Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-07-26

The free traders have been forced by
the irrefutable logic Of figures to ADAM
don the falsehood that quinine has been
cheapened by the abolition of tariff duty
upon it; they can not again assert that
the price Of coal is influenced, at any
rate in the middle ana southwestern
States-meaning all between the Blue
Ridge and the Rocky Mountains-by the
protective tariff; they can not much
longer keep afloat the fiction that the
price Of lumber on the Western plains is
greatly advanced by the duty on Canadi-
an boards and plank; they have learned
to their own sorrow, and to everybody
else's Joy, that man with what IS re-
garded as n small income in America,
say $12 TO $l5 per week, can live more
cheaply in Chicago or New York than
in London or Liverpool; they are bank
rupt Of statistics in proof Of their special
pleadings, and they have well nigh ex-
hausted themselves OF the glttering
generaities Of piatitude. To what refuge
will they next betake themselves? says
the Chicago Tnter-OcedR,
They linger fondly in belief that the
American farmers can be converted to
their way of thinking by repeated assur-
ances that protection protects the manu-
does not protect him who raises the food
which they consume. A few statistics
will be sufficient to rout them from this
position. Let US take five counties in
Kansas and see what protection does for
the farmers resident in them. In 1879
the wheat crop raised in the counties
mentioned and the amount Of protection
afforded TO it may be stated as follows:
al ftr4,
duty on them, So 4lj.Gl
Butler, 378, 258 bushels; protective duty
on them, $73 G5lG0.
Doniphan, 5lS,140 bushels; protective
duty on them, @l03 G2SO0.
Conley, ga 535 bushels; protective duty
O. hem, $l24 g0700
5edgwick, 57414t bushels; protective
duty on them, STA 95S2O.
The wheat crop has increased largely
since 1879, and of course the measure Of
protection has increased with it. And to
this protection on each bushel of wheat
is to be added that on each bushel of
oats, barley, buckwheat, and potatoes,
on each pound of butter, cheese, lard,
meat, honey, hops, and hemp raised.
And all of these could be imported from
Manitoba, Canada and Nova Scotia to
the detriment of the American farmer,
the tariff.
What is the amount of protection af-
forded to the farmers in five counties of
Illinois on one of their crops, that of
oats2 The output in 1879 was:
LaSalle County, 2,11o,752 bushels; pro-
tective duty on crop, &ll, 075.2O.
Mclean County, 2,ll07o0 bushelsp pro-
tectlve duty on crop, S2l1 ,01900
Ogie County, 2,297 359 bushels; protect
I've duty on crop, 5000, 735 30.
viii County, 2,7Ol $50 bushels; protect
i've duty on crop, $40, 1000.
Cook County, 1923 062 bushels; protect
i've duty on crop, S222, 3O5.2O.
Or more than 81 ,000, 900 Of protective
duty on one crop grown by the farmers
of five counties in State which borders
ON the great waterway between Canada
and the United States; a crop with
which, but for protection, our Canadian
,eighbors could fully supply the Chicago
md New York markets. The free
traders must abandon their claim for
sympathy from tho farmers on the plea
Of non-protected agriculture. And hay
ing abandoned this, what neXP
In this connection q few extracts will
not be amiss from book entitled Sc
crets Of Finance" by Mr.. Henry ebay
this is IAN age of cheapness. The de-
mand for cheapness, Mr.. Chaynor says,
has drowned the old demand for hon
esty, as set forth in the maxim "a fair
days wage for a fair days work. and
it has come to pass that as English work
is not fairly paid SO neither is it any
longer of fair quality. The age of cheap
ness is also an age of shoddy and veneer.
The cheap clo,nng OF England is of
wretched quality. and the cheap furni.
ture of wr.tChed construction, Yet
more important is the charge which Mr..
Cheynor prefers against this age of
cheapuess it Is an age with little
or no national sentiment The demand
for cheap goods no matter whence thel
come or 10y whom they are supplied, has
according TO Mr.. Chaynor, destroyed
much of England's old time natioua
pride.
just now, while free trade emissarie
are invading the United States. it ma,
be worth while to publish Mr., Chaynor'
indictment against English free trade n
the parent of many vices and disasters
1t runs thus:
l. Free trade has caused or helped Il
cause, an eNtravagaut misuse OF the ma
tonal capital In agriculture, and mines
and manufactures.
.. Free trade has rendered us more an,
more dependent on foreign countries 70
trade, and especially for food
8. Free trade, by the principle or II
sacrifices any national trade or occupation
~ e,.o. ,.... -ChcapnesS
4 Free trade has checked that iuterna
trade between the different occupation
of the country. which is the sOundest ant
most important OF all trades.