The advocate., 1891-05-06
WHAT WILL BECOME OF KANSAS RE-
PUBLICANSF

was q R0puDllcan member OF the hRnsRg
Senate from the district composed of
Greenwood and Lyon counties, and who
was o Republican member Of the Kansas
railroad commission, has spoken his
mind very freely upon spoliation tariff
system, and here are some of his utter
ances:
The fearful condition Of our western agri-
culture, which the east and Congress at its
back, and the President, do not recognize,
and which they persistently refuse to see
and recognize, has been brought about by
the criminal doctrine of protection. This
protection, so-called, is political jugglery
by which the protected manufacturers of
New England and elsewhere. in the east,
compel the farmer to sell the great staple
products of his labor, viz: Wheat, corn,
cattle and hogs, beef and pork, on the un-
protected basis of the worlds market. They
buy Of the farmers product what they re-
quire for the supply of themselves and their
operatives upon that basis, and in turn COM
pei the farm producers to buy their pro-
ducts for the supply of their necessanes at
the extravagant price which protection ena-
bles them to ask.
AS an illustration of what mean, / take
under the present tariff q suit of ready
made woolen clothing of the weight, say of
seven pounds, which without protection
would be worth $40. The tariff is 461S cents
per pound, $S.4516. And 60 per cent. ad
valorem on 10, Sc. The duty is $9.461l, and
protected price $19.4616.
The price of the farmers wheat is made
in Liverpool, and the price less the cost of
getting it to the market makes the home
price. So if the Liverpool price is 81 and it
takes 80 cents to get the wheat there, the
home price if 80 cents and so on. The
buyer here buys on the basis that he can
ship to Liverpool or anywhere this side. If
he ship to New England, they consign it the
price here plus the freight to the point of
contemplation, and this has always been
the case, at least it is the normal condition,
for which reason, as the staples Of farm pro-
duct are always produced in excess of de-
mand, the surplus must seek foreign mar
ket, and the foreign market fixes the home
price at which all the protected industries
consume the farm products cannot be pro-
tected by any tariff and farm labor is forced,
in spite Of all desire to tho contrary, to be
in competition at all times with the cheap
labor of the world.
This condition is what has always held
the farm staples in thraldom of unremu-
nerstive prices. But the farm interests
could endure all this and would do 80 with
out complaint were they enabled to lay in
the supplies of the manufactured articles
which they require for themselves and fam
lilies, upon the same footing. They are
placed upon the footing of free trade as TO
all they have to sell, but as to all that they
in turn have to buy, as in the suit Of cloth
ing, they are not allowed to buy on the even
basis Of free trade, but by this delusive pro-
tection compelled to pay the home manu-
facturers the $40 together with the protect
i've duty Of s9.46116; total $19.461S. On $6
suit Of same weight the specific duty is
$3.4616, ad valorem duty SO, total duty
$6.4611f; unprotected price s., protected
price $l1.461S.
Any tariff, in the very nature of things,
must act unjustly, as il cannot avoid afford
ing advantages to the class who produce
these kinds of articles upon which the tariff
is levied, provided any are imported. The
manufacturers Of these articles and their
operatives have the producers of agricul-
trPal ataDlea and okhar unnPotacted. indua