The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-23

steamship. That grain has come from
an Illinois farm, and is the property Of
an Illinois farmer.
In Harvre lighter loaded with silk
| lies alongside an ocean steamship. The
silk has come from French mill, and is
the property of French mill-owner.
The Illinois farmer and the French
mlll-owner propose for mutual profit
to exchange the products.
The Republican farmers Of this coun-
try say it shall not be permitted, unless
the Illinois farmer pays fine OF so per
| cent. oD the total value of the exchange
Are they crazy9
Suppose the exchange has been made.
| The corn is now in France and the silk
here The Illinois farmer has silk in
his storehouse instead of corn; the
French mlll-OWner has corn in his store
house instead of silk. The product of
American labor has been changed into
silk; Of French labor into corn. Amerl-
can labor has profted; so has French
labor
Will the Republican farmers believe
the editor of the New York Tribune or
Mr.. Mckinley when he tells them that
"the silk is not now the product of
American labor on the Illinois farm?'
Will they believe him when he adds
that "this silk is the product of European
panper labor and by permitting it to en-
ter cur ports We have deprived the coun-
try Of so much Wealth. Can they not
see that both are the attorneys for the
silk mill owners, paid to deliberately
misrepresent the facts, and that they are
trying to "bunco'' the farmer to steer
him i TO the den where he will be strip
ped of the foreign surplus he now sells
abroad2 II they cannot they must IN
deed be blind. It is plain to every man
Of sense that by permitting the silk to
enter our ports the Paterson mill-ovners
lose the profit and the American farmer
gains it, and that the only fight is be-
tween the farmer and the mill owner fol
the home trade now supplied by the
farmer through exchange of farm prod
uct.
Particularly speaking, all our imports
are made by our farmers. Every dollar
worth that enters our ports in competi
tion with a protected mill-owner comes
here as the product of surplus labor OF
our farms, and is the only product Q
value that labor can have Without tn
exchange, 1000, 900 farmers must go t,
the poor-house, for they cannot afford t.
till the soil unless they may sell thei
product abroad.
+ The millowners, banded together t
rob their countrymen, have bought fror
Congress legal 'protection to rob thei
cOuntrymen" and have hired the Repub
lican leaders and the Republican news
papers to throw dust in the eyes of tn
: farmers who compete with them. Th
, mill-oWners pour out money like waite
= to buy Republican elections, and whe
, they fail to respond with enough the ia
is fried out of them. To get still more 0
that money for the election of 1890 an
1892 the farmers Of this country are t
be absolutely despoiled of their foreig
exchange market. Their crops are to b
limited to what we can consume iu thi
country. The farm surplus must rot G
be burned-for no farmer shall be pei
mitted to exchange what he cannot us
and his count1ymen cannot use for some
) thing they both need, the Republica
> party leaders and newspapers unite /
declaring. If the farmers overproduct
: they add, then they are criminals an
: they deserve the misfortune that come
- from it. Only millowner may lav
: fully over produce and sell abroad, an
to help him we will make the farmer pa
y enough taxes into the Federal TreasuI
: to enable the mill-owner to have fre
: transportation to foreign countries f(
the goods he now sells cheaper to fo
} eigners than to his own countrymel
d But the farmer shall not export.