The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-11-15
Friday, Nov. 15, 1889.
What Will Happen.

will not always transact business as
they do now and have been doing for
these many years. Before great
while there will be national organ
ization of Farmers Associations
with branches or subordinate organ
ization in every county. Those or
CARNATIONS will be conducted 10y de-
cgates composing county, State and
National branches, with separate and
distinct duties allotted to each
They will be in possession of all
of tie statistics furnished by State
boards of agriculture, and the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washing
ton, giving information respecting
the crops of grain aDd other agrlcul-
tural products throughout the world.
They will know how much grain
Europe will need to complete her
supply of bread above her own pro-
duction. They will know what sur
plus of grain and meat the farmers
and livestock producers have for ex-
port. They will have grain elevators
and stock yards in every exporting
centre and collecting points for pro
ducc, and the farmers association
by whatever name it may be known,
will collect and ship to foreign mar
kets almost the entire bulk of The
surplus produce. The home or dis.
trict organization, oranges, alliance
or by whatever name known will cat
alogue their orders for the various
kinds of goods and Quantities their
members wish in exchange for their
surplus grain; and the goods which
are to be received in exchange for
the products shipped to foreign
countries will be purchased, the
kinds and quantities contained on
their lists. This is exactly what is
now done by merchants and import
ers who buy the grain and ship it.
The most of it is paid for in goods CT
such kinds as they can sell to the
consumers in this country, and if
there is balance it is paid for, or
settled with money on whichever
side that ba'anee may be. When
these agricultural organization ag
ents have purchased the tons of sugar
bales of woolens, cottons, silks, iron
and steel goods, copper, tin, brass,
linen goods, hemp, cordage and a
multitude of various articles, they
will be brought back to our own
shores to be shipped or transported
to the various points of final distribu-
ton. Before the goods are landed,
however, custom house officials board
the vessels, examine the manifests,
and proceed to levy the tariff charges
on those goods which the National
Grange, Alliance or other agricul-
tural association agents have in
charge. There may be in the course
of a year several million dollars
worth of such goods imported by
the associations for every ton of re-
fined sugar costing 500 above or be-
low as the price fuctuatcs, the Gus
tom house officer dem ands before the
sugar can be taken out of the govern.
ments officers custody, the payment
of $40 duty or tariff. For every
thousand dollars worth of wooden
goods, the duty charge will average
about $3.50. For every thousand
dollars worth of cotton goods there
must be paid 800 to $1,000 duty
On every thousand dollars worth of
steel goods of the various lines into
which such goods are manufactured,
the custom house officer will demand
the paymen: of $500 to the govern
ment. On every hale of silk goods
valued at one thousand dollars the
charge for duty will DC $500 We
might go on through the ships cargo
or several cargoes, embracing per.
haps q hundred different articles,
and the average charges the custom
house officers would place on the
goods would be about what We have
named. Any farmer or other per.
son who would love to investigate
such a business transaction real or
supposable can go through the whole
list by procuring C copy of the tariff
law.
This branch of political economy
is called "our protective policy
You may have heard the platform
orators explaining it last year. If
YOU are a farmer and you had sent
a hundred bushels of surplus wheat
in the Alliance ship to the Alliance