Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20


The increase In the value OF our farms be-
tween 1860 and 1850 was as follows:
VaIus Of Farms.
lseo.......----..........-.. Se,6S5, ,045y0O7
1850. oO......--.....-...-.-....--.. 3,27 i,575, 42i
-
Total increase, ten years...-. S3,373, ,4S9,5s
Average yearly increase..... 327, ,346,95s
Between 1860 and 1880 the increase IN the
value Of our farming lands was as follows:
.-.-...$ D, 1877 ,O96,778
1850. 60.....-...-...---........-... O,045,O45,0O
Total increase, twenty yesrs. S3,552,O ,T00
Average yearly increase....... 1T7.002,506
1. The actual increase in the twenty years
after 1860 was the same as for the ten years
before. Tho yearly increase dropped from
1o1S to 216 per cent.
In these twenty years the population more
than doubled.
2. The averagelvalue OF our improved land
was Gil per acre in 1850 and s1e In 1860, an
increase In the ten years Of e6, or 45 per
centt., in the decade. Its value was s19 per
acre in 1880, an Increase OF s3 In twenty
high tariff years, on per cent. each decade.
Before, 1850 the ANIMAL increase In value per
acre was so cents. ASince 1860 1t has been
only Is cents yearly4
8. The total acreage In farms at the three
different periods waS as follows:
1850. &sS1osnC. 1880.
293. 800. CID r, ,53s $50, oe1 1886
Increase. !85l. s24 1913, 500. .297
Yearly inc...., - Ii. .se5, 1872 e,448. 46s
With all the enormous railroad expansion
and opening up C Inew territory between
1860 and 1880 farming had ceased to pay and
fewer people went Into it.
In 1850 the acteage was 1877 per inhabt-
tant in 1860 1t decreased to 1919; in 1880 it
decreased to ION
4. The averageIvalue OF each farm in 1880
was S2,25S; III 1860 it was @3,251I In
1880 1t was S2,569. The increase between
1850 and 1860 was 3ee3. The decrease be-
tween 1860 and 1880 was S6sa.
8. The average value Of farm land per tn
habitant in 1S5b was S142. 1t increased to
S@11 In nd declined to S2Os In 1880.
9. In New JV sey, which siice 1860 has be-
come merely the kitchen-garden for her own
cities, New Yofk Brooklyn and Philadelphia
her 2,09e, ,29Na Nacres having population OF
nearly 5,00o,o%b to feed-the value OF her i'm
proved farm laN IA has declined since 1850. In
the ten years 2before 1860 it increased In
value S25, orr Rrom s68 to S93 per acre. In
1880 it was v8rth only Ss1 per acre.
The yearly Increase in the value OF New
England's farIa before 1Seowas $40, ,3o5, ,520.
Since 1860 it Ahs been G5,2I3,579.
These facts fare taken from the United
States Census u 1880. Their full significance
will be understood more clearly by bearing In
mind few ever f-day truths.
l. All that the people Of the United States
eat, wear and use must be provided by their
own labor. What they eat is provided by the
farmer what they wear and use is provided
by our factories and mtls-by the MILL
owners.
2. All that the people eat can be and is pre-
vided by cur farmers; but all that they wear
and use is not provided by the mill-owners.
part of it Is provided by our farmers, In ex-
change for their surplus.
3. In 1880 the farmers numbered 2, ,6To, ,4ss.
OF these 5,773,0os were working to supply
the American market with what it wanted
to eat, and 1,s97, ,4S5 were working to supply
the American market with what was
needed for wear and use-clothing, from,
and the like. OF the gB2,2I3,4O2,-
564 worth Of farm products raised that year
only 81 ,666, 1924, 1851 could be prohtably dis
posed Of or were needed here, leaving sur
plus Of S5A6,476, ,793, which had to be ex-
ported-exchanged abroad for manufactured
products-and brought back here for final sale
to their countrymen.
4. When their surplus farm products were
sent abroad for exchange into something their
countrymen wanted they had to import the
payment. Nothing is permitted to come into
this country except through the CUSTOM
House. When their payment passed through
the Custom-House all Of it which would inter-
fere with the mills and factories was taxed 4s
per cent. average, and the whole was taxed
80 per cent.
o. This tax is levied to protect the Ameri-
can mill-owner from the competition OF the
American farmer. The 14,5oo protected mill
owners and the 1897, ,4S5 farmers are fight
ing one another for the "home market for
manufactured goods-the mill-ownerS to get
1t all, the farmers for share OF IL. Ii the
millowners gain it all, the 1897, ABB farmers
must abandon their land and ind other work.
The tax is not levied to keep out the for
eigner. He cannot come here, except as an
immigrant, and then he is welcomed. He
sends nothing here except in payment for our
farm surplus, because we have nothing else
to sell. We have nothing else to buy with
that is, generally speaking. Our farm sur
plus ranges from "a to s3 per cent. Of all
we have to sell or buy with. What he sends
here must be bought and paid for in our
farm products, what we send abroad must bo
bought and paid for In his manufactured
products. No money is or can be used In In
ternational trade and commerce. Gold and
silver, exported or imported, are merely
metals-products OF mines-nnd there are not
enough in all the world to buy one years ex-
ports and imports Of the world
8. The business question Is: "Shall our
1,s97,4s farmers be permitted to supply
their countrymen yearly with mill products
worth GALS, 100000 (abroad) by an exchange
Of our surplus farm products for them, or
shall they be taxed out Of the business to pro-
tect the 14,5o0 mill owners from their COM
petitioni"
This question it is for you to decide. 1t is q
fight between the farmer and the mill-owner
Nobody else is particularly interested in it or
cares very much which wins--except that by
giving the mill-owner absolute control and by
destroying the competition prices will be In
creased.
The tariff is simply tax upon the pay