Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — UP TO THE REVISIONISTS [ARTICLE]

UP TO THE REVISIONISTS

To Give U» a Better Tariff if They —.’V" f Know Has. . „ The country is prosperous. It Is not necessary that the revision be made today. To-morrow will do. If the country was panic-stricken, if the furnace fires in factories and' mills were banked, if there were idle men everjftvhere looking for employment, but locking in vain, if the people were living on the fruitage of 1893-1890, there would be a “hurry up” call for immediate action, as there was after the 1897 inauguration of McKinley. But not so. Where there were idleness, hunger and want, then, there is now a.“day’s work, for every one who wants to-work, and at a living wage. There* is a demand for laeverywhere, in the factories and mills and on thS farms, that cannot be supplied. There has been h “plenty and to spare” ever since the furnace fires were relit in 1897. The mill owners and manufacturers have been una ble to fill their orders. There is no nigh 5 , in the mills. Twenty-four hours a day the factories have been beehives of industry. Our commerce, inland and for eign, has so far outgrown the dream of the dreamer that he has quit dreaming and is enjoying a restful sleep, while the doers have no time to rest only as they steal away from their business and its increasing demands. But it is possible, we are told, that we might have a better tariff, one under which the country would be more prosperous than now. If so, let it be “enacted.” Nc, human law is perfect, and the people are entitled to the best there is. It is up to the revisionists to give us something better if they can, and when they do the stalwarts will help ring the bells “day time and night time" unti'. every one joins in the jubilee.—Marion (Iowa) Register.

Going; to Make Matter* Better? The dispatches tell us that ninety-one head of lowa steers sold at seven cents a pound, or $95 a head, in Chicago a few days ago. Getting the matter nearer home, the Keosauqua Renuhlitaa says that Johh" A. Ferguson of Ya n Buren county recently marketed seventeen head of steers in Chicago which brought him $107.80 per head at $7 a hundred, while another hunch of seventeen brought SO.BO a hundred. William Fritz, another farmer of the same county, recently sold a single wagon load of wool for $728.08. There was a time about fifteen years ago when cattle and wool were doing pretty nearly as good as that. Along came a lot of fellows who were going to give the country something better if they could pnly get “a change.” Enough of the people were fooled by their talk to bring aboht the change. The cattle fell to $3 and $4 a hundred, wool from 25 cents a pound to 10, and sheep from $3 and $4 a head to sl. And it took a long time to get prices back to those of the good old time. Now there is another lot of fellows, in these days of good prices for the farmer and general prosperity, telling how they are going to make matters better if they can cut down the tariff and give away home markets to .the foreigner. How many of the people are going to be fooled this time? —Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger.

The Better Trade. If a time ever arrives in which German and American manufacturers shall be on the same footing, and the necessity of hunting a foreign market becomes as imperative in this country as it is in Germany, the American producer may be depended on to give a good account of himself. When that contingency arises United States exporters will be as ready to extend long credits as the Germans, and will probably take as much pains to please as the latter, but it is idle to expect them to bother themselves about a comparatively Unprofitable foreign trade when their chief energies are engrossed in the business of supplying the domestic demand, and while our foreign trade in many lines consists wholly of surpluses produced to meet an American demand. — San Francisco Chronicle.