Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-09-24

words upon the Confederate monu-
ment at Charleston -
"These died for their State"
BENZ. j. WILLIAMS.
Tla Farmer and Protection.
In the House of Representatives,
1882, In course of a speech delivered
on the 10Th and 18th of April, Mr.
Upde graf, of Ohio, said;
81 have been a farmer all my
life, and every year for thirty years
have sold the products of the farm.
When manufacturers were fully
protected and hourishing, | have
never seen the time that iudicious
agricu lture was not prosperous
and when manufacturing under
"reve1lue' tariff was crippled OF
broken down, never saw agricul'
ture flo urishing. Is there any gen
tleman in this house who has !
Sometimes a certain product may
be In de mand temporarily, but the
uniform rule is as have stated it,
If any member has seen it other
wise, let him declare it. Applause.
No; the real and permanent indus
tries of a people are always in har-
mony and interdependence with
each other. Each member of a
community profits by an increase
in the productive power of the
Whole body. That advantage is
Increased and multiplied by every
i Increase in the diversity of employ
lnents. The farming interest above
every other is benefited by this
diversity, which saves the necessity
I of carrying bulky product to a dis
tsnt market; for every intelligent
farmer knows that the man who is
compelled to go to market must, in
some way, pay the cost of going /;
and that the very FIRST of all the
charges paid, by labor or by land,
is that for transportation.
"The farmer has carefully and
intelligently studied this question,
not merely by theories of book
men, but in the school Of practical
affairs. He asks and has received
fair protection for his industries.
II is lust that he should, for many
agricultural products are produced
in other countries by pauper labor,
against which it would be a mon
strous outrage that the American
farmer should be forced to compete.
Protective duties are imposed on
all leading agricultural products
where protection is practicable.
American farmers know that these
duties we're laid to protect these
articles in the home market, which
consumes nearly 92 per cent OF all
the products of the farm.
at is not necessary to give a full
catalogue of all these products and
the duty on each, but | mention
enough taken from our tariff list,
to show how carefully the interests
of tho farmer have been considered.
The duty on Indian corn is I'D cents
a bushel; on wheat, 20 cents a
bushel; oats, 10 cents a bushel !;
barley, 10 cents a bushel; rye, ID
cents a bushel; peas and beans, 10
to 20 per cent; potatoes, 10 cents
a bnshel; butter, 4 cents a pound /;
cheese, 4 cents a pound; poultry,
10 per cent; sugar, 2 to . cents per
pound; leaftobacco, 80 cents a
pound; manufactured tobacco, %
cents a pound; beef and pork, l
cent q pound mutton, 10 cents a
pound; hay, 90 per cent; on all
domestic animals except for breed
ing purposes admitted free in the
interest of farming and stock-rais'
ing: wool, from 10 to II cents a
pound, with from 10 to II per cent.
added.
"Not only is his interest thus
protected, but the farmer knows
we'll that the protection to the
manufacturers benefits him still
more. lie knows that when the
great manufacturing industries OF
various kinds are active and flour
ishing that there is always de-
mand for all the variety of his pro-
ducts in the home market. lie
understands that the product or
the price of the great staples OF
wheat and corn a part of which
may be exported, is no measure of
the benefit to him of q home mar
ket which consumes at read Y
prices the still more abundant and
profitable products of the farm
which cannot reach distant or
foreign market without great loss
and many OF them not at all. The
vicinity Of q manufacturing town,
or of a manufacturing establish
ment, whether it be q rolllng'mlll,
furnace, or factory, not only at
once raises the price Of every foot
of his land, but gives him daily
market for the perishable and small
products of the farm, such as fruit,
dairy products, vegetables, eggs,
poultry, veal, mutton, hay, straw,
fodder, berries, cord-wood, and a
multitude of minor articles, thou
sands and millions dollars worth
of which no absolute record can
ever find its place in a national
balance.sheet; and these are the
most profitable of the products OF