Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-27
REPUBLICAN, uP ROHCTlOE
Discomfort and Alarm PrsYail-
ing Among the Farmers.
Impoverished for the Benefit
of Monopolies.
MICHIGAN FARMERS SAID TO BE
MORTGAGED FOR At PER
~ GENT. OF THEIR VALUE.
Appalling Facts Presented in the
Senate By Mr. Voorhees,.

city after Two weeks absence, oecu-
pied the chair at the opening of to-day's
session. . . .s.- I...0-.. b
The resolution offered by Mr.. Voor-
hees last Monday as 10 the agricultural
depression was taken up and Mr.. VOor-
hees addressed the Senate in relation to
it. He spoke of the deep, strong cur
rent Of anxiety, discomfort and alarm
prevailing in the farming communities
and said that he proposed to aid them
In the inquiry as to the causes of the
existing depression. It was now near
ly thirty years since the close of terri
BILE war had given the unhallowed
avarice an opportunity, to prey upon
the self sacrificing patriots of the coun-
try, such as had never before been pre-
sented to the basest passions and the
most sordid and odious vice. The
measures then retorted to for the taxa
tion of one class of citizens and for the
enrichment of another class, had been
the legislation hy which the burden Of
the public debt had been doubled, sill
yer demonetized, and high protective
tariff established. He characterized
| the protective tariff as curse and not
a blessing. He was dealing, not with a
theory, but with condition which
even blind man could look at and
draw from it an unerring conclusion.
The farmers of the United States, to-
day, did not receive, on an average,
more than ten centsa bushel for their
corn, fifty cents for their wheat and from
two.cents to three cents pound for their
hogs. The time would come, at no
distant day, when the farmer would
look Oh the proposition to tax him and
his wife and children for the protec-
tion and benefit of other people besides
himself as he would look on q law by
Congress to establish the army worm
and weevil on his farm to infest his
cattle with murrain and his hogs with
cholera. Every pretense of home
market for the farmer was fraud, and
every pretense of taxing wheat and
oats and potatoes for his benefit was q |
cheat and sham. .ir t-g......
1t was q notorious and self-eyident
truth that the tariff as it now stood in |
creased the farmers expense account
from IS to 100 per cent. on every imple.
ment of industry with which he toiled, |
and last year binding twine had been
enhanced to eighteen cents a pound bv
the tariff and twine trust. He did not |
believe that the hands of the farmer
would hold Republican ticket |
at the next Presidential election. He
declared that not only had there been |
no increase in the value of land for the |
last quarter of century, but there had |
been an absolute loss 33 per cent. I'll
the improved farm lands Of the United
States were put to sale to-day, under |
the most favorable circumstances, they
would not, he said, on a general aver
age realize more than two-thirds of
what their value had been twenty-five
years ago. The farms of the State of
Ohio were now under mortgage to the
amount Of 100000, 900. In the State
of Illinois things were no better, the
mortgages in that State amounting to
$4O2, 100000. Twenty three per cent. of |!
the whole face Of the State of Illinois was |
under mortgage. The State of Michigan
was still worse. Forty-seyen per cent. of
the whole surface ofthat State was un-
der mortgage. In the States Of Indi-
ana, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas.
Iowa, Nebraska and the whole norh-
west from 20 to SO per cent of the farm
lands We're under mortgage at such
rates of interest that the farmers could
never pay out Of their crops. to saw
nothing of the principal. The farmers
loss ~ tba;r Snnas e n;tt ~ tce WIN tne
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atand;n~ Z, that nuuS s1a;.u VI enem were
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