The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-29


is intended for amusement while the Jockeys
are 81 owing rich selling their old stock OF spav-
IN mules" ILaughter.] And even SO great
man as Senator Sherman-now Senator Sher-
man gave me high testimonial, and needed
it very bad, for they got me in ballot-box
scrape, and the day before that box exploded
[applause] in the other fellows hands lap
plausel over at Orrville. in which he said was
q pretty nice acknowledgements, Senator Sher-
man, for ability certainly is not exceeded by
any man in the Senate, and for
EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
And he has, withal, very nice way of stating
a case. What does he say when Erastus Wi
man writes him letter in which he says
specially that the Mckinley bill is bad bill !;
that the people i'll Canada make a great many
things that they like to sell to this country. You
know they do not raise any sugar, molasses,
tea coffee or hides over there. So this recip-
rocity relation, SO far the bill with Canada is
concerned, is like kissing the wrong girl. He
says that the Mckinley bill puts a barrier be-
tween the trade of these two countries. And
Mr.. Sherman admits that the Mckinley bill will
in his language apply with some severity to
Canada.
Does it not apply with equal severity to the
United States? If they can not sell us their
products we can not sell ours to them. And you
gentlemen here who work in these great factor
les OF Canton do not find an outlet for anything
you manufacture to the great country north OF
US, because the Mckinley bill in
THE LANGUAGE OF MR. SHERMAN,
applies with some severity to you who want to
sell. AID yet, in the face of that the Republic
an party, denying honest reciprocity with Can
ada, denying fair open trade with a country
that is anxious to trade with US, brings forth
this little feeble infant thatthey call reciprocity,
and after saying. ever since you can remember,
that protection, and protection alone, had
made this country prosperous they abandon
that idea and go to dangling their little recpro-
CITY infant, and thereby proclaim their adher-
ence to the most unaffected form of free trade.
Why, 1t is ludicrous, it is laughable to see the
shifting from this position to that position,
Watching the storm and not having the courage
that Senators Paddock and Plumb had to get in
before it caught them. I assume that there is
not very large proportion of farmers in this
audience, but there some. Probably there
are some like myself, who have to hold good
office TO keep the farm from breaking them up.
Laughter and applausel
am an honest farmer that was forced into
politics because could not make a living on the
farm. [Laughter.] I sold last year my corn for
twenty-five cents, and my oats for seventeen
cents, and yet in the Mckinley bill one of the
greatest blessings Is that they have increased
the tariff on corn five cents and on oats five
cents. Who is going to ship in oats from
Europe or Africa and sell them at seventeen
cents bushel when the farmer had to burn
millions of bushels of corn for fuel? Who is
going to bring in corn? They have increased
the duties on potatoes. We did not have a
potato crop this year. and there is high
duty for US to pay on potatoes, so that one Of
the great necessities OF life Is increased in
price. and the first result that can think of in
the Mckinley bill will be that you, gentlemen,
and especially the citizens from the Emerald
Isle, will have to pay higher price for the po-
tatoes you eat.
THE FARMER
1t is said, is to have the benefit of this bill
You have had protection. you have had more
protection many times over than you ever had
before in the last two years, in the last ten
years, and in those ten years you have seen the
farms Of Ohio decrease in value, as the apprais-
ers' returns will show, more than $50, 600 600.
How many years will it take them to dwindIe
down to nothing? do not knew how much the
decrease is in the county of Stark, but know
in the county Of Butler, which is the garden
spot of earth, where the cities have increased,
one double and the other treble, it's wealth that
every township in that county has gone down
in the appraised value OF its farms and the total
is more than S2 600. 900. When we get that
thoroughly understood down in Butler County
our last years majority of $500 will look small
as the returns come In. The farmers are
HUMBUGGED MORE THAN ANY BODY ELSE
by the tariff. Just let me give YOU one or two
details, and will pass to some thing else Bar
icy was rdlseu Httle, gram q little, oats a lit
tie. Eggs have been protected to the extent Of
five cents per dozen under the Mckinley bill
The women will all get rich. Every farmers
wife will get rich. She gets cents dozen pro
lection on her eggs, and cider is protected
cents. Last year the cider revenue in the coun-
try amounted to the enormous sum of $94 so.
Was not that enough for you fellows who are
raising cider? Not satisfied with the enormous
revenues that rolled in from the great cider
traffic of the world, they have raised it to
cents, and it would not surprise me if, in the
neXtyear, q full, round 500 would roll into our
treasury. And
THEN THERE IS TURNP SEED.
They had more trouble over turnip seed than
any thing else. They contended and fought
about it between the two houses First the
House put 40 per cent upon turnp seed, but
Major Mckinley was determined that the farm
ers OF Stark County should vote for him in q
mass this time, and thereupon ne puts in his bill
a tariff of 40 per cent upon turnip seed. But
the Senate has never been accused of being
friendly to the farmers (there are 40 farmers in
the Senate). [Laughterl Whenever farmer
gets to the United States Senate he will be put
in glass case and stuck in the rotunda of the
Capitol lEdughter.1 And the poor laboring
men in the Senate, earning their forty and
twenty millions of dollars by the sweat of their
brow, struck out that enactment in regard to
turn seed and put it on the free list, striking
LOhh 1hSISbS bAO ldIIHiH9 IAl0r0SIS OF the cOuA-
try; but am proud to say, your fellow-towns-
man would not see his constituents robbed by
Jhe Senate. He abandoned good many other
things, but stuck to turnip seed and finally his
persistence was so great that they compromised
and split the difference, and there is now orwiu
be in few days in this country, the great bless
ng of 20 per cent. duty on turnip seed. shall
90 home tomorrow and order turnips for din
aer before the pricr goes up [Laughterl
And theI. not content with that which ought
to have satisfied any ordinary Congressman
hey put duty of so per cent. on straw The
oauper straw of Europe running the farm
ers of this country. Loud laughter.] The fact
S, and the truth is, that the most of the grain
crops have raised did not hardly bring the
price of straw, SO to
PREVENT THAT RUINoUs COMPETITION,
And in the line of protection of the home indus
sries, 80 per cent. added on straw Then
here was another duty put on for the benefl
If certain classes OF farmers who don't live in
0hio but the farmers in Florida and California
lad a duty of cents put upon orange peel
There are only few people who raise it in this
country. expect there is much as 10 cents
worth of orange peel used in Canton in a year,
md am willing to bear my share of that bur
len because 1 know it protects the struggling
lgricultursts in Florida and California
But there is one thing the United States SEN
lte did try to do for the farmers. 1 believe in
giving gentleman who shall not be named his
iue. There is one thing doking aside), that
he Senate did try to do for the farmers which
Tour fellow -townsman would not let them do
The Senate struck the duty on binding