The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-03-15
THE FARMERS COLUMN.
Edited BY the P;oneer's Agricultural
z Correspondent.
The Proteostonlst Cateohism.
CHAPTER 10

Q. II Protection limits TIE farmer to the
home market, it must limit tn. protected
m,li-owuer to the home market? A. 1t Toes
except in competition with the farmer,
whose products are but slightly prot ected
against the mill.owner. 1t is grab-and-get.
sll-you-can game. " ..
Q. How does that happen' A. Our manu-.
facturers csn, if they like. without Protec-
tion, produce many things, If not everything
as cheaply @ any manufacturer in the
orld American labor is cheaper. meas
ured by Its product and not by its time.
Days wages are higher here, but the wages
paid for certain amount---product wages -
are lower. Our cotton mills pay less wa
ges per 1000 yards than those Of England
and could supply the world. Our sugar re-
fineries pay less per 1000 poun IL. and 20
on. But they cannot sell or exchange abroad
for the same reason that the farmer cannot
the tax on their payment when received q.
{ 1e Custo n-House is to heavy.
@. Is that the reason why our cotton
mills do not export more? A. The sole aud
only reason Why any Industry does not.
Q. Why do the owners 70. object to Pro-
te,tion? A. Because thoy can make more
~ plundering the 65.O0O,0O0 Americans,
given them as a lawful prey than in honest
trade. They are protected" on cheap grades
Of cotton goods as high as 225 per cent.
They are few in number, and each industry
is organized into compact organization, .
private Trust. They are willing to surrender
the foreign ma, ket because their email num-
bers give them control Of pri ;es in this. aud
American people must buy fron them at
THAR nricoa OO VifhnNf than
G. But our cotton mills did export last
year? A. Yes. q little, and the 'pf nent'
or credit for our cotton goods was exchanged
abroad for foreign agricultural products
which were but slightly taxed at the Gus
tom. House.
! Q. Do any other protected industries
export? A. Yes. They exported $49. .O00,-
600 worth Of cotton, copper. iron and steel
alone. tr oil. about $50, 100000 worth.
Our imports Of farm pro lucts in payment
included 81 ,863, 1922. fax 81, ,86l, 783, bread
stuffs 5000, 1856, animals 1896. .424, .vege
tables $2,3l2,478, eggs $2.OS9.28l, de Try
produt ts 81 OF ,495. hops 81 ,OO1 ,306. The
protected in iustries "got in their fine
work" on the unprotected farmer. But
they are limited in their foreign exchanges
for this market to those that will pay them
exactly as the farmer is. ~-....
@. Is this why our mills cannot get the
South American markets? A. Il is. Our
farms urderbid them. Our cotton aud corn
are invested in prints in Liverpool where
poun1 Of cotton or bushel Of
corn will buy much more than In New York
and these prints are taken TO Rio to pay for
he rubber that is sent here. In the cut
throat game OF trade the mill proc ucts buy
farm products in Canada and our mills com.
pete all along the border with our farmers
in ., pplying what we eat.
Q. Dc they compete with one another in
the fors ign exchange market--cotlon mill
with steel n i'll sugar mill with silk mill7 A.
Yes, in small m. asure, but they are 50 few
and their surplus for export 30 smalt that
the comp etition betweeu themselves is too
email to count. @
Il 9. Who nre the customers Of the final
products American lat orr A. The peo-
pie Of the United States alone.
Q. Then the home market Is the final
market. is il not? A.. Properly speaking,
there is no market but the home market.
The foreign market eats nothing belonging
to Us wears nothing belonging 70 us and
uses nothing belou eing to US, being merely
aI exchange where American wheat Is
changed into American tea American corn
into American rubber. American meat into
American coffee Chimes tea being changed
into Chinese wheat. Brazilia1 rubber into
Brazilian corn and Jsvanese coffee into
Javanese meal What gees out Of the coun-
try ss the first product Of American labor
comes back into the country O. the final
product Of American labor. Its foreign tour
is merely to increase its sire or change ito
favor. aud its final destination and eId is
the American market and American con.
sumer. All that We eat, wear and use is the
product Of our own American labor.
NJ foreigner contributes anything or ID paid
one cents werth, or obtains anything from
us. All II at may Be done ID d.,ne solely for
ourselves and for onr benefit and our pr ,ft.
More han that All that our labor pro-
duces must b consumed by ns. What II
produces 10 what No eat, wear and nss %
the 6nal result Of al exchanges. We cam
not sell II, for sale IL but m excl anee
We must use il Or give il asay which We
do not do.
9. Then Why oil this conflict over our
foreign exchangss2 A. Il 10 simply tight
ketwesn two classes Or Amsrican labor O. 70
which ehall make the more profit between
1906, 600 farmers on one side s1d $4,000
mil owners on the other -bet Nsen free
farm labor y the Individual one o. Das
side ! nd organised wage-labor under cap
tatns Of industry on the othsr.
Q. which will win3 a. The captains
q industry. beyond doubt. +. =. wilson.
n. =. World. Z
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