Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — For The Thoughtful Voter. [ARTICLE]

For The Thoughtful Voter.

“I have been surprised,” said an iron manufacturer yesterday, “that Republican papers have not lorg ; ago pointed out the fact which the Journal called attention to yes- ) terday, to the jeffect that the re- [ vival of the iron trade is due to the protective duties in the metal schedules of the {resent tariff; laws. True, most of its duties are] lower than those of the McKinley law, but some of them are said to be higher. There is no Wilson bill in the iron schedule, but the duties are based upon the McKinley law.” If the whole tariff law had been made as favorable to American producers as are the_ metal schedules they would have retained the home and wages could be increased all along the line.— Indianapolis Journal.

For the thoughtful American voter who casts his ballot not because he favors a party but because he likes its principles, for the good their enactment will do his country, an interesting set of figures has been prepared by the American Economist showing the loss which democratic policy has caused in American exports in Kne year. For the 12 months ending June 30, 1894, our exports were 8869,058,158. For the 10 months that the democratic tariff measure has governed the country the exports of American products have fallen off $75,505,140. These figures represent the loss in value of exports to American producers operating under a tariff measure prepared by democratic statesmen, excuse the term, and republican statesman. This enormous loss in value was accompanied by a proportionate loss of

wages to the workingmen whose labor produced these goods during the two periods compared. Is this not food for serious reflection by the American laboring man, the American manufacturer and every true and patriotic American? The lues of over $75,000,000 in the value of exports is not the only evil produced by the enactment of democratic theories on the great subject of tariff. A comparison of the figures showing the value of foreign made goods brought into the United States during the periods bnfore noted shows that sb-i,185,303 more goods were imported since the Wilson bill we it into effect than during the last 13 months of the berated McK-n!ey law. Cannot labor see that this 884.000,000 of value meanb a large proportion of loss te it? Is it not a laut that the! lesstbe value of imports and the greater the value of exports the greater the profit to laborer and producer?