Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-04
The LMERICAH FAa.IEn
EOH The Tariff Has Operated 10
Lower the Price Of ierici
iural Products.
How 1t Has Worked To Adj
vance the Cost Of All
He Buys.
A Bunco Game By Which His
Property Is Transferred To
the Plutocrats.
The Decline In Agricultural Wealth
Clearly Illustrated From Off
cial Documents
The Home Market Delusion Destroyed,
and the Necessity For Reform
The Home Market Deluson Destroyed,
and the Necessity For Reform
Demonstrated.
FARMERS SHOULD VOTE FaR CLEVELAND.

Protectionists insist that the farmer
has in the Home Market ample com
pensation for the burdens of the tariff.
Tho Hon. William l.. Scott in his
address on the tariff thus shows how
the tariff effects the farmer:
Mr.. Chairman, in my opinion upon no
class of our people do the present fiscal
burdens of our country bear SO heavily
as upon the farming class. II is not
in the power of the Government. by any
policy that can be adopted, to protect
the farmer in what he raises and has TO
sell; but the Government can not i'm
poverish and virtually pauperize him
and his family by not only imposing
high duty upon everything he consumes.
which is or may be imported, but also
by nrohibitory duties upon commodities
made in this country and necessary to
his comfort. which place it in the power
of the home manufacturer. bv combi-
nations and trusts, TO charge what he
pleaseS for his wares What mocltcry
of protection the Republican tariff of
I Se3 is for the farmer! In a speech
made by the gentleman from Michigan
Mr.. Burrows. referring to the advan-
tageS that the protection theory gave
the farmer. he used the following IAN
guage:
farmer by our protective taif. is that
derived from direct protection to the
products OF his farm and the industries
incident thereto, as shown by the following
table:
referring to the duties upon farm
products under the existing tariff:
Beef and pork, cent per pound: hams
and bacon, cents per pound; butter.
4 cents per bound; lard. . cents per
Wheat 20 cents per bushel; oats. 10
cents Der bushel; corn 10 cents
per ouSsel; rye, ID cents per
bushel; live animals. 90 per cent. ad
va!orem: wheas -four. 20 per cent ad
o eIaim 's sr that no cents per bushe s
in the foregoing schedule would he i'm
ported in this country in ce,npetition
with the American farmer. If the~-were
oil upon the free list. with the excef,tisn
Of wheat. which could only come from
Canada. and if every bushel of wheat
raised in Canada should be sold in the
United States. it would not affect the
price of the American wheat one tenth
oil one per cent. per bushel tapplause but
the country would be the gamer if it
were sold here, so far. at least. as the
cost of transportation and commissions
for storage and selling accrued to our
nome price of our wheat, corn.l. boef,
railroad and commission men. 1Ecs
home price Of our wheat. corn beef;
pork, butter. lard and cheese. ann OF all
excess of home CONSUMPTION and which
haTe 70 he exported TO Europe to find a
MARKET is determined by the price of
,hc commodity in the markets of the
w9rld. Plus the cost OF transportation.
will also avail myself If a portion
Of the tables submitted in the speech of
the gentleman from Michigan MIR Bur
rows in relation to the farm products
of this country. and the quantities cx-
ported. for the fiscal year of 1ss6-Iss7.
rs follows.