Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-01-17

ing eXtrac: is from he ,Std't Sentinel. which
paper presume transferred it rom the
Toledo Blade to its Jwn -ditorial columns
without examination:
WHAT TIE FARMER rAYs.
What would free trade cost the farmers of
this country
1t would cost them at least 30 cents on
every bushel Of grain they raise, as well rs
propUrtlonate amount On their meat, cotton
and other agricultural products.
Why? ....
Because the former must not only pay the
expense Of transporting to market what grain
he sells abroad, but he must take for what he
sells at home the price he would get abroad
less the cost of transporting to market.
What would be tho average NHnua cost
to each farmer Of beng mpellud to ind II
foreign market
Not les- than 800 or about 20 times tic
average tax he pays now fOt all purposes.
IL this all
No lie must also pay the expense of carry
ing the goods lie buys III return bacl, 10 him.
Why
Because the bread producers of the world
vastly outuumber the manufacturers, cUuse
quently the competition Is one sided. The 10
million farmers i'll America must enter the
market and compete with the $50 millions IN
Europe. the 200 millions in India. and at least
100 millions in other parts Of the world, who
are Offering breadStuils to the Europeans
Here we have 100 millions competing with
each other III food.raislug, while there are
only 80 or 40 millions III France, Germany
and America engaged III manufacturing, aud
compelled to be customers OF the food pro-
ducora. 1t stands to reason that the eompe.
titlon between the 700 million food producers
must be exceedingly sharper than among the
40 million food cOnsllmcrs. and the farmer is
at Il continual disadvantage in the struggle.
His only remedy IL TO bring his food cons
sumer 80 near linn As to have him under con-
trol. IUtdo B!ddt.
There is au auecdotu To the effect that
certain Cspuchin trisT having offended
the Jesuits and being asssied by them
i'll their cuvertly slsuderOus way, finding
he could do nothing with his logic, lad
recourse to his Latin and defended him
self with a meutiris lmpudrntissine,
''you lie most i.npndently,h
do not know that the author of the
above quoted gibberish deserves such
rejoinder, but am quite certain that
each answer there given to each foolish
question can very properly lie branded
with talsehoOd. 1t seems to have been
written to deceive those whoha learned
to read, 5ut not TO think, and who are
thus more liable to deception than those
who cannot read. As such jargou is
really unworthy rational investigation
will merely attempt briel explauatipu
which may serve 20 place the matters
touched upon in a true light.
II ought not to be- necessary to tell any
white native born citizen that the gram
market of the United States ID simply
part OF the great grain market o.. the
world. The fact that We hsve large
portion for eXportstiOu, aud that oar
manufacture made home market for farm
produce i= IN the Atlantic states. il. J.iN-
tspusitilu 70 the great vmporlums VI ~
pO-tatiuu, is proof ocular sui tsLp bic 81
general realization among eng great IN. -t.,
Is no longer in the hptn- market than
in the foreign For, before expectation
OF any food stuti, enough would he isft
behind to weigh down their profit ia tl,t-
hume market TO a level with that il the
foreign. Great buyers then flr huma aud
foreign consumption, tur whom smaller
dealers are mere agents % brokers, real.
lliug no more in one Psrt at TIA, market
than in the other, eau pay out but uue
| price whether Tor tb- hum5 usr OF fer tho
foreign, #....
suppose, then, som body OF other does
get more in the Feeding Of our hsfl tp
ledge manufacturing consumers lLau is
realized by any vLO putvry far the same
class in Enropr, Wherein iue- ,aiJ ptylt
the farmer IL tuis latlel individual
/ sells two bus helB Of wheat Auj one goes
1 t the home pail Of the great uask-. aud
the ether 70 the ioreigu, he dors Imt f-el
the d'tiersucs ii" gets 40 more ~ 81 e
| O-e kept at home than the or ., ported.
| Ard the exporter, II course, lust :aH. e
TIE price he pays by the price lie
| gets in tie foreign part at the
market ln fact, Stree there ia nc
cost OF expectation When it goes to them
aud since the great buyers, in either
mode Of disposal are on the same footing
/ il our American manufacturing popua-
| tion do not get their bread and meat
cheaper than do the English manutsutur.
ing population il must be on account of
the huge NAV of the inferior shoals Of
city and town middle men, Tor tLr
American farmer gets no more fr his
grain, pork, &o., when kept at home
than when exported.
II We were neczssitated to import sta,
pie farm products like EuSlaud to sup
port ou- Manufacturing industries, these
industries Of course, would occasion an
enhancement IL The Pr prs of our sgricul.
tural prOipotS. Blu, as matters now
stand and are likely to stand. with large
buiks annually on hand to export, II our
tariff supported manufacturing popula
ton entire was transferred to the old
world, the American farmer wou.d get
the same for his grain, &c., that he ioef
now, at the same time protiting by tht
much lighter prices of foreign mauufac
lures, Or If lie did not get this same price
or if he did not Sc profit, it would bs OF
account OF the machlnAtion and conspirs
oies of middle men.
All the vast tiourlshing tariff mad,
manufacturing interest OF this country i,
a dead weight on the agricultural and /,
nothing more than grade Of the ole
world tyranny, Of old world oppression
of the ignorant and weak ,trausplsnted t,