Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-05-22
The Whole Truth.

That American agriculture has
undergone a season of depression is
the truth, but it is not the whole
truth. The whole truth is that agri-
culture everywhere has undergone a
season of depression, and q longer
season of depression in other coun-
tries than in our own. The further
truth is that in the United States
alone there is probability of a
speedy return to prosperity, for the
home market of the United States
is increasing more rapidly than that
of any other nation, and, moreover,
the farmer of the United States is
but just beginning to realize the
ability of his soil and climate to
produce almost everything that his
countrymen eat and drink as matters
of necessity or of luxury. All
other great nations have reached
the limit of diversity of farm prod
ucts; our farmers are just beginning
to understand the immense posi-
bilities of diversity. They soon
will grow a smaller proportion of
grain and greater proportion of
fruits, vegetables, flax, sugar-pro.
ducing plants, hops, and wine-mak.
ing berries.
The further truth is that the uni
verssl depression of agriculture is
due to the greed and constituencies
policy of the only great nation
which now adheres to the practice
of free trade. In glaring defiance
of that pretended philanthrophy of
"reciprocity," which free traders
assure us is the inevitable outcome
of the reduction of their theories to
practice, England has not bought
her wheat and meat from the nations
trading mostly with her. England
has not said to the Russian or the
German or American farmer: "You
purchase my manufactures at price
which gives profit to my capitalists
and employment to my artisans, and
/ will buy meat and grain from you
at price which will give profit to
your farmers and your laborers. "
Not a bit of it. She has subsidized
railways to carry the grain grown
by the half-staryed ryots of India to
Kurrachee, and has subsidized YES
sells to carry it from Kurrachee to
Liverpool, and by these means has
increased the wheat products of
India by $500 per cent. in fourteen
wears. This is a 'fact for farmers"
to consider If the American farmer
should Uuy all his ironware, his
tinware, his clothing, ihis every
thing from England, would England
buy a single bushel more of Amer
lean wheat? No, indeed. Rather
would she buy less. For the bill
lions of profit derived from the
American trade would be spent, in
part at least, in developing new
areas of Indian wheat, substituting
new railways to convey it to the
coast and new vessels to carry it to
Liverpool. Free trade between
England and America would with
in ten years of its adoption low ,r
the wheat prices of the world fabu-
lousy. 1t could not fail of this
result. Cheap labor is the impera-
tive demand of free trade. The
English economists, one and all,
confess it. There can be no cheap
labor without cheap food. The
farmer is the food producer lie is
the first man to be hurt by abandon
meut Of the American system of
protection to labor, good wages and
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