Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-08
HOME AFFAIRS.
AMERICAN FARMERS HAVE 4 SAY
ON THE TARIFF.
Good Scores in the Six-Day Walk
Lumber Region Fiends-
Heavy Bond Robbery.
ESPECIAL DrsrATcHEs TO rHE REconD-uSlos.
FARMERS HEARD FROM.
How the Yeomanry of the Land Regard
the Protective Tariff.


How the Yeomanry of the Land Regard
the Protective Tariff.
New YORK, February 7th.-Some time
ago the Tribune of this city invited express
sions of opinion by individual farmers,
agricultural societies and Oranges regard
ing the influence of the tariff upon the
agricultural industry, and any changes in
tariff desired by the farmers. The result
was the receipt of several thousand letters,
which the Tribune submitted to commit
tee consisting of Hon. Warner Miller of
New York, Cyrus c. Carpenter, John It.
Rich, w. c. Morse, Edward Burrough, ].
d. Lyman, w. NJ. Grosvenor, Hon. ]. II.
Hale of Connecticut, and James Wilson of
Iowa
Its report will published in the Tribune
Tomorrow 1t is accompanied by the fol-
lowing recommendations which embodies
findings of the committee, and which the
| farmers and the farmers organizations who
favor its propositions are requested to sign
| and transmit to Congress or to the Tribune
for forwarding:
PETITION FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL PROTECTION
OF AGRICULTURE.
To the Speaker Of the House The undersigned
respectfully pray that agriculture may be more
| efectually protected by preventing fraudulent
importations of cattle on the pretense that they
are for breeding only By duty of 30 cents
per bushel on barley, with a proportionate in
crease of duty on malt; by duties of % cents per
| bushel on potatoes and onions 81 per 100 on
cabbage; 50 per ton on hay 10 cents per pound
| on hops 20 per cent. on beans and peas cents
| per dozen on eggs; 30 per cent on fowls and
| poultry, and on vegetables in their natural
state, or in salt or brine, and not otherwise pro-
| v1ded fol-" with no removal or reduction of
| duties on market garden products now dutia-
| BILE; but such increased duties on flax and on
linen goods as will eflectually encourage the
| preparation OF h6er and the manufacture of
| goods by abolishing all duties on sugar, with
| a bounty to home producers by preventing i'm
ports OF leaftobacco suitable for wrappers at the
| duty imposed on other leaf-tobaccO and the re-
| pealng OF all internal taxes on tobacco by re-
| storing to wOol-growing the substantial p,otec-
| ton enjoyed under the tariff of 1867, so modified
as to meet later forms of foreign competition
and of invasion.
The report proper is quite long, giving
statistics OF the farming and manufactur-
ing growth in the United States during the
past fifteen years. to show that protection
has brought immigration, and with it a
home market for agricultural products
| which permitted vast farm DEVELOPMENT
etc.
The following excerpts give the spirit of
what the committee found in the letters /:
"a great majority of these letters express
the conviction that the tariff notwithstand-
| ing its defects aud omissions. has contrib
uted powerfully to the growth and welfare
| of agriculture. Few are hostile or indiffer-
| ent."
with scarcely an exception the letters
receiv ID point out that the tariff should
have surely defended the industry of the
farmers in ways which it has not 1t
should shield them, as completely as any
branch of manufacture, from the spas
modic and destructive competition which
the cheapness of labor in some other lands
permit"
The duties on potatoes and market gar
den products, which at times can be
brought here in ballast in almost unlimited
quantities, should be large enough TO insure
a fair defense. Two hundred and seventy
nine of the 326 farmers who refer to the
duties on sugar ask the abolition of those
! duties.
Regarding wool, the report says: "The
| wool-growers. who appeal to other farmers
| throughout the country, show that The
prostration of their industry is imminent :;
| that they number more than one million,
and If forced TO give up woOl-growing
| must devote their land to orher branches
of agriculture in which competition
is already severe enough; that the pros
| tration of manufactures would also deprive
| American farmers of q considerable part of
| their home market, and that with woolen
goods Worn by nine-tenths of the
| people (as cheap now as in any
other country, quality considereG), the
consumers have only to pay higher prices
| If the enormous consumption of this
country is to be supplied wholly or in
part by foreign looms. They. therefore,
| ask united effort of all farmers to obtain
from Congress such action that this indus
| try may receive the substantial protection
| enjoyed under the tariff of 1867