The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-17

1t is the fear of Southern domination
in the Government, through the DEM
ocratic party, that already brings
General Grant into prominence as the
next Republican candidate.-DoyIeS-
tom Bltetiigencer.
How Tariff Protection Benefits Agri.
culture.
Benefits accrue through a series of
advancing and cuItivative influences,
as follows:
/. BY multiplying the mechanic
arts so that the people employed
therein become regular and liberal
consumers of food, aoithOat compel
ing IN lis production, thus enlarging
the farmers home production.
2 By reducing the distance be-
tween producer and consumer, with
the effect of diminishing cost of
transportation between the two dis
pensing with a portion OF the former
middlemen, and increasing the num-
Der Of exchanges.
8. BY diversifying agriculture and
providing for a rotation of crops,
since the farmer who depends on ex-
portation is limited constantly to the
few growths for which there is a for
eign demand, whereas the domestic
requirement is both steadier and more
varied.
4. BY relieving the ~perplexities
and evils of a slayish reliance upon
the foreign market; for the quanti-
ties taken abroad, from year TO year,
are so uncertain and changeable as
to Illustrate every attempt made, at
the date OF sowing the crop, to esti-
mate and TO anticipate the amount
that will be wanted, so that there is
quite as great liability to produce
too much as too little but the home
consumption can be reasonably esti-
mated.
5. BY establishing a multitude of
manufacturing centres, from which
goes forth miles around a profitable
demand for those minor crops, such
as pumpkins, turnips, melons, and the
like, which the earth produces by
the ton, while it yields the cereals
by the bushel, yet which will not
bear the expense Of a long transpor-
tation.
6. BY retaining in the country and
near the field an increasing proper
ton of the waste Of agricultural con-
sumption, thereby enabling the farm
er 70 return to the soil, in the shape
of manure, the fertilizing constituents
Withdrawn by the processes of vege-
~tation, and preventing the exhaustion
of the land.
I. By more and more promoting
the division of agriculture into dis
tinct branches, as sheep ~husbandry,
the raising of fax for fiber and seed,
fruit orchards, vegetable gardens, dai-
ries, cheese factories, bee culture, and
the lie, with the result Of reducing
agricultural competition.
s. BY improving and multiplying
roads, bridges, and ferries, and by
c%hespening all the facilities of trans
portation, in consequence Of the rapid
growth and larger needs of internal
commerce.
9. By augmenting the value of
land and the prices of agricultural
produce, through the greatly increas-
ed demand for both.
10. By expanding the supply, i'm
proving the quality, and diminishing
the prices of manufactured articles,
through the multiplication of manu-
facturers and the growing competi-
ton among them Tor the sale of their
products in the same markets.
II. BY stimulating the inventive
genius of our co%untrymen to devise
many l~abor-saving machines and
better implements, whereby much of
the former drudgery of farm labor is
transferred TO muscles of wood and
metal, the power tilling the land
vastly enhanced, and the cost Of
agricultural production wonderfully
decreased.
u. BY ultimately bringing the
manufacturer to the side of the farmer
and the planter everywhere, thus de-
stroying the onerous tax of transpor-
~tation, and abolishing the i%nterven-
ton Of supernumerary and expensive
middlemen, as the effects of direct
exchanges-an increasing tendency
toward which result is now seen in
the gro with Of manufacturing estab-
lishments in the rural districts of the
West, aud in the progressive erection
Of cotton-mills in the immediate
neighborhood of the cotton fields of
the South. And,
-. By finally Transforming the
cultivation Of the soil from an igno-
ram waste Of the iertilizing elements
into a scientific agriculture. whereup-
on it enters upon a boundless and
permanent career of prosperity.
The more frequent the tariff pro-
lection is weakened, the oftener will
these effects be interrupted; the more
completely that tariff protection IS
withdrawn, the more widely will
these effects be arrested, turned back,
and destroyed the more thoroughly
and steadily that tariff protection is
bestowed, the more actively and
fruitfully will these effects come into
existence, and the more permanent
will they be. 1t is utterly impossible
40 protect the farmer without protect
ing the manufacturer for the pro-
lection of the former follows as an
inevitable corollary from the protec-
ton of the lat.er.-Iater- Ocean.
The Fall OF Republican Party.
From the Darlington Haykeye.