Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-08
meantime 60 far as know no article made from

meantime 90 far 40 know no article made from
tin plate has been advanced In price.
have not discussed the tariff OF last year,
whole IL is a bentaoent measure. In the main
Its purpose 10 20 aid our Own people to compete
In the sharp industrial conflict that H. going on
the low wages and poor living that prevails In
all countries competing with us. Its purpose y
TO 80 diversity employ ments here as TO keep all
OF our people At work earning competence. IL
has been said that by Il our foreign trade would
bs destroyed. Since Its passage our foreign
Of The biz is to promote foreign trade By rsei
proci,y with nations that produce things we TO
quire and cannot produce, and send 10 them
This principle so strongly urged by our
malchless secretary of state, James q, Blaine,
was embodied in the bin, and this admins ra,
most advantageous reciprocal arrangements
for the admission OF our agricultui al products
INTO the states south Of US, and other arrange
Lying south OF us are nearly forty millions OF
people who will by this policy become in q
greater or less desrso tributary TO us,
and which they cannot or do not produce,
This and the meat inspection bill OF the last con-
ard France to our pork. aud pork products,
closed for ten years, We enlarge this reciprocal
trade with countries who do not produce he
We can Uduoe In sufficient quantities for con.
sumption We want to legisate 80 as 10 enable
sacoessfaiiy compete with the toiiers OF the
world engaged in like productions, and thus en-
able our workers 70 live In condition OF com.
ably by Gov. Boies In his recent speeches, tn, I
the farmers are injured by this policy. What
the farmer wants most OF all IL consumers for
his products, not spasmodlc, but constant, aud
able to purchase. Where is that market 10 be
found outside OF our country Just now there
is q large demand for our products abroad, but
"A n M N A
farmer wants Is sta ady market for his prod
ucts; for this the home market Ia the best; tab
cultural products are consumed at home, and IL
weexcept cotton, "a per cent. These markets
are now TO be- permanently enlarged by
have alluded. Yet IL our industries are
10 be crippled or destroyed, the farmer
win soon suffer. The men now employed In
other Industries will become his competitors In
prt ductton instead OF consumers OF his pi oducts
and our markets for manufactured products
VII be gwen over 10 foreign producers, and
prices will advance to him rs soon as our own
markets are destroyed, and he win be compet
10 look TO the changing and tluotuatipg markets
sumner here s worth at least three In foreign
country. Gov. Boios, In his speech at Cherokee.
maintains that this tarin is tax upon all con
York that this unjust system OF taxation Is
levy ing tribute upon the farmers OF Iowa and
other states. and that so great was this tribute
continuing through 1889, corn ana all olher 90.
real crops had been produced at a loss. In other
words. that al farmers we're producing at a loss,
and In addition paying tribute TO these indus
tries coming within the purview of tariff legis
lation. IL the tariff is the cause OF the alleged
losses from 1885 10 1890, VIII, did these losses not
appear until 1885 The tariff esislation of which
he and others mplain had It's origin IN 1881, ana
the iarin was LoI very materially changed be.
In 1870. and slight reduction was made
In 1879. and was again somewhat In.
m A N mr. ha 90 mr. W. An
again reduced. IL the tartff caused these issues
the Iowa farmer should have felt these losses
that the reduction of the Iarii IN 1853 caused
preston az d oss IN 1885, The Democrats in Ohio
did so argue In 1888 ana 1894 The price of wool
went down In 1883 and 1884, and ihs Onto Demo.
Gratis attributed this reduction In price 10 the
reduction Of the tariff on wool In 1873. Yet any
one who studies the statistics of wool production
1881 and 1882, because OF the enormous produc.
lion In the ArReI tine ReDublio and Australia.
