The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-12
NARROWING THE MARKET.


France and Canada Give Us n Dose OF "AIe-
Kinlsyism"-HoW Frances RetaIiatory
Duty ON Our Grain Is Narrowing the
Farmers Foreign Manufactures of Can
ada's Duty on Our Low ExpOEts-"MeKin-
leytsm" and the Interests of the Farmer.
By her recently adopted tariff laws
France collects duty of fifteen cents a
bushel on grain imported from other
European countries; but on grain from
the United States the new duty is thir-
ty-three cents a bushel, which is prac-
tically prohibitory.
Why this discrimination against us?
It is a dose of 'sMcKinleyism" which
France has prepared for us to pay us
back for the high tariff folly of the
party in power. The mckinley Ad-
ministrative Customs bill" which went
into effect on August 1, lays great diff
culties in the way of buying and i'm
porting the foreign goods that we need.
and France was very much wrought up
over 1t, as well as over the other and
still worse Mckinley bill which is yet
to come. France has simply given us a
dose of the Mckinley medicines; but it
must be noticed that it is our farmers
who have to take it; and thus, as
Blaine points out ''our foreign market
for breadstuffs grows narrower"
But what will be the precise effect Of
this French duty on grain?
The latest reports from the Treasury
Department present the following in
teresting facts: Our exports of corn
and wheat to France for the fiscal year
ended June 80, were valued at Sc, $40. 600,
and for last year 50, S7i, 900. Here is an
average of eight and half million dol
lars cut off from our farmers foreign
market at a single stroke, and Twas
all on account of Mckinley
The effect of these French duties very
clearly show by comparing our exports
to France in June, 1889, with the same
month this year. The duty has but re-
Gently been imposed in that country,
but already for the month of June there
is a most remarkable falling off in our
exports of wheat and corn to France.
Our exports of these two article to that
country for the two months are as fol-
lows: June. 1889, corn, sol, 653 bushels;
wheat, 165. 1856 bushels. June. 1890,
corn, 81. AL bushels; wheat $40
bushels.
The value of these exports fell from
S5O7, 12s in June, 1885, to the pitiful sum
of $50, S75 in June, 1890. That is how
"McKinleyism" narrows the foreign
market for our breadstuffs-
In the face of a fact like this what is
the use for Mckinley to try to humbug
the farmer by raising the duty on wheat
from twenty cents bushel to twenty
five cents, and on corn from ten cents
to fifteen?
OF these two articles we imported d ur-
| ing the fiscal year ended June 80, just
| S113,211 worth from all countries. In
attempting to shut out that trife Nc
Kinley has injured our foreign market
for wheat and corn more than four times
as much for a single month and for a
single country.
To put the matter in a still more
striking light, for every dollars worth
of corn and wheat that he prevents from
coming into this country from all other
countries he cuts off sixty dollars worth
from the farmers foreign market in a
single country.
And such is the quality of "McKin-
leyism!'
But it is not France alone that is pay
ing us back our ''McKinleyism" sixty,
fold. Canada takes hand in the bust
ness, too, and has gotten her mills of re-
taliation a-grinding. Among other re
taliatory duties which Mckinley has
given Canada cause to impose is the
duty of three cents pound on oul
lard. We exported to british NORTH
America" for the fiscal year 1889 lard t.
the amount of II, 14s, 900 pounds; for the
year 1890 the export was 5, 4S5, 0O(
pounds.
AS the result of Canada's duty on lart
our farmers are shut out from that mar
ket 1t is reported that N. X. Fair
banks & Co., the extensive pork pack
ers of Chicago, have leased premises il
Montreal and W. IL go into the lard bust
ness there The report states that the,
could not sell their American lard il
Canada owing to the three-cent duty
OF course Canadian farmers will furnish
the hogs for this Montreal establish
meAt
This example shows not only how
''McKinleyism" narrows the market TO
our farm products, but also bow it drives
American capital out of the country
Was it in view of fact like this tina
Mckinley said: ''This bill is framed il
the interest of the people of the United
States?"
Let the farmers keep an eye on INC
KinleyismP'