The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-13

strafed 80 many times, that tariff upon man
| ufactIrei goods increases their cost and tho
| cost oflfKe goods produced ~ ONE. because
| OF such goods We produce less than we use, and
hence must supply our wants In part by i'm.
portations from other countries.
Hut this decreased cost is not the farmer
chier ground OF complaint against . protoo-
| tive tariff. He must have market for bis
| surplus productions In foreign lands. Unlike
the manufacturer, he pr duces largely more
than the tome markc. will take. The most i'm
portant question. therefore, for him to con-
slider 10 how to extend the markets for his pro-
ducts Nothing is more plain than the fact
tnat II We sci! to foreign nations we must buy
OF them. No nation could long pay in gold
Tor any considerable amount of imports. and
escape bankruptcy. II follows trresistably
that tarin that keeps the products Of any
foreign nation out OF our markets must to .
considerable extent Keep ours out OF its
market. ana fnasmuch - the farmers OF the
eo'utry supply thres-fourths OF all our ex.
porss, they are the chief sufferers from any
p2licy That ompishes such result.
I nave spoken Of the condition OF Agricul-
turai Industries In my own state. ! have
Called Alteration to tue fact that for years
1859 industries have been prosecuted af Q
80 .ns'ctd 81 q profit, ard now affirm with
ou1 iear OF contradiction hat there Il no state
~ ms union wnare the great Staples or agTi-
sary food for man and beast can Do more
cleaply produced
want also to say 10 the husiIess men OF
lhis nation, and 10 politicians - well. that
some piaa must be devised 10 tut this indus
Try oh > different basis the nation muss
pfeoara Tor storm, Lite co1seal=nces OF
wEiah-in both a political and economic
teise--no man eaa measure.
Waat TO say further that the men engaged
"a 'hls ildustry are not going to wait for
zone market 20 grow up around them that 10
large enough to consa a.s the enormous sur
Plus they annually produce. II is relief for
themselves aud rot for generations unborn
that they demand
Agricuturisfs are not tho enemies Of m an
uiactufilg industries; they appreciate 40
iliiy - any ciass that their own pros oerity,
rs well as tnat OF the nation. depends upon .
successful prosecution OF diversified indus
tries, aud they will 20 as far IS any class in
giving to our manufacturers free raw mater
iai and In extending tine market for their
productions. In other words, they will
readily consent to stand before tho law upon
An equality Of privileges with every other in
dustry, but they will rot consent to SEQ
their own destroyed that others may attain
phenomenal success.
They already thoroughly aroused.
lney are FAST becoming as thoroughly organ.
Yea. LIE law making power OF Chis nation
must revise tie taraff n their interest or they
Will change the men WAC constitute that
power.
Recalling the sentiment Of my toast, "what
our farmers have right To demand" per-
nit me 70 add they rapresan. an industry -
Old at least as the civilization of man. as Ia
Dorious IS any that has ever fallen to bis lot,
without the successful prosecution of which
tue whole human family would lapse into
Darbarsm and end in decay. business thAt
forms the basis OF every other, without which
tho chAnpela Of trade would run dry. the
cities OF the earth moulder into dust, and the
wealth OF the world disappear
Considered apart from their business, they
are the bone and sinew of this natioa. With
their own cal.oused inds they have produced
the bulk of its wealth: in times of war they
have been its sturdy defenders, in times Of
peace the promoters of Its welfare.
Who shall ses the limit Of their rightful de-
mands upon country they have made and
preserved! Surely cannot do this tonight.
Brief, indeed. must be my reference thereto
They have right to demand that In the fu.
ture policy of this government NO discrim.
tnation be made In favor OF otner Industries
At the expense of their own; that the power
OF the government 20 levy taxes be limited
TO the single purpose OF raising necessary
revenue TO ae economically expended: that
all property bear Its just portion OF that
burden. that markets broad enough to con-
sumo the products OF their LABOR and capital
At compensatory prices, be as carefully looked
after and nnrtured AS those that consume the
productions of labor and capital employed in
other lines Of ousin sss.
They may also demand that q currency
which Il good enough for one man hall be
III ade good ouxh for all, and plenty enough
to preserve just equality bet.ean its value
and the value OF the products OF labor In all
legitimate kinds OF business. lhtt both the
nation aud the state shsil exercise over lines
Of transportation = reasonable and Just con.
troll, to the enl that their products, the most
bulky compared 10 their value OF any pro-
dlced. shall not be subjected TO charge Gus OF
proportion to such value.
1t is because The republican party In = line
OF SUGGESTIONS but once broken IN third OF
century has ignored their reasonable de.
mands, because la all that time but one voice
in high places has called attention 30 the most
essential of their wants, and that voice was
the voice OF . democratic resident, tn II they
turned to his party in the election the results
OF which We are Assem- Sled to celebrate.
Ii the democratic party Ii truo TO itself IL
Will De true TO Its new allies in the northwest,
and heneeforth, the UNION between them 10
complete.