The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-27
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET,
THE FARnEns AND THE TARIFF.

Tur FARuEIIS AND Tnk TAhiFF'
,..,. the British for the success
or memorable free Traders. i
Al,ooat every American who has tray
e,ed in Europe remarks the clamor IN
England against our American tariff MOI
nnIy the manufacturers but the people
o,anor for It's repeal, so that their British
Good. can find a market, as In Democratic
Ssva on our soil. A Wheeling gentleman
informed US Of this cIamor, thus dcnsea
;nto his ears, when he was over there TWO
veara AGO. Down with your tariff, is the
cryof the average Erglishman. Having
cheap labor aud cheap money, he wants
~ occupy the markets of this country
w;th bis goods. Hence the British en's'
oorio. NJ free trade have flooded this coun-
t.y with eleclioueeripg pamphlets printed
in London, and circulated in the interest OIL
the Democratic party in this country.
Bnt IT Is to the American farmer that
the British free traders are making an es-
pecial appeaI. Let US see how the tariff
efr.cts the American farmer. 1t has been
shown that OF the productions OF the
earth in this country, 90 per cent is con,
an sirn1med at home, and that by the operation
of the present tariff the farmers are pro-
tecteI from the competition on their pro-
ducts from abroad. BUTT has been claimed
BY the British free trade agents, heretofore
alluded TO, and others who advocate free
trade, that through the operations Of q
protective tariff the farmers of the United
States are Obliged to buy in the dearest
and sell in the cheapest markets. The
fsllscy Of such view is made manifest by
the statement OF Mr.. Thos. Fl. Dudley, late
United States consul TO Liverpool, who
furnishes the following facts:
'Last year we sold to England 1881
oxen and bulls. 1851 horses, Us 600 sheep
and lambs, ID, 1884 hogs, 45H ~ hundred
weight OF bacon and hams, 500r $50 nun,
dred weight Of beef, 444 llS hundred
weight OF preserved meats. 30l ,054 nun,
dred weight Of butter, l.2l4 95O hundred
weight Of cheese, 76,O75.295 hundred
weight CT corn, grain aud meal, over
100000 hundred weight OF cotton, ISf';
1904 bushels Of fruit, Jos 500 hundred
weight OF hops. over $4,000 OOO pounds, oil
tobacco, and l7S,S7G tons OF oil SEED CAKE,
besides lard, tallow, preserved irults anu
preserved meats; while at the same Time
we were sending our agricultural products
some OF them TO the markets oil FRANCE,
Germany, Spain, Holland, Italy, Austria
and Russia, indeed, to almost every couh'
try in the world. 1t will, therefore, De
seer, that the American farmer sells MS
products not in the cheap, but IN the Gear
markets OF the wOrld-in the markets
where he can get the highest and pest
price; and, as arule, our produces, whether
corn or cotton, are OF as good quality anu
command as high price in loreign mar
kets rs the products OF any other country.
SO much for the markets where the farmer
SELLS" @
In reply to the statement that the
American farmer has to buy in the dearer
market, Mr.. Dudley shows that In regard
to the article that is most generally used
in this country, viz: cotton fabrics, we
have Of late years been sending vast guam
titles Of these goods to England, where
they undersell those OF British manufac-
ture. The same is true OF boots and shoes.
In 1873, 55, 957 hundred weight OF wrought
or manufactured iron and steel, and In
1879, %, 40S hundred weight OF the same
commodities was sent from this country
into England. In 1870 England imported
from this country $780, 2S clocks. 1t is not
reasonable to suppose that we could buy
furniture cheaper in England than at
home in the vicinity OF our own mills and
forests, and yet furniture forms an i'm
portaut item in the expenses OF each
family, which Mr.. Mongredien estimates
at $500, reducble to Sl40if We depended
for our manufactured goods on England.
Nor is it likely that We could g4t cotton
goods, axes, saws, forks, spades, shovels,
hoes, harrows, plows, cultivators, rakes,
mowers, reRpers, pots, pans, kettles, thu
ware, ETC., cheaper by sending for them to
England while those articles now form
quite an item OF expectation to that coun-
try from this. -'rln
Mr.. John wanamaker, the dry goods
prince OF Philadelphia, has just returned
from Europe, and in conversation with a
reporter OF a Philadelphia newspaper said:
"All classes oil society in England are
unanimous i'll the belief that TO restore It's
old time supremacy and prosperity they
must have free trade with America. Their
leading men claim that as they buy our
breadstuGs and food supplies, we should,
as a reciprocal courtesy, buy our manufac'
tured goods from them-RiVe them, us a
matter Of fairness, quid pro quo for their
kindness. The clamor against protection
is something frignttul. No better illustra'
ton OF the state OF feeling existing can be
had than the fact that they are printing
millions OF iAmphlets-I say millions de.
liberatelv-to circulate in America to In
auence public feeling in favor of free
tradew sa