The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-08
Substance of Petition to Congress Embody-
ing Desired Changes and Notifications in
the Laws Governing Importations.
Captain White Overloaded with Congrat-
ulations on His Great Victory.
Terms of the Bill Converting No-Man's Land
Into the Territory Of Oklahoma-Compo-
sition of Reading Strike Committee.
PROTECTION FOR FARMERS.

How They Are Affected by the TarIff-The
Changes and Modifcattons Desired.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Some time ago the
Tribune, of this city, invited expression of
opinion by individual formers. agricultural socls
ties and oranges regarding the effects of the
tariff upon agricultural industry and the
changes in the tariff desired by farmers. The
result was the receipt of several Thousand let
ters, which the Tribune submitted to q COM
mittee consisting of Hon. Warner Miller. of
New York, chairman; Cyrus G. Carpenter. John
It. Rich, w. G. Morse Edward Burroughs. j. D.
Lyman. w. NJ. Grosvenor. Hon. ]. H
Hale, of Connecticut, and Hon. James
Wilson. of Iowa. This committee
was charged. with the work of making up the
consensus of the farmers of the country az
shown by these letters. Its report. signed by
all except Messrs. Hale and Wilson-the former
having, however, approved all the findings on
which the document is based. and the latter be-
ing beyond reach. in Texas Mexico-wiil be
published in the Tribune tomorrow. 1t is ac-
comnaned by the following petition, which sue
cinctly embodies the findings of the committee,
and which farmers and farmers organizations
who favor its propositions requested to sign
and transmit to Congress, or to the Tribune for
forwarding:
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The undersigned respec fully pray that agriculture
may be more effectually protected by preventing
they for breeding only by duty of 20 per
bushe barley with proportionate increase of duty
and onions So per hu ndred on cabbages So per ton
hay, 10 cent. per pound on hops. 20 per cent.
esns on fowls ps and poultry and on
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt
no removal or reduction Of duties on market garden
products now dutiable by such increased duties on
the preparation of fibre and manufacture Of goods; by
abolishing all duties sugar, with bounty to home
suitable for wrappers at the duty imposed other
leaf tobacco, and repeating all internal taxes to-
protection enjoyed under the tariff Of 1867 80 mod
fed as to meet later forms of foreign competition
evasion.
The report proper is quite long, giving the
statistics of farm and manufacturing growth in
the United States during the past fifteen years
TO show that protection has brought immigration,
and with it home market for agricultural
products which permitted vast farm develop
ment, etc. The following excerpts give the
spirit Of what the committee found in the let
ters:
The great majority of these letters express the
victon that the tariff Notwithstanding defects and
and welfare Of agricu lture rev are hostile 9r ndif
exception, the letters received point out
defended the industry Of farmers in ways in which it
branch of manufacture from the spasmodic and de-
structive competition which the cheapness and dsgra
Bnt the barrier around the farming industry at all
points relatively low, has many gaps, partly from
this hour some important products Of American
farms undersold in of our cities and towns
from Spain and Egypt appear in markets as lar West
as Chicago. Tobacco raised by coolies in Sumatra
lessons the reward Of American growers. Wool
creatures
scarce less degraded. stops wool-growng by army
the saughterer Potatoes and cabbages by the cargo
from places where women work daily in the fields,
come hithsr ballast, with eggs by the ship load
from Holland, cattle from Mexico. and barley from
The fraudulent importation of cattle for slaughter,
northern and southern boundaries pretense
that they are for breeding purposes only. and by
is quite enough that u, 900 head We're last year inn
.sh o.s saS aas be thought Sas sSop s:ss s
brought In from Mexico. professedIy for
have for unable 10 gs
living prices The collapse of extensive speculatoas
mails to be sacrificed at low prices, and though con-
gained relatively little of the chief ia
unprotbis The gresssss danger viii Il s.r
speculations arise in Mexico Canada; at their col
upon our market in spite Of the low duty which viii
then prove protection But the fraudulent evasion
of the law already increases. and be indefinitely
The duty on barley should be raised to equal that
- 20 Of s with
10, 600 900 bushels of barley imported during
the last fiscal and probably over l3 600 600 during
duction was $1,000 900 bushels The regions in
which i may be most pr0ataoy grSwn have their
ducsrs reach by water, while most of own
producers cannot The duty on potatoes and market
hither in ballast in almost unlimited quantities,
be a snsag to anS border fair to
Here follo~s statistics of the importation of pota-
.aa that Ssw 8or Esm
Connecticut and Psnnsylvania produce fewer pota-
toes than they did twentyeight years ago. The
More thao 600. 900 tons Of fax straw goes to
waste or is bnsned in Western States. worth if pre-
foreign makers for linen goods besides duties amount
ing to So. 500 600 which the @ sovsrnmens does not
who refer at all to the duties ask the
of those duties The producers of
earnestly desire that the fraudulent importation Of
;ooliegrown tobacco, by which their industry has
precise language defining classes to which exist
ng duties were meant to apply.
The report then gives the statistics OF the
wool INDUSTRY Of the country, as affected by the
tariff, and continues:
throughout the country show that the prostration of
than million and if forced to give up wool grow
ng must devote their land to other branches of agr
,uILuro IN Wnlch coupeLltiou ~ 1ircSdy S6Vefo /
enough; that the prostration of the manufacture |
would also deprive American farmers of considera-
yoods worn by ninetenths of the people, as cheap |
In any other country, quality considered, the
consumption of this country is to be supplied
wholly in part by foreign looms They the refore
sk united effort of all farmers to obtain from Con-
such action that this industry ay receive
protection enjoyed under the tariff of
1857
THE PUBLIC LAND STRIP.