St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-25
TARIFF TAX TABLETS.


full consideration of the farmers of Min
nesota the words of wisdom contained
in the following article clipped from the
Philadelphia Times:
A little over thirty years ago the mer-
chants of the United states owned Is
per cent of the vessels carrying the for
eign tonnage to America. To-day they
own none of them. So extinct has be-
come the American flag upon the seas
of the world that Nellie Bly,, in her trip
lasting Seventy-three days, never saw
the stats and stripes floating from the,
masthead of vessel from the time of
her leaving this country until her re-
turn. This grand old emblem of liberty
has been 'protected"-that is, taxed
off of the ocean highways of the
world. Its freedom has been para
lyzed by trade restrictions. Just as a
Gagged eagle pines and dies in captivity,
so has the American flag dropped and
died in the captivity of protection. So
we'll did the merchants and sailors in
che early history of our government I'M
derStand their calling and their inter-
Free Trade and Sailors Rights" orig
lnQtC0s flOO tlQoO LII
is the right to do business with whom,
you pIease-is a thing of the past; and
''saiIors' rights" have died with the
death of the commerce of the United
States. This has happened within the
last thirty years of the history of this
country.
'fhe same influences are now under
mining and destroying the farmers and
farming industries of the United States.
More farms are being sold out every
month in the counties adjacent to Phia-
delphia than were sold ten or twelve
years ago during all entire year. Ex-
cepting in foreign commerce, no indus
try of this country is So paralyzed to-day
as that of farming. 1t IS fast becoming
business of the past, not only in so
far as to hardly enable man to make
living for himself and family, but in
every respect. History is repeating
with the farmers the experiences of the
sailors. The farmers as class do not
seem to understand what is meant by
selling in a free trade market and buy
ing in taxed market. They seem to
fail to appreciate the fact that Liver
pool makes the price of grail, for Penn
sylvania, the same as it does for Russia
and India, and do not comprehend that
it is the price of their surplus products
that makes them either successful or
bankrupt.
The farmers of this country are now
doing a business on basis of buying
milk by dry measure and selling it by
wine measure. They are buying by the
short ton of 1000 pounds and selling by
the long ton of 2,240 pounds. They are
doing just the reverse of what they
cbOl1ld do ip 0rdnr m hoo0p,a cuoooccfuI
farmers or successful traders. Of all
the callings in this country the one that
could stand free trade most absolutely
is that of the farmer. If the Mckinley
tariff bill should become law and be
enforced for three years it is safe to say
that no farmer in Pennsylvania would
be able to pursue his calling and make
his expenses. When it is understood
that about As per cent of the people of
the United States are farmers or are in
terested in farming industries, it may
be realized how disastrous to the indus
tries of this country would be the en-
fOrcement of the provisions of the Nc
Klnley tariff bill.
A bushel of corn is worth only 10 OF
Is cents in Kansas; but it costs 60 cents
to have it landed in France. As we put
prohibitive taxes on French products,
they propose to retaliate on our prod
ucts. This is all right from the protect
i've point of view; but the corn growers
will hardly be able to see the advantage
of it.-Philadelphia Record.
The Philadelphia Ledger, the most
reputable of Republican papers, doesn't
take kindly to the extravaganza of the
Republican congress. 1t says: s'Now,
when we have the summing up of the
appropriation bills passed, and of the
bills yet to come, added to the standing
annual obligations of the government
obligations which hold good without an
nual appropriatiOns-iti is seen that we
are in sight of deficit Oh the 30th of
June, 1890, of not less than SIS, OOO, 600,
and possibly OF SIZE, 100000. This 'reck-
less congress has solved the problem Of
what to do with the surplus and like
wise the problem of the amount of de-
crease the revenue Will bear by altefa-
tons in the tariff. So far as it is the
purpose of the Mckinley bill. now in
state of suspended animation in the
senate, that body may as well put it
away in some convenient pigeon hole,
together with all and singular of the
projects of tariff REFORM that have
originated in either house, or have been
brought out by the inventor of reform
fads or other devices to catch the votes
of the granger member of the Farmers
Alliances. If there shall be any Oc-
caslon at all for tariff legislation it will
rather be that which shall tend to in
crease the revenue than to cut it
down."
The grand issue between the two
parties is the market. "Give us tue
whole world to trade with" cry the
Democrats. 'sLet us shut the whole
world out and chew each other up"
answer the Republicans.
Mr.. Blaine is trying to open South
American ports. That is good politics
and good economy, but it is the Demo-
cratic. not the Republican. policy. We
remind MI. Blaine of very interesting
old saying: 1t is never too late to mend.
New York Herald.