Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-10-31

mas ever, before last Monday, surron-
darcd that position 1t has not fallen
under my observation. Bat In tho de-
bato on Monlay last this claim was
SURRENDERED. lnl the man who hauled
down the Il " was senator John Sher-
man. of Oh o - IL thus appears
that all the farm landI unless in cx.
cepiional instances. bctween the Mis-
siSs ppi riv9s and the Auantic ocean.
have very greatly iallen in value In
spite OF every advantage they have had
from the home market aIOrlel by high
protection tn manufactured goods Tho
surrender was complete and absolute"
Mr. Smith shows that tho Western
eompet tion" explanation does not OK
plain 1t means. 10 It means any thing,
that the Ohio farmers arr to give up
farming. hut what shall they turn
ihoir hands u? What shall they do
with their farms? II they ra SO garden
truck where shall they sell II:
Moreover. the farmers Of Ohio have
for years been subject TO Western COM
petit on. Tho great increase in tho
Western p oluction OF corn is no new
thing The acrrag' Of improved lands
Increased by J1.0J0,000 acres between
1857 and 1861 Compel ton with these
new lands was sharp but yet during
that decade tho assessed valuation OF
0hio farms almost doubled. Whcrcin
ii d that compctit on differ from this
competition OF to-da,? The production
ni the great crops in Ollobas not fallon
on lut has steadily increased as MIR.
Smith SHOWS Livery thing . favorable
to tho rul;urs OF cereals The truth is,
o. course. that thu farmers have been
oppressed by q bnrdcn'ome AMI un-
ut system at taxltion-a system
VIII oh, to sp,ak plainly, Is legalized
tohL, ry And MIR Sm n rightly arguea
that IL will hc muca cheaper to stop
ltiS r, bb rs" than TO follow the Sem
atu y adv'rt and 'abandon the farms
that thc,s ather's c.,ared up out Of tho
llrrn IS AMI move 10 the towns and
20 to man ilarmr,nv-go into some bust
n"ss VII ch they will be protected in
stra OF Lc NJ robbed MIR. sherman
ir ~ to ovon things up by show ng that
III city people arc thriving and that
rat estate IN Cincinnati and Cleveland
has .,d,anc,j rap dly Then he brings
Toward The we'll Worn home market
theory. an su gcsis that the farm lands
II thc II, g,norhnd u manufactur ng
',nttrs has not d"prco niel
f"ro II sih,t NJ laiih sots In his
,y rs with ,rc oiI G.. he take, Wag-
~" 0r,h s'r culiurl county,
close to Canton and Mansfield, near to
Cleveland and convenient to Pittsburgh,
travorscd by one OF the greatest rail-
roads in the country, and yet right in
this county the recent valuation of
farm lands show a falling of OF nearly
81, 900, 900. Mr. Sherman crawls out
% an exceedingly small hole,
when he tries to explain this
beautiful situation, by saying that there
Is no large town actually within the
county, This is new limitation upon
the homo market theory. 1t is no long
er enough to bo near big town; you
must be in the same county. after
awhile tho same township with it
New York City has no influence on
Brooklyn, and Jersey City might as
well DO In tho Soudan.
But Mr.. Smith tries 1t again. Butler
County is almost within speaking dis
tance Of Cincinnati and Dayton; within
its own borders 1t has the stirring man.
ufacturing towns OF Hamilton and Md
dletown, in both OF which towns real
estate has largely increased in value
during the last ten years The county is
amply supplied with railroads. 1t is in
the great Miami valley, which is cele-
brated for its beauty AMI fertility, and
yot the farming lands have fallen in
value, as shown by tho official valuations,
81, 003, 1857 between 1850 and 1890. In the
very township in VIII ch Middletown is
situated lands have deprec ated to the
extent OF S205, 200; and In the township
in which Hamilton is situated they
havo deprecated to the extent OF $780,
800
So 1t is with every township in the
county.
Tho city OF Columbus, with popula-
ton coso on TO 100, 900. is the county
seat OF Franklin County. This county
is one OF the greatest producing
counties OF the State. Columbus is an
important manuiactur ng AMI railroad
center. and 1t Is o prosperous, substan-
tlal. rapidly growing and wealthy city
But here, too farm lands are worth less
by 81, i3s, $50 than they wero ten years
ago. IL does seem that Mr., Smith has
made out his case; and tits likely thet he
Is speaking with great moderation when
he says.
when tho ia rcpofts are published Of the