The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-09-20

merchant ships Of Great Britain. The
whole Of Europe has not built ~ many
miles Of railroad as this country has dur
ing some recent years, and in 1880 the
whole known world did not lay as many
miles af track as were laid across this
country. Great Britain's foreign COM
merce equals about one.eixth of our do
mestic commerce. Can we do better
under any other fiscal policy? We say
not. Wise craftsmanship commands us,
therefore, to let well enough alone.
In Germany, 80 long ago as the 14th
OF May, 1882, Bismarck, IN a speech be-
fore the German Reichstag, paid to the
Republican tariff high eulogy. He said
The success Of the United States In material
development 10 the most illustrious Of modern
time. The American nation has not only sue
tic and expensive war " all history, but imme-
diately afterward disbanded Its army, found
employment for oil its soldiers and marines,
paid OF most Of its debt. viven labor and homes
to oil the unemployed of Europe 40 fast "a they
could arrive within its territory. and still by
system OF taxation so indirect as not to be per
csived, much less felt. Because IL 10 my delib-
crate judgment that the prosperity Of America
10 mainly due to its system VI protective laws,
urge that Germany has now reached that
point whore II 10 necessary to initiate the tariff
system Of the United States.
You may try protection by any test
you will. You may try 1t not only by
the condition OF the individual citizen
and his happiness and prosperity and
the aggregate prosperity of the nation,
made In invention and scientific devel.
opment; try it by any standard you
raise, the protective system shows by its
results that it surpasses any other. You
can match it with no other.
A HOME MARKET.
Why, Mr.. Chairman, the establishment
of furnace or factory or mill in any
neighborhood has the effect at once to
enhance the value OF oil property and all
values for miles surrounding it. They
produce increased activity. The farmer
has better and nearer market for his
products. The merchant, the butcher,
the grocer, have an increased trade. The
carpenter is in greater demand; be is
called upon to build more houses. Ev.
cry branch OF trade, every avenue of
labor, will feel almost Immediately the
energizing influence OF new industry.
The truck farm is in demand the per.
ishable products, the fruits, the vegeta.
bles, which in many cases will not bear
expectation and which foreign market
is too distant to be available, find con.
slant and ready demand ut good paying
prices.
What the agriculturalist of this coun
try wants more than anything else, after
he has gathered his crop, are consumers
consumers at hOme-men who do not
produce what they eat, who must pur.
chase all they consume; men who are
engaged in manufacturing, in mining, in
cotton. spinning, in the potteries, and in
the thousands of productive industries
which command all their time and ener.
Ky, and whose employments do not ad.
nit of their producing their own food.
The American agriculturist further
wants these consumers near and con-
venient to his field Of supply. Cheap as
inland transportation is, every mile
saved is money made. Every manufact.
uring establishment in the United States,
wherever situated, is of priceless value
| to the farmers OF the country. The six
manufacturing States OF New England
aptly illustrate the great value Of home
market tv the Western farmer. These
States have reached the highest perfec
| ton in skill and manufactures. They dc
not raise from their own soil, with the
exceptions of hay and potatoes, but q
small fraction OF what their inhabitants
require and consume they could moi
from their own fields and granaries feed
the population which they had in 1880
much less their present population. The
most intense revenue.ref0rmer, the nosI
unenlightened Democrat, will have tc
confess that New England is indebted
in large part for her splendid develop
ment to the protective system. Now
has her prosperity and progress been Sc
cured at the sacrifice OF other Interest,"
and other sections? answer no; bu
has brought. as believe shall be abl,
to show, a positive blessing to all of ou
10000, 900 Of people.
In 1880 the population OF these si1
States was over 4,000,00 The food pro
ducts required by their peopie-the yer!
necessities Of their daily life in larg
measure--came from other States ant
remote sections of the Union. The,
raised in 1880 but one.quarter of pc
cent. of the total wheat production O
the United States. They raised in tn
same year but one.half Of per cent. Q
the total crop OF Indian corn, % pc
cent. Of the oats, IL per cent. of the ha
and 13 per cent. OF the potatoes whic
were produced in the United States
What did they consume? What did the
buy of the Western farmer? Fifty mil
lions OF dollars worth OF meat were con
sumed by their industrial people in
, single year. The extent of their need
is strikingly shown by the fact (obtain
J ed from the accounts of COMMISSIONS
Fink that during the year 1884 9Th
trunk lines" brought into New Englan
no less than 100000 tons of -four an,
959, 900 tons of grain. At 200 pounds t
the barrel OF -four, this is an importation
of A, zoo, 900 barrels, or one and one ifth
nearly, for each inhabitant. During th
same year there were exported iron
Boston and Portland, the only points il
New England from which breadstuffs ar
sent abroad, 100000 barrels of floul
leaving for consumption within thes
States 100000 barrels. These figure
take no account of the large trade b
water from New York. am informe
that large part of the flour consume
in Connecticut, Rhode Island and South
ern Massachusetts, is received in thi
way, but no reliable statistics are avails
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