The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-06
comes of the $2 500, 100000 worth of farm

comes of the $2,5OO, OOO, 900 worth of farm
property which your system at once ami
hilates9 II Is sufficient TO say that such a
sweeping measure would ruin every farmer
in the U. s. unless he is independently
rich outside of his farm. And all this
enormous sacrifice the farmer is asked to
make 10 secure "home market" Home
market for what? Not his surplus, hut for
three-fourths of his present product, for
the transfer of two million Of workers from
the farms 10 the mines and shops would In
to feed,
The Republican scheme involves not
only the destruction of one fourth of our
farm property, but also all our ocean ship-
ping, twothirds of which. indeed, as cons
pared with 1860, has already been destroyed
by Republican Legislation, If We CHECK"
all imports, and, per consequence, all eX'
ports, we shall have no further use for
ships To trade to foreign countries, and our
ocean mercantile tonnage, which in 1860
WAS next to that Of England, but now has
sunk below that Of Spain, will be entirely
wiped out-entaiing another dead loss of
several hundred millions
Shall we be told that this Is strained
and eXae gerated presentation of the repub
lican scheme, and that the party really
mean nothing so destructive? See here
The Chicago Inter Ocean of Tuesday,
publishes, with strong editorial commen'
dation, long, carefully and ably prepared
article by Enoch Eusley, "a Tennessee
manufacturer" by whom the republican
scheme is fully defined, elaborated and de-
Tended. What it exactly means he illus
trates In this way: Tom is farmer, busily
engaged in raising all kinds of produce;
Dick is a manufacturer GO miles away, also
busily at work all the yea; and Harry is
a trader, who is kept busy carrying goods
back and forth between Tom and Dick.
Now if Tom and Dick, instead of living
80 miles apart, lived on adjoining lots, the
cost of maintaining Harry to carry back
and forth between them could be saved.
So the United States Is one big bailwick.
The farmer, lumber men and coal diggers
occupy the mountains and fields, the manu-.
facturers the cities. Each class produces
what the other needs, and living next door
neighbors, can exchange their products
without the Intervention of Harry" or
trader, or middleman. On the other hand,
If the manufacturers are obliged to export
products and import raw materials, and the
farmer, &c, to export their products and
get supplies in return from abroad, the
vast expense of merchants, shippers and an
ocean marine are added to their burdens.
And this Is seriously and earnestly put
forth and defended as the grand consum.
nation the republican party is aiming at.
1t means the entire destruction Of our mer.
chant marine and our great commercial
cities. which are stigmatized as "sores upon
the body polite" the erection of com>
plete Chinese wall around US, the subjec-
ton of the 5O,000,00O of this country to
few hundred manufacturing syndicates and
trusts, and the gradual RELOCATION of our
laboring, farming and mining population
to the condition of oriental serfs.
Says David Atkinson, 1.-The theories of
certain incapable persons who advocate
national isolation are so absurd as to make
discussion with them useless. The bene.
fits of foreign commerce under proper con.
ditions are fully admitted by every one"
''All the great nations of the world" says
Hugh Mccullough, Grants secretary of the
treasury, were commercial, ship owning
and ship building nations"
Instead of such scheme, which, while
n realization of the heaven of the trust rob.
bers would put this country back to the
civilization of the dark ages, the democratic
party, while extending all needed and
reasonable protection to our manufacturers,
would save our farmers, mining and other
populations from the dominion
and rapacitv of syndicates and trusts by
opening the markets of the world to their
surplus products, and would assert for this
great nation that commercial standing,
greatne IS and power which is Its original
heritage among the nations of the world.