The Holt County sentinel., 1888-07-27


to free trade, we ask this question, IN
all candor. s.WIll your vote while it
Injuries your fellowman, engaged IN
manufacture as Il wage-worher, benefit
you, if 50. how much? Were YOU bene-
fitted when in 1870 coffee and tea
were placed On the free list? The reven-
ues of the government were, by that
bit of legislation, reduced So GOO, 900
annually and from 1t You did not re-
ceive one far,hlrg of benefit. Did you?
If wool were placed on the tree list and
the revenues of the government thereby
reduced S6,000,0O0 annually, where is
the s'dreamer Of Improbable dreams"
who thinks he would buy wooden cloth
ing or blankets any cheaper than he can
now urchase them? So also with cotton
fabrics that can now be bought for less
money actually, than tie tariff duty on
them. The same is true also OF salt
and Il long list of articles inviting our
attention TO principle well worthy of
study, but which is brushed aside by
the author of the Leaders, article while
attention is directed to ''Eas,ern mas
ters," "Free tobacco and free whiskey
ticket" and s'not bushel of corn was
sold in Holt county last season for ship
ment." This last as.e, ton will be
proven incorrect at another tine by
such figures from shippers books us
will certainly surprise San old time
farmer" Not, however, that the propo
sition when proyen incorrect, will have
direct bearing upon the question un-
der discussion, but VIII meiely show
how easily one may be mstah ell or led
INTO Il recs less statement of that con-
cerinG which, he is net Informed.
just here the question arises. "N!il
not the free trade and tariff reform
people, IN tlcir zeal to follow their
chief, east many ballots, the result OF
which, being unknown to them, will
lniure workingmen in other pats of
the country and not benefit in the least,
the voters who deposited them? Now
AS TO the farmers and the tariff 1t is
contende,, that Liverpool fixes TIE mar
ket for our agilcai'ural products. We
grant that she does. Bur upon what
L Il a Iva.
but one answer, e. upon the demand
based upon the consumption OF En@il-h
..""..!- 'rhz. ,n=aSsrt nnriitinu in Eng
cannot increase, from her own territory,
her supply of agricultural products.
Farming, there, has for years been re.
duced to science so that the Weld
cannot, by higher, cultivation, be III
creased. Neither can the acreage be
added to, because all her land, suitable
for agriculture, has been for the past
half century. nseI to its fullest capac-
ity, for that purpose. England Is rails
ing every buShel of grain she can, or
will ever be able to. and yet upon The
authority of 4 no less conspicuous states
man than John Bright, she produces
but ''scant half of that she consumes. y
To the student of English history
aud politics. 1t is most apparent, that
her great object il, and fur yeaIs has
been, to better the condition of her
millions of people, BY pro,llins them
With cheap provisions. To this end
she bends the best energ;e- Of her gov
ernment and Invokrs the wisdom of
her statesmen. This Is Enoiand's con-
dliIon. 1t IS upon this condition that
Liverpool, the leading English produce
mart, fixes the markets. Bat to one
who notes her quotations. the Liver
pool make: appears surprisingly tluc-
tuating, wheat being frequently quoted
higher in Chicago than in Liverpool.
Take for example, the market reports
for nearly half of the year OF lo33.Dur-
ing that year lsuSsil Is sad TO have car
ricd over Il full years surplus which by
the bye was said oy Mr. Randall to
have been produced so chcaply by Rus
sian pea>aHt labor, that the grower of
1t, could ut 40 cents per busheI, clear
more money Oh his wheat than TIE
American faIIaer could clear on bis Il:
20 cents per bushel and " hat Is trne of
wheat is equally true of all other pro-
vision products which are common to
Russia and America; Asia also far
nisheS England with Vast amount of
whea, ANNUALLY y, and IN her traffic with
both Russia and Asia, England pays
largely tor their food supply With her !
products. Turn now to |
America. We have hot been able t., !
ascertain the number of men actually /
engaged in the culture Of wheat, for |
any given year, but by an approximate
rstimste made for the year of lsS5 1t Is
certain that The wheat Yield
Df the United States was I5:,, ,0O0. 900
bushel, about ! 81 bushels per capita.
The area Of land necessary to produce
his could tc increased several fold if
necessary, Tor beside the large unoc-
'upled territory we possess there are
comparatively lew wheat growing ser-
ions of this country, where the acreage
nay not be increased In many l.aris
IT The country the acreage could be IN
.reased two bundled per cent. II from
my cause this shoHd occur even to the
'Atent of fifty per crnt.-nut :,n ex-
rara%rnt e-t ulatC-the wheat cr.p of
lie United States for IN ordinary or
Ivcra-e season WuGIt! lie t.o, .jtji, 600
ashes. and our surplus wuald be
hereby greatly increased Every pro-
ncer Of wheat is directly Interested in .
how this surplus is to DC dis ,
oseG Of
England desires ttat this surplus be