The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-10
The Farmer and the Tariff,


1t costs but So cents a bushel to raise wheat
in India, where labor is plenty at 10 cents a
day. The cost of getting wheat from India to
London is now about Ga cents per bushel. In
other words, England by using India labor is
rapidly cessing to be consumer for American
wheat. Russia also is raising wheat by cheap
labor at fabalously low rates and bidding for
European trade. Let the American protect
i've system be overturned, and where would
our American farmers be? They must cher
ish the home market or go to the wall. In
dia, next year, will have double the wheat
acreage that the United States has The only
safety for this country's farmers is in up
building manufacturing industry on our own
soil. The enactment of the Democratic Nor
rison tariff bill would have forced 81 millions
of people from manufacturing enterprises to
the land. That would be taking away consum-
ers of AZ 100000 bushels of wheat. If instead
of consumers they become raisers, what is the
result? The producers of wheat make sixty
bushels of wheat, per capita. III they then be-
come producers of 1000 100000 bushels of wheat
that makes difference In our market of
about 100,00OOO0 bushels. Obviously, the
American farmer who raises potatoes, corn,
hay, fruit or what not, is the most interested
OF any class in supporting American rather
than British manufactures. An illustration
of this fact is the market in Maine created by
the cotton, wooden and shoe manufactures of
Lewiston and Auburn. This is the best mark
ct in Maine for the farmer to buy in and the
best market also, for him to sell in The
American protective system has created In the
Industrial centres of Maine, and it is around
these centres where farming lands are of the
greatest value and where farmers are prosper
GUS and find ready market.
Take the article of wood. The wooden looms
of this country consume $40 million pounds of
wool par year, and upon the success of these
| American looms depends the market of the
American wool grower Yet the Democrats in
the National House undertook to reduce the
duty on wooden manufactures and, were the
party in power, would so reduce them. That
reduction would stop the wooden mills of this
country and ruin the wool growing interest,
which thus would be deprived of market.
You cannot raise the duty on wool and reduce
the duty on wooden goods without killing both
the farmers and the manufacturers prosper
| ity. The Republican national platform is
pledged thus to care for the interest of the
farmer by readjusting the duties on wool and
on WOODEN products, which though profuss
in promises the Democratic party have failed
to do.
The industries of free-trade England are now
PROSTATE, vastly more than those of this county
because England is unable to find customers
for her goods. Hence arises the British anx-
| iety for the defeat of Mr.. Blaine. Americans
consume double the food and clothing per
capita that Europeans do, and quintuple that
of the oriental nations Hence our home
ufacturers.
The people of this country do not propose to
allow England or English ideas to elect the
next President of the United States.