The Bottineau pioneer., 1890-03-08
TIE FARMERS COLUMN.
Edited By the Pioneers A Agr;culsurd
Correspondent.

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Helps The Farmer.
Yon practice the strictest ecc Domy, your
wife makes over her old dresse, for the girls
and your old garments for the boys. The
butter and the eggs are traded for groceries
and stfll how many dollars can you show as
gain for the years Of hard labor for yourself
-. family? How IL it about those WHO
handle the products Of the farm? Men who
have often begun life with less than IL would
take 70 buy out single quarter section farm
but like lily, they neither toll nor spin,
nor gather into barns, tut the glory Of Sol
o.non goes into the. shade by comparison.
pages, living in costly houses. and enjoy ing
AL the luxury that wealth can give. Now
we ask, where does the division Of profit
c,me in? Who gets the profit, the man who
prodm .es or the man who handles it after it
10 soc that something is wrong. That there
is neither ju. ,ice NOR equity in such divis-
ton ef labor and profit. Ii there is such q
margin between the price that the buyer
pays the farmer, and what he receives for 1t
himself !. !. very plaia that II. producer y =
being swindled. Still, like the engine of
the largest, with the power in their own
hands; resolately face sD open switch. and
a I'd plunge into the ditch. Every year it is
THE SANE OLD STORY
The mortgage that was to be lifted III two
years has dragged alonga miserable SIX
ears, and has to be renewei gain.
One Of the claims made by the friends of
prot ,ction is that protective duties slways
ten soon to lower the prices Of protected
articles. If this IS so where is the prctec-
Ii ~ AMI of what use are protective dutiess
Bat we know that this is not 3d. A gentle
IN IN travelling in Europe tells the farmers
lat' while in England two or three years q
%, lie saw Wooes self binders sold for
slOO' and the Singer sewing machine for
SIS. On returning to his home near Du.
,,que, To-; lis neighbor had just bought one
Of the same identical Wood machines, pay
.ug $3.50 for it, while another farmer was
.;.uling corn At l6 cents bushel to pay for
niger sewing n acline whi;h cost him 500
ANOTHER CASE IN POINT:
1t is notorious fact that salt was sold
lr years in Canada at 40 per cent less.
eight paid, than it was offered for in Syr-
,cuse, N. Y, where it YVES made. These IRE
ut SAMPLES ,ut Of hundreds Of cases where
, cor be shown that American manufactur-
rs are able to ship their goods out Of the
country, pay the freight, aud then sell for
esq mont than the American is obliged to
~ for the self same goods at home. Who
ut a protected manufacturer could do such
, thing? Perhaps ons Of the sin plest way 8
show how false the argument is that pro.
:ection does rot permanently Increase the
,rice Of sro,ec.ei articles, is to 90 to any
.ner hant in New York, and ask the price
"a an7 merchandise "in bond" and then ask
lie price OF the same goods after the duty
LAS been paid, and it will bs four that the
Ii feren ,e in price is exactly the amount Of
.e duty adiei Bat this doesn't apply to
that We ra,sc The Montana wool grower,
Who thi, ks th.t duty Of ten cents on wool
in re .ses the price Of his raw produc: to
..st that amount, is greutly mistaken. The
luty outs no figure At all, AMI he wouldn't
st \ cen. more Tor the wool 1t there was no
,riE. 1t is not here that the tariff works
hat would he helping the farmer, which IL
:.ot in any sense the object OF tprotectioa"
hut its when the manufacturer gets hold Of
/ then-wsll it comes in competition with
The foreign-n -nads goods manufacturers not
FARMER y aud way up 60 the prices The
manufaet, rers m,s! be protected so say
our protection friends) he cannot exist
without it, 50 the farmer, or wool g'Ower
:yho gets 70 or 80 cen,s q pound for his raw
product phys 81 .25 cents pound for It
when hc buys 1t hack for his poar wife to
darn his old socks with this is one illus
tratiop of how protection "hclps' the far
mer.-Farmer and Breeder, Republican.
o. How about labor? A. His corn re-
presents so days lahor-is ITS product. In
France it represents 100 days lator-the
silk is its product. If he exchanges the
product Of his labor for the Pro luct OF
French labor he gets two days for one day.
II he exch, nges fpr gold and brings the
gold hack be only exchanges one days time
for one days time. There is no profit ia
). xohang 'ng time for time; only in excbang-
ing product for product
0. Then the Am, rican farner or nnot
sell his agricultural surplus abroad IS
profit if he brings back gold? A. No.
Gold has less value as product Of labor in
the United States than in any other country.
He can get less here in exchaI &c for il.
The, is no profit for him iu such Al ex,
char GO. @ s@.
O. For what, then, must he cell his SIR
plus abroad to secure the largest profit? A.
For the labor products Of countries IN
which gold has the highest value for
The products Of "psuper labor" if he call
Set them. ~'-' - ..-~..-~. ~. }-.
O. What is the object Of Protection2 A.
70 prevent him from exchanging abroad for
any thing but gold, on which he may lose
money and certainly can maze no profit.
@. How is the object accomplished A..
By an import tax 30 adjusted on each for.
eign labor proc uct that enough Of y y con-
tiscated at the Custom House 70. make the
value here Of tho remainder either below Or
equal to the value here Of the gold he
might have taken in payment. ~t5
@. Is it right to rob the fsrmer in this
way7 "A, II you are q Protectionist you
ID. - n NJ ell