Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-04-12

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The ignorant charIatan and the de-
signing knaye have alike poured
falSehoods into the ears of the people,
assuring the u%nsuspecting, and those
of easy faith in the direction especial
ly of their party ties, that home mar.
kets are created and sustained by "A
protective tariff, until now, after all
these years of deception and lucrative
m%endacity on the part Of the money
power and its advocates, thousands Of
farmers in different parts of the coun-
try, owning and tilling lands richer
far than the Delta Of the Nile, are
pointing in derisiOn and scorn of all
tariff protection to their stoves and
fire-places asftheir only home mar
ket for corn. The rich contents of
their corncribs, the f~ruitsofthe years
soil, have become cheaper as fuel,
than wood or coal, and as they
mournfully gaze on this great Staple
b~readstuff turning to ashes for want
of a market in this land of railroads,
rivers and lakes, it would seem as if
all their hopes of relief at the hands
Of the party now in power would
perish in the same way.
Experience is teaching a harsh and
severe lesson to the American farm
er, and the time will come, at no dis
tant day, when we look upon the
proposition to tax him, his wife, and
his children for the protection and
benefit of other people besides him
self and his own as he would look
f upon a law of Congress establishing
the army worm, the weevil, and the
nudge in his wheat, legalizing To-
Gusts, lice, grasshoppers,a and injecting
his cattle with murrain and his hogs
with cholera. 1t is not possible that
: the fraudulent and monstrous policy
9 of taxing the farmer into poverty in
g order to make another class of people
5 nabobs and millionaires can much
. longer delude and misl Fad any one
fit to manage his own affairs and
f have the care of a family.
e From year to year the farmer has
been assured, and in certain quarter
he is now again being reminded, thai
|, protection is extended to the products
: of his labor against the competition
S of similar products imported from
: abroad for sale in our markets
r The %protectionist who advance:
e this argument is either himself
1 fool or an audacious knave, who as
r sumes that the farmers to whom it il
y addressed are fools. Do the home
markets of the United States invite
s the great staples of agriculture from
e foreign land? Does the price o
wheat, of corn, of cotton, of pork anC
= of beefin our markets excite the Gu
1t pidity of the grain growers and stool
raisers of Europe, Canada, Mexico
or South America? What need j
If there of "a tariff duty to keep the pro
it duct offoreign farms away from on
1t shores, when in point of fact price
n in American for agricultural produC
k items pay the American farmer bu
le little more than neighborhood tran
le SEPARATIONS, and nothing at all for hi
h labor?
The farmers of the United State
y sell abroad and feed the worlC
Every pretense of protection for thei
q. home markets is a fraud; every DIT
q ty laid on such articles as whea.
re corn, cattle, horses, eggs, poultry
o. and other like productions of farr
as life and farm labor is a. cheat and
o. sham, and is so intended. Unde
Y. cover Of a deceptive and pretende
#. protection, which affords no protectiO
b. at all for anything he has to sell, til
farmer has been for years, and
he now, compelled to pay taxes on tn
n. n~ecessaries of life after the followin
in average rates: On wollen goods, a
I'd average Of 20 per cent. knit cotto
Il. goods, 80 per cent. cotton clothing
,r- 35 per cent. cotton bagging, A p,
he cent. cotton ties, 35 per cent; Ii
I'd plate for roofing, milk pals an
v. kitchen utensils, 40 per cent. earthe
he and stone ware, So per cent. chain
'ul A per cent. window glass, 10 p,
is cent; and sugar, 20 per cent.
ys \ X X ~ y \ y "
1t is a notorious and self-evide,
: truth that the tariff, as it now stand
les increases the farmers expense a
er. count from So to owe 100 per Ger
ITS on every implement of husbandl
III. with which he tolls from one yeal