Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-14

your actions: Ii you 40 not snow your
faith by your works. you are not
worth straw The time for sentimen-
talism is past; this is the time for action
The real work of the alliance has just
begun. Let all true alliancemen pre-
pare for the contest. Re
| former.
The course of the new senator from
Kansas is attracting good deal of atten-
ton among eastern people, more es'
DE cially the manufacturers and their
friends on the newspapers are particu
larlv anxious lest the senate" make
some mistake. We have before us now
several comments made by conspicuous
members of the press representing the
protection interests OF the country, in
which they criticise Senator PETERS
remarks bitterly, charging that he is
either ignorant, or he is willfully mis-
representing the facts in the case The
senator's position is not at all obscure
upon this subject. His views were
made known in the Kansas Farmer and
upon the platform; during the canvass
last year he stated them very clearly
through both channels, and in his public
addresses now, whenever he has Occas-
ion to call attention to this subject or
| to discuss it, his views are precisely the
same. What he insists upon is this:
that so far as the Mckinley bill is con-
cerned, it is of no sort of benefit to the
farmer in any portion of the country,
except possibly it be along the Canadian
border-say in New York, in New Eng
land, and along the northwestern region
of Pennsylvania. The idea of putting
z 81 ho
ty of wheat which is imported into this
country, and like amount upon oats
and corn, is silly subterfuge made, we
suppose, to impose upon the farmers
whose votes are expected in the
campaign of '92. 1t is a fact that while
we imported into the United States
about 10000 bushels of wheat during
the year 1889, during the same time we
produced in this country ourselves
nearly 500, ZOO, 900 bushels; and while we
imported about 2,400 bushels of corn.
during the same time we produced
on our farms nearly 1000 900, 900 bush
els: and while we imported about DID,, 600
bushels of oats, we at the same time
produced on our farms 1855, 900, 900 bush
els. So, too. it appears in the matter of
animals, and the products of animals.
Tt is shown by the report that during
the last ten years the amount of our
importation of live animals and of meat
of different kinds was equal to 10000,
OOO-that, remember, during ten years.
It appears further, that during the
wear ending June 30, 1880, the amount
of our exports of horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs and meat of different kinds-pork.
hams, bacon ETC, with lard and with
tallow, amounted in the aggregate to
1925, 100000. 1t will thus be seen that
in one year we exported more than
twice as much of these articles as we
imr..rted in the course OF ten years,
And in addition to that we find that we
had left about 10000 head of horses,
$500, 600 headsof mules, and 100000
head of hogs. Now, we are not object
ing, and the Kansas Farmer has never
objected, to the imposition Of duties
upon foreign animals and the products
of foreign animals imported into the
country; nor has this paper ever object
to the imposition of duties upon the
importation of foreign grains of any
sort. What we do object to is. that
public men, statesmen, writer's for the
public press, insist that the imposition
of these trifiing duties upon the comDar-
atively trifling amount of importations
will to any extent or in any degree re-
lieve the farmers of their present finan-
cial embarrassments. There is some
little revenue derived from these
sources, but it is very small amount,
and so far as its being any perceptable
assistance to the farmers, it is practi-
cally no better than if there were no
duties imposed upon the articles at all.
That has been our position all along,
and it is our position now.-Kansas
Farmer.