The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-20

any system of taxation along with
the increase of population, increase of
wealth and the improved facilities for pro-
ducton and distribution in this country.
But how long are our farmers to sit down
and wait for the coming of that home
market which the gentlemen ON the other
side have been promising them for so many
long years9 The last statistics, showing the
consumption and production and the ex-
portation of raw cotton in this country,
show that in 1886 we sent abroad about two
thirds of our production, and we consumed
IN our manufactures at home, therefore, one
third. The capital invested in 1880 was
S2l9,00 900; the number of hands en-
ployed was 172, 900. Now, if we have been
more than 100 years in so developing these
cotton industries as to enable them to take
and consume only one-third of the Ameri-
can cotton crop, at prices fixed in Europe,
how many centuries will we have to wait
until thes> factories shall 50 develop as to
consume all our productions, at fair
prices, fixed in this countryl When
the gentlemen have solved this
problem to the satisfaction of the Amer-
can cotton grower, he will perhaps have
patience to listen to arguments showing the
advantages of the home market that will
never exist.
FATE OF THE PRODUCTS.
What is to become of these products?
Are the farmers of the North and the plant
ers Cf the South to abandon their great
wheat and cotton fields and undertake the
cultivation of crops not suited to their
soil and their climates in order
that these gentlemen may have an
opportunity to make experiments to
see whether a home market can be
made by legislationa No. sir, these great
agricultural interests must go on, and the
American farmer must continue to sell his
surplus product in any market he can
reach and for any price he can get.
Thegentleman from Maine, (Mr. Dingley),
while not fearing to admit that the price of
all our exportable product is fixed in a
foreign market. undertook to avoid the force
of the admission by contending that the price
in the foreign market was fixed by tie
supply III America. Undoubtedly the sup
ply i'll this country has an influence in
fixing the price in the foreign market, but
the great controlling element is the worlds
supply and the worlds demand. American
producers of wheat, for instance, do not
compete among themselves alone in the
great wheat markets of Europe. They
meet there the wheat from England, from
Russia. Austria, Hungary and India, and
all the other grain growing regions of
Europe and Asia, and they sell their
products there in competition with all the
product and the prices of labor on the face
of the earth.
HARD COMPETITORS.
The lately emancipated slaves of Russia
and India, who live all summer on rice and
milk and require no garment except
coarse cotton shirt, and sleep on the hoor of
bamboo hut, all pour their products into
the markets of Europe to meet the wheat
from Minnesota and Dakota, and no tariff
we can put on, and no system of taxation
that can be devised here by the ingenuity of
man, can prevent this being done. The
| same argument applies to all our agricul-
/ tural products, and the American farmer
understands it, and he understands that as
long as he is compelled to export and sell in
a foreign land any part of his product, the
| foreign market is worth just as much to
| him as the home market, because he re-
ceives there just what he would receive
here after deducting the cost of transporta-
| ton. Therefore, in place of restricting his
market, he wants it extended and enlarged
so his products, which cannot be consumed
| here, can find market among the people
| elsewhere.
|. WHAT THE FARMER WANTS.
What the American farmer wants is a
| home market in which he can purchase his
| supplies as cheap as his competitors pur-
chase their supplies When he can't get
| this then he asks that there may be such q
supplies elsewhere and bring them into his
own country without being unreasonably
fined for carrying on this harmless business
| That is what the American farmer wants.
| We want, gentlemen, not only the home
markets, but the markets Of all the world
for the variety of products Of this great
country We want to sell our manufac-
tured products to India and the hungry
manufacturing places Of Europe, and the
agricultural places of Mexico, South
America and Asia. We want to remove
| as far as we can the restrictions and bar
riers which annoy our industries, SO that
this country may take its place alongside of
! the great commercial countries OF the world
and become rich and powerful as no other
| country has before.
Mr. Carlisle thanked the committee for
the attention with which it had heard him,
and explained that he had undertaken to
speak under considerable difficulty.
1t was generally reported that he was far
| from well, and he appeared to be much
fatigued at the close of his speech
When he had finished, there was burst
of tumultuous applause and cheering,
which, in fact, had been plentifully ac-
corded at each of his points, and it was
some minutes before order could be re-
stored, owing to the pressure of members to
get near the Speaker and congratulate him.
At $3.50 o'clock the committee rose, and
the House adjourned.