Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-20


authors Of the bill must know, and the real /
purpose of the bill is. therefore, indicated F.
o. be- hostility To- the protection OF manuiac-
lures and not hostility 20 surplus revenue.
While any free trade blow at manuiac.
lures, in its rebound will prove not less |
detrimental to agriculture, as both never |
fail 10 flourish or languish together, vet this
Democratic tariff bll directly, as well as
indirectly, makes loud and radical demands
upon farmers aud calls upon them to place
more numerous and costly sacrifices upon
the altar Of free trade than any tariff re
former has ever before ventured 10 suggest.
From the long list Of articles upon which it
is proposed hy the administration now in
power, that all tariff duties shall be surren-
dercd. | will select aud call attention to
some portions of the compulsory contribu-
ton to be made by American farmers and
this list will be found, perhaps, sufficiently
extensive to console and reconcile our
neighbors of the Canadian Dominion for
their recent loss Of n reciprocity treaty
Here is profuse maguanimity free
surrender of all our border markets to
those who VIII not permit our people to
fish or cut bait within three miles OF their
shores
In addition to the free list the cultivators
Of the soil will also find the tariff is to be
reduced ON many articles which will seri-
ously touch their interests For instance,
the rates on leaf tobacco for wrappers, on
rice and paddy, on sugar andon corn, rice,
and potato starch are all to he reduced. If
farmers, however, should feel respondent
in looking over this bill, the only relief APP
pears TO be, Opium, crude, containing
nine per cent. and over of morpha, winch
as well as wool, is TO be free of duty.
Extracts from, the free list Of the Democratic
tariff bin Wool Of all kinds wool ON the skin
WOODEN RAGS sn1uny mluut" a'n Int s',,
sisal' ,rnss and other VEGETABLE fibers; hemp
linsetd or faxseed broom corn tallow hristlcs
beans prase spit peas N'gtIanes W. I'LL. ,ntl,
l,a.I, :" 9ii Is,soW fruits. trats game and
poultry seeds hemp and rape seed, and other
oil seeds of like character
The leading industrial interests OF many
states, south as well as north on the Facihc
coast as well "a on the Atlantic, are threat
encd with ruin under pretense ot reform,
and Il reform that Is To confer dement's only
upon the homes OF foreigners ana not our
own
If this so-called reform tariff bill shall
ever reach the Senate, as II Is very deslra-
ble that some revenue bill should reach us
trust we may be able to amend ana make
1t 50 much better that even its own god
fathers Will be glad That II tel INTO our
hands, and glad, also that after our reVls-
ion, though it may take all summer. the
tarlit Will be likely to be American ana not
British.
Very few of our people comprehend the
large area of cultivated land which has
been brought INTO recent competition WIN
that OF farmers throughout the world.
Even III our own country the Prodglous
crops OF the broad prairles OF new states
ana territories, grazed by immense nerds
or nocks, or cultivated upon grand scale,
with modern reaperS, mowers ana steam
plows, nave severely atected the balance
sheets OF farmers III the older states, and
the fruitful surplus OF the great west
winch ought TO be, ana soon VIII he, more
largely consumed nearer at nome, has TOO
often been forced to seek and accept the
terms OF distant ana foreign markets.
Nearly all OF our Western states, with their
abundant coal-ieIds and with continued
proper tariii protection, ought soon to nave
more ample and satisfactory home demand
Tor their beef, pork, wool and agricultural
products, ana thus perpetuate their early
triumphant progress. lhere Is certainly
little vantage ground elsewhere visible.
Australasia and the Argentine Republic,
each almost as large as the United States,
indicate vast future by their present i'm
mense crops of wheat and corn, and espe-
cially by their sheep husbandry. Australia
exported f19'f'o,UUO pounds OF wool IN
loo1.o' ana the number oil sheep III the Ar
genuine Republic was stated by traveller
III 1859 at luO,Ooo,OOO see Harpers Maya
%lne oil November, lSSol producing nearly
an equal quantity OF wool, and both togeth-
er perhaps as much as was produced IN the
whole world 20 years ago, In Buenos
Ayres' one hril, IN 1851 sold l2OO Amer
can rehpers. Inc wheat fields OF India
are expanding with great rapldlty, and
through the Suez canal their wheat success
lully completes III the markets of Great
brlalh' IN Mexico, under the rule OF
more stable government, large tracts of
land are beng sold to capitalists to be de-
voted, under the broadest systems OF cul-
ture, to agricultural products and stock
raising Inc Canadian Commons, ON our
northern frontier, are also dlsposlng OF un-
limited acres TO bounty paid immigrants,
winch are annually increasing such stock
and farm products as they are striving to
md market Tor IN the United States.
Even foreign grown imported potatoes have
been conspicuous during the past season in
American markets. Already we appear to
oiter steady market to the British prov
inces for many farm products. For seven
MONTHS ending Jan. III, 1888, our total i'm
ports OF potatoes were 2,922 ,60 bushels,
part OF whlch came from Scotland. Last
year wheat from INDIA, with the duty add
ed, could nave been delivered at New York
Tor O0 cents per bushel. With improved
transportation and increasing crops it is
likely to become formidable competitor,
even III our home markets.
No industry has recently had to sustain