The Globe-republican., 1890-09-24

1870 value of farms. gold........s7, 40 2i3.o s9
1867 value of farms, gold. ........ 6645 o45 COZ
Increase in these years under
Protection. Observation-Disclosures. $'6J 1876. 002
Which, considering the fearful raw
ages of war which devastated the coun-
try within that decade, sweeping the
Southern half of our country of it's
fences, houses and other farm buildings,
is very triumphant evidence of the
potency of protection. We submit that
if at the end of that ten years the value
of our farming property had been as
great as the beginning thereof. we
should have shown q recuperative power
unparalleled in the history of nations,
and we have to thank protection for it.
When we came out Of the revolutionary
war and lived nearly decade under a
free trade regime we got poorer and
poorer every day until we saved our So
cial and National system by the Consti-
tuition and protective tariff.
Let us now consider the ratio which
the farm values of 1880 bore to those Of
1870, (which are shown by the census to
have been thus:
1880, farm values. gold s1o. 1871 o9' .77'
1870, % ............ 7,4l0. 24s ,0S3
Increase. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ass $50. 637
Considering the fact that in those ten
years, as emphatically noted by the COM
missioner of the Census. the country
had changed its measure of value from
paper to gold-a change considered by
trous in a money sense than the devasta-
ton of war, the farmers are to be con-
graduated that they not only sustained
that vast de prec alton of values, but in
creased their holdings nearly three
thousand million of dollars.
The next remarkable mares nest is
as follows:
farmer, farm hand and dairy maid of ssl.59,
which is paid upon the imports for farm
ers."
The statistician assumes that the
farmer pays all the duties which result
from imports of exactly the value of the
| amount of goods which he sells for for
cign markets. or in other words pays an
average export duty exactly correspond
ing with the import duty, or on an aver
age Of $50. SO Ler year for every farmer,
farm hand anG dairy maid" in the coun-
try.
This is but another mode of stating
the old free trade fallacy. that every
| charge for import duty increases the
price of like articles whether imported
| or not.
That fact is so moldy and musty, and
has SO often been shown to be baseless
that it is very much like thrashing out
old straw to tackle it again, and we will
only say here and now that if that is So
the farmers are the greatest gamers as
the protection on their products is so
large, that if the duty is added to the
normal free trade prices thereof. they
are endowed more iavishly than any
other class of American producers.
Ex-Governor, now Senator Brown. OF
Georgia, large farmer when at home,
from his place il the Senate chamber,
March IA, 1885, made an exhaustive
analysis OF this matter, and proved con-
clusively, that if that theory is true, the
farmers of this country received in
augmentation of prices resulting from
the tariff in 1887. Sl,203, 1884, &c., or
$500 l6 for every farmer, farm hand
and dairy maid in the United States
| If the free trader wishes to see the
practical workings of free trade he
should 60 to Turkey. where he can glut
himself to safety. Some two centuries
ago. that then prosperous and powerful
empire bound herself to approximate
free trade by treaty stipulations with
Great Britain. BY that treaty Turkey
bound herself to charge no more than
three per centdut on imports, and to this
time only a fraction over seven per cent is
charged on imports from Great Britain.
Similar concessions by the favored ma
ton clause" and otherwise have given
like advantages to other nations That
adherence to free trade tolled the fune-
raj bell for the burial of all Turkeys
greatness. Originally the garden of the
world. the site of Eden. she was promi-
nent in agriculture As in manufactures
AS We are are adverting to farming es-
specially. We will quote from the Lon
don Academy, which not long ago said:
! "From Smyrna to Ephesus the trav.