal to my mind, how
ever, is at Variance wit& ,hc rt.
and traditions CT The parry. 1t : mt
reciprocal. 1T invites Ccmpe it, J
in like productions, and the advan.-
ages are all in favor CT Canada.
Farmers Chief Sufferers.
The chief sufferers, if it is enacted
into law, Will be the agricultural pre-
ducers. 1t proposes, as far as this
country is concerned, to open TO cur
people the market of a country of
not over $500, 600 people, much of
whose area is new and undeveloped,
and in exchange throw open to them
the market places CT upward of 3d.
100000 recple with their multiple
city Of activities and intinity of re-
sources and with ineNhaEstable con-
Stunning power. To my mind it is un-
equal, and the exchange is all in
favor Of the Cana liam people.
Mr.. President, ] had supposed it
was the fixed policy OF the party to
take no further step in the revision
OF the tariff on any of the schedules
without first having a report there
en-, with exact information as TO he
difference in he cost of production
at home and abroad on the schedule
or schedules proposed to be revised
made by the Tariff Beard or tariff
commission. 1t however, is propos-
ed, as far as the negotiations ana the
action OF the House are concerned,
without any such evidence having
DSSii SuDlilltlCd vi eNldtitc Sdlutu
or sought to be gained on any of the
articles enumerated in the bill from
from such a source, to revise, alter,
change and modify the rates CT duty
specified On the articles in question,
without, in the first instance, any
pretense of evidence or information
from the beard or from practically
any other source. This attack is al
most alone made upon the %agricul-
tural schedule, and the farmers arc
10 he stripped absolutely Of the pre-
lection afforded them under the
Payne law, without any opportunity
for hearing or a suggestion even
made as to the exact facts connected
Herewith, except as given by the
Finance Committee Il the Senate
during the present session.
The farmer is to be sacrificed and
his property checked and his oppor-
tunity for extension and enlargement
curtailed by a combination of every
other Independent intcrcst. In this
respect he is practically helpless 10
protect himself, by combination CT
otherwise, to save himself from the
5%eenral onslaught. If the present
program is to be Il tcst OF the new
,cctrine, as far as ! concerned, | feel
| am ready to disavow it.
Is ii fair, is it just, is it patriotic,
md is it wise when the farmer re-
2ognizes his equality and is satisfied
with existing conditions that a re-
'isicn should be inauguratcd on the
agricultural schedule alone and the
farmer stripped of the protection
he law now gives him and cngulf
and %overwhelm the home market
through free-trade competition in
all his products when the reduction
upon the things he buys is so meager
It in no sense is Il just or fair equiv
alent? Can it be expected the agri-
culturist is to sustain a party under
such a policy which as a result must
necessarily dep.eciate the value of
lis holdings, make unremunerative
Ills employment, lessen the price Of
he things he has to sell, and place
him in competition with a foreign
people where production is had upon
cheaper lands With greater produce
tive capacity, with less investment of
tapital. with rates of wages in many
cases less, and he be content to sup
port a policy or a party that is will
ing to do violence to every sense CT
right in the farmers relation to the
other members of the citizenship of
our country and leave the latter pro-
.ected in all other interests and place
the farmer alone in such uneqra,
competition?
Won't Lower Living Cost.
The high cost of living" is the
battlecry of all the interests favoring
he ratification AM enactment of the
proposed. measure. If the claim be