Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-27

1or preadsturs grows narrower. !"

for breadstutfs grows narrower
But what will be the precise effect of
this French duty on grain?
The latest reports from the Treasury
Department present the following in
teresting facts: Our exports of corn
and wheat to France for the fiscal wear
| ended June 80, were valued at Sc, 91O. 600,
and for last year 50, 81, 900. Here is an
average of eight and half million dol
lars cut off from our farmers foreign
market at single stroke, and Twas
all on account of Mckinley"
The effect of these French duties yery
clearly show by comparing our exports
70 France in June, $780, with the same
month this year. The duty has but re-
Gently been imposed in that country.
but already for the month of June there
is most remarkable falling off n our
exports of wheat and corn to France.
| Our exports of these two article to that
country for the two months are as fol-
lows: June, 1889, corn, sol, ,65S bushels;
wheat, 165. 4S6 bushels. June, $780,
corn, 81, AL bushels; wheat, "a, 600
bushels
The value of these exports fell from
S5o7, 12S in June, 1889, to the pitiful sum
of $685. in June, 1890 That is how
'McKinleyism" narrows the foreign
market for our breadstuffs.
In the face of fact like this what is
the use for Mckinley to try to humbug
the farmer by raising the duty on wheat
from twenty cents bushel to twenty
five cents. and on corn from ten cents
to fifteen?
OF these two articles we imported d ur-
ing the fiscal year ended June 80 Just
Sll3,211 worth from all countries In
attempting to shut out that trife Nc
kinley has injured our foreign market
for wheat and corn more than four times
as much for a single month and for
single country.
To put the matter in a still more
striking light, for every dollars worth
OF corn and wheat that he prevents from
coming into this country from all other
countries he cuts off sixty dollars worth
from the farmers foreign market in a
single country.
And such is the quality of "McKin-
leyism!''
But it is not France alone that is paw
ing us back our ''McKinleyism" sixty
fold. Canada takes a hand in the busi-
ness, too, and has gotten her mills of re-
taliation a-grinding. Among other re-
taliatory duties which Mckinley has
given Canada cause to impose is the
duty of three cents a pound on our
lard. We exported to British North
America" for the fiscal year 1889 lard to
the amount of H. las 900 pounds; for the
year 1890 the export was 5, 4S5, 900
pounds.
AS the result of Canadas duty on lard
our farmers are shut out from that mar
ket. 1t is reported that N X. Fair
banks q Co., the extensive pork pack
ers of Chicago, have leased premises in
Montreal and W II go into the lard busi-
ness there. The report states that they
could not sell their American lard in
Canada owing to the three-cent duty.
OF course Canadian farmers will furnish
the hogs for this Montreal establish
ment.
This example shows not only how
'McKnleyisIn" narrows the market for
our farm products, but also how it drives
American capital out of the country
Was it in view of fact like this that
Mckinley said: This bill is framed in
the interest of the people of the United
States?"
Let the farmers keep an eye on enc
Kinleyism!'