The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-05
FARM Frs LIKE 1T.
They Have Only to Become Acquainted
with the Tariff Bill tn Appreciate Its
benefits.
washington Special

They Have Only to Become Acquainted
with the Tariff Bill tn Appreciate Its
Benefits.
Washington Special
Confidential letters from the western
states OF a most encouraging character
are pouring into the republican head
quarters in this city. They all tell prac-
ticaliy the same story-that as the new
tariff law comes 10 be understood by the
farmer, IL is seen To be generally and
vastly to their interest. The wool
schedules and the provisions relating TO
binding Irvine are especially commended.
Much Is said, too, OF the largely in
creased duties imposed on foreign agri-
cultural products and the abolition of
the sugar duty. These sections of the
new law are appreciated in the west. 1t
is n mere matter of arithmetic to see
how greatly the farmer is helped by
law which reduces his expenses in all
directions and increases his earnings in
all directions, also.
1t is especially gratifying to the COM
mittee thai these hopeful letters come
from just those sections of the country
TO which the democrats have imputed
discomfort with the new tariff. At no
time since the campaign began has the
committee observed more than two
sources Of serious danger To the repub-
lican cause. These are: First, the
fifty-one seats which the democrats have
arranged to steal outright by ballot box
! crimes in the south and by gerrymanders
| i'm other states; and, second, misrcpre-
scntation of the Mckinley bill. 1t has
| all along been evident that If the con-
science of the country could be awak-
ened To these democratic methods, and
il the farmers, especially, could be in
! duced TO examine the new tariff nothing
would avail TO prevent the return of a
republican house.
These objects have been secured and
| largely as the result Of democratic folly.
| When the bottom dropped out OF their
| conspiracy 20 cause a general rise OF
| prices, the people began TO see that a
colossal fraud was being perpctratcd
under cover of the new tariff and they
| began TO study the law for themselves.
| The republican managers here assert
| positively that that conspiracy had its
origin in the democratic congressional
committees headquarters, and that it
was recently stimulated by n secret
circular sent out to the democratic cam
| paign committees in all the doubtful
districts. Its failure was due 10 the
fact that the honest manufacturers and
reputable merchants of the country
would not be drawn into what was sheer
| robbery.
| In causing general scrutiny Of the
| Mckinley bill, however, il has served the
republican party most effectually. The
| farmer observed, in the first place. that
upon an importation of 1000 pounds OF
| binding Irvine, which lately cost him S25
i'm duties, and under the democratic Mills
bill would have cost him SIS, he now
pays only 81. This substantial reduc-
tion i'm western farmers expenses is
| likely 10 render him insensible TO the
democratic cry that the republican party
| should be defeated because il has in
creased the duties on rich velvets and
fine laces. BY the repeal Of the sugar
| duties, too, the expense OF every house
| hold i'm the land is directly touched, and
an average saving is effected of > cents
on every pound of sugar bough, at retail.
This is remission 10 the people of So
600, 900 of annual taxes.
The revision Of the wool schedules
was directly caused by the demonstrated
fact that our farmers required more pro-
lection. The cheap woods of Australia
and the Rio Plata country were rapidly
driving our wool growers To the wall.
| With foreign wool shut out and our
manufacturers compelled TO depend on
| the American farmer for their raw ma
terial il was clear that general increase
OF wooden duties was inevitable. An
average increase of about 10 per cent.
was imposcd. Already the beneficial influ-
ence OF this act is.to be seen. "A dozen
new mills have been arranged for, Great
ing a greater demand for the farmer TO
supply and giving employment to thou
sands of persons who would otherwise
be thrown into agriculture for the means
of livelihood.
In addition 10 these provisions. so
greatly inuring To the benefit OF the
farmers, il is to be remembered that one
of the ayowed purposes of the Mckinley
bill is to shut out foreign agricultural
products. 1t would not be putting 1t too
strongly to say that the republican ma
jority on the ways and means committee
accepted as correct the farmers own
statement of the causes of their de-
pressed condition and accepted as wise
their own proposed remedy. The
agricultural schedules were mad @
up according to the requests of
the farmers themselves, and their
demand that they should be enabled TO
| supply the home market fully and COM
pletely was acceded TO. The $3.50, 900, 900
worth of imported farm products which
came into this country last year will now
stay at home, and the American farmer
will be left to supply the home markets
EXTREMIST requirements. The republi-
can managers rely on the fact that the
Mckinley bill is n farmers bill in every
section and i'm every line, and that no
agriculturist can examine its provisions
| without voting to return republican
congress.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer, the most
ably uncdited organ of the democratic
party in the west, has taken e. great