The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-07-24


me last. fsca year exceeded Twelve thousand
millions Of dollars t$12, 600, OOO, OO0)-the
whole Of itbeing. the product ofsAmerican
ttaboEN Evidently q protective tariff has not
injured our'export trade when. sunder Its In
fuence, we exported In twenty four years
40 per cent more than the total amount that
mad been exported in the entire previous
history of American commerce Ali the de-
tails, when analysed, correspond with this
gigantic result The comm rcial cities
of the Union never had such growth
as they have enjoyed since 1850;
York, with its depend has within that
period doubled her population and increased
heriwealth five fold During the same period
the imports and exports which have entered
and lefther'harbor are more than dot bl e In;
bulk and value. the whole amount imported
Of the first Dutch colony on. the island of
Manhattan and the outbreak Of the civil war
in $50. ;' 81: l5'St 1900 "a r
AGRICULTURE AND THE TARIFF. q y, &ty
The agricultural interest is by far the
largest In the nation, and is entitled in every
sideratio Any policy hostile to the fullest
development, of agriculture In the United
States must be abandoned Realizing this
fact the opponents of. the present system OF
revenue have labored very earnestly to per;
suade the farmers Of the United States that
IVY aAo AOobOA w y PAotCStltC utt1tu, anu
the effort is thua made to ,consol idate their,
vast Influence iii favor Of free trade. But
happily the farmers of America are intelli!
gent and cannot be mlsled by ophlstry when
conclusive facts are before them They sea
plainly that during the past. tws ntysfour
years, wealth has not been. acquired In one;
section or By one interest, at the expense of
another section or another interest They
see that the agricultural, states have made
even more rapid progress than the manufaot-;
urlng states. is: ~ 80
h The farmers see that in $3.50 Massaofu-
setts and Illinois had about the same wealth,
between eight and nine hundred million
dollars each and that in 1880 Massachusetts
had advanced to So, 600, 900, 600, while Illil
nois had advanced to SIS, 200, 900, 900, They
equal in population in $50, and that In
twenty years the wealth Of New Jersey was;
increased by the sum of $3.50, 900, OO0, while
the wealth Of IowasWas increased by theslm,
of 81 500, OO0, 600 They see that the nine
leading agricultural states of the West have
grown SO rapidly in prosperity that the ag-j
gregate addition to their wealth since 1S6Ois
almost. Us great asithe wealth Of the entire:
country in that year. 4 They see that the
South, which Is almost exclusively agr1,;
cultural, has shared in the general prosperity,
and that having recoy ered from the loss and
devastation Of war, has gained SO rapidly
that It's total wealth Is at least the double at
that which it possessed in 800, exclusiveof'
slaves; q 81 !, 81 4. ~
In these extraordi narY tdaevelop ments tic
farmers see the helpful dmpulse;af: u homo
market and they see that the financial and
revenue system, enacted since the Repnb-
Hcan party came into power, has established
and constantly expanded the home market
ahey see that even in the case OF wheat,
which is our chief cereal export, they have
sold, in the average Of the years since the;
close Of the war, three bushels at home TO
one they have sold abroad 3 and that in the,
case of corn, the only, other cereal which we
exportt to any extent, one hundred bushels
have been used iatl home to thres sand d. half
fTlshelaA exnOrtad In some vaarc.3 the III !,