The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-10-02

prlsOnment III the pel1tentlary. lneSe
are the men, then, who would be hurt
were the Lodge bill TO become a law
and the sooce er such men ae either re-
strained or trampled in tie dust the
better it will be for free government.
Free Trade, Land Values and Productions.
On Aug. 12, 1890. Senator Sherman
made a speech which is in The Record
and from which the following points
are taken
Mr.. Sherman--No. On the contrary.
our lands a.e depreciG:cd because of west
ern competition. We have provided
substitute for our farms.
have n better illus, ration and better
answer than that. Free trade exists in
England, absolute free trade with all the
world. All the yiories OF free trade there
exist What has depressed the land OF
Englands The land of England to-day
shows not a depreciation of 20 per cent,
but it is not worth one-third of what 1t
was before. In no part Of the habitable
globe has the price of land fallen so
rapidly and surely as in England. Whys
Because they there have the natural re-
suits of free trade. The farming land OF
England, once so beautiful-they raised
almost everything THERE'S now all
pasture land. You scarcely see tillable
land all over in England, exceptin favored
regions.
made one remark in regard to the
great decrease in Ohio in the production
of cereals. ! wish to give the figures now,
as l have them before me, and did not
have them then.
In 1880 Ohio produced i9,040, coo bushels
OF corn. 1t was the largest crop that up
to that time had ever been produced in
the state. From time it gradually de
cined, owing to the competition of the
west, until in 1889, last year, the amount
of our production was SS,953000 bushels.
That shows the decline in Ohio of that i'm
portant cereal
Mr.. McPherson-Is that the wheat pro
duction3
Mr.. Sherman-No; it is corn.
Mr.. McPherson-Has the senator the
figures showing the production of wheat
Mr. Sherman-I have not just at this
moment. can find them in this same
book.
Mr.. McPherson-May ask the senator,
as he goes on, to show whether Ohio is
now producing as much wheat As she con
sumes?
Mr.. Sherman-I am quite sure she does
not, but I will furnish the senator the
evidence exactly.
AS to Nebraska to show where the corn
comes from Nebraska was admitted
twenty-three years ago as state. know
it was very sparsely populated country
then, and the beautiful city that is now
it's commercial capital had but few
thousand inhabitants. In 1885, ten years
ago, Nebraska furnished 59,5O7, 600 bushels
| of corn. In 1889 she furnished the
enormous amount of 149, 543, 900 bushels of
corn. So a new state twenty-five or twen-
ty-three years of age furnished more corn
than the highest crop ever produced in
| Ohio.
l will not detain the senator from North
| Carolina if he will allow a statement to
be read as to the condition of England
and its agricultural industry--the state
ment made by Sir James Card before the
| royal commission Of trade and industry,
| which find embodied in speech Of the
senator from Colorado [Mr. Teller and
thank him for the use of single
paragraph. which will ask to have read,
as to the general results of the ngricul-
tural industry in the past ten years. I
ask the secretary to read the marked
paragraph.
The chief clerk read as follows:
763. Have you made any generalization
| 1ile reSuiCSt
Yes; have. The present as compared
with ten years ago. as deduced by me from
these figures which have already given.
would show ol an average that the land
| lords have lost 80 per cent, the tenants 90
le- cent, and the laborers 10 per cent,
and putting that into figures it brings out
that on 465, ,GD0, 600 of rental for the U tied
Kingdom tue land ords' loss of 10 per
Cent. would be equal to about g20, OO0, 600,
and the tenants 10 per cent. inas,nuch az
their income may be taken at half the
| rental, would be just the same, that is to
| say, TO per cent. on half the rentai is also
LII, 100000 With regard to the laborers,
there was a difficulty in estimating the
| amount of reduction; but l will place be
lore your lordship the way in which en-
/ deavored to arrive at it. l have taken of
dIe lands shown in the agricultural re-
| turns the whole of the lands in corn crops,
| and in green crops, in clover, and in saint.
| fsin, at FL an acre for labor expenditure
taking the broad view Of it, it cannot Of
course be regarded as accurate, but
| think it appEoximates to it-that would
and / have taken five shillings an acre on
cultivated grass land, 100000 acres for
the United Kingdom.
Mr. Sherman-I have now the figures
| for which the senator from New Jersey
| [Mr. McPherson] asked. see that the
| wheat crop has diminished IN about the
| same way In 1880 the wheat crop of
Ohio was 49, 79O,475 bushels, and the
amount last year was Sc, ,S65, 900 bushels.
have not got before me the report as to
Nebraska, but the quantity in Nebraska
has increased during the same period.
Mr.. Paddock-About5 s, 900, 900 bushels.
Mr.. Sherman-About 5000, 900 bushels.