The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20

at nome 0ne-thlrd. The capital 1nVeSte'
in 1880 was $4,000 600: the number o
hands employed $4,000. Now, if VI
have been more than 100 years in dc
velopiDg these cotton industries as Il
enable them to take and consume on
| three-qusrters of the American cotton
crop at the prices fixed in Europe, how
many centuries will we have to wal
until these factories shall so develop as
to consume all our productions at the
fair prices fixed in this c)untry2 What
is to become of these products? Are the
farmers of the north and the planters of
the south to abandon their great wheat
and cotton fields and undertake
the cultivation of crops not
suited to their soil, in order
that these gentlemen may experiment,
to see whether the home market csn
be made by legislation? No. sir, these
great agricultural interests must go on.
and the American farmer must sell his
surplus products in any market he can
and for any price he can. The great
controlling clement is the worlds sup
ply and the worlds demand. The
American producers Of wheat, for in
stance, do not compete among them
selves alone in the great wheat markets
vi 'EON 1uCcb luCIo WuSdl
England, Russia, Austria, Hungary
and India, and all the other, grain
growing regions OF Europe and Asia
and they sell their product there in
competition with all the product and
prices of labor on the face of the earth.
Lately the emancipated slave CT
Russia, the laborer of India who lives
all summer on rice and milk and re-
IYf n
sleeps on the floor of q bamboo hut,
of Europe to meet the wheat from Min
nesota and Dakota. and no tariff We can
put on and no system CT taxation here
can prevent this. The same argument
applies to all our agricultural products
and the American farmer understands
it; and he understands that as To- e az
he is compelled to export and sell in a
foreign market part of his product,
the foreign market is worth as much to
him as the home market, because ne
receives there just what he would re-
ceiye here. After deducting the cost of
transportation, therefor, in Place of
restriction of his market, he
wants it enlarged SO that his pro-
ducts, which cannot be consumed here,
can find a market among the people
elsewhere. What the farmer wants i:
home market, in which he eau pur-
chase his supplies as cheap as his COM
petitors. When he can't get this, he
asks for such a system as. will enable
him to purchase elsewh, re and import
them without being unreasonably fined
for carrying on this harmless business.
That is what the American farmer
wants. We not only want home
marksts. but want the markets Of all
the world for the variety of produce in
this great country. We want to sell
our produce into all the markets of
Europe and the agricultural places OF
Mexico, South America and Asia. We
want to remove, as far as we
can, the barriers which annoy our
industries, so this country may take its
place with the great commercial
countries of the world, and become as
rich and powerful as any other country.
Carlisle thanked tie committee for
the attention with which it heard him,
and explained that he had undertaken
to speak under considerable difficulty.
1t was generally reported that he was
far from well and he appeared to be
much fatigued at the close of his speech.
When he finished there was burst of
tumultous applause and cheering,
which. in fact. had ueen plentifullv &C
corded at each of his points, and it was
soma minutes before order could be
restored, owing to the pressure of
members to get near the Speaker and
congratulate him.
The committee arose and the House
adjourned.
An arrangement was concluded this
afternoon by which the tariff bill will
be laid aside for a week or ten days,
and the House will proceed with the
consideration of the appropriation bills.