Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — How Markets Are Captured. [ARTICLE]

How Markets Are Captured.

I repeat, Mr: Chairman, that are may all rejoice that this unpatriotic administration is . growing to a close; this bondiissuiug, queen restoring, debt increasing, factory clhsing, wage reducing, prosperity killing Democratic administration. • GoNGREssnaN Morse. In 1895 we sold almost 6,000,000 bushels less wheat and 1,680,000 barrels less flour to foreign countries than in 1894. The mgney loss exceeded $10,000,000, notwithstanding the fact that the average price of wheat was about 9 cents a bushel higher last year than in 1894. The new cotton crop year still shows a falling off in our exports of that commodity, the decrease this season, in four months to December 31, being 2,367,500 bales as compared with the corresponding months in 1884. Japan still continues to be the only country that is increasing its purchases of American cotton. Wire nails were worth $2.10 per keg on Jan. 1, 1892. But the Free Traders, by reducing the Me Kinley Protective Tariff, got the price up to $2.53 per keg on January 1, 1896. With a little more time and absolute Free-Trade, we might have reached the old antebellum price of 17 cents a pound for wire nails. But the people want Protection and cheap pricesThe world’s production of gold last year was $203,000,000. To realize the import of those figures it may be added that this product exceeds the value of the annual output of both metals down to 1878, when it was $214,000,000. Only as long ago as 1880 the output of gold and silver together was valued at only $203,200,000. Now the gold product alone is as much. We are the only rival that England fears, for we alone'have in our borders the population and the wages, the raw material, and within ourselves the great market which insures to us the most improved machinery. Our constant power to increase our wages insures us also continuous progress. If you wish us to follow the example of England, I say yes, with all my heart, but her real example and nothing less. Let us keep Protection, as she did, until no rival dares to invade our territory, and then we may take our chances for a future which by that time will not be unknown. —Hon. Thos. B. Reed. >

This bringiDg of every dirty little family or neighborhood row into the coarts, has come to be an intolerable nuisance in Rensselaer, and it is about time for our prosecuting attorney to let up on that kind of business. And this last Ankeny-Moore matter, with a dozen or two respectable ladies, who know nothing whatever about the case, summonsed as witnesses, a young girl arrested in the school house; the trial set for Sunday and in the town hall, so that all (he bums and loafers in the country Could be present and hear the dirty details and observe the humiliation of the respectable ladies compelled' to be present as witnesses; this was the crowning outrage of all. The prosecuting attorney is the party responsible lor bringing all these miserable cases into court. He is not only under no obligation to so bring them, but it is his duty to the community to refuse to bring such cases, with nothing in them but personal spite, into the publicity of the courts.

God could do any thing -said He could not make a three-year-old colt in a minute. The American people are very active, enterprising, patriotic ahd eneigetic, but they could not build 1 an armorplated war ship in a few days nor make a ten-inch rifleq gun in a week. If the United States ever expects*to be in & condition of selfdefense the means must be preparetl in advance..—lndianapolis Journal. * > ■ And still mote' does the nation need to be prepared in advance* if we, as a nation* are to adopt the policy of “looking for trouble” or, figuiatively speaking, going around with the chip on our shoulders at all times, as Cleve-. land’s Venezuela message, and Senator Davis’s Monroe Doctrine resolution seems to indicate. But whether it be an aggressive and warlike, or a peaceful policy that is adopted as our national mle, the necessity of properly preparing beforehand for both offensive and defensive war, is none the less our duty. If we want war and are bound to have it, then we should put ourselves in shape to wag's it successfully. * If it is peace, (with honor) that we want, then the sur, est way to preserve it, is to put ourselves in shch shape for war that no other nation will dare to insult or injure us.

The Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department enables ns toßhow how we have been captaring the markets of the World. Here are onr exports of American products and manufactures for six years, 1890 to 1895. EXPORTS OF AMERICAN PRODUCTS. Year. “ “Value. 1890.. ,$845,987,711 1891 957,333,551 1892. ..923,237,315 1893 , ..-.854,737,771 Protection average 920,824,087 1894.. .807,312,116 1895.. ....807,776,846 Free-Trade average 807,543,982 During the four years of McKinley Protection we captured foreign markets worth, ou an average $920,324,087 a year. The breach in the wall of Protection cost us $121,780,000 in each year of 1894 and 1895. The sooner the wall is repaired the less costly it will be to ns.