Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-08-16
FORAKER ON TARIFF.
A FULL REPLY TO JUDGE
HOADLY.
One of the Important Issues Of This
Campaign Ably Rxpounded-
Speech at Corning.

Judge Foraker spoke on the I'd inst, at
the coal Haining town OF Corning. Perry
county, at the close OF the Reps nlican
County Convention. He was hurried
after the convention proceedings were
over, but made capital impromptu
speech. Some Interruptions by Dem.
ocrat in the crowd brought up the ques-
tion of the tariff. and this rem ndsd
Judge Foraker Of some questions put to
hin by Judge Hoadly in his Piqus
speech. He said.
| have y competitor who asks me
questions in season and ont of season.
He asks me all kinds Of questions. He
asks me questions that no other intel
lect under Heaven would ever think Of
asking. He has asked ne some ques-
tions about the Scott law. and have
answered them. lie has asked me some
questions about the tariff: aud inasm uch
az have not had time to discuss that
question in an orderly and logical way
here. l will at once proceed to discuss it
Internally, and TO answer some of those
questions that my friend Judge Hoadly
has been putting to me.
He made a speech a few days ago over
at Piqua. That speech was in answer
to one had made at Hamilton, in which
had taken occasion TO say something
obout the tariff. l had talked about the
beaeft of it to all kinds, classes and
conditions of people In this country. |
had said, among other things that the
| tariff was a benefit to the farmers espe.
eially- that it helped them to a better
market than they would otherwise have
that they got better prices for their pro-
ducts by reason of the Industries which
were at their very doOrs-industrie that
owed their existence to tbs protection
that had been thrown about them by
this wise policy of a tariff, which the
| Republican party has been pursuing for
the last twsnty-three years. I"That's
SOP Applause. Judge Hoadly takes
issue with me as to that. He says in his
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act languags-but his argument is that
the price of the agricultural products
that the farmer takes into the market
is not fixed by the Industries about him,
but in that great commercial center of
the world, Liverpool. and he says that
the farmer in Ohio gets his price upon
sorn, wheat and hogs, less transporta-
tien, insurance and commission nscss-
sary 10 put that product in the city of
Liverpool, Eng. In the first place, l
have not asked any questions about this
here, but | know how it Is il other min
ing districts. Everyone knows that ihs
farmers who lin medis tely surround these
manufacturing and mining districts get
better prices fer thsir commodities than
they would if they sent them to Cincin-
natl. know how it is In the Hanging
Rock district-at Jackson, Irenton and
other places-and L have ho doubt IL is
the same here. But, for the sake Of ar
gumsnt. let it be as Judge Hoadly says
it is; that Liverpool fixes the price that
the farmer gets for his hogs, wheat snd
corn. Let me turn schoolmastar and
ask Judge HoSdly aQusstlon; If Liver
pool fixes The price here, what is it that
hxes the price in Liverpool? 1t Is one
# the elementary laws of political econ
omy that supply and demand have some
thing to do with prices that they fix
ths price.
Now, then, In this country We have
about seven and half million people
engaged in agriculture, and the balance
of US, moro than forty-two millions of
psople, are engaged, as you are here
mining coal. manufacturing iron-in
factories mills and fouRdrlss, rs mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors, and in the pur.
suit of other kind of business. every
kind Of vocation and calling. All these
men who are not engaged as are tho
seven and a half million In agricultural
pursuits are consumers; they afford a
home market; they make the demand
which effects the price. Now, Ia 1880.
the last year for which have been able
to get my hand upon the statistics,
there were produced in this coantry 49S,
54S, 1858 bushels OF wheat; Of thai amount
only 6s.s52.795 bushels were exported
TO other countries. Well, uow, suppose
we should have an era Of free trade. -
Out of the whole Of the wheat prod uced
in this country only about one-third
had free trade, what would be the con.
sequence7 Why, In the hrst place, we
would soon lose most of our homo mar
ket. Your people would HOt stay here
very long mining coal.
| There would not be population Of
twelve thousand people In the towns of
Shawnee, Straitsylls and Corning, as
there is today. to be fed by the farmers
of Perry County. You would have to
quit, and if you were not hero 10 buy
their products. they would have to nnd
q market else sswhers. The exports would
be increased. doubled. trebled, until all
Of the products possible were sent
abroad. And not only that, but yoa
men here must nad something to de-
If you are not to be permitted to make
pig iron. or to mine coal, you must fnd
something else to do. Factories, mills
and machine-shops will stop at the same
time. Nothing is left you bat to 10 in.
to composition with the seven and q
half million of farmers to raise corn,
wheat and hogs. not to feed people at
home, but to send abroad, to feed the
laborers and people of the Old World -
What Is the effect on Liverpool? In
stead of getting from us $4,000, ,OOC
bushels of wheat \ year they would bs
getting from 3O0.OoO,0OO to 100000 OOC
bushels Of wheat year. The supply
might be Increased bsyond even that
And the farmers OF this coanty, ths
farmers Of Ohio, as they did IN the Statsl
Of the West before the Republican par.
~ came int power, would GO into the
business Of burning their corn for fuel
because they had no market in which sc
sell it. Don't tell me. in face of such ,
plain proposition as this. that the indus
tries that surround the farmer hay.
Hething to do with fixing the prices hi
realizes upon his produce. In the hurr,
Of the moment l will let whstI hav.
said be my answer to that qsustion o
Judge ioadly. When have more tim,
| can answer more fully.
But Judge Hoadly has asked me som,
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