The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-07-23
blooded propositions have ever heard

blooded propositions have ever heard
Of"
1t was the democrats, Senator Nc
Cumber asserted, who told the farmer
that he had been wronged by Mr.. Taft
because the former president sought
to trade off his protection for recip
rocal tariff reductions by Canada,
and it was the democrats who tried
to convince the farmers that the re
publican party was not to be trusted
and that they, instead, should be en-
trusted with his interests.
One Virtue in Reciprocity.
The reciprocity proposition, the sen
ator argued, had one virtue, in that 1t
proposed to get something for surren'
dering nothing, while the democrats
proposed to trade away the farmers
interest in everything "fOr absolutely
nothing"
"The reciprocity proposition" he
continued, subjected the farmer to
the free competition of Canada only
You subject him to the competition
of the whole worId-all of Canada,
Australia, Venezuela, Argentine. Cuba,
the Philippines and every other c0un.
try that may want to dump its prod
ucts into a market that belongs by
right to the American farmer"
Senator McCumber asserted that the
democrats admitted the tariff bill
would injure the farmer. contending
that he received too much for, his
products and must be compelled to
sell them cheaper, and charged that
the democrats know that your claim
that you are going to benefit the con.
sumner is false and demagogic in that
extreme"
The senator submitted statistics
seeking to show that the tariff did not
affect the price of farm products tc
the consumer and, again addressing
the democrats, said:
"Your ears are closed to every ap
peal for justice for the tiller of the
soil. You are reaching a point where
your income is unable to Keep pace
with your extravagances, and you are
asking the farmer to make good the
deficit by reducing the price of his
products. 1t never occurs to you that
the proper place to begin economy is
on the Injuries, the unnecessaries OF
life. You declare to him that the
American people are paying 81 500, 900.
900 a year for meat, and you say that
is too much. He answers, They are
also paying $2,OOO,O 100000 year for
liquors. Cut your liquor bill half and
you will save enough to buy all your
meat You declare they are paying
$435, 100000 year for flour. He re.
plies, They are paying $S0O.OO0,OOO for
tobacco. Cut your tobacco bill half
and your -four is free You declare
they are paying $225,0O0,OOO a year
for potatoes. He replies, They are
paying $5OO,OOO,OOO for theaters and
Cut your amusements
half and your potatoes are free.
"You declare they are paying $780,
100000 year for butter and eggs. He
replies, They are spending $5O0,O0O,-
900 a year for confectionery His re-
plies are unanswerable. They are so
many monuments reading in clear
black letters into your eyes an indict-
ment of your own criminal extrava-
gances and high living"
The North Dakota senator asserted
that prices would be lower after the
tariff bill becomes law, but that it
would be because of the inability of
the public to pay higher prices and be-
cause of the general stagnation of
business brought about by the tariff
bill.
1.-THE farmer may be slow, but he is
quite sure" continued the senator.
He may forget, but the hard raps
of poverty can jog his memory. Once
pass this accursed measure and then
1914 he will be fully awake to the
realization of the offense committed
against him. Pass this bill and unless
this cut throat policy which annihilat.
ed the republican party in 1912 con.
tinues there will not be a democratic
state in the whole north. 1t took the
farmer sixteen years to forget the last
democratic policy. Pass this bill and
the generation living will never for.
get YOU"