New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-04
A TARIFF FOR FARMERS.
SOME FEATURES OF THE PENDING BILL

WHY FREE-TRADERS DO NOT LAUGH-SOME PER-
TINESr FACTS AND TGUEEs-ExTENDED
FOREIGN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FOR
"PR3TEsTs7 AGAINST THE BILL
,pr TELEGRAPH TO THE tribune,
Washington April "A good many OF the cr'''s VI
the new Revenue bill. who ere born with cohpcuo
and thorough knowledge of economic questions winch
they are now trying to mpart to the readers Oh i'c
trade newspapers, find good deal 10 amusc tich III
most of the features Of the measure which are deshco
TO give TO the farmer the gardener and the fruit grower
as well a. the herds and wool grower, that 1air
measure of protection against foreign competition
which they ask and to which they are ehti'ico' Inv
fIcctradc leaders however, are By no means lhclhco
TO make merry those provisions They nave not
forgotten what free WOOL and snccrs IN regard 10 inc
farmers Of the North and West as well as toward inc
fruit growers Of California cost them and their party
less than eighteen months ago.
soon after the Dark Lantern" bill passed tho
House. one of its stoutcst advocates III conversation
with the writer of this dispatch, sald III suDsltlcc'
The Tribune. in trying 10 make farmers believe unI
their interests are bound up in the protective system
has undertaken labor of love which Will prove to be
wholly in vain: It Will have It's labor for its pains.
A few farmers may think that they need or ought to
have duties the products Of the farm ana ORCHARD
and OF live stock and WOOL but the overwhelming ma
ority will be deceived. IncN KNOW perfectly NcH
that they are not affected in the least by foreign
COM clifton: with the single exception of WOOL the
importation of things grown or produced by the FARM
is the mercst drop in the bucket
That man has changed his mind and, although lie
will not confess il in speech in the House or else
where he realizes that the position taken by the ma
ortv OF the WAYS and Means Committee In regard to
the farmer and the wool grower gives the bill an Gle
nent Of strength which he and his party will find 1t i'm
possible 70 overcome. lie knows that 1t would he rs
fatal "A, il would be silly for tho Democrats to try 10
shift tEer ground on the issue OF protection to agri-
cultural industries They have made their own bed,
and upon it they must lie.
When the representatives Of the farmers and wool
growers appeared before the Ways and Means Com
riftcc several months ago. some Of the Democratic
members asked many questions In regard u the de
cline i'm the value Of farms. especially in the Eastern
and Middle States in the hope. apparently. Of obtain
ing opinions upon which 10 lay the foundation for an
argument that the decline in the value Of land as
well as Of agricultural products. has been caused bN
the operation OF the protective policy. They did not
obtain much satisfaction, and will be obliged 10 try
something else.
comparison Of the rates Of duty proposed on a
large number variety Of products In which farmers
wool growers fruit growers, etc, Interested. With
the rates under the present law and the duties fixed
by tie Dark Lantern bill. VIII be found 70 possess
significance as well interest. Here 1t Il:
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