The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-17
The Farmers, StnLe

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The Farmers stake Init.
The farmer ia the object Of specia! aud
tendersolicitude on the part Of those En-.
glish philsnthropists who shudder to think
that he is being outrageously swindled TO
protect the bloated monopolist who makes
for his use hats and blankets, pots, ket-
ties and saucepans, plows, rakes and
lhreshing machines. They advise him to
rise in his might, read Golden Club pam.
ph!e,s, break down the barrier that saves
the American manufacturer and a'tisar
from ruinous foreign competition, let
American manufacturers so by the board,
buy hats and hoes and plows in the cheap.
eat market and 90 on selling farm products
as now. rt-
The IXTELLIGExCER is in the habit OF
saying frankly to those farmers whom it
reaches that all this is nonsense; it would
be cruel nonsense il the American farmer
could be brought TO take the English view,
for the pestilence would not so surely sweep
from him his best market. 1t Is strong
argument against the advice OF these Eng.
lish economists that it comes from the
cuemy-irom our traditional trade enemy,
f,orn whom it has been more difficult to
achieve our commercial than our politi-
cal independence. These British philan.
thropsts are git-bearing Greeks, and as
slch they are to be feared aud Stunned.
They mean us harm-the circunssautiaI
evidence is strong enough to hang them.
But We can afford to lay that aside and
consider another view which the ISrELLI.
GENcgg has more than once presented to
its readers, aud which We tlnd well pat i'll
the Burlington Humkeye, n newspaper
which is not under the evil eye Of the obi
oas manufacturer Of the East, or even Of
his less offensive brother Of the Ohio
Valley. The Ha,rksye speaks OF the effort
being made to array American farmers
against American manufacturers, and in
uuires how the effort would benefit the
farmers if it were 10 succeed:
Take for instances Misunderstanding indus
trv that employs fifty thousand operatives,
wit drawing them from agricultural pursuits
Each OF these operatives would have some
ming Of family dependent on him for sup
mort. II eaCh had but one other Than him.
sell thusdependeut there would then be It
ununl,l lion OF one hundred thousand to sly
Al, NtN al HSI mt I mr. an.
side of the particular factory, thnt would be-
Teqnit d in community OF 100000 people to
carry on the barter in uiy goods, merchat-
disc groceries, &c, &C.; to supply them with
neCcssariis and C0nvenienCeS oil life. These
thousands OF people are by very nec@-
Aity the ustJmeIS OF the farmer. They
must have his wheat, his corn, his beef aud
n,rk, and they furnish him 1T once: at his
Sw,, d or, u convenient easily accessible aud
permnnet market for his produce. The poll
cy OF The American system is tOpreyent such
C1mpttItion with the factory as will compel
IL either TO close its doors or TO reduce tho
Gtsis suppose that this principle was Gbar-
dnned. and that in order TO reduce the cost
Cf the manufactured articles, assuming for
the SAKE of the argument that II " uld be
radurrd. the tariff was removed, English
Goods admitted Tree and the factory closed,
tyhnt Sonld BECOME o! the 10000 people?
Tnrv would 90 10 farming Of cUurS'. And
how would that benefit the farmer? He
would hive one hundred thousand less Gus.
to,YeTs % buy his produce, and he would
hAys one hundred THOUSAND more farmers TO
SIMPLY ;he customers who were ltli. IT,
strad Of having Il prosperous city AZ his door
10 consume his prOduC he would be 0bhged
N s.nl them across the sea where labor was
ttNttV
p,DduCiS would be cold in competition WIN
tEe products OF every other country IN the
wnrid This is lust what Epgtand desires.
lTnahIa 10 produce euouSh food for her own
ps0ple she wants TO procure 1t as cheapIy rs
Dossiple. Having by protective taxi built
i'm Isr.e factories. she now deSitts 10 break
dnwn MI clmpetliou with them. These
tT0 objects are the prime ideas in the ice
huIs reform, and however sincere some
American advocates mty be, this ~ the
EapIisp idea, and explains the active. inter
est the English are taxing Just now IN thle
question III American politics.
The Heatleu Chimes Of the free trade
school point the iurmtr to the great bulk OF
his exports, 10 the money that comes back
TO him from abroad, but they find nothing
TO SAY about what he sells at home to feed
and clothe his own counlrymen who are
earning living wages they don't tell the
farmer that for ever dollars worth he sells
abroad he sells four dollars worth at.homei
they don't point to the country roads over
run with involuntary tramps getting back
"a nearly us they can to mans primitive
state because the mills are closed, the
forges Silent, and the city no longer affords
them the bread Of employment-the pro-
teclive tariff having been swept away.
They don't Toll the farmer that every
thing he uses on his farm has been re-
ducod in price by the tariff, which has
faced the British manufacturer with pow
.rtul competitor in the American manu-.
manufacturer. They don't tell him these
things; lying is mach easier. '.'. '
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