The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-03-27
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Opinion Of Florida Journal on hehln'
isy's Orange PAriff qaH, Win uommehes
by a OAntOnian,

Opinion Of Florida Journal on hehlh'
isY'a Orange TArir TaH, Win uommsh'a
by oAntonlan,
EDlTOR DEMoORAT-air-ln a late
Issue OF your Journal you say
aOheap oranges make cheap men
Mckinley III down on cheap men
Your conclusion ikl 'llenoe D per bpA
duty On imported oranges ought " 70
into tho new tariif bill, II not, why
nOt2"
la view OF tho premise the question
ID pertinent, but II may be OF Interest
10 observe what a Florida paper has 70
say ON tho aubjeGt, The OGala Banner,
published Ia tho heart OF tho orange
growing district OF that state, contains
the following editorial with reference
10 tho proposed tarlii tax On oranges
"B0r twenty long years this paper has
been persistent Ia heatlemenl lhhtp plp-
ida could beat tho world ~ growing
oranges, 10 prove lhal our ~
aeriiona have always been. within we
bolinds OF reason and on tho llnes oI Wulli
We have given from time ~ time, ana
from year 10 year, individual illustrations
Of men starling on nothing Anl w. q Iew
years becoming comfortably Wen OF, hlil
of others, atlll more aueeehaful, auhhhliH
great fortunes la q few years, ny ehkhk'
ing IN this splendid and reinuheiaNfe 90
Our years OF labor have come 10 nauaht,
Our individual illustrations Of Tie orange
growers, who hogan lite with empty hands
aud now count their prolllh on ofanHehby
the hundred thouaandsl our tables, url'
lHhed ua by tile orange. growers uhpll'
Helyeai our carefully collected dhlh, we
work ~ twenty years, arc scattered W lhe
wlnda by the orange growers lhtlnhelVehf
for all at once they tell uh that ~ the
growing of oranges Florida cannot hold
her own with any other country IN Mo
world, aud unless the orange, Industry u
"prOi6ctedh orange growing M Florida 10
a"gOneh institution.
And 80 the story goea,
Ms are told that wheat growing has
ceA6ed 10 be remunerative Ia Dakota
fnrmers In Kansas are burning corn Tor
fuel wool growing ID unprpnhble in
Oklo, and unless u Chinese wall
OF exclusion 10 built along our
frontiers aud sea shores, American manu'
facturen, farmers, fruit growers. ana ar
llaana will be completely ruined ny Tor
America, with her boaaled freedom,
Etlllhh anu lNN'lANl9N f"f""fl ~ W a'.N
hold her own with any other nation
Ia the world. We are helpleha people,
afraid 10 measure strength with TIC
punleat nation around ua, And the long.
or We are "proieotedh tho more "helplehH"
we become,h
Nevertheless the proteotionlatn have
carried their point and " IL announced
In tO-day'a Washington dispatches that
tho delegation OF orange growers who
asked for q duty OF 81 \ box ou foreign
oranges, arc we'll pleased by tho deola'
ion OF Mr.. McKlnley'a committee that
their demands shall be complied With 10
the extent OF 90 cents per box
Mr.. j, q. Mckibbon, preaident OF the
Orange Growers Association says That
this amount OF duty 10 practically pro-
hlblt0ry, and II will shut out foreign
varieties, millions OF boxes OF which
arc now annually consumed In thlu
country.
II may bo, that there aro some who
are unable 10 sec tho neoeanity or
Righteousness OF this tax upon one OF
| Natures sweetest gifto TO her chlldrOn--
u fruit loved by poor and rich alike,
nutritious aud wholesome Ia hehlth'
delightful aud refreshing 10 the nick--
but II any such exist, they arc few In
number aud poor IN purse aud need not
be considered.
They may moreover be o0nB0lod, by
the knowledge that the same bill puts a
duty Of llye centa dozen on eggs H.