The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-20
OCEAN STEAMERS At CHICAGO.

An English Syndicate to Pat on a Line q
Steamers 8etvreen Chicago and England
Opening the Market Foz a Bushei o.
Wheat ana q Barrel OF Pork
a company has been organized with
q capital stock OF s., 600, 600 to build and
operate a line of steamers between
Chicago and England A similar plan
about two years ago fell through, as 1t
was found that the Canadian canals
could not accommodate vessels drawing
nine feet of water. An Improvement,
however, has been made in the shallow
est canal, giving it a depth OF more
than nine feet Already the scheme
has been revived, and an agent of the
company is now visiting the lake ports
in order to make contracts for freight.
Ten steamers viii be built and these
viii carry out cargoes Of dressed beef,
dairy products, etc, and viii bring
back general merchandise.
ProtectiOnists viii doubtless view
this movement with alarm. and see in
II another scheme of the greedy, grasp
ing British to enrich themselves at
other peoples expense The protection
notion that we should ''eat all our beef at
home" and buy little or nothing abroad
is directly opposed to this scheme to
promote trade between Chicago and
England According 70 the Mckinley
standard of political orthodoxy it would
be better to fill UP those Canadian ca
mars imam deep them
But the farmers viii not see any thing
alaFming in having British ocean steam
erslOading and unloading at the vharfs
of Chicago and Detroit. They will Iath-
er see in this what Blaine calls opening
the. market for another bushel of wheat
and another barrel of pork and if
these ships bring back English hard
ware wooden goods, or other articles
of merchandise, the farmers viii reflect
that it is precisely such things as these
that they need. They will not hasten
to lift up their hands against flood
of cheap goods"
In fact, the farmers Will be so old
fashioned as to rejoice in seeing that
flood OF cheap goods rise higher and
higher; and they will be only too glad
to see. a corresponding stream OF sur
plus wheat, corn, pork, beef and butter
and cheese go out in these ships in or
der to increase the flow OF cheap for
eign goods into Chicago for distribution
in a hundred country towns, AS these
same farmers can make wheat and corn
and fattsn livestock much more easily
than they can make 10th. or knives, or
a hundred other articles, they will find
it d paying business to ship these farm
products to England for the manufact-
ured products named. The farmers
will feel no harm to themselves from
such an arrangement; and it will be
harm results to- the country at
large by the exchange described. The
fact Is, as even every half-intelligent
man knows, the permanent exchanges
which we call trade. can not exist I'M
less both parties make a PrOfit-in other
words, unless they get something which
they like better than the thing they
parted with. A school boy viii not
swap a top for u set of marbles IN
less the marbles please him better than
the top; and, moreover, the boy is quite
sure that he is himself the only salts
factory judge as to which really does
please. him better. If the father OF the
cent of his boys marbles and try to
persuade him that this was for the good
of the family, the boy would for once
face a problem that wOuld beat the
mysteries of the multiplication table.
There is another point about these
ships which deserves the farmers at
tentiOn. The shiP-owGers not only eN-
produce, but they equally expect to
bring IN cargOes of English goods.
Does any body suppose that these ships
would come for our produce if they
could not bring . cargo with them? Or
if they should do so, Is it not clear that
our outgoing cargo would have to pay
two freights? Would not this make our
produce dearer when laid down in
Liverpool and less able to compete with
the produce of other countries?
If the ideal McEinleyisms were car
ried out and the tariff made absolutely
prOhibitOFy, would not the expectation
of our produce practically cease?
Would not the glut of the home market
make the prices of such produce sink to
q ruinCus level2
These are simple questions in foreign
trade which are, of course, easy to an
swer; but they deserve to be thought
over again and again They have in
them the root of the whole tariff CON
trOversy-
FARMERS FOR FREE WOOL.
New York Farmers Are Opposed TO the
Wool Tax-StronE Resolutions Asking For
Free WooI-A Contrast to the Action OF
OhiO's political shePhsrds''-Tho Part