The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-05-13
FaTm&Garden.
[ooNrNurD rRon LAST WEEK.
TIE WESTERN FARMER OF AMERICA.
ny AUGUSTUS aoNGRrpIEN
CHAPTER III,
eHAPTER III,


WAT BECOMES OF rnE s400.ooo,oa0
YEARLY TAKEN ouT or THE POCKETS
OF AMERICAN FARMERS.
The amount of customs revenue
which the United States Government
derived in 1878 from duties on foreign
goods imported was $3.50, ,000, 900. To
this amount the agriculturist, being
rather less than half of the total pop.
ulation of the country, contributed,
about 500, ,oa0, 900. THIS was the
lr.,,r ia .4 - S400, ,0e0, 900 over
charged - et Aasriean farmers on
thels aa expenditure, that went
Il tlae. /. 4iamtts purpose of national
rssxsseae; asd ~ far, $50, ,00e, C00 oil
the s,ts, l. satisfactorily accounted
fes But what of the remaining
S340, ,euo, ,00o ? who are the lucky
,uen wi,.a this mighty SUN, draiaed
- after year out of the farmers
trainss. goes To enrich ? Strange
ful examination and analysis viii
shaw that all this money has been,
and is being, absolutely wasted,
squandered and spent as uselessly as
it would De ln hiring an army of meH
To dig holes and fill them up again.
Ii his neither enriched nor even ben.
etiaed anybody. While it has TO that
extent impoverished the farmers, i
has only served go fill up the gap and
make good the losSes occasioned by
the misappiication of capital and Ia.
bor in the Eastern States TO tht
wrong kids uf production.
Let Us trace v here these $40, ,000,.
0o9 60. They form the extra sun
paid annually 10 the manufacturer.
of the Eastern States over and above
what the farmers wound have ha6
to pay for the same articles We're they
allowed to make the same purchase
from abroad. IF the Eastern manu-
facturers were allowed TO purchase
their goods as eheaply as the foreign
er, all that money would be saved to
farmers; but as they cannot, farmer.
are made TO pay the difference
Nothing whatever Is got by anybody
in return for those $40, 100000; anC
that SUM is merely thrown away anC
sacrificed to make up for the want o
skill, or of capital, or of whateve
else il may be, by reason of whiet
the Eastern manufacturer makes II,
more profit Dy selling an article a
S140 than the Britisher does by sell
Ing the same article at 500. If, in
deed, the Eastern manufacturer coulC
produce the article for S100, and i
be did set $40 for it he would b
benefited and enriched, and'it nigh
be some consolation TO the farmer
for their loss of 1910 900, 900 a yea
thai went TO form large aceumula
tIslns 0f wealth ia the pockets oT tilei
fellow citizens in the Eastern State 5
Bur this consolation does not exist
I'D We shall presently Show that, il
spite Of the enormous sum over
raarged TO the farmers, the profits o
the Eastern manufacturer are preca
riouS, fluctHating, and by no mean
above the average of other occupa
tions. His charge Of $40 for wha
the Britisher can afford to sell 70
500, only leaves him bare llvinl
profit because il costs him so NOR
to produce the article than il does tn
Britisher. Why this should be Tn
case We cannot here stav TO inouire
hut sueh ia the fact. Indeed. h0,
else couId British goods be Iargel
imported into the States in spifa G
th4 II p.r cent import dulles whfci
4ae, a.> -, a.v
i i. .a..-a S40 nSeteSsiv spenf aI
oI IN W4sst. .,d.Ied m term IN
ss4f. a,.n nt.t, which fhe f,rrners
A.n.'r;ea are esIled unop 10 tbra,
a0av everv vear without any henef
To themselves or to anvboflV elsa
!. she., vase iust as II :. shee
waste ~ nav ene man exorbitantI
for doing the sama ,york l,,o mo,
aud na betfa, which anotier ma,
na,r,. t.xo..r. viii do cheapIv:-in.
a If wanld he sheer waste fo o. q
tlrashine,. With a t,.iI instead of I.io
u,achine merely because The ma
win the a.jI was = ueiohbor ar
rho raaet, ioe-nal,ar yas = etranga
isv.. can fancy a sl,rewd Wesfer
farmer saving. "a man down Ea
mikes an article which he can't a
k,rI t, sch me under $40, while
man over the water offers me Il
same article or sIG0. I want to de
aiih TIE latter, bus to prevent tina
ny cIap $40 luiy on the 100, al
rlf. {. fell me that, as nov, in eth
e.-e, shall have to pay $40 for II
.rtisie, may as well buy of the mt