The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-10-30
5hE snIBUNE.
Farm, Aoase a,,o 8arosm.
THE RELATION OF TIE TARIFF 70 OUR
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.

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rope. and that they are shut out from
that by our own pro &c We tariff. ihl
is a deception. Our shipments of agri
cultural products to Eurone never in
creased under low tariff, neither ha
the export OF these commodities ever oil
mini>hed Us he result of home protec
ton England depends annually upor
forei II production for about oce-iifth o
her Dreadstuifs aud provisions. In ia
vorable seasons the deficiency may b.
even less, or if her Own crops are def
cent, the demand will be larger. The
market in that quarter for our agrlcui
tural products IS chaugeable a. best. Oh
her deficit, she obtains, according to he,
own statistics, from sixty eight to seven
ty per cent. from the Baltic and Medi
terranean countries. Steamship ana rail
way transportation between England and
those places has increased, and Is still ra-
pidly increasing. and com petition is reduc-
ing transportation charges to the lowest
figures. When the crops are good in
Russia, Turkey, Prussia, and Austria,
their surplus gluts the English markets,
and being the product of less than half
paid labor, both the supply and the price
shuts that market, for the time, against
shipments from America, even if grain
could be shipped at New York for seven
ty-fve or eighty cents a oushcl, aud other
agricultural products at the same low
rates. 1t is only when the crop is short
nearer home that England looks to the
United States for any considerable por-
ton OF her breadstufs and other sup
plies for the table
Agricultural success requires a steady
and reliable market, not tickle and IN
certain demand three thousand miles
away, but steady, annual home con-
sumption, and the nearer to the farm the
better This can be procured only by
bringing the factory close beside the
farm. Three or four manufactures in a
town will give employment to l,500 op-
eratives; these in turn will require food,
clothing, shoes. books, schools, newspa-
pers, and give employment to farmers,
mechanics, teachers, printers, &c. A
ton OF steel rails for a railway is worth
$lC0. The price of the ore, and the coal
In the mountain is mere nominal. La
Dor gives the value to the ton of rails
one-half of the wages paid for producing
a ton of rails Is expended by the work
men for provisions for themselves and
their families, so that some forty dollars
worth of agricultural products are con
sumed in each ton of rails manufactured.
"a piece of fine cloth, said Adam
Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, (which
weighs only eighty pounds contains in 1T
the price, not only of eighty pounds of
wool, but sometimes of several thousand
weight of corn, the maintenance of the
different working people and of their i'm
mediate employers. Tie corr, a0htch
could Nth difficulty haze been carried
abroad IA Its o11R shape, IS ~ tLis naanRer
VIRTUALLY exported IN that Of the complete
manufacture. and mag easily be sent to
the rem0test corners of the t0Orid. This
is the cheap transportation that the
Western farmers require, and which
tariff protection to our manufacturing in
terests is creating. The statistics show
II. III Al, IL
cresse IN our manufacturing industries
since the introduction of the protective
tariffs, commencing with 1861, has been
fully one bandred per cent. This in
cludes the manufacture of steel and iron,
and manufactures from those products !;
the manufacture Of cloths, cassimeres,
shawls, hanneIs, blankets, hosiery, car
pets, balmorals, kerseys, and the various
mixed goods, together with nearly every
variety of cotton and silk products. Fac
tories for producing many varieties OF
these fabrics have been erected in the
Southern and Western States, and their
number is still increasing. Some of our
railway steam engine manufactures are
turning out locomotive regularly, the
year around, every two days, each worth
an average of $4,000 As it is labor
mainly that makes up the cost, each OF
these locomotives causes a coDsump tion
Of not less than s. 900 worth Of agricul-
tural produce In construction. Allowing
the product Of the shop to be 156 loco
motives in year, they consume In their
construction $3.50, 900 of agricultural pro-
duce These and similar establishments
create the markets that farmers require,
instead Of the precarious demand beyond
the Atlantic Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
produces 500, 900, 600 worth of iron and
other goods annually, and consumes
$50, QUO, 600 worth of the products of the
farm in their production. Pennsylvania
is not depending upon foreign market
All the immense quantities of wheat and
other agricultural products that come
annually from her br DAD and fertile val
leys are Consumed within her own bor-
ders. 4 little Pittsburg, or Lowell. OF
Lynn planted In Missouri, Michigan,
Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, &C., with di-
versifed manufacturing industries, on a
less extensive scale, introduced into all
the principal towns in each Western and
Southern State, would afford the farmers
In those vast agricultural areas the very
best market, at their own doors, without
the necessity of transportation, and fres
from the delays, risks, and uncertainties
of European consumption.
CARE OF HORSES.
All hofAes must not be fed In the same
proportions, without regard to thei
ages, their constitutions, and their work
The improperly of such practice i