The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-01-31
a6ulue and farm.


why the Farmers are SO foor
In Lynn, money is tight when tn
boot and shoe trade is Gull, for ther
they make only boots and shoes.
In Iowa, money is tight when III
trade in the products of the farm j
dull, for only when the crops are i
motion to market have We anything
to sell for money.
The crops this year do not move
and the farmers are wondering wber
the money will come from to pa,
their tax, and business men are ever
day coming closer 70 the vortex.
Such times were never seen in thi.
country before. We have gaiIy nd
den high upon a false prosperity fol
many years, while the corporations
were getting sander hOlds,' and now
we are thrown.
The mining and manufacturing cor.
porations have it so arranged with
the Congress Of the United States
that by tariff there is legislated TO
their cotton and wooden goods, iron,
coal and leather, an artificial profit
Say the duty on iron is So per ton
that amount is the artificial profit
poured into the iron-master's pocket
over and above the natural profit on
his production.
But whence comes the farmers arti-
fetal profit Where is the Congress
which can legislate to his corn, wheat,
oats and pork, and cattle an artificial
value? There is none. His produce
sells at prices as low as before the war,
while every thing be buys, by opera
ton Of the tariff, is at war price.
A farmer would cheerfally sell his
pork at 50 IS or So 90 per hundred if
cotton and wooden goods, salt and
other articles which he buys were
at proportionste rates, but they are
not. So farmer comes to town and
puts two loads of potatoes on his feet |
in the shape of his winter boots. III
he stays over night he will eat load
of oats His wife wears five acres of
wheat, and the children each ten acres
of corn, and are not very warmly clad
then. For an overccat he wears
good tour-year-old steer, and if he
sports Sunday suit it is in tie shape
of at least twenty head of fat hogs.
And on top of that his farm bears a
mortgage that is worse than hard.pan
TO the soil, and the annual tax rots
into his roof worse than rain
He must eat and wear, and from
the small price of his produce must
pay to the manufacturer the artificial
profit which the tariff puts upon his
goods, while the profit which the far
mer should realize goes to the railroad
for carrying his crops to
market.
Should We be asked the process by
which this state of things has been
reached, we could only answer that it
is by our Congress, courts, and legis-
lature making moneyed corporations
of all sorts, supreme and superior to
the people.
1t was not so once. There was
time when the people were supreme,
but that time is gone.-LODa Csty
Prsss.
I'VE give the above as what we
regard very heavily overdrawn pic !
ture. If such state of things exist
,ut in Iowa we would advise the poor G
armers of that region to emigrate to J
Hancock county or Wood county, or
'ome of the score of equally good J
counties in Ohio. If the Press would N
sndeayor to build up manufactures at q
lome in order to drwn population u
o consume home products it would
be doing the farmer a better service
han by grumbling at the tariff. Eds.
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