St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-04

rebel against the government, and re-
fuse to be robbed of their ~hard-earned
dollars without a struggle.
Any n can see plainly that the
present tariff. with its As to SO
per cent average of duties, increas-
es the cost of living to the
farmer of the West, whatever may be
its effect upon the manufacturer of the
East. Exactly how much the increase
of expense to the farmer, statisticians
may not agree upon, but it is more than
25 per cent. The depreciation in the
selling price of agricultural produce,
on account of the interference of eX-
change between this country and those
countries where the price of the produce
is fixed. is more than 10 per cent. With
a fairly constructed tariff, then, the
farmer in the West and Northwest
would be more than 35 per cent better
off. That 35 per CEN will usually be the
difference between paying a mortgage
off and having it foreclosed. 1t is the
difference between prosperity. happi-
ness and comfort On the n side, and
bankruptcy on the other.
ProtectioniStS threw around the farm
er the Establishments of a ''home mar
ket" and the patriotic motto: Build up
American business and not that OF for
eign countries" The farmer should
answer: by all means;. but let US
all. both East and West, North
and South, bear the burdens and
share the benefits equally" A re-
cent writer shows so startlingly the
disadvantages under which the farmer
now labors that how ~protectioniSt de-
ceit can be successfully practiced is a
wonder. He takes two states, MasSa-
chusetts and Illinois, one a ~manufactur-
ing and the other an agricultural state.
By the census returns Massachusetts
increased her per capita wealth during
the ten years of low tariff, between 1850
and 1860, Is per cent, while Illinois,
during the same time, increased her per
capita wealth 800 per cent. During the
twenty years of high tariff, between
1860 and 1880, Massachusetts, increased
in wealth $50 per cen and Illinois only
100 per cent. That is, the great state of
Illinois, with all the wonderful increase
of population, of agricultural products
and commercial activity, including the
building of Chicago from a town to a
city of 500, 900 people, could not show as
much per capita gain in wealth in
twenty years of high protection as IN
der ten years of a revenue tariff, while
Massachusetts, almost destitute of nat
ural advantages, was ten times richer.
LII OIucI W Duy lMpltIll6HIoi SlOfCS.
glassware, carpets, grain bags, barbed
wire, nails, clothing, coal, lumber, ETC.,
the farmer has to increase his mortgage,
and sends to Massachusetts for the
money, paying a high rate of interest.
The years go on. and with interest and
continued high prices for all he has to
buy for himself and family, he gets be-
hind and the farm runs down, or, per
haps, he is seized by the mortgage
wners. So it happens that his ex-
hausting labor is thrown away, and
what is the worst feature of the busl-
ness, his own money has been used to
choke him. The money he should have
saved and had snugly slowed away in
the bank, has gone to Massachusetts, or
some other Eastern state, and come back
in the hands of a loan company to be
used for his destruction.
The Democratic party is trying to get
rid of this system of class taxation. If
the farmers of Dakota will look straight
at this question and put away party
prejudice, they will fight and vote with
their friends, and not with their
enemies.