The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-09-26

democratic voters IN said eeucuSeS are
requested to select a Democrat who will
net asa member of the County Central
Committee for the ensuing two years.
Every township is urged to be repre-
scented in said convention bp a full del
egation. LA. Weeks, Chairman.
All. GBaEls Secretary.
TIL HOME MkRKET.
Exchange:~-The stock argument Of the
protectionist is L home market. He dis
courses eloqnently about building up the
mall and the maehipe shop in close prox-
unity to the farm; and he ticsles the
farmer with visionary increased value to
his labor and his product. He tells the
farmer that il IL only necessary to build
up moro manufactures, aud increase the
product Of those articles noon which the
tariff is placed to prevent their being inn
ported, in srier that his produce may be
consumed at home and he save iile cost
Of shipping it abroad. Let us look at the
facts upon which such a theory is based.
we are an agricultural country. cur ex-
ports are largely agricultural. In a per-
iod Of half : century it has varied but a
trlfing per cent, amounting to four
ffths OF our entire export. Tg be ac-
curate, in 1886 from the census reports
our agricultural produce formed 80 per
cent. Of our entire exports; in $40, 80 per
gent; in 1850, 80 per cent: in 1850, 81 per
cent; in 1870, IS per cent; and in 1880,
SO per cent. Thus it will be seen that in
go years there hos been bit q Apctuation
OFFS per cent. from the lowest to the high
est per centage. With all our increase in
manufacturing, with all thu encourage
melt we have givea them. our shipments
show the same large proportions OF agri-
cultural products. Where is our home
market Of which, they talk so ~learnedly?
Aftera hundred years OF tariff we are still
shipping o%ne-foursth Of asriculturs, pred
ucts; our manufactures drowsily working
TO supply the home maiket oaly: are run
ming on from half to throe-quarters time;
the best estimates being that our home
manufactures can more than supply the
American market by running short hours
nine months of the year. Our mines and
forests are ROW turning out mGre than Is
per cent. Of the product necessary for
home consumption. Where can the
home market man increase his popula-
ton to relieve the pressure and consume
the farmers surplus produets2 Ger
tainly not by adding to industries al
ready oyeraone. Each department. is
already full, there is no escape but to the
markets of the world which we are clos
ing against us. A reciprocity, not only
with our neighboring states and South
America. as advised by alr. Blaine, but
with the whole world is what we need
and must have. Not a home but a worlds
market is what we want. 1t is none toe
large for our great agricultural resources
Ne are the greatest wheat producing ma
ti0n in the world. We cannot consume
all Of it at home. We must quit its pro
dqction or find a market for it among
the nations OF the world, And this is to
done, not by a~ntagonizing the consum-
ers Of our products, not by prohibiting
the entrance of their commodities and
producing retaliation, but by adopting the
theory we have maintained for years and
to which MIR. Blaine is a recent convert
so Tar as concerns Fan-Americans to-wit
"Recipr0city-a commercial exchange
with all nations"
See what u system of protective tar.
if has already cost.us by the way Of re.
taliatory legislation. Up to 1879 Austria
and Hungary allowed u barley, wheat
pats, corn, rye, bread, -four and rice to bt
imported free Of duty but upon our de
clining to lower our tariff, or rather oul
increase Of it so far as it affected her in
dustries, in 1888 SHE placed a tariff on al
these articles. Belgium, Sweden, France
Germany, and other countries of Europ,
have followed the example of AUSTRIA; 5,
that outside of England alonewe are me
with a hostile and almost prolibitor,
tariff upon most OF our American prod
ncts. France and Germany especial,
have advanced the duty. The duty il
Germany on -four aud meal is nov
raised to $3.50 per kilo, while in Austri,
and Hungary, France and Germany
they have prohibited the Introduction O
our American pork entirely. And Il
Spain and Germany they have also pre-
hibited the American potatoe. This i
one Of the benefits we have derived frpl
our system Of protection, We produce 4
per cent. of the entire hog product of tn
world. Our importation into German
in 1881 before the decree of prohibitio
was S3,2S3,G73; the year following. it wa
1892, 426. The London and Liyarpot
markets now control the price OF our az
ricultural products. Instead Of III
farmer being benefited in the sale Of Ii
wheat and corn, by the building mes
him of manufactures, his market pri.
remains unaffected, and the farmer wi
lives 500 miles away gets the same pri,
for the same project as he DOGS, alIowin
for the price OF transportation. TIE,
IL no home market fer the farme
his market is q foreign one. I'll
farmers in New York, New England an
the Eastern States are not benefited
the increase Of manufactures, 50 far
furnishing them a home market il col
ferned: The farmers Of New Englar
and Of the east are even worse off tina
those Of the west. Their farms in who
districts at country are deserted. ar
formerly valuable farms, now do not n,