Daily Republican., 1882-10-31
THE PROTECTED FARMER.
A Canadians Graphic Contrast
Between the Protected Yankee
and Unprotected Kanuck Far"
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and Unprotected AanucK F@E'
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The following admirable refutation
Of the sophistries of Democratic tree-
trade arguments should be read by
every farmer and laborer In the land !.
The Yankee farmer rises In the morn
ing tolerably refreshed. True, he has
been sleeping on bed, the sheets,
blan kets, and mattress of which would
have been taxed go to 180 per cent. had
they been imported from q foreign
country. But they are homemade
and his dreams have not been disturb
ed by the free-trade bugbear that "pro-
lection raises the price Of the homo
manufactured article up to at least the
price of the imported article plus the
Imported duty" Mr.. David A. Wells
and other agents Of the Leeds and Man
chester Manufacturers once tried to
frighten him with this bosy; but expe-
rience has taught him that 1t is only
mAke.believe. Thereis an import duty
of eight cents yard on cotton shooting
but he buys it from the cotton factory
In his market town ut seven cents q
yard, and sees enormous quantities OF
1t going to England in competition with
free-trade cotton, to Canada, TO South
America, and even to Australia.
Moreover, he knows that 1t 10 to that
import dnty he owes the establishment
OF the neighboring cotton factory,
whose operatives consume his produce,
and give him profitable home marker
for rotation crops. The same Is true OF
his blankets and mattress; Indeed he Is
we'll satisfied with his bed. 1t Is home
made; 1t cost him If anything less than
an imported article; and its manufac-
lture has given employment to artisans
who buy the products OF his farm
almost direct from his wagon. He pro-
ceeds to put on his clothes, nothing
alarmed because there is q heavy i'm
port duty on foreign tweed clothes, lelt
hats, boots, and cotton shirts. HIS
suit from head to foot is of American
make; the profits of its manufacture
have gone to enrich the American peo
pie, and he thinks that Is better FOL
him than If his tweed coat had come
from the west of England, his hat from
nottingham, his shirt from Manches
ter, and his boots from Stockport. Th'
clock tells him it is breakfast time
lie has no hard feelings against thu
clock merely because foreign clock
are taxed So per cent; on the contrary
lit reminds him of the clock factories
IConnecticut and the thousands OF hand
> to whom they give employment an(
who in their turn give q market ant
an increased value to every adjaoen
y IrFa
, American importers bring his tea dlrec
from China, not via Montreal or Lon
\ don-he takes to his farm Implements
y Farming implements such as spades
! shovels, hoes, forks, rakes, &C., al
taxed 35 per cent; wooden pals, tubs
. churns, Sc, SO per cent, and ploWf
IhArrows, seed sewers, cultivators, MOI
era, Yeapers, threshtng machines, &c
I35 DER cent; and in 1860 when the bat
tie of theMorrilltarif was being tough
: lin Congress, agents Of the great Bed
: ford and Leicester firms predicted tina
, an import duty on their goods woul
:. ruin farming in the United States. ID
mas discovered however, that this Is nc
. true. Home factories have sprung u
Everywhere and the keen compeCitio
has not only kept down prices but In
cited the inventive genius Of the Anne
Iican mechanic, SO that Yankee farI
= implements have become the cheapes
and best in the world. The heavy an
|, Icumtrous English machines are beiD
: Idrivep from foreign markets, and eve
from the English market itself, whlc
- Mccormick of Chicago, has invade
~ with great success. In fact when ou
- farmer contemplates, the amazin
growth and proportions OF this industr
lic occurs to him that the English agen
who lobbied and even bribed politician
and new spapers to oppose the hi d tar
" iff, were not actpated 80 much by n
a gard for the condition Of the Yanke
MI farmer aS by the consciousness tina
"a protection would deprive them OF th
!. IAmerican market, and by the fear tina
n lit would in the long run make the mai
n ufacturer formidable rival in otht
"a market . This is what the farme
4. thinks as he works in the field an
d about his barnyard during.thelforenool
h He In startled out of his reverie by th'
!. ltoot of the dinner horn and sits dow
"a at the table, nothing pat out by the re
!, Election that tin horns OF foreign mat
Il Iare taxed about two cents each. Meth
"a or does he lose his appetite when he r.
/. members that furniture, such as tf
ir chair he is sitting on, the table
nj which he is eating, and the dresst
" where the dishes are stored, Is take
a 35 Der cent. when of foreign make.
r This duty has helped to establis
- hvrdrads of furniture factories to giN
employlneut to tens Of thousands
mechanics throughout the Union, an
In this way has benefited him; for tt
home manufacturer is everywhere u
y farmers best friend. After dinner
l. sets out for the market town, and aS
D.. iourneys thither he pities the Canada
Or farmer, who, as a rule, has to Olspo
q. of his produce to the middlomen, Tn
D. stand like a row of tax-gatherers, eat
g. levyipp his 1.-THE, between the hanuC
l. farmer and the foreign consumer. 1
g. wonders, too, does this old Yankee tarn
re ar how the Canadian farms indu
~ wheat and barley, year atter year. ai
as reioices that protection has given nj
IN a home market to which he can supp
10 almost every variety of crop. he
tOll0Wluk bLIb u 0Ah Va
10 enters the market town at 1 O'Clock; al
no his sym pathy for the Canadian farm
ns is deepened as he sees troops OF oan
dian operatives returning to the IacEo
Iries from their dinner. II WONDER
oonsumes, ''if the KanuCk farmer eV
IA sees crowd of yam kee operatives goll
to work In q Canadian factory Cue
:. not. Then what do free traders me-
=" by arguing that protecteion, suo3 as
Yankees are cursed with, ruins Ina 1str
while free trade, with which the Ma
ucks have long been blessed, builds
Ia mn and maks q Nation great? Il
'er were so would not these active Mt'
French. Cansdians be at work IN MO
|treal, and would not our Yankee N
T. chanics be pouring over there als
s How is it, ye free-trads theorists tn
ed the census of 1870 showed that Canasd
Gst with 1000, 900 of people, had sent
Or. nearly 800, 600, or one, eighth OF .
children? And how is 1t that the I