The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-13
TO STOP EXPORTS.

The Intention of the trainers of the Nc
kINLEY bill was to check Imports AS i'm
ports are the pay for our exports, each
amounting to about S7OO, 00O, 900 annually
and thus balancing each other, the only
way to check imports is to check exports.
Again, the only way by which exports can
legally be checked is to impose fine upon
the man who exports goods, and this may
be done by confscating at the custom
house portion of the pay he receives for
his goods. And that is precisely what our
government does. 1t fines any man for ex-
porting his surplus product unless he will
take his pay for them in farm goods, which
will enter into competition with the pro-
ducts of our farms only. The fine for re-
celvlng farm products is light one; but
the fine for receiving manufactured goods
in payment for exported farm products, is
very heavy, averaging 60 per cent, under
the newlaw. That's, the government levies
a merely nominal tax on the pay for manu-
featured goods, but heavy tax on the pay
for farm products.
Three-fourths of our surplus prod uct is
made up of the surplus of the farms: and
this surplus must be exported or burnt for
fuel, as corn in Kansas has been burnt. II
cannot be consumed here, for it is sur
plus. 1t must be exported, and being ex-
ported it must be paid for Of course.
farmers do not exchange wheat for wheat
or barley for barley; they exchange farm
productions for manufactured goods. But
when these goods arrive at our shores the
government confscates over one-half of
them; that is, it makes the importers nav
an average tax of 60 per cent. of their value
before landing them. The government does
this in order to protect the mill-owners.
some Il, 500 in number, from competition on
the part Of the farmers, who number over
100000.
This war on the farmers in favor of the
mill-owners, this taxing of over half the
population in favor of few protected man
ufacturers, is for the purpose of prevent
ing the farmers from selling their surplus.
For as surely as they sell it they win re-
ceive manufactures in payment for it. AID
will thus through exchange enter into com
petition with the mill-owners, by Offering
the same goods for sale that the mill-owners
offer. The farmers can produce manufac.
lures on their farm and produce them
cheaply, too, simply by exchanging their
farm products for the manufactured
goods. The mill owners urge the
government to prevent the farmers from
producing manufactured goods ON their
farms in this way-through exchanging the
products of their labor for the products of
foreign labor-and the government fines
the farmers half the goods they re-
ceive by means of the exchange. This
viii place the farmers at such disadvan-
tage that they must stop raising that sur
plus They must quit manufacturing mill
goods in the open air by turning their
wheat into these goods by exchange
These manufactured goods must not he
made on farm in this way, by free men
working for themselves under the omen
sky in the fresh air and sunshine. Min
goods must be made in mills only, says the
government, by pale wage-slaves working
for task-masters in dingy factories at star.
walton wages. These goods must be made
IN precisely the same way that they are
made by the paupers of Europe and in no
other way. 1t will not do to permit the
sons OF America to use the advantage, and
the only advantage they have over
the paupers of Europe the advantage
namely, OF cheap, fertile, free soil that
may be had almost for the asking. No: we
must bring our laborers to the level of the
paupers OF Europe. We must drive from
the farms into the factories the men who
produce this troublesome surplus. The
surplus OF farm products amounts to
0,0OO,0OO yearly and requires the labor of
two million farm hands to produce it. The
world is starving for this surplus and
ready to pay good price for it; but that
makes no difference to the mill-owners.