Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-02
Do Farmers Want Free Trade?

! d protective IdTlu Is OeIeuclal W aihei INN
laboring men, it is of no benefit 10 the farmer.
! As the Ohio Democracy has this year de-
clared for a tariff for revenue only, an es-
/ peCial effort is being made by the Democrats
/ To convince the Ohio farmers that 1t will he
/ for their interests to vote for the candidates
OF the free trade party, and that the destrnc-
ton Of our protective tariff would benefit
the agricultural interests.
A more fallacious doctrine was never
preached knowledge of their own interests
I will show the farmers of Ohio that they can
not afford to strike blow at the protective
! tariff system by voting the Democratic free
/ trade ticket The farmers interests require
the maintenance of the protective tariff. We
present below some interesting statements on
I this subject, taken from All address by Hon
/ Thomas H. Dudley, delivered before the New
Jersey State Agricultural society, and COM
mend them to the careful consideration OF
! our readers Mr.. Dudley sad in the course
of his address:
"The home market is the farmers main
dependence IL buys more than nine-tenthS
of all he has TO sell 1t is more steady and
secure: therefore, more reliable. 1t Is nearer
TO him, and therefore costs less to transport
to it Ii follows then, that in the interest of
agriculture everything should be done TO
stimulate and increase this market. There
is nothing the state can do which will be OF
more benefit to the farmer. II protective
duties tend to do this by building up manu-
factures, and giving employment TO labor,
then protection benefits the farmer-the
western no less than the eastern farmer.
The farmer should be protected Nothing
should be left undone that would help or en-
courage him in his pursuits. Every possible
aid should be extended him to stimulate his
efforts and enlarge his capacity to produce.
Safeguards should be thrown around him;
and wherever a protective duty will help him
the state should Impose il for his benefit Our
present laws have been framed especially
with this view. The present tariff laws i'm
pose the following direct protective duties on
agricultural products: Rice cleaned, pa
cents per pound; wheat, 20 cents per bushel;
Indian corn, 10 cents per bushel; oats,
10 cents per bushel; rye, 10 cents
per bushel; barley, Is cents per bushel;
butter, cents per pound; cheese, !
cents per pound; potatoes, ID cents per bushel;
poultry, 10 per cent. i'll value; peas, from 10
TO ~ per cent; beans, from 10 to 20 per
cent; tobacco unmanufactured, SJ cents
per pound; unstemmed, 50 cents, in addition
to revenue duty of ~ cents per pound;
sugar from 10 ; cents per pound; on horses,
COWS, bulls, oxen, steers, calves, sheep, lambs,
goats, hogs, and pigs, except for breeding
purposes, ~ per cent. those for breeding
purposes are admitted free to benefit the
farmers; beef and pork, l cent per pound;
mutton, 10 per cent; wool, from 10 to II
cents per pound and from 10 to II per cent
added; and hay, 20 per cent This is as it
should lie. These duties tend to keep out
foreign competitors, and leave our homo
market almost exclusively free for our own
farmers
Suppose that you break down the Ameri
can system and introduce the English system,
to-wit, a tariff for revenue only, in its place,
and the result which the English are working
to accomplish, viz, the destruction of our
manufacturers. What would the consequence
be, especially TO our farmers, Suppose only
one-half of our manufacturers should GO
down and the rest remain Your home mar
ket would be destroyed to this extent: the
operatives now employed when turned out
could not purchase your products. Their
means 10 buy are acquired in the mills, and
when the mills stop their pay would stop, and
they could no longer purchase. What then
would be done with the products which they
now takef Would England take theml She
would then as now take just what she re-
quired to feed her own people, and no more. |
The market at home would be glutted by this
excess, and the prices would go down, and |
the English could then fill their orders at the |
reduced price-at probably one-half they |
now have 10 pay
But this is not all What is to become Of |
the people who ara turned out of employment |
by stopping the manufactoriasi Lord Derby /
and hls CO Iaborers will tell You that they are /
10 go to farming. This is what they expect ,
them TO do. and this in point Of fact would |
be the only pursuit most Of them could turn
to. No persons understand this better than |
our English friends. Indeed, it is a part of |
their scheme far as they can to turn all |
these people into agriculturists II they
should succeed in this the effect would be
still more to glut the market and still more
to depress prices.
Farmers Of America, IL you desire this,
then listen to these pretended English friends
of yours, and adopt their system-a tariff for
revenue only; or go still further and adopt
free trade pure and simple, not as they have
it, for although their writers have recon-
rnended it, and their statesmen have com
mended it To other nations, they themselves
have never adopted it, and no civilized
nation ever has; and you will then have
taken the first step toward attaining a result,
if not the same as theirs, still more disastrous
to yourselves and your country. II, on the
other hand, you wish to preserve your own
aud desire also to see your coun-
try continue prosperous and great, stand by
the American system Of protection which
has placed the agriculturists Of the United
States among the first in the world; has paid
and elevated labor; and made your own
nation not only one of the most civilized and
but one of the most powerful and
great that exists on the earth"
Democratic Testimony About Mcbride.
The Mansfield Shield and Banner, dyed
in-the-wool Democratic paper, said OF John
Mcbride before his nomination: "We fully
agree with the SteubenVille Gazette, that
the Democratic party Of Ohio cannot afford
10 nominate that Communistic demagogue.
John Mcbride, of Stark county, for secretary
Of state. Some of the bills that Mcbride in
troduced into the legislature would defeat
iim as badly as oF4 Bill Vests Communistic
ltterances defeated him for governor in 1877
A man who will pander to such vicious eIe-
nents as the Communists, Socialists and
Anarchists for the purpose of winning their
votes has no right TO place on the Demo
ratio ticket"
The Democratic paper is entitled to reason
able consideration in this statement on a sub
iect of which it claimed to bs competent to
Judge IL its statements about Mr. Mcbride
ire to be accepted as gospe! truth ne does not
'eem to be just the man we want for sscre-
AIRY of state.
He Helped to Sustain Democratic Forgery.