Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — ANANIAS ON CARPETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANANIAS ON CARPETS.

McKinley newspapers tell their readers thaUthe imports of carpets have been largely increased under the present tariff. This is not true. Compare last year!s total of $1,301,465 with the total of $1,580,814 in 1893, under the McKinley tariff. Why, the annual average for the first three years of that tariff was $1,413,211, or more than last year’s total. How McKinleyism' has encouraged the industry of lying! —The New York Times, Feb. 10/1896. Tile Free Trade Ananias of the New York Times is getting all tangled up with his carpets and tacks. The facts won’t indorse his theories. He twists and turns his figures, but still bis carpet lies won’t keep down. His FreeTrade tacks won’t stand against good, strong protection points. The statistical abstract issued by the Treasury

Department gives the quantities and values of our imports of carpets during the four McKinley tariff years, as follows: Imports of carpets: Year ending June 30. Square yards. Value. 1891 .. . (558,009 $1,373,1(52 1892 . (522,982 1,285,(557 1893 (588,3(54 1.580,814 1894 421,758 959,020 S - “ Protection - average 507,778 $1,299,790 1895 873,558 81,428,(5854 Free-Trade increase 275,780 $128,894 The 1895 figures are for the calendar year, this being the only complete twelvesflfcoatha mulor i'red Trade in wool. We leave our readers to Imagine in what direction “the industry of lying’’ has been encouraged. Again we quote: “But a very large part of the imports classed as carpets is composed of Eastern hand-made rugS. The value of real machine-made carpets brought into this country is small.’’ We suppose that the “Eastern handmade rugs,” made possibly by labor that Is even cheaper than the miserably paid British help, do not take the place of American carpets, that people buy both when they need only one, placing the rugs on top of the carpets, or, perhaps, feed them to moths In the little. No matter where the rugs or carpets coihe from, each one of them takes the place of an American product. —How let us see how “smalt" is the proportion of machine-made carpets. Last year the United Kingdom sent us 556,267 square yards out of a totaj of\ 873,558 square yards of carpets imported, over 00 per cent, of the whole. Other European countries sent us 240,(596 square- yards, leaving only 71,500 square yards sent here from Japan and other countries in the Orient and elsewhere. As for ou? exports of carpets they were 75,000 square yards less Under free woo! In 1895 than In 1894. There used to he some display of skill and artifice in the mendacious methods of the X'ew York Times, but we are sorry to note that it has now degenerated into nothing belter than a blundering, dou’t-carc-i»-hang, everyday sort of liar, so that * ready reference .la Ihe ofllcla] .Democratic- stalls: ties promptly exposes the fraud. But wo -suppose it must He for a living— American Economist. No Good for Farmer*. Every condition In American life is affected by the question of a protective

tariff, and every man under the flag receives in a greater or lesser degree its benefits. It is no exaggeration to say that under the provisions of the bill (Wilson) under discussion the foreign manufacturer and foreign laborer would receive these benefits, and the American farmer at the same time would be deprived of his home markets; while the factory operatives, deprived of their means of livelihood, would be forced to the farm, thus increasing the supply of agricultural products and further lowering the price of the same. —Hon. J. W. Babcoek, M. C., of Wisconsin. What North Carolina Want*. We need a man who, although living north of Mason and Dixon’s line, commands the admiration and respect of every Southern voter, and while living in a manufacturing State had .the courage and patriotism to take care of the interests of the Southern people. In my judgment we should nominate that man whose name is identified with the prosperous times of the past and, as a consequence, has become a household word aud a synonym for prosperity throughout the length and breadth of this land. I refer to the Hon. William McKinley, of Ohio. With such a platform and with Gov. McKinley as our standard bearer; North Carolina, Tennejsee, Virginia and - perhaps other Southern State are sui;e to give their electoral votes to the Republican party. The opportunity of effectually breaking up the solid South is now presented to the Republican party of this nation. Therein lies the hope of the South.—Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard, U. S. S., of North Carolina. Speaker Reed on Labor. I confess to you that this question of wages is to me the vital question. To insure our growth in civilization and wealth we must not only have wages as high as they are now hut constantly and steadily increasing. (Loud applause on the Republican side. ) No applause for this sentiment I notice on the Democratic side. * This desire of mine for constantly increasing wages does not have Its origin in love for the Individual, but in love tor the whole nation in that enlightened selfishness which recognizes the great truth that your fate and mine, Mr. Speaker, and the fate of your descendants and mine are so wrapped up in tin* fate of all to then- progress gives to us ail a nobler future and a higher hope.—Hon. Titos. B. Reed. How Nebraska Feels. The workingmeu of this country can no longer be driven from the Republican party by the promise of a cheaper dinner pail. They have discovered that the cheaper dinner pail rests on the shelf; they have discovered that the farmers and mechanics can both afford to have the price of American products fixed by American competition; they have discovered that the prosperity of one is the prosperity of all, and that no disaster can he visited upon one class of American producers In which all other rlasser do not share.—Hon. John M. Thurston, U. S. S., of Nebraska. Money Talks. Better coast defenses and a larger navy are among the needs of the country* But we cannot have them without a tariff for protection aud revenue. Some Congressmen seem to forget this. RaE-Bag Wilson's Load.