The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-04-26

sirable that some revenue bill should
reach us trust we may be able Il
amend and make 1t so much better tina
even its own god fathers will be glaC
that it fell INTO our hands, and glad
al4o, that after our revision, though il
may take all summer. the tariff will bC
likely to be American and not British,
Very few of our people comprehend
the large area Of cultivated land which
has been brought into recent competi-
tiOn with that of farmers throughout
| the world, Even in our own country
the prodigious crops OF the broad prair-
les of new states and territories, grazed
] by immense herds or flocks, or cultlvat-
| ed upon a grand scale, with modern
reapers, mowers and steam plows, have
severely affected the balance sheets OF
farmers in the older states. and the fruit
full surplus of the great West, which
ought to be, and coon will be, more
largely consumed near at home, has too
often been forced to seek and accept the
terms of distant and foreign markets,
Nearly all of our Western states, with
their abundant coal fields and with con-
tinued proper tariff protection, ought
soon to have more ample and satisfac
tory home demand for their beef, pork
wool and agricultural products, and
thus perpetuate their early triumphant
progress. There is certainly little van
tage ground elsewhere visible.
Australasia and the Argentine Repub.
lie each almost as large as the United
S ates. indicate a vast future by their
present immense crops of wheat or corn
and especially by their sheep husbandry
Australia exported 455, 40, 0n0 pounds
of wool IN 1885 1886, and the number of
sheep in the Argentine Republic was
stated by a traveller in 1885 at 100, 900,
900 (see Harpers Magazine of November
1885, pr ducing nearly an equal quanti-
ty OF wool, and both together perhaps as
much as was produced in the whole
world twenty-five years sgo. In Buenos
Ayres, one firm in 1886, sold twelve hun
dred American reapers. The wheat
fields OF India are expanding with great
rapidity, and through the Suez Canal
their wheat successfully competes in
the markets of Great Britain. In Mexi
CO, under the rule of a more stable gov
erument, large tracts of land are being
sold to capitalists to be devoted, under
the broadest systems of culture, to agrl-
cultural products and stock raising
The Canadian DomInions, on our north
ern frontier, are also dsposing of unlim
tied acres to bounty paid immigrants,
which are annually increasing such
stock and farm products as they are
striving to find a better market for in
the United States. Even foreign grown
imported potatoes have been cOnspicu-
GUS during the past season in American
markets. Already we appear to offer
a steady market to the British provinces
for many farm products. For seven
months, ending January 81, 1888. our
total imports of potatoes were 2, 922 ,677
bushels, part or which came flom Scot
land. Last year wheat from India with
the duty added, could have been deliv-
cred at New York for 95 cents per bush
ell. With improved transported ton and
increasing crops it is likely to become a
formidable competitor, even in our home
markets.
No industry hes recently had to sus
stain, or will be called upon to sustain
hereafter, more aggressive rivalry from
new and unlocked for fields of produc-
tion than that of the farmer and hus-
bandman. And shall the only protec
tion hitherto possible be now begrudged
and withdrawn? Foreign peoples are
every where beginning to furnish them
selves with bread and meat from theil
own resources. and the youngest nations
in other hemispheres, blessed with vir
| gin soils, are bringing forth aboundinl
products for which they are struggling
to find even far away market. Are
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destroy the home market of American
farmers,and the only market which they
possess any inherent power to perma
ncntly retain?
In the ethics of nations all adhere t
the principle that it is right and sounC
statecraft for each one to take care o
itself, and no one supports any econo
mic policy which is not claimed to b.
the best for its own people. Cotton /
not raised to clothe or aggrandize a for
eign people, but for the profit of tn,
producers. Wheat is not raised to max
it cheap in foreign markets, but becaus,
it is found t be remunerative at home
Cuba does not bring her sugar here iron
cosmopolitan affection, but becaus
sugar here obtains the best price. n
other people seek our markets to confe
favor upon Americans, but altogethe
for their own pecunIary benefit, Thes
markets. in their wide extent and in tn
superior ability Of the consumers, dwar
and surpass all other markets on tn
globe, and should be guarded by the III
most vigilance of the nation. In tn
worlds history our diplomatic arrange
ments have not always contributed t
the maintenance of these markets, an
it would: be an infinitely greater mis-
take, more far reaching mischief,
Congress should voluntarily, and as
free gift surrender these golden HON
markets to those who do not care for U
or to that empire which, after their VT
conditional surrender, might well affor
no longer to regret the loss of any Amel
ican colonies.
Our people are united by fraterna
blood, confident of their independents
now and forever, fearless of any hostil
aggression, and proud of their countr
that stretches from ocean to ocean, wit
more and better harbors than are fount
in all Europe, and more miles Of rail
road than in all the world besides. Pro
ducing more coal, iron, copper, whea
corn, cattle, horses, hogs, and gold an
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confess our incompetence to handle an
protect these vast resources created b
: American labor, and leave them 10 b
captured as the lawful booty OF the old
er and more adroit European statesmen
Having resolutely refused to copy for
eign constitutional theories. shall we a
! last accept of an economical theory I'M
ported by the Golden Club and dismis
all the traditions of. an American polio
of growth and development regardless {
of the fortunes Of over so 200, 900 of ou
own citizens by the abandonment of a
hope of reaching that manifest destiny
, Of standing foremost among nation
| once 40 dear to the hearts of our fore
8 fathers?
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never TO himself hath said,
l This is my own, my native land1
TWAS EVER THUS.
The good, trusting, simple hearted ol