The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-03-11
THE WESTERN FARMERS.
ANOTHER GOVERNOR BROUGHT
DOWN BY FACTS.


Writer Who Knows More About Iowa
than Her Governor Tells n Lot of Tariff
Truths.
The Reform Club jubilee In New York,
held in December TO celebrate the Demo-
: cratic victory In November, continues TO
return 10 plague the inventors. The
mercless exposure OF the instantaneous
of Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, about
the industries OF this State, has COM
PEELED absolute silence on his part and
ON the part OF the newspapers which sus-
tain him. IL the modification OF our
l0eople over his fouling of his own nest
SVwere not more than counterbalanced by
thoir pride in the prosperity which he
belied, they would have hard work In
pardoning his speech even as youthful
tndiscretion" or an "ebullition OF calam-
,ty politics." There may, however, be
consolation for him in the adage that
"miSery loves company" for Gov. Boies,
OF Iowa, "put his foot in it" also; but
from q political economic standpoint,
this only adds to the offense.
The IoiOd State Register prints tho
following pointed letter from Mr.. f, Is.
Norton, of Burlington, Wis, who is
recognized authority on economics, and
especially in statistics OF production,
trade and TRANSPORTATION. Although IL
appeared several weeks since, Iowa's
~ Governor and his friends have remained
as silent under the condemnation OF
truth as have their friends in Massa-
chusetts:
BURLINGTON. Wis, Dec. 80.
notice that the Hon. Roger q. Mills was
unable 10 speak at tho recent free trade
gorifcation banquet In New York City.
having worn out his throat in preaching
British free trade in Wisconsin, at 5000 per
night, during the late campaign. But his
place seems to have been made good by
Governor Boies, OF Iowa, whose speech was
mainly repetition OF the plausible Actions
and ISLANDERS OF the windy Roger .. Iowa
is farming State, and IL your farmers de-
sire to follow Governor Boies down into the
dismal swamp OF British free trade, should
be glad TO sec them learn a few lessons In
that school OF experience, IL IL could be
done without running the best industries OF
Wisconsin and other States. l have read
bis speech as reported. and cannot find in
IL single statement pertaining To our In
dustries that he could prove In any court OF
justice. He covertly drags in the old SLAM
der that the tariff is flched from the con-
sumner and given as Il bonus 20 the manu-
facturer. Now, Mr.. Mongredien, an English
writer for the Golden Club, ridicules and
repudates this idea that the tariff is a
bonus TO the manufacturers. He rightly
argues that If this were so, men would
leave all other industries and rush into
protected employments.
In other words, II It had been true, as all
American free-traders have told us, that
the maker OF steel rails pocketed a bonus OF
sl7 per ton, Grover Cleveland, Roger O.
Mills, Governor Bots and other free-trade
leaders would have tumbled over each other
in their zeal 10 buy stock in Bessemer works.
Why, then, do our American free-traderS
continue TO make this assertion, which they
know TO be falsey Simply to ire the popu-
lar heart and get votes Simply because
slandering the rich and arraying the poor
against them has always been an easy way
TO win the rabble. Like the vendors OF cheap
whisky, who, finding tho pure article too
expensive and tame, use sulphurlc acid and
Strychnine TO satisfy their cheap customers
He says that an acre OF corn in Iowa costs
G7 cents more than IL Will sell for, and that
this Is equally true with their great staples,
adding that for years farming has been
prosecuted at "a loss In that State on account
OF our protective tariff. At present prices
I'm Chicago, corn soc, wheat 81, oats 40c
fiaXseed SIPS, potatoes 00c, wool Doc, cheese
Zoe, butter csc, every intelligent farmer in
Iowa knows that there Is more profit in
these products at these prices than our
manufacturers make.
But granting prices OF farm products.
especially such as we have exported, have
been too low the past ten years, what has
been the chief cause? Roger Q. Mills i'm his
speech in Congress says and rightly says,
that 10 has been caused by our demonetiza-
tion of silver And leading free traders I'm
England, bankers and statesmen, told us
years ago that their advantage of 331s per
cent. on the silver OF India was sure TO ruin
the American grower OF wheat and cotton.
Our growers have been paying "A duty OF
33h per cent. 20 get their grain and cotton
into England and the half OF IL would ruin
them. And why IS II that the free-traders
lay the depreciation OF farm products 20
silver when they talk In Congress or In En-
gland, and lay 10 all TO our tariff when they
talk TO Western farmersI 1t is simply be-
cause they want 10 run Grover Cleveland
for President on the free-tr trade issue. They
know that he made haste as soon as de was
elected President 90 write n lette- opposing
legislation In favor OF silver, and that
during all his term OF Office he stood as the
champion OF the gold spectators of Wall
street and prevented the best men OF his
party from passing any silver bill favoring
the West or South.
They know that the farmers OF the West,
TO use vulgar expression, would "knock
the stufing out OF the stuffed prophet of
Williams street, IL they allowed him TO run
on that issue. All that has saved our farm
ers from the utter ruin which the English
predicted has been the benefits which they
have derived from protection, which has
given them a larger home market and
cheaper machinery and transportation.
To put us back for one year into the condi-
ton we were I'm 1860. when the South had
made such British free-trade tariff as
Grover Cleveland now proposes, would ruin
every farmer In the West. The rate ON
grain all rail from Chicago TO New York
was G5 cents per 100 In the winter OF 1860
against 90 cents this winter. How would
the farmers OF Iowa like TO have the rail-
roads add As cents per 100 TO the rate on
A grain, and put them back into what tie
II free traders call the "golden era Of Ameri-
can industry Then IA reaping machine
cost $500; now n self-biuder worth twice as
much costs $3.50, TO say nothing OF sulky
plows corn planters, etc. While the anti
silver free traders have done much to rob
the Western farmer, IL Is not true that
. farmers have made no money I'm Iowa for
the past ten years. knew one Iowa farmer
who fattened 200 hogs year. and got an
average OF fourteen and one-half pounds OF
pork from bushel OF corn. Even at cents
a pound for hogs, this Is 49, cents "A bushol
for corn, which is not n losing price on Iowa
land
\ We have n farmer Theodore Louis in
wisconsin VINO gets 600 pounds OF pork from
AN acre OF clover. and raises the best hogs