The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-10

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which American farmers are row
everywhere most vitality Interested.
Are theg gathering dLs. sre they
/ Yluck'ng good frclts from the policy
! Of their Government? | cbsllenge
the advocates ofthe present system
Of protection TO answer on Z $ floor
Or anywhere el-e.
TIE farmers Of United States
are this hour realizing, upon gea>
eral average not more than - cent
/ per bushel for corn, 80 cents per
oushel for wheat, p to 3 cents
pound for hogs, cent and s half
70 cents for TT cattle, and ever
/ this low and almost nominal rate Of
puces wo2,i be reduced 10 hoth'c-
1t all. and the farmers would tie
brought q debt If the expenses OF
| production SIS well as Of transporta-
ton were taken into the account
/ The compensation to the farmer for
! the enormous and Internal tax lie ua>
/ to pay under The tariff GA all lie
needs and all he uses has aIwavs
been the loud, prolonged, and yehe
ment promise OF an eager, remuGera>
tive home market for all he raised
and wsntei To sell. v here is that
home market? Tue farmer is hunt
ing for Il, and mourning becarse /.
4 not TO be founI. Home market !!
/ " bat lies have been told 10 its name 1!
The ignorant charlatan and the de
signing knave have alike poured
talseLoods into the ears of the pco>
pie, assuring the unsuspectinP, and
those of easy faith IN the direction
especially OF their party ties, that
bone markets are created and sus>
tainel by protective tariff, until
now, tier all tbese years Of decep-
ton and lucrative mendacity on the
part of the money power and its ad-
YOcates, thousands Of farmers in dif>
ferent p3rts Of The country, owing
and filling lands richer far than the
Delta Of the Nile, are pointing in
derision and scorn of all tariff pro-
lection to their STOVES and freplaces
as their only home market for corn.
The rich contents of t0eir cOrnCrIhS,
the fruits OF the years soil, have be-
come cheaper as fuel than wood or
coal and as they m1urnfuIly gaze
on this great staple bTeadstutf turH-
ing to ashes for want of q market in
tuIs luni Of railroads, rivers, ami
lakes, it wOalt seem as if all their
hopes OF rehet at tie hands of the
party now in power woul perish in
the same way.
Experience Is teaching q harsh and
severe lesson to the American farm
er, and the time will come, 1T no DIS
SAINT dav, when he will look upon the
proposition TO tax bim, his wife. and
his children for the protection and
beneGt Of other people besides him
self and bis own as he would look
upon lSw Of Congress establishing
tue army worm, the wetvil, and the
nudge in his Whe It, legalizing To-
Gusts, lice, grasshoppers, and infect
ing his cattle with murrain and his
hogs with cholera. II is not possible
that the fraudulent and mOnstrOus
policy of taxing the farmer into
poverty in order to make another
class of people nabobs aud million
aires eau much logger delude and
mlslead any one fit to manage bis
own affairs and have the care Of s
family.
From year to wear the farmer ha-
been assured, and in certain quarters
he is now again being reminded, that
protection is extended to the pro-
ducts Of his labor agains: the com
petition Of similar products imported
from abroad for sale In our markets
The prOtectionist who advances this
argument is either himself a fool OF
al andscious knave, who assumes
that the farmers to whom it is ad
E dressed are FOOLS. Do the home mar
, kcts Of the United States invite ths
great staples Of agriculture from
| foreign lands2 Does the price o
wheat, Of corr, of cotton, of porF
, and Of beef in our markets excite The
cupidity of the grain growers ant
: stock raisers of Europe, Canada
) Mexico or South America? Wha
need is there Of tariff duty to keeE
the produots of foreign farms away
from our shores, when in point o
> fact prices in American markets 70
agricultural productions pay tn
l American farmer but little more thar
neig hborhood transportation, enc
. nothing at all for bis lah0r2
The farmers of the Unite State
| sell abroad and feed the world Ever,
preteDse of protection for their hom'
! markets is fraui every duty laiC
on such articles as wheat, CORP
cattle, horses, eggs, poultry, AM
r other like productions Of farm lii
. and farm labor is cheat and sham
e and is so intended, Under cover of
: deceptive and pretended protection
. which affords no protection at all 70
anything he has to sell, the farme
! has been for years, and Is now, com
t PEELED TO pay taxes on the Eeces
= saries Of life after the following aver
+, age rates: o. wooilen goods, 81
, average Of 70 per cent ; knit cotto,
: goods, SO per cent; cotton clO'hin2
r IS per cent; cotton b2ggjDg, / p"
J cent. cotton ties. 35 per cent; Til
2 plate for roofing, milk pals AM
D kitchen utensils, ID per cent: earth
= ca and stone ware. 50 per cent.