Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-28

V MN1N6, JULY IS. 1883.
American labor and elevates the price of
the products of the American farmer. A
duty is placed upon manufactured pro-
ducts SO that the manufacturer may
exist and through his existence
the wage worker in his factory may ex-
ist. In the person Of the wage worker
IN the department OF manufactures Ave
million toilers are maintained and with
the proceeds of their toll they purchase
food and raiment for fifteen million
more who are dependent upon them
This makes demand for the products
OF the farm and stable home market is
maintained. That the agricultural pro-
ducers OF other countries may not bring
their produce into the Amsrican home
market and here compete with the labor
OF our farmers, the policy OF j the
republican party places duty
upon the breadstuffs which supply aus
ssnance to the manufacturing ,laborer
and those dependent upon him, and this
duty practically prohibits she compesi-
tion the American farmer could not con-
tend against If unprotected, because the
farm produce OF other countries is cre-
ated through the cheap labor OF the
worlds most degraded toilers, THAT the
American farmer may be protected ia
his capital and labor, the foreign farmer
/ is compelled, under our protective
policy, to pay for the privilege OF bring
ing his produce into the
American home market. twenty
cents for every bushel OF wheat, fifteen
cents for every bushsl OF potatoes. ten
cents for every bushel OF corn or oats,
and in q like proportion for ell other
farm produce brought to our country.
This gives the American farmer twenty
cents more per bnshel for his wheat,
fifteen cents more per bushel for his
potatoes, ten cents more per buehel for
his corn and oats and the amount of
duty on each single article more for all
his other products. For the year 1886
the additional amount brought TO
American farmers through the duty on
wheat and corn alone aggregated
$257 1887, TOO. The simple quea !,
tion is, do our farmers want to sacrifieH
$257, 1887 700 year on wheat and corn
aloHe for the sake of foreign competition
which would take the money out OF The
country?
There is another phase of this ques.
tion. 1t is the evidence OF history in all
parts of the world that manufacturing
industries cannot be built up in coun-
try OF natural agricultural resources
without government protection in il=
form OF 8 tariff upon foreign manufac-
sared articles. The reason is that those
who engage in manufacturing labor will
not work for the low wages OF the for
eign scale SO long they can feed them
selves and those dependent upon them by
tilling the soil. Soil is abundant and
| cheap and productive in America. Sc
if We had no manufacturing industries
all orr manufacturing laborers would be
farmers. This would add five million
farm workers to the nine million already
engaged in agriculture. The five million
and those dependent upon them are now
fed by the nine million who farm for q
vocation. III they were themselves farm.
ers they would feed themselves aud
those dependent upon them and the nine
million would lose their home market.
They wonid also each year produce q
surplus and this would be added to the
surplus produced by the nine million
who are now farmers, Through these
processes farm products would become a
drug on the market and would command
mo price.
Il is said that the American farmer
can find q market abroad for hia products
He can to very limited extent and
when he goes abroad he places hia labor
in competition with the labor Of men
who work for! Eve and ten csnts . day.
Our farmers generally would not thrive
under this competition. With the pro-
tectiye tariff abolished our farmers
would spesdily find themselves in con-
petition here Of home with this same
class OF labor. It is demonstrated every
day that wheat from far awes India can
now be sold in New York, with the duty
Of twenty cents added. within Aye cents
per bnshel OF the price paid for Ameri-
can grown wheat. Remove the duty
and American farmers would suffer to.
day very seriously from the competition
Of the wheat grower of India. Then
there is the long And vide stretch oil
Canadian wheat land just north Of us
Abolish the tax OF twenty cents pei
buBhel and Canadian wheat would inn
mediately force Dakota wheas down 81
least twenty cents per bushel. Do the
farmers of Dakota aspire to their OWE
bankruptcy II they do, all that i.
necessary TO enable them to accomplish
1t is TO endorse and sustain the sophis-
tries Of the congressional candidate ol
the democratic party OF Dakota.
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CONGRESSMAN Hnute Nelson.
1 Washington, July 25-There has beer
| . great deal Of interest among the demo
Gratis in Washington to know what The
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