Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-20

hundred years in so developing thes,
cotton industries as to enable them tt
take and consume only three quarters o
the American cotton crop at price,
fixed in Europe, how many cen
turies will we have to wal
until these factories shall SO develop tt
consume all our productions at fair price;
fixed in this country? What is to become
of these products? Are the farmers o.
the North and the planters OF the South
| to abandon their great wheat and cotton
fields and undertake the cultivation oi
crops not suited to their soil in oder
that these gentlemen may experiment
to see whether q home market
can be made by legislation? No, sir
these great agricultural interests must
90 on, and the American farmer must
sell his surplus products in any market
he can, and for any price he can. The
great controlling element is the worlds
supply and the worlds demand. The
American producers OF wheat. for in
stance, do not compete among them
selves alone. In the great wheat
markets OF Europe, they meet wheat
from England, Russia, Austria, Hungary
India and other grain growing regions OF
Europe and Asia, and they sell their
products there in competition with all
the prcdncis and prices of labor ON Il
face of the earth.
"The lately emancipated slaves OF
Russia, the laborer of India who lives all
summer ON rice and milk and requires
only coarse cotton shirt and sleeps on
the floor OF a bam boo hut, all pour their
products into the markets OF Europe to
meet the wheat from Minnesota and Da-
kota, and no tariff we can put on and no
system of taxation here can prevent
this. The same argument applies
to all our agricultural products,
and the American farmer under
stands it; and he understands as
long as he is compelled to export and
sell in a foreign market a part of his
product, the foreign market is worth as
much to him as the home market, be-
cause he receives there just what he
would receive here, after deducting the
cost of transportation. Therefore, in
place Of restricting his market. he wants
it enlarged SO his products, which cannot
be consumed here, can find a market
among the people of other countries.
''What the American farmer wants is a
home market in which he can purchase
his supplies as cheap as his competitors.
When he can't get this, then he asks
that there may be such system as will
enable him to purchase elsewhere and
import them, without being unreasonably
fired for carrying On this harmless busi-
ness. That is what the American farmer
wants.
"We want not only home market, but
the markets OF all the world for the varie-
ties of the products OF this great country.
We want to sell cur manufactured pro
ducts to India and Hungary, the manu-
featuring places of Europe and the agri-
cultural places OF Mexico, South Ameri
ca and Asia. We want to remove, as far
as we can, the barriers which annoy our
industries so that this country may take
its place with the great commercial coun-
tries of the world and become rich and
powerful as any OF Them"
Carlisle thanked the Committee for
the attention with which il heard him,
and explained that he had undertaken to
speak under considerable difficulty. 1t
was generally reported that he was far
from we'll, and he appeared to be much
fatigued at the close of his speech When
he finished there was q burst of tumultu
GUS applause and cheering, which, in
fact, rad been plentifully accorded at
each OF his points, and it was some min
utes before order could be restored, owing
to the pressure of members to get near
the Speaker and congratulate him.
The Committee rose and the House
adjourned.
An arrangement was concluded this
afternoon by which the Tariff bill will be
laid aside for week or ten days and the
House will proceed with the considera-
ton OF appropriation bills. 1t is the
general understanding this proposition
was made by Mills in order to allow an
opportunity to the Republicans to reach
an agreement concerning his proposition
to take vote upon the Tariff bill and
the Republicans substitute without
amendments.