Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-27

l Der has seen it otherwise, let him de
r clare it. A pause.] No; the real an
r permanent industries of a people are al
: ways in harmony and interdependenc
with each other. Each member of
, community profits by an increase in tn
} productive power of the whole body
TBat advantage is increased and multi
piled by every increase in the diyersit.
IF employments. The farming interes
above every other is benefited by thi:
diversity viii saves the necessity d
caIIying bulky products to distan
market; for every intelligent farmel
knows that the man who is compelled t.
go to market must, in some way, pa,
the cost of going, and that the very frs
of all the charges paid, by labor or by
land, is that for transportation.
But Mr.. Mongredien says, THE farm
er neither receives nor seeks Legislative
protection" False again. He does both
The farmer has carefully and intelli
gently studied this question, not merely
/ by theories of boOkmen, but in the school
of practical affairs. He asks, and has
received, fair protection for his indus
tries. 1t is just that he should, for many
agricultural products are produced Ill
other countries by pauper labor, against
| which it would be monstrous outrage
that the American farmer should be
lforced to compete. Surely this English
teacher could not be ignorant of the fact
that protective duties are imposed on
all leading agricultural products where
protection is practicable. American
farmers know that these duties were
laid to protect these articles in the home
market, which consumes nearly 90 per
cent of all the products of the farm
1t is not necessary to give a full cata
logue of all these products and the duty
on each, but / mention enough, taken
from our tariff list, to show how care
| fully the interests of the farmer have
been considered. The duty on Indian
| corn is 10 cents bushel; on wheat 20
cents a bushel; oats, 10 cents a bushel I;
barley. Is cents bushel; rye, Is cents a
bushel; peas and beans, 10 to 20 per cent !;
potatoes, Is cents bushel; butter, 4
cents pound; cheese 4 cents pound !;
poultry, 10 per cent; sugar, 2 to 5 cents
per pound ;tooacco leaf,3 centsa pound /;
manufactured tobacco, 80 cents pound !;
beef and pork, cent a pound; mutton.
10 cents pound; hay, 20 per cent; on
all domestic animals except for breeding
purposes, 20 per cent, but those for
breeding purposes admitted free in the
interest of farming and stock-raising;
wool, from 10 to II cents a pound, with
from 10 to II per cent. added. Does that
list look as though Mr.. MongFedien's as
sertion was case of absolute verify?
Mr.. BUCHANAN What is the protec-
tion on cotton?
Mr.. UPDLGRAFF. / am glad the gen.
tleman has asked the question. PrOtec-
ton on cotton will come when factories
spring ap all over the South, as they are
now springing up in Georgia and other
southern States, which already have 1877
cotton mills. The manufacture of cot
ton at home. so that the consumer will
not be compelled to pay the cost of
Transporting the cotton for 5000 miles.
/ 10 b5 manufactured and the cost Of
transporting the cotton cloths for 5000
miles back to him, will give all the pro-
lection needed.
Protection was once question of the
North, a question of latitude; but it is
so no longer That is the reason why
representatives from all over the South
are coming forward in this discussion
and asking for the permanent establish
ment of this great American system,
which takes in its ample arms all the
great industries of the country-and bears
them all up alike. fApplause.l
Mr.. BUCHANAN. While the gentleman
is on this subject want to call his at
tention to this point. The producers of
cotton get their provisions, corn, hay,
and meat largely from the West Now
whatever makes high home market for
these products is AN injury to the produ-
Ger of cotton. Corn4is now $1.05 at At
lanta, and the contton producer has no
protection. The sugar-raiser, the rice
raiser, and the men who supply the cot
ton-planter, all have protection. And
high home market for provisions raised
by the agriculturist is an injury to the
cotton-producer.
Mr.. UPDEGRAFF. Well, in the first
place, am glad the Western farmer
gets good price for his products, and
then
Mr.. BUCHANAN. But where is the
compensation for the cotton-grower?
That is what, | want to get at.
Mr.. UPDEGRAFF. If my friend will
listen l will answer that fully. Now,
the farmer who raises provisions gets
his protection. / am glad to have that
admission, for we have been told every
day during this discussion that the
farmer gets no protection. Now, when
we shall do as Thomas Jefferson we'll
said nearly three-quarters of century
ago, "plant the factory by the side of the
farm" then the cotton planter will get
his compensation, because he will not
have to transport his raw material 5000
miles; and the producer always pays the
cost of transportation. He will have
his market right by him, and so this sys-
tenn will go on taking care of all inter
ests, none unduly favored and none ne
elected.
Mr.. robson. And every Irishman
who comes here will then be independ
ent of his English master.
Mr.. BUCHANAN. That is not agricul-
ture. That is manufactures.
Mr.. UPDEGRAFF-It is the common
interdependent interest of all. The
home market benefits the manufacturer,
and he in turn benefits the cotton raiser,
who has market for his product with
out the risk and cost of finding distant
market which is partly supplied by the
pauper labor of India. The South al
ready has one hundred and ninety-seven
cotton mills, forty-four in Georgia alone.
Not only is his interest thus protected,
but the farmer knows well that the pro-
lection to the manufacturer benefits him
still more. He knows that when the
great manufacturing industries of vari :
Gus kinds are active and flourishing that
there is always demand for all the va
riety of his products in the home mar
ket. He understands that the product
or price of the great staples of wheat
and corn, part of which may be ex-
ported, are no measure of the benefit to
him of
| HOME MARKET,
which consumes at ready prices the still
more abundant and profitable products
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