New-York tribune., 1884-01-24
FARMERS md TIE TARIFF.

A PRACTICAL AGRICULTURIST ON THE BENEFITS OF
PROTECTION.
fFnow AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
HAvERFoRp COLLEGE, Penn, Jan. 23.-Act-
ing In harmony With the Facultys efforts to have Pot
cal Economy Taught In the most practical manner the
Senior class Of Hayer0r has invited active business men
Of various cangsto lecture here the Tariff question
Two weeks ago, reported in TIE TRIBUNE, the Hon.
Jonathan Chace OF Rhode Island discussed the subject
from manufacturers point OF view, he being success
ni manufacturer This evening MT James Wood, Of Mt.
Kisco " " practical farmer treated 10 from farmers
point Of view. There largo and interested attend
OF students and Others After explaining why many
college professors with scientific longing to establish
an exact science incline 10 Free Trade and favor the OBJ
,ccts OF the Golden Club, Mr. Wood continued in sub
stance follows:
Let us take an American farmer the representative
sell With freights commissions insurance and waste
his cotton Ia worth 90 per cent Manchester than
chester operatives runs the gauntlet 0f and
other risks and when consumed Is worth FIVE times more
than where II grew BIT when the farmer buys back the
cotton manufactured Into cloth that corn has gone INTO
The cost OF the goods He thus pays dollar or more ior
he sold at eighty cents ana dollar or more
for the ne sold for twenty or twenty-five cents ana
he pays The cost Of thf inv e"d. Ha,
nc T. selling the hide FOR skip nee ana oyng Oack re
tail yOr a shilling He resolves TO get some one To- make
the goods he by his home He soon finds that
home manufacturers need Otner things beside COT
S Wool Tsa & aTG aSS r's an @ onsr
things thai he could never send TO the operatives I'm Man
chester. Thus he has a great variety Of produc-
Mt be profitable agriculture In the long run
If We thus add one industry after another TO home
manufactures community will be established with pro-
All are mutually depcpient. and unite in bearing the
public Burdens whether 1t be ID building roads anu school
houses, or paying town. county state or NatOnA taxes
The men in Manchester never took any hand In these
But says TO the farmer: will sell you all
your goods made abroad for less money than yours now
cost you and win taSe your corn ard wheat and cotton
and wool in exchange for them" The farmer aszs How
about my potatoes and otne vegetables ana my nay ana
milk and eggs Who will buy my surplus land Who Will
help pay my taXcsl How shall keep up the fertility of
my landl Your goods may be cheaper to-day, but soon
our men will have more capital anu VIII acquire skin Win
& f5penSG & & ara WI Se 9 4eeF b ror an6 ,S ess s
money. They do 80 now With many things They are
land and hundred things you don't want can afford
toinvcs money to-day for the go0d wl 30 me tomorrow.
must decline your offer II you persist In sending your
goods here will put tax npon them and keep there
as long as Is necessary to protect our nome nanule
urcs" That is the tariff question from an agrfculturss
stantpoint II TIE farmer haa continued 70 sehd ms
products abroad, instead OF home market Tor all MS
various products ue would have only the foreign market
for few things In which his lclOw-armers would com
pete win him. and with G the rest OF the world tryingt0
un1ersol him. Instead Of the certain home market ne
would have had only tno uncertain foreign Que, Wnere
the anundlnce or scarcity O the crops IN other countries
determined whether he should have any market at all
There IL poDuar error referance 10 the advantages
Os foreign trade. The ancient ctes OF Palmyra Tyre,
rich by foreign commerce. But this from goods they
bought To sell again. upon which they charged such pro-
while modern is the interchange between
nations, through the medium OF money, OF the products
for those OF another, and country buys TO sell
again. to any eons erable extent, except England free
talk OF mankind nation and say that Free
Trade Is natural" ana that Protection Is unnatural"
"natur. for a nation t. have its farms on one side
the globe and ts workshops the Otheri l. nat
uri 10 send cotton aud wool hall round tine world and
then bring them back gain! With unlimited beds OF iron
ORES and fields coal. il IL natural" to bring our ran
road and other supplies OF iron from the ocean
with climate and soil lifted TO grow ali kinds OF food, 10
il natural" 10 exhaust them in growing but two or
three3 With Patent Office at,esting the Inventive genius
and mcCbanical skin OF the people, Is II natural TO
compel them to grow only raw products for Englsn sz
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