Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-12

from the agricultural classes through
benefieent tariff system which closes
the door of cheap labor competition and
maintains the American consumer in
position to literally patronage the pro-
duceF. Take away this protection and
the products of the American farmer
must more largely seek foreign markets
and encounter the competition OF de-
graded farm labor.
More directly perhaps is the farmer
OF Dakota interested in the protection
of his own products through our exist
ing tariff system, which the democratic
party is seeking to destroy. The gov
ernment imposes tax of twenty cents
upon every bushel Of foreign wheat
brought into this country and ten cents
upon every bushel of imported corn.
This tariff gives the farmer twenty cents
more per bushel for his wheat and ten
cents more per bushel for his
corn than he will receive
if the democratic free trade scheme
succeeds. The Dakota farmer is aleo
protected by o tex on foreign beef, aud
pork, and mutton, and rye, and oats,
and barley, and potatoes, and hay and
many other articles which are the legiti-
mate product OF his labor. This protec-
tion means just SO much more per bush
el or per pound for what the farmer
produces thsn he would receive under
the free trade system proposed by the
democratic party. 1t Is not probable
that the farmer will be willing to sacri,
flee his gains for the sole purpose OF
maintaining Grover Cleveland in the
presidential chair.
The situation can be convincingly
illustrated by taking the single item Of
wheat, apart f:om the rest. Wheat is
the chief product In Dakota and is there.
fore proper subject for leading dis.
cussiop, though the principle applies to
all farm products upon the protected
list. The wheat of India, by reason OF
the cheap Isbcs there employed under q
free trade policy and OF low transposta
ton rates, can now be laid down In New
York for seventy five cents per bushel
Bot for the American protective tarif
which imposes tax of twenty cent
per bushei upon oil foreign wheat tht
India product would sell to-day in
New York for seventy five
cents per bushel, and American growr
wheat would be forced dowp to that Low
figure, instead of bringing ninety cent
per bushel, as ii does. This would re,
dnce the price of wheat in Yankton Il
thirty or thirty-fye cents per bushe
and the difference would go as the Da
kota farmers tribute to flee trade. Cal
the Dakota farmer afford it? There i
a!Ro coming danger to consider whicl
menaces the agriculturalist of the whea
growing belt. With the completion o
Indian railway lines now under con
struction transportation will be 8,
cheapened that wheat grown in Tndi,
can be laid down in New York at sixt,
cents per bushel Adding the tariff o
twenty cents per bushel would max
the price eighty cents per bushel, ant
to this figure American grown whea
must fall. Our true policy, therefore
in the interest of our own protection, /
to increase the tariff on VIII at, rathe
thsn abolish it, as the destructive demo
cratic party proposes.
| We have given herein few points il
connection with tariff for protection
for the consideration of our Dakot
farmers. The list is long one ala
reaches every important item OF farr
production. The republican party ha
1 builded in the interest of the agriculture
/ classes