Iron County register., 1890-02-13
For Farmers to Consider.
From J. S. Moore's "Friendly Letter" to
American Farmers.

! From j. ). Moore'S "Friendly Letter" to
American Farmers.
Thirty years ago Mr.. John Bright,
that sturdy Macduff TO the protection
| Macbeth of the world. laid down the
axiom that protection is com biDa ton
of"Knavery and folly" an epithet that
has now become Immortal. A short
| time ago Mr.. Brightslill more forcibly
eXemplitfed the protection system as
| all organized army against the con-
sumers, who are simply mob. New
| er was an expression more trite or
more true. The organized armies are
chiefly kept up by the autocrats to
| keep the populations of those unhappy
countries (who are in their eyes only
moh) in order anh duly oppressed.
Our own tariff system is an organized
| legal tyranny 10 oppress 10000, 600 of
| consumers. Yes, consumers are but
| mob, and an ignorant moh at that; or
else how would it be possible to endure
| the most veXatious exactions for years
| without an earnest effort to break np
| the organized army of protection?
Of all the poor, deluded tariff-ridden
| mob of consumers no one makes a
more pitiable show than does the
| farmer of the United States. To hin
| organized protection is the daughter Of
the horse-leech and he has to give"
| ''give,n give" from the moment he
gets up in the morning, when he
washes his hands with taxed soap. un-
| ill be goes TO bed with a taxed might
cap if he still wears one. From the
cradle to the grave he is taxed withoat
any mitigation. To him protection OF
home industry is simply TO give and
not to receive. What "a swindIe il is,
| for instance, to put duty on wheat,
| when all the wheat we imported dur
| ing 1856 was 3S9, $40 bushels, while
our exports of wheat during the same
year wer- 81, ,459 290 bushels, besides
8 ZOO, 900 barrels of -four. The farmer,
serf to the organized army of protection
is not benefited one cent by the protee-
tion of wheat. He gets in New York
the price, less freight and charges, that
the wheat sells for in London. For in
stance, | see that American wheat on
the Goth of April was selling in Lon
don for IS. Sd. per 100 pounds, which ia
as near as possible 81 .03 for bushel of
60 pounds. The price in New York
was 93 cents, leaving 10 cents bushel
for freight and charges and profit to
London, Now, as the farmer in the
United States only gets the London
price less charges for his wheat, which
is SO cents net. let me show how much
granulated sugar 10 bushels of wheat
at SO cents net in London, and how
much it will buy in New York. The
price of granulated sugar in London is
los. per hundredweight. or for liz
pounds, which is as near as possible 81
cents per pound. The price for the
for the same kind of sugar in New
York in wholesale is 81 cents per pound.
With these facts before us we find
that 10 bushels Of wheat at 90 cents in
New York, or SO 80, will buy little
less than l62 pounds of granulated
sugar al 5 3-4 cents per pound. The
same 10 bushels OF wheat at SO cents
net in London. or 50 30will buy as near,
| II possible 2653 pounds of granulated
sugar in London at 81 cents per pound.
In other words, when the Ameri-
can farmer wants to turn 10 BUSH
els ofhis wheat into sugar in London he
he gels 2653 pounds and If he wants to
do the same thing in New York he
gets only 162 pounds, or l032 pounds
less.
In 1856 we exported SO, ,656, ,433 BUSH
els of Indian corn. The price of corn
in London is at present 20 shIllipgs
per $50 pounds, or, as near as possible,
/ cent per pound. Now, a bushel o.
corn weighing so pounds is selling for
All cents in New York. That p cents
that it is selling more for in Loudon is
for freight, etc. Anyhow, the farmer
does not get any more for his corn ia
! New York than in London, less OK
penses. Well, then. 10 bushels of corn
in New York at 47} cents, or S4.75, If
converted into graduated sugar at 5 3.4
cents a pound. will buy, as near a.
possible, 81 S pounds Of sugar in New
| York
| On the other hand, 10 bushels OF
corn, the net price of which, less
| charges, is S4.75 in London, II convert
ed into granulated sugar at 81 cents
per pound, will buy fraction over
| 135 S pounds, or 53 pounds more in
/ London than in New York.
With these little statistics as mere
! beginning / will leave my fellow-mobs-
men consumers. namely, the farmers,
! to reflect on the army organic ,tion of
protection. But promise TO show the
1 tyranny and swiudie up ad ipfinitum.
j I-Rel1ubtic.
! MONEY TO LoAN-On Farms only, With
privilege OF paying part or all al any time,