Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-23

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 a 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 20 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
ican 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 well 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 (and they are con-
| Gr1ned by others, easily cultivated,
teeming with a constantly increasing
| abundance of cheap Italian and Spanish
laborers, an area divided in half by the
great River de La Plata Ia river naviga-
bic by large ocean steamers to the very
center of the farming region), and able
to lay its 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 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 10000, 900 bushels of maize. In
less than ten years, if its development
continues, the Argentine Republic may
be expected to be without a 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 a 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
On meat products the suggestions of
the grange committee have been adopt
ed by both the house and the senate
In discussing the question as to the
consideration given to the farmer in this
bill Mr.. Mckinley, in his report in the
house Oh. Report No. 1 1866, first session,
Fifty-frst congress- says:
1--WE advanced the rates upon the
products of the soil which either do sup
ply or can be brought to supply the
home consumption. Horses, cattle, hogs,
sheep, bacon, barley, beans, pease, beef.
mutton, pork, buckwheat, butter, cheese,
eggs, hay, hops, milk. poultry, faxseed,
vegetables. potatoes, fax, hemp, hides,
wool, tobacco and many other products
are advanced with view to save this
entire market to the American farmer
''As 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
''ln the last ten years not less than
$60. 100000 worth Of horses. cattle and
sheep, ordinary marketable stock, has
been imported. A portion of these have
paid 20 per cent ad valorem on a fraudu-
lent undervaluation. A very large por-
ton have come in free, professedly for
breeding purposes, actually for the COM
mon markets. The duty has been
changed to specific rate and advanced
to point where it will protect the mar.
ket, while the paragraph in the free list
ON animals for breeding purposes is so
framed as to only admit animals which
are pure bred and properly registered.
"But let US inquire what the pending
bill proposes in the interest of the farm
ers of this country engaged in the bust
ness of raising sheep, and in turning out
annually millions of dollars worth of a
wool and mutton. This bill proposes to
undo the great wrong done to the Amer
lean farmer in the matter of duties on I
wool by the act of March 8, 1888, and to d
re-enact the wholesome pro- t
visions, or what will be their equivalent il
in effect, and correcting certain irregu- a
larities relating to combing and carpet il
woods of the former much more bene-
fetal act of March Q, 1867, under which n
this industry revived and fourished for s.
some sixteen years. That such legisla-
ton will revive the waning sheep indus
try of this country, and increase the n
price of wool to the American farmer, 4
al familiar with the subject will readily
agree. Nor will the effect of this be to
increase the price of the manufactured
article of woolen goods, but by stimu- v
lating and building up great diversity c.
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