Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-03-10
ovsr-Produetlon of Farm Products.

produce business, gives its easons
for the same That sthere apl prs to
TO be an oyeF productien of a! kinds
Of farm preducts, WHO has a tsnden-
cy TO ruin prices and causes much |
cutting and competition in trade.
In the second place, work is scarce
and wages low, necessarily causing
q clrtailnent Of many of the luxu-
ries, if not many of the Decessaries of
life"
So there is an over7Drodurtiou Iof \
farming as lweh as, Misunderstanding
Certainly our Free Trade friends will
not say that the tariff has caused
this too; butwould it not have been
better to have had a tariff which
would have tempted many who have
been digging in the dirt to, have
done something else, so as not to
have had this OVer-production on the
farm ? And, with all seriousness,
is it not high time to explode this
foolish clamor of over-production?
If this country is suffering from an
over-produetion why not import
some people to eat it2 Why not
export it? And how does it bappen
Ethere are so many people starving
for food with such a surplus 2 How
is it thai we supply more than I'VE
want and, are still poor? Ii isano
SUCH thing; there never was a great
er humbug set afoat. The country
is not eYer7prodpeipg; it is poor to
bankruptcy and starvation. Why {?
Instead of regulating labor and pro-
duction in this country so as. to pro
duce wEatIWe want, we have SO reg
ulated labor and production that we
| have for the last ten years been
pouring out "a steady stream of
bonds. gold, wheat, corn, pork, and
other provisions, to buy what we
should have produced. We have
sent our gold abroad for English,
French, German and Cuban produc-
tons, and are so poor that, standing
in the sight of oXer-flled, groaning
barns and grainaries, our people are
starving. There is no more produced
than there would be an immediate
market for if our people had any
thing to- pay for 1t With, and our
people would have plenty to pay
with If they had been given the mon
ey for the work of producing the
needs of the country themselves,
instead of buying the stuff abroad
and taxing our people to death to
pay for it. Stop the importation of
wool, linen, cotton and wooden
goods and silks and pay our people
for producing them. Tax every ar
ticle of foreign manufacture the mo-
ment it lands upon our shores, and
take off the burdens from the home
producers, SO the money would be
kept atihome, and there would be
no cry of. over-productiOn in the
mill or at the plow.aaf4 s'.p5i fgfi
Sugar Industries of the states.
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If weiturn to the statistic of what
we pay otheFnations our gold for,
says the Ind. Jour- Commerce, in
stead of producing ourselves, we
shall have a very good indication of
what canses hard times and a search
ty of money in the United States.
One of the items taking away $l0o-
100000 of gold from us annually-is
that we are now paying that sum to
foFeigninations for raw sugars and
molasses. Now, even though it
should make sugar higher for few
years, it is the duty of the people
of the United States to take
into their hands the product of this
800, O,0O0, 600 of sugar each year and
save the money at heme, giving en-
| ployment TO millions of men now
out of employment, in raising beets,
sorghum and cane and manufacture
ing, and thousands of iothers In pro-
yiding improved machinery for this
product, and in few years make
ourselves independent of fother eoun-
tries, and establish an industry
which in ten years will give US all
the refined sugar we can consume at
FIVE cents pound. Give us better
markets and save us 81, 900, 100000
in ten years. france provides all
herown sugar from beets and has
muchfto export. The price to her
cohsumersis FIVE cents pound. s'd
/ I'VE are now interrupted in our
lisupply by the troubles in Cuba, and
IMexicoiis about sending a portion of
the product to us, the Sandwich Is
lands are also preparing to export to
us, all the while our own fields lam
guish for the product. A tax upon
all foreign exports for ten years
would wakeup an immense business
in the Southern States and Texas, in.
cane sugar, would give a profit to
the manufacture of beet and sor-'
ghum sugar now partially establish
ed here and in California, and in Eve
/ years we should export instead of
importing. Cannot Congress be per
shaded TO take this step toward saw
| ing something to resume with ? o.l ?
H. ConcerninO. they imneaebmenh of