The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-08-22
The Farmers Share Of Exports,
John Overmyer, cx-Chairnan Of
the Indiana Republican state
Committee, on how the Nc
Kinlcy Bill Affects Farmers.


How would DR.. s.lerrn Vote ON such .
Measured l.
indianapolis Sentinel /,
To rnE EplroR-Sir: In consequences
OF tho high-tariG program embodied ~
tho Mckinley bill, the news Of the day
abounds In dispatches from various quar-
tiers. headiined like this French ke-
,aliasion Duties to be Imposed on Corn
and Meal" and like ttis Europe VIII
Re,aiiato - Holland Getting Even for
Cur Prohibition Tariff and "t tho fol-
lowing tenor 'lseprisxl- Asked Aus
srian aud Hungarian Merchants Act on
she Mckinley Bili."
In addition 10 NJ. these premonitnry i
sympiom,- 1T impending trouble 20 our
export trade. there arc also indications
uf \ strons feeling IL England. inclined
a. csnbarass our commerce with that
great consumer OF our agricultural pro-
ducts.
IL the miAst Of this threatened warfare
on the foreign commerce. which has
been left 10 US by previous high tariff.
she conduct of proiectionists, their Or
game, newspapers. spnnters and other
good chsiile-,n il such as would be
amusing were il not TOR the gravity of
the impending difficulty, and tho serious
character OF the threatened loss. es-
pecially 10 our agriculture.
These protcctionists and their belong
ings. including their newspapers. little
aud Dig, are in the habit VI making sport
Of these threatened losses 10 our people,
which will result from such loss 81 for
eigm markets. They Affect 10 grow jolly
~ Mark Tsplcy, chuckle over the i'm
pending shortage in our export trade,
aud exclaim "See what Curious situs-
&ioni The people Of the old world do
not like the Mckinley bill, and that Is
che very reason we ought 70 adopt IT,
Again these hiyh-nrif organs and
speakers, flsunting once more little Brit
ish flags, ia their Imagination, send out
such items OF nonsense and folly as this
.Enyland does not like the Mckinley
bill. This will cause the present repuoli-
can congress TO pass II "
Whatever squibs may be fired OF, or
qnips invented. or epithets hurled. Or
nonsense poured out, BY narrow aud OBJ
scquious partissns. and syc"phan;ic or
gans, the great fact remains that our
trade with foreign nations will he very
seriously injured by the high tariff meas
ures OF the present congress-. DO we
wish thus to injurc or destroy our for
cign trade!
II we say we do, we can afford to pass
BY without concern the above mentioned
course and conduct OF high tariff ncws-
papers aud spoutcrs. But il We wish "a
retain and increase our foreign trade, VI
want to cay sharply and with decisior
70 every scribe, quill-drivcr, orator, Of
apouter, who, at the dictation OF, OF
under the lead and influence Of the bene
flciaries Of high tariffs may be engaged
III chnckling over the Impending loss o
our foreign commerce: "Sir, yon are AZ
enemy Of your country's prosperity, ane
especially are you IN enemy Of the agri
culture OF the United States"
To court foreign embargoes, rcstric
lions and endorsements on our trade
with other nations IL policy no less un
wise. destructive, and even insane, thai
Il would be for these same protection
advocates, IL they could so order, 4
bring murrain upon our cattle. hog chol
era upon our swiue, and mildew, rus
and drought upon our crops and fields
The loss of foreign markets would lesser
tho value OF agricultural products, an
thus reduce the farmers resources
while disease among cattle ana hogs an
blight on our fields and crops would ais
rodure the farmers resources. only i
q different way What n this foreig
trade. the loss Of which these high tart
gentry affect 20 regard so lightly an
speak Of with 80 mach ilippancy?
Let Us see to whom il Is important:
IN ,sso Va so.i abroad IN al. ia value t7ac2 ~
Of this amount there vas Of raw cotton. x1.71s.s'
OF hreadstuas, l1a IS 2
or provisions, ~ a.
Or minerals. sS.gl56i
o. o. cotton. ln.2i3 81
~ manufactures 81 iron and steel 3l.lts,i'
Of manufactures 81 WOOL only J5I.O
OF the three legs OF the protection ri
pod. one Is the cotton manu- facture. one
the iron and ssecl manufacture, and IN
other is the wool manufacture. Remov
either one OF these legs and the stos
falls. Read again the above figures. an
see what a psltry amount OF our foreig
trade il made up by these three gres
protected interests, the manufacturers Z
cotton, Of iron and Of wool, for who's
benefit the American people have bee
taxed untold mllions.
No wonder these protected interest
their aideTs. servants, abotters and AZ
complies can scorn foreign commerce
They are mot In it,
LDOk b&diu ~ tilc IKuEts IfIEertulfu
our vast export OF cotton $237 ,OOO, OF
81 one year, and that amount bein
nearly one-third of our Total export
Remember, too, that after fully supply
ing all the cotton manufacturers OF Ii
United States, two-thirds Of our cotto
crop must annually find a market
foreign lands. Then II will at once al
pear why the people Of the southcr
states OF our Union arc opposed to big
tariffs.
The southern states oppose protectio
and high tariff not because they 81
.Rebeis," as shallow but malignant pa
isans often assert. but because they La,
no intelligence to perceive how gre
re their interests in foreign commerce
nd because they know that protectis
and high tariffs are At war with that 70
eign commerce, upon which they mu
rely for market for two-thirds OF the
great cotton crop.
Consider once more the above figur'
eho ing our exports OF brcadstuifs 81
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