The reduction Of the tariti Ia 1888 aided this de.
preston, and To that extent the farmer lost by
reduction of duty. So do not argue that tho
reduction OF the tarfr Of 1883 had any appreo
n sss eject upon the prices Of farm prTda1.os In
not depressed by the protective tariff which had
then been IN existence twenty years. and II II
worked hjurIousy to the farmers they would
have discovered IL many years before 1886. But
II the iariif be tho true cause, why not critic se
his own party2 They were In the majority In the
house, where only reductions or changes In the
tariff can originate, from 1875 to 1888 continu-
ously, and never touched the subject 10 tho on.
tent of passing a bill. They were again In power
In the house from 1888 TO 1859, through This
whole period Of alleged depression, and
II was not until July. 1883, In tho
midst Of pSsn that they sent
To them eciaIy should be charged this
wrong, II any II be, as claimed by the 20, ernof,
There are periods of depression that affect not
Interests not only IN our own country but Ia
all countries, Europe has recently more Sc
yerey felt this depression than we have IN The
United States and free trade England has ielt
II more perhap, than any other country.
great was this uepr ession In 1883 there, that 81
eminent commission tat ior TWO years inan,rs'ht
glad had time to discuss their report as 70
these causes. The testimony Ia universal thai
during The period or most of 10 embraced ~
Governor Boies criticism all our industrie, IN
the United States or nearly all, were greatly De
pressed. and many or them we've conducted NJ
preston in our country extended to the asrt
cultural interests In 1888 and 1889. The FARMER
shared the depression that prevaied In all IN
reasons during these years applying TO the az
Iicul,ursi interest that did not apply to other
interests: Some of these causes should
not fully developed until 1883 and 1889
W tn the resumption Of specie payments In 1880
BY the revival Of business, and then began the
rapid settlement of the new states and terri
tories west Of the Missouri River. inoludIns AIS
Al 600 COO acres of and IN the states of Nebraska
and Kansas, Minnesota and Dakota were takeS
up under the homestead law FOR settl. ment az
area one-ss veDih larger than the whole state OF
Iowa. These lands were opened up rapidly int
improved farms, so that Kansas and Nebraska
alone produced during the two years lSse ana
1889 about as much corn as was produced ID the
whole United States In 1874. producing over oOO'
100000 bushels in these two years. But this
enormous production In these two states was
supplemenIed during the years 1888 and 1889 by
an enormous production In oil the corn growing
states. 30 that It appears that the tttal pro,
amounted in round numbers to 1000 00J,OO0
bushels more than for the two years OF 1890 and
1887. or an increase OF one-third IN two years
There being practically no foreign demand Tor
corn at any time, as Europe only takes annua ly
from TO per cent OF our crop, this enormous
crop had TO be marketed at home. and IN US
much as these new states were not yet PROVIDED
with STOCK TO feed their product, much OF the
corn OF 1883 was held to, depress the
R sss corn IN r nsss at the lowest price
for many years. and farmers had good cause 10
feel that this crop was not one OF value, ~ com
psTed w ana t ssme stsey not cbey from
the cause give, But the tariff had no more re
Istion to the reduction OF price than 10 me
great number of consumers In various wsys al
home furnishing market, 1t would have lalleo
still lower. At the came Time the price OF caille
was abnormally low, arising largely from causes
having their origin as far back rs lss3. About
that time 1t became known that there was
large elevated region lying At the pkso oI lhe
Rocky Mountains extending east to western
Nebraska. western Kansas, and also including
the state of Texas though UNIT for agriculture
without irrigation, abounded In rich pasture for
cattle. An immense impetus was rapidly given
10 this industry, and these plains were as fap-
Idly filled with cattle as possible, so that the
census discloses that exclusive of cows. oattls
increased In the group of states and territories
west OF the Mississippi river and east OF me Pa
clio slope from H. 90S,b78 In 1880 TO 20 66,sOl In
1890 or an increase of 1900 600 head In ten
years. In the mean time the number had not
sensibly diminished elsewhere, so that when
this cattle industry was thus deve.-
oped, more rapidly than the de-
mand, the price fell In 1883 and 1889 TO
q point where no profit could be realized. Minor
causes supplemented this great cause, such as
transportation rates, and the business OF saueh-
tering cattle was gathered into few hands who
were able 10 depress the price OF live cattle. and
still keep up the price Of dressed meats. But
this sudden and rapid growth has now readJust-
ed ITSELF and cattle are not likely 10 be soon so
danressad in the market Now will anyhody