Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-27


Tae Farmer and the Tariff,
q contemporary goes into somewhat
lengthy argumont to show, IS nearly as
We can surround the idea, that tho farmer
Is not suffering much more than many
others under our aystsm,of protection"
and that, Therefore, he should not allow
hiasseH to be persuaded that tariff
which imposes tax upon tho country
vastly in excess Of tbs legitimate needs
Of ahe government is not an unailoysd
blessing to every citizen under that gov.
sspfnsnt. One would suppose that II
ehla were 80 tha farmers, and the many
Otlsors whom uuI contemporary conseaBas
'hSse smaller means OF support on the
aarse basis than they had itseen year3
age ought to come in for share la the
gansral prosperity which ''prosscsionn
sheaess down 50 Gbuadantly; and that, IL
ths3 do not, that very Fact demonstrates
Of hsalf that ''protscGon" works hind
Rsuae rather than a hslp to the farmer
and the many otherg." II the al yaEslty
Ii 10 vide spread, clearly there mast ba
30 Ruch the greater rtssoa for conclud-
hug chat there 10 something wrong in our
nsttsSai policy. It ia not hard TO see
who's this wrong lies. In tho case OF
The farmer, even the noat inyelerote
eulogists or our great home marksso
a-e beginning 10 admit that protection
does nothing for him. 1t does not and can
not Paise by one cent on the bushei the
price for which he must sell his wheat,
his corn, or any other product whose rats
is fiaed ia the markets OF the world. 1t
does not help him TO sell, but it does
squeeze him when he comes to buy. Taia
Ia where an exosnitant tariff gets ia
1t work not alone on the farmer
but on the many Others The surplus
revenue $40, 900 900 per mouth over
and above what We ought to spend,
though nobody knows how muoh it nay
fall below what the present Congress,
under the domination Of Rosdism and
Doodle legislation, will spend mus:
come out Of the pockets Of tho CONSUMERS
of the country, There is no other source
for II to come fr9m IL 10 not contributed
by foreign nationa-no one Ia bis sound
sanses will Imagine tbat-it does not
grow on trees it does not drop from the
clouds; il is tax on tbs pe3pi0 and only
Bmsll portion o. the tax that cur system
drains out Of the public pocket. This
ought TO be so plain as to require no
further words. Nothing can be done TO
enhance tie price OF what the farmer
sells; the "huas market. racket, at
ter twenty years trial, has SHOWN
itself deldsion so thay ali
that remains to better Aia c1ndifiQa ID To
reduce where practicable the cost OF what
he buys. This can only be dons By suod
revision Of tina tariff rs shall AInanei.
pate min from bondags to tne extor.ion
Of ovsrproteoiion. We have had numeE-
ous illustrations ot how this works to his
disadvantage; OF agricultural machinery
madsin Illinois and sold ia Canada 1T g
price much lower than it coald ba
bought Of Springfield or Chicago OF
Philadelphia hardware exported to Mex
leo and there sold for about one hali tue
price Il brings at homs aud 50 On. It's
not 50 much ths direct tax on imported
goods, bat the indirect enhancement Of
the price Of domestic manufactures 5y
tariff begotten combinations ana trults
President Cleveland told The farmers
and the laborers OF America
In his grand message OF 1855
sit must be conceded that the increase
in the cost OF living, caused by suoh 4
tariff, becomes burden upon those with
moderate maans, aud the poor, the eul-
ployed and unemployed, tie sick sua
well, the young and old, and constitutes
tax which with relentless grasp il
fastened upon every man, woman Lnd
Child in the land And he went on 4.
make as plain as day what the farm ia ~
America ere beginning now % see VIII.
more eieRrness saan they aid wien 30
many Of them y0tsd Tor liar ison AID /
zAid on the treasury, 80 il L-3pgua.
Gaid President Cleveland, III tL,e sg.A8 l-ss-
sage that while comparatively few AZ
imported Articles, nt.h14s Yf cur gsoglg
who neyar use AM nayas Eea ary ii tht
fsrei2a psodues, ppraaa8a Aad va
things OF tine lRme kind inada il tgtt
country 1ud pay therefor nearly al 41lq
the name enhanced prieD winch tins dut,
sdaa 70 the imported ait.ala a4ose viii
huy Imports nay he dQtY chEfPsd iB.;