The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-23
TARIFF ARGUMENTS.
FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM RECENT
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE.
Foreign Alliance with the Democracy to
Degrade American Labor-FOreign Sup
ply of Agricultural Products-Our Meat

Foreign Alliance with tne Democracy W
Degrade American Labor-Foreign Sup
ply of Agricultural Products-Our Meat
Products-Condition of Farmers Abroad.
SENATOR H1sCocK.
The manufacturers Of England, Ger
many and France, by the aid of their
natural ally, Democracy, have made an
open fight 10 degrade American labor
and bankrupt American capital for the
benefit of rich, monepolistic, and an
anti-Republican class abroad. Within
my knowledge there has never been a
time like the present, when foreign
agents swarmed our lobbies, had access
to our committee rooms, and furnished
the material to enable their American
representatives to retard the progress of
wise legislation by long and proftless
debate
That our tariff bill would pass was
conceded, but in their interest it has
been delayed until our warehouses are
filed and our wharves loaded by the
products of European manufactures.
SENATOR EvARTs.
Mr.. President, we have noticed that
there was very great concurrence in
European minds, especially in those of
European manufacturers and European
merchants, in their views with those
which are expressed on the other side of
this chamber. 1t would not be polite, it
might not be true, to say that the Demo-
cratic party was on-the side of England,
our great industrial rival; but it certain
ly is both polite and true to say that
England is on the side of the Democratic
party.
This distinction is obvious and valua-
BILE | do not bring it forward for the
purpose of reproaching the Democratic
party in the least for any alliance which
it may seek or accept. That is not my
matter But want it confessed, when
it is understood, that the policy on the
Other side of this ally, if there be any
policy in it, is to open our labor interests
to TRANSMISSION with the i'll requited and
consequently degraded labor abroad.
SENATOR CASEY.
Now, it is certain that SO long as our
farmers must export 80 per cent. of their
wheat, just so long must they consent to
sell at the lowest value England can de-
wise. At present India makes the stand
ard prices for wheat in England; Amer
lean wheat must sell in Liverpool not
higher than the wheat from that coun-
try, paid for in silver. If it be true, as
we were assured in the debate on the
silver bill, that the price paid the ryot
or his master never varies to the amount
of wheat given for silver rupee, what
ever may be the value of the silver
bullion, then we may hope that that
standard has just now permanently ad-
vanced We shall have to wait and see.
And now, Mr.. President, there looms
up another menace to the prices of wheat
and corn, as we'll as to beef and wool.
We seem to be just learning about the
resources and fertility of certain South
American countries, threatening to be
more formidable competitors than India.
Here, Mr.. President, is an immense
area of agricultural country, purely
agricultural. fertile to the highest de-
| gree, if we may accept the impressions
formed by Mr.. Curtis land they are con-
frmed by others, easily cultivated,
teeming with constantly increasing
abundance of cheap Italian and Spanish
laborers, an area divided in half by the
great River de la Plata "a river naviga-
bic by large ocean steamers to the very
center of the farming region), and able
to lay it's wheat down at tidewater at
sixty cents a bushel; an area not hereto
fore largely under cultivation, but des-
tined under the system Of assisted immi-
grafton and of lands furnished without
cost inaugurated by the Argentine Re-
public, to a development probably more
rapid than the world has ever seen.
Already this region is demanding part
of the British market. Soon it will want
it all Before long it will supply France
with its 60, OOO, 900 bushels of maize. In
less than ten years. if it's development
continues, the Argentine Republic may
be expected to be without competitor
in the markets of the world in wheat
and corn and wool.
We see. then, if statements generally
accepted as authoritative are to be taken,
that the American farmer is likely soon
to see the foreign markets escape from
him, simply because another source
promises to furnish his products more
cheaply than he will be able by any pos
sibility to do Yet, Mr. President, am
not drawing picture of discourage
,ment There is good reason to expect
that by the time our farm products are
not wanted abroad they will be wanted
at home
SENATOR MITCHELL
ua neat products the suggestions of
< graLs~ committee have been adopt
by both 80 house and the senate
d:cu> g the question as to the
t,ol given to the farmer in this
. Mckinley, in his report in the
h.. Il. Report No. 1.46G. first session.
Ffty-.rst congress), says:
I'VE advanced the rates upon the
products of the soil which either do sup
ply or can be brought to supply the
home consumption. Horses. cattlerSpgs,
sheep. bacon, barley, beans, peaso, beef.
mutton, pork. buckwh ct. butter, cheese,
eggs, hay. hops, milk, poultry, flaxseed,
vegetables, potatoes, flax, hemp, hides,
wool. tobacco and many other products
arr advanced with view to save this
entire market to the American farmer.
las indicating the" general line Of
policy pursued in changing rates in this
schedule your committee can only, in
the scope Of this report. note few arti-
cles illustrative Of all.
in the last ten years not less than
$6O, OOO, 600 worth of horses, cattle and
sheep, ordinary marketable stock, has
been imported. A portion of these have
paid 20 per cent. ad valorem on fraudu-
lent differentiation. A very large por-
ton have come in free, professedly for
breeding purposes, actually for the COM
mon markets. Tho duty has been
changed to specific rate and advanced