The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-09

A loss of over four hundred and Fifty millions
in the last decade. ,.- .,t--
values, improvements, stock and farming implc-
ments. They include the entire capital and
wealth of the farmers of those states. And
Pennsylvania, the most favored of all the states
under the present ystem, with her myriad OF
highly projected industries, her unexampled
accumulation of wealth in the hands of favored
classes her long roll of milionaires laid the iron
hand Of protection upon her farmers, and IN the
name of American industries" robbed the
agrlculturists of se9, SS1, ,529 in the decade be-
tween 1870 and 1880, and it is still going on in
an increased ratio -'
What picture the little state of New Hamp-
shire cuts in this table, the state that was so
extolled by my friend Mr.. Gallingerl. He
held it up in contrast with southern states and
showed how much more money they were
making than could possibly be made in the
| agricultural states of the south. How. then,
stands New Hampshire in this raceI- In 1850
the agriculturalists of that state had svalue of
S66, ,432 023 1860, $83, ,297. .400 in 1870, $685.
| 295, Sol. In 1880 they had lest nearly Sill,
| 000, 600, having only $6S, 7l5, ,69S.
Now il this system of protective tariff piles up
| this immense amount of money, which has been
| stated, in the New England and other manu-
| featuring states, ask again, who gets it? As
| stated by the gentleman from Massachusetts, iu
] his history of Alexander Hamilton, the manu-
factursr alone gets it. But they say to us in
the west, if you will simply build up manu-
factories and diversity your industries you will
grow rich as we do. But, my friends, we do not
| want to grow rich as you do. Public sentiment
in the west is upon niger plane than robbing
one portion of its own people to enrich another
1 portion. GApplRuse. Whenever you devise q
system of taxation that will bear equally upon
all the people of the west then we want to sup.
| port 1t. But when you present to us q PROPOSE.
tion that we shall rob nine men out OF ten in the
| Mississippi valley SIMPLY to make one man rich
we reject 1t with scorn and contempt. And thai
| is what you are doing.
The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Cheadle
| asked me whether included in my statement
the money owed by the farmers. So far as wa.
| possible to get at the matter in taking the cen
| sus of what the farmers own their money Is in
| eluded. But want to state here without feal
| of successful contradiction, that the bank de
posits by farmers and in the agricultural dis
triets of The country have been steadily goinl
down. growing beautifully less'' under thi
tariff ever since 1860. I know bank In m,
own county today which was in existence be
ing Mr.. Biggs), you borrowed many doIla
from 1t with which TO handle stock-I refer Il
the old Branch bank of the state of Missouri a
4 Palmyra. 1t still exists under different name
| Between 1850 and 1860, in Paris and PALMYRA
the county seats of Monroe and Marion counties
and other large agricultural counties rs per cent
of the stock of the local banks and of all tn
money deposited therein belonged to the farm
ers. Is it not true?
Mr., Biggs-It is; know it to have been th
fact.
Mr.. Hatch-And today rs per cent. of th
loans OF those banks are made to the farmers
That is the way the tables have turned.
challenge the statement of the gentleman fron
New Hampshire (Mr. GalEnger) when he say
| that one-third of the deposits in the saving
banks of New England are made by farmers
| deny that statement, and challenge him at an
| time during this discussion to produce any tp
ures to show that any such proportion Of th
. | farmers OF New England are depositors in saw
ings banks. know that the farmers are getfin
| poorer every year. / know it by personal e1
| perience; know it by personal intercourse wit
. leading farmers in the west; know it b
1 statistics which no nlan can gainaay. And it
| perfectly natural that it should be So Tn
| burden of this tariff taxation falls upon them
they pay the heaviest proportion of it. Every
thing they buy is taxed. and everything the
| sell is free.
Mr.. Guenther do you propose to protsct tn
farmers?
| Mr.. Hatch-Do propose to protect them
Yes, sir. propose to protect them simply b,
keeping them from being robbed, that is ali.
But the gentleman from Wisconsin prints
list of farm products imported into this country
and under the head of breadstuffs he has place.
| barley. According to the gentleman's state
ment nearly $6,O00, 900 worth of breadstutf
were imported in three months, and over 81
0o0. 900 worth consisted of barley, and barley
brought from Canada to Milwaukee and Roches
ter and Detroit and made into beer, every bushe
of it made into beer. / ask, then, is barley
breadstuff?
1 want to show the skill with which these gen
uemen try to mislead the people. They tail
about the imported sbreadstuffs" when fou
millions out of six are barley for beer.
Then the gentleman says wheat is protected
Wheat protectedl Oh, yes. They say: fW
protect the farmer by putting g tariff of 2
cents per bushel on wheat" Wha
farmer in Wisconsin il SO ignorau
that you can palm that off ON him
1 What farmer lives today in the Mississippi val
ley, who grows bushel of wheat, that you car
palm off on him the proposition that ne is pre
tected by duty on wheat2 Gentlemen All
about wheat coming over the Canadian line anl
that duty was laid upon wheat to protect few
farmera upon the CanAdIan border.