The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-22

turers; so the sugar planter was allow cd
to steal enough from labor to buy his
| provisions, his workstOck and fodder,
and lust enough more to pay his share
of the manufacturers steal, and the
rice planter enough to make fortune
for himself and his money lender, and
just so much more as would balance his
contribution to the manufacturers
steal.
The production of rice in 1880 was
III, 10000 pounds, the duty on which,
II imported, would amount, at 215 cents
per pound, to 1894, $50. But the rice
planters of louisiana themselves, when,
before the tariff commission reported
that the product Of Louisiana that year
was 6l ,33l $40 pounds and that in that
| State there were only 932 rice planters,
making an average product for each
| planter of 06,SO6 pounds, on the tariff Is
| $1,645, 10. SO on an average each plan
ter gets $1,645.15 for helping along the
manufacturers robbery of the people.
The production of sugar in 1880
amounted to 24S.223, ,018 pounds, and l..
| 100000 gallons of mOlasses, on which
the tariff. If imported, would have been
| $11, ,742,625, and as there are certainly
not more than 5000 sugar planters In
Louisiana, each ones sWag on the tariff
steal is on the average $2,35O. In Aug
ust, 1882, when in southern Texas, the
| sugar planters personally assured the
writer that in seasOnable year they
| made clear profit over and above the
cost of labor and all other expense of
800 per acre. Where is your wool
grower beside the planteTp
Then there Is another thing, little in
| itself, but it evinces the tender regard
of the tariff rObber for the Yankee, and
his contempt for the western farmer.
There is a duty on SALT which some
years has amounted TO 100 per cent.
The Yankee fisherman Hses 1t for his
| fish, the western farmer for his meat,
| and its Importance to the western far
mer Is manifest by the fact, that in ad-
dition to the amount consumed in this
country, there were exported in 1881;
Pounds
Picked Beef 4O69S14g
FicAleu O192SOdb
The foreigner brings his fish here to
compete with the Yankee, and pays a
high tariff on his fish for the privilege
of so doing, whilst the farmers meat is
sent at great expense for inland and
ocean freight, to foreign countries to
compete with the farmers product there.
Now for years, ever since the Republi-
cans are in power, the Yankee fisher
man pays no tariff ON his salt, whilst the
western farmer pays the tariff on salt
and the cost of freight from seaport to
the west, for just 50 high will the inland
salt producer sell his salt.
Then there is the little Yankee lumber
trick-a section in the tariff law that
looks harm mlesS-prOVides that the lum-
ber sawed in New Brunswick, from trees
grown i'll Maine, shall be imported duty
free. 1t is simply a trick Of the astute
wooden nutmeg producer to eyade the
duty the west pays on imported lumber
And now the farmer is threatened
with another danger. Whilst the Penn
sylvania Republicans in their platform
want the tariff raised high enough to
raise money sufficient to pay all the
state taxes, in addition to the federal
taxes, the labor organizations are be-
ginning to discuss the necessity of
cheapening agricultural produce by put.
ting an export tax on them.
While Republican demagOgues are
trying to make farmers believe pro-
tectiVe tariff increases the price of their
products, the labor organizations know
better. They know the price of farm
products depend solely upon the foreign
price and cost of transportation, and
thai the tariff lessons the home price,
because it increases the cost of trans
pOrtatiOn. Increased expenditures ne
cessitate increased income. The local
buyer and the seaport exporter of farm
products have not only to pay their con-
tributiOn to the sugar and rice planter,
the wOOllen, cotton and other manufac-
tuTers, but help to make up the c0ntri-
button of many others, whose services
they need, for instance their doctor gro
GER, merchant, minister, servants, those
supported by taxes, officers, teachers,
&c. All this they make the farmer pay
by paying so much less for his products.
hr.y I.ns
button to pay to the BeaSemer thieves,
which alone increases the cost of rails
per mile $4,000, and to the iron and steel
kings, which vastly increases the cost
of rolling stock, and then every one con-
nected with the railroad has to pay the
same contribution the local buyer pays,
all of which must come out of freight
and passengers; and of necessity freights
must be higher than they would be
were there no such tariff, and to the ex-
tent of the increase the price of farmers
products are less. And then. by rea-
son of the exclusion of foreign products
by the tariff, vessels that carry the far
mer's products come here empty, and
hence of necessity must charge higher
freights, which of course again lessons
the price of farm products.
As long as our manufactured products
have the inflated value given them by
quence restricted to the home market,
there must of necessity be production
of farm products vastly in excess of the
home consumption, to provide market
for manufactured products. Vast as our
farm products are, and they are so vast
that we export about one half as much
as we consume, that is one third Of the
whole product; yet they are no more
than sufficient to compensate the manu-
featured products at their tariff inflated
value.
Were our farm products only equal to
the home consumption, the value pro-
duced would be insufficient to buy and
consume more than two thirds Of our
manufactured products, and only one
third could find a market unless the
price was reduced one third.
A single general failure of crops to
such an extent as to leave no surplus
for expectation, would bring about
collapse of manufactures worse by far
than that of 1873. Hence under pro-
tective tariff production of farm pro-
ducts for expectation is a necessity, and
necessarily the price of the exported pro-