Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-02-02
VOLUME A. NUMBER 81:
From The Boston Posi-.
Fhe Farmer and STANDARDIZATION.

manufacturers have had great chances IN
the last ID years. They are now well es.
tahlished in alt the staple manufacturing,
and ifthey will only let we'll enough alone
can CONTINUES to derive more profit from
capital invested in that branch than in any
other They have their forty and fifty
per cent. protection and this with the skill
and experience they have, lis ample 10
give them all reasonable profts.s We
rejoice in their prosperity as il has bes6,
and as it will continue. Wego for their
interests to the whole extent that we can
go consistent Withthe equal interests Of all
classes. ! 43L9 aEEc 10 IhIIH9h
But we rejoice that the farmer at last,
has gotta little chance. The reduction cf
Tariff in England and the Il. States, has
increased the value of the farmers stock
at least one hundred and seventy millions,
and this too, in his own hands, before It
had been bought up by spectators: Who
will grieve ever the success Of the larm-
ersi
For 20 years the farmer has hardly re.
allied four per cent on this capital. The
manufacturer complains that he cannot
get over 40 per cent. Now if it were
necessary to bring the manufacturer down
to 10 per cent. in order 10 raise the farmer
10 per cent, would it be anything bull
fair? .ags9 u . ''i't s7'A
The farmers of the United States are
as IS out Of 100 of the population the
manufacturers but as IL in 100, including
all handicraft. 1t would De better 10 tfiaks
the 80 prosper than the II !: If we must
choose. But il is not so. The 100000.
600 increase Of the property of the far.
Rer will mainly 60 to buy the goods of
the manufacturer. The wealth of the
west will come to the east in exchanges
for our fabrics. The farmer will increase
his consumption of manufactures in pre-
portion to his increase of means, willie
the manufacturer cannot increase the con-
sumption of the farmers products undera
high tariff, to any great extent, for tbs
simple reason that manufacturers are bus
men and can eat no more than othermen,
Aad as to this dogma of the home mar
ket, to consume the farmers products, it is
as idle as would be for the Boston water
commissioners to establish a Prrtectiro
system to encourage the settlement of ants
along the line ofthe Long Pond aqueduct,l
10 remove the earth that has got'to be exc
cavated! Here are. SOC, eco, 900 bushels
Of breadstuffs raised, beyond all that can
be eaten in the United States, If every
man, woman and child should gorge 90,
bushels year, including the 79l.O00I
manufacturers And how after eating 90
bushels apiece, are they going to swallow
500,000,000 oyerplus2 ss-1,2 = s9i
And then as TO the increase of the mouths
Of manufacturers to consume the farmsrs
products in a home market. From 1921
to 1910, the whole change Of relative en-
ployment in the United States has been
only decrease Of three and a quarter
per cent, in agriculture and commerce.
and an increase to that extent in manu-
features, so that there are only three in
one hundred more mouths now 10 help the
farmers consume, than there were 20
years ago; and how long will it take AZ
this rate to oat up the surplus produce in
a "home markell" hence we see that even
if an exclusive home market were profit
able to the manufacturer, it is death to the,
farmer. lai.t -
Nor will II dc 70 say that we have free
trade with Europe IN q ain, and still keep
her out ofonr markets; because she can't
bay OF as, it we won't buy Of her, AMI the
farmers produce must rot here, and the
millions in Europe starve first, unless 1t
can be paid for in some ofthe products Of
European industry. 2s! 80 p
And thus we see the enormous extent
the demandt:e Protectionists make, when
they insist upon ''home market" at such
cost 8iba'a4 "s =
Here is a little table of statistics which
fair minded men ought to look at, when
they hear the cry protection and home
market"
From 1921 to slSti The whole imports
into the u. States amounted to $2,2l4,-
25s,7I9.a The gross duties taxed sn them
are 1886, ,l6j. sa'sla ii7oo -. a's
So thai in addition to the cost Of the
articles landed here, the people who con-
| sumed them paidene quarter more on this
portion of what they consumed. f this
were for revenue to pay expensesof gov.
ernment il was allwell enough. e78 ed
But ii is also estimated from the best G
data that during that period, the amount
| of domestic manufactures was The esti-@
mates of the amount imported, making the 9
/ whole airount of dGmestic and imported
! in 90 years, 1885,, a34, 1856. Now the
! lowest estimate that can be made OF the
enhanced price ofartic.es by reason OF the
| tax upon their importaiion,i is oneihalf of
the tax added to the cosI.l It. follows then
THAT il, twenty years the farmers and other
Interests have paid to the manufacturers
BY way of protection, 81, OF, 1927,
which is tax of $50, 607 ,205 per anntini.
+ This is abe secret Of the depression Of
1 the agricultural States, and the wealth Of