Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-30
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0uCHlnG THEIR POCKETS.

States business for Dakota courts.
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TOUCHING Their POCKETS.
why Farmers are Interested in the
Present Tariff Issue. ala
Washington, July GA republican
member OF the house from one of the
western states Was discussing, to-day,
the in serest farmers would take in the
approaching campaign. when he said: 4
Heretofore the farmers have, TO q
great extent, looked upon the question
of higher or lower tariff as an interest
solely affecting manufacturers. ] pre-
sumo that was largely due to the ,iact
that the Republicans in making their
reyiaions OF the tariff have retained or
increased, the duties on agricultural
products. and confined themselves to
reduction on manufactured articles. The
Mills bill directly attacks more of the
farming interests than aIl the tariff bills
heretofore proposed in conaress.p isg
''You ore right" interposed repub-
licGn member from Indiana. "We OK
pect, he continued, ito see the farmers
in the hoosIer state show more activity
In the approaching campaign, on ac-
coInt OF the onslaught made on the
farming interests by the Mills tariff bill,
than any other class. Let me take lust
one item in the Mills billto illustrate
what mean. The bill takes the entire
duty off hax seed, amounting to twenty
cents a bushel, and it puts on the free
list, iute. There are in Indiana now
about thirty or forty tow mills which
| manufacture fax straw into tow, and
they ship it to bsgging factories to be
| manufactured into begging material
and balinR stuf for cotton, hides, etc. /,
anc IN the manufacturing OF floor mat
ting, rope, twine and the like. With
flax seed free, it means direct reduction
OF the price farmers receive for their
fax seed, amounting to 20 cents O
bushel, and jute free. which comes into
direct competition With FAX straw, there
will absolutely be no inducements what
ever for farmers to raise fax seed. . Flax
straw is worth almost as much as fax
seed.
cat Muncle is losated one OF the
largest bagging factories, probably, in
the world, and surely the largest in she
United States. Is employs several
hundred men, women and girls, and
makes hundreds of thousands OF dollars
worth of bagging every year. II not
only buys up all the fax straw it can
SCORE throughout that section OF the
state but In the adjoining etstes, end 1t
buys tow from the two or three tow
mills located in that region. For many
years it has imported train after train
load Of flute, and has paid the duty nov
imposed upon ID. The jute was bought
largely because there was not enough
fax straw to be procured to keep tho
factory at work. or course il this iutef
can come in free it will be cheaper than
flag straw, and there will be no induce.
ment to buy the home article. through.
out the state there are large num-
Der Of haxssed oil mills, and they have
been run largely for years on imported.
haxseed, OF which there were millions OF
bushels imported during the last fiscal
year. Now il ne have free faxseed and
free iute these millsi are going to run on
the imported article alone, because ID,
can be bought ehesper and can be pro-
cured In quantities. desired and at any
time they are wanted, Nearly every
farmer in the state raises more or less OF
fax. mention thus industry rs an ex-
ample OF the many items In the Mills
bill which will come directly nome to
the farmers in Indiana; end what is
true to large extent with those OF other
states"
"The fax and faxseed industry" said
the northwestern member, 'sis Of moro
interest to the farmers in the northwest
than in Indiana. Flax is an immense
industry in the prairie states. Delegate
Clifford OF Dakota tells me free faxseed
and free jute means Ices every year 20
the farmers OF his territory of over
million dollars. Flax has grown through
out the northwest not only as money
making product, but TO tame the soil. Il
takes the rank qualities ont OF new
ground, but the farmers will stop raising
il as soon Rs they cease to make profit
on il. But the idea OF making q LOT OF
other things free-beans, poultry and
articles OF this kind--Will touch the.
farmer as closely as will free Aaxseed.
We are going 10 organize tariff clubs
among the farmers, and expect them TO
show their strength in this campaign.
Free wool alcne is enough to arouse
every farmer in the country, because il
means the disappearance OF the aocks
wherever there are no home markets for
the lamb and mutton, and the market
for sheep mea5 has been go fiat for years,
even with the present duty on fresh
meats, that there Is no profit in raising
sheep for their flesh, except in some un-
usual instances In the neighborho cd OF
large cities where high prices art OBJ
tanned fox the very EARLIEST Iambs."
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