The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-06-07

Mr.. Mckinney a undertaken TO WIN
the good graccs of the farmers by put
ting into his bill a special agricultural
schedule" and by raising the duty on
some farm products. Protectionist pa
pers. high in the favor Of theirparty, are
meanwhile Fastening to assure the farm
ers that these pretended protection duties
will do them no good at all, at all.
When Mr.. Mckinley came out from
the ways and means committee room on
the afternoon Of March 90, with a smile
Frightening his Napoleonic countenance,"
he was evidently happy over the thought
that his bill would reduce the surplus,
while at the same time giving still higher
protection. He had been telling the pub
lie that his bill would cut off some forty
or fifty millions of needless ven
What must be his state of mind, now
that his arithn,etical expert from the
treasury has figured out an actual In
crease Of twelve millions al the result Of
the bill to reduce revenuesT"
s Pinhooking the Farmer.
High protectionist newspapers are vie
ing with the Mckinley committee in their
efforts to gull the farmer. The Chicago
Inter Ocean goes even further than the
committee in this discreditable business.
The committee did not touch the present
duty of ten cents per bushel on corn, al
though the Chicago paper had pretended
to see that the farmerscf the country are
threatened with ruinous competition from
foreign corn, and had demanded that the
duty be doubled. The "cheap labor corn
Of Buenos Ayres' was seen by The Inter-
Ocean to be on the point of invading our
markets. It foresaw "vast importations"
from this far away country, which can
be reached by steam vessels only after a
voyage of about a month.
How silly this talk is will appear from
the fact that last year we imported just
2,410 bushels Of corn, while we exported
In the same time 81, PTS, 0O6 bushels.
There is no record that we bought any
corn from the Argentine republic last
year; on the contrary we sold to it IT,
al bushels. Our total exports to South
America last year were coz, 891 bushels,
or nearly ten times as much as in the
year before. With such an enormous
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countries, it would seem that our farm
era might survive the calamity threat
ened by the vast importation Of e,41O
bushels, quantity not equal to the
product Of many a one Of our small
farms.
Considering our exports Of more than
00,000,O0 bushels of corn last year, 1t
will Be difficult to convince an intelli-
gent farmer that this so called protection
Of ten cents q bushel on corn Is anything
o than . cheap piece Of humbug,
Minnows will bite readily at an IN.
baited pin hook, to the great delight of
the small boy. The protectionists hold
out this naked pinhook duty on corn
and insult the intelligence Of the farmer
BY fancying that he can be caught by it;
and when he bites all the protectionist
small boys will laugh at tile Stiffness Of
the agricultural minnow.
The question for these people to answer
=. With corn SO cheap in the west that
II Is used for fuel, what good will any
duty, even the highest. do for the farm
err II the duty were q dollar q bushel
instead OF ten cents the farmer could not
possibly get any advantage from II. II
could not possibly make . difference Of
one cent on ten thousand bushels In his
favor. II, however, the farmer has 80
short . supply Of brains aa the .protec-
tionists evidently fancy that he has, he
will betaken BY the naked pinhook. Only
he will get no worm, but will ignomini-
onsly pant his lie away or, the string Of
the protectionist email boy.