The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-09-26
OHIO FARM LANDS.

Mr.. J. a. smith Shows How They Have
Fallen In Value Testimony OF senator.
Shermsn and Teller Interesting Figures
The Home Market Theory Exploded.
Mr. J. q. Smith, Of Ohio. has done
more to make Senator Sherman unhap
py than any other man in the United
States, unless IL be Mr.. NJ ID. Harter,
who Is now candidate for Congress
from the state which the proud moth
er OF Mckinley and Foraker. And now
Mr.. Smith is Fat ii again" In the
Evening Post Of New York City. OF Au-
gust 2.th. he proves by testimony from
Mr. >herman's own mouth that there
has been quite noticeable decline in
the value OF Ohio farms In the debate
in the Senate on August ,ith the Oh 10
Senator said: MY experience Il. that
taking the who State through. there
will he somewhat OF diminntion IN
the value OF farm lands in Oaio. as
there is in New York. as there : almost
everywhere East, because ofcompct on
from the Western country. / have no
doubt IL will be 10 some extent in Indi-
ana; whether IL will extend to Nilsson ri
or not do not know"
As IL to clinch the matter. Senator
Teller then remarked: The farms Of
Illinois are worth to-day 40 pcr cert
less than they were worth fifteen years
ago" Mr.. Teller did not think that this
was due 70 any compel ition with the
extreme West" or TO '.any overproduc-
tion either OF cattle or corn or wheat"
1t was caused by the demonetizat on OF
ntt& - g..
as Mr.. smith says protection has a.
ways deem defended as being specially
In the interest Of the farmers n" he
says amy protectionist in all the land
has ever, before last Monday. surren-
dered that position IL has not fallen
under my observation But in the de-
bate on Monday last this claim was
surrendered. and the man who hauled
down the flag was senator John Sher-
man, OF Ohio. 1t thus appears
that all the farm lands unless in cx-
ceptional instances between the Mis-
sissippi river and the Atlantic ocean.
have very greatly fallen in value in
spite Of every advantage they have had
from the home market afforded by high
protection on manufactured goods The
surrender was complete and absolute"
Mr.. Smith shows that the Western
competition" explanation does not cx-
plain II means. IL IL means any thing.
that the Ohio farmers are to give up
farming. But what shall they turn
their hands 20? What shall they do
with their farms? II they raise garden
truck where shall they sell II?
Moreover. the farmers OF Ohio have
FOR years been subject 10 Western COM
petition The great increase in the
Western production Of corn is no new
thing. The acreage Of improved lands
increased by 30. 100000 acres between
1850 and 1860. Competition with these
new lands was sharp. but yet during
that decade the assessed valuation OF
Ohio farms almost doubled Wherein
did that competition differ from this
competition Of to-day? The production
OF the great crops in Ohio has not fallen
of. but has steadily increased. as Mr..
Smith shows Every thing Is favorable
20 the culture or cereals The truth il,
Of course, that tho farmers have been
oppressed by burdensome and un-
Just system Of taxation--a system
which, 70 speak plainly. Is legalizcd
robbery. And Mr. Smith rightly argues
shat Il will 10 much cheaper TO stop
shis robbery" than 70 follow tho SEN