The Russellville Democrat., 1890-09-18
NARRowIno THE MARKET.


 France and Canada Give Us . Dose of sssfc- Kinioyism~-Isow Frances Retaiiatery Duty on Our ssraiR Is Narrowing the Farmers Forrfgn Market Eigsct ef Cam adA's Duty on Our Low Exports ss1 Kin leyism'' and the Interests 0f the Farmer.
 By her recently adopted tariff laws France collects daty of fifteen cents q bnshel on grain imported from other European countries; but on gran from the United States the Hewluty is thip ty-three cents bashel, which is prac- tlcaIIy prohibitory.
 Why this discrimination against us?
 IL IS a dose of s'McKinieyis,nv which France has prepared for us to pay us back for the high tariff folly of tho party in power. The eMckinley Ad- minfs sra8Fve Customs bill, which went into effect on August 1, lays great diffi- culties in tho way of hmying and i'm porting tho foreign goods that VIC need, and France was very much wrought up over it, as we'll as over tLe other and still worse Mckinley bill which is yet to come France has simp.y given us a dose of tho Mckinley medicine; but 1t must be noticed that 1t is our farmers who have to take it; and thus as Blaine points out tour foreign market for breadstuifs grows narrower"
 But what will be the precise effect oi this French duty on graiE2
 The latest reports from ste Treasury Department present tho following in teresting facts: Our exports of corn and wheat to France for the fiscal year ended June 30, were valued ats6, BIO, 900, and for last year @, 7l,000. Here is an average of eight and halt million dol lars cut of from our farmers foreign market at single stroke, and Twas all on account of Mckinley"
 The effect of these French duties very clearly show by comparing our exports to France in June, 1889, with the same month this year. The duty has but re- gently been imposed in that country, but already for the month Of June there is a most remarkable falling of in our exports of wheat and corn to France. Our exports of these two article to that country for the two months arc as fol- lows: June, 1889, corn, s0l, 653 bushels; wheat, 1G5. 4s6 bushels. June. 1890, corn, 21. Al bushels; wheat 24, coo bushels.
 The value of these exports fell from s50T, i2s in June, 1889, to the pitiful sum of $50, s75 in June, 1890. That is how "McKinleyism" narrows the foreign market for our breadstuffs-
 Tn the face of fact like this what is the use for Mckinley to try to humbug the farmer by raising the duty on wheat I,nf 4x. five cents, and on corn from ten cents to fifteen?
 Of these two articles we imported dur ing the fiscal year ended Juno 30, just SlI3 2l1 worth from all countries. In attempting to shut out that trife Me Kinley has injured our foreign market for wheat and corn more than four times as much for single month and for . single country.
 To put the matter in a still more striking light for every dollars worth of corn and wheat that he prevents from coming into this country from all other countries hecuts of sixty dollars worth from the farmers foreign market in a single country.
 And such is the quality of "McKin- leyisml"
 But it is not Franco alone that is pay ing us back our ''McKinleyism" sixty fold. Canada takes hand in the busi- ness, too, and has gotten hor mills of re- taliation a-grinding. Among other re- taliatory duties which Mckinley has given Canada cause to impose is the duty of three cents pound on our lard. We exported to British North America" for the fiscal year 1889 lard to the amount of Ii, 14s. 900 pounds; for the year 1890 tho export was ,, 4S5, 900 pounds.
 As the result of Canada's duty on lard our farmers arc shut oat from that mar ket It is reported tbat \. k Fair banks d Co, the extensive pork pack CTS of Chicago, havo loasei promises in Montreal and w,ll go into tho lard bush ness there. The report states that they could not sell their American lard in Canada owing to the three-cent duty. Of course Canadian farmers will furnish the hogs for this Montreal establish ment.
 This example shows not only how ''McKinleyism" narrows the market for our farm products, but also how it drives American capital out of the country. Was it in view of fact like this that Mckinley said: This bill is framed in the interest of tho people of tho United States?"
 Let the farmers keep an eye on ''Mc Kinleyismw