The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-01-02

4 stratcd 50 many rimc< that taiin upon man
| ufacturcd goods increases their cost nnd ne
cost ~ like goods produced ~ home, because 81
such goods We produce less than we use and
hence must supply our wants In part BY I'm.
| portations from othcr countries
Hut this Increased cos. y not the farmers
chief ground OF complaint against = protective
tain iio must have = market for his surplus
productions In foreign lands. Unlike tho man.
ufacturer he produces largely more than the
home market will take. The most important
question therefore for him 70 consider Is how
10 extend the markets for his products. Moth.
ing - more plain than the fact that II We sell
20 foreign nations we must buy ~ them. No
nation could long pay IN gold for any cons der.
able amount of imports aud escape bankruptcy
II follows irreSistibly that q tari1 that keeps
the products 81 any foreign nation out ~ our
markets must 70 considerable extent keep
ours out % its market. and inasmnch a. the
farmers Of the country supply three fourths o;
an our exports. they are the chief sufferers
from any policy that accomplishes such = re
suit
have spoken OF the condition OF aericui,u.
raj Industries IN my own Stale have called
attention 70 the fact that for years these indus.
tries have bten prosecuted "a, ! loS~ nd ~
rroiit, and nffirm Without tear ~ ctniradic.
tion that there is no State In this Union where
The great staples OF agriculture. the product ions
THAI supply Necessary fool for man and beast
can be more chcaply produced
want now 10 say 70 the business men os this
Nation. and 70 politicians as well. that some
plan must be devised 20 get this industry on o
different basis. Or this Nation must prepare for
. storm, the consequences 81 which In both a
political and economical sense-no man can
measure.
want 70 say further that the mon engaged
In this industry are rot Ing To wait for
home market 70 grow up around them that il
large enough 20 consume the enormous surplus
they annually produce. II Is relief for them
selves and not for generations unborn that they
demand
Agrtculturlst> are not the enemies Of manu-
featuring industries: they appreciate as fully
as any class that their own prosperity as well
as that OF The Nation depends upon a success
fnl prosecution OF diversified industries. ana
they will 80 as far rs any class In giving IL our
manufacturers free raw material and in extend
ing the market for their productions In other
words they will readily consent 70 stand before
the law upon an equality or privileges with
every other industry, but they will not consen,
10 see their own DESTROYED that others may nj
tain phenomenal success.
They are already thoroughly aroused. The,
are fast becoming as thoroughly Organized
The law making power ~ this Nation must re-
wise the tariff in their interest or They will
change the men who constitute that power
Recalling the sentiment OF my toast. What
our farmers have right 10 demand" permit
me 10 add they represent an industry a. Old at
least as the civilization q man. as laborlous a.
any tina; has ever fallen 70 his lot without The
successful prosecution OF which the whole hu.
man family would lapse into harharism and
end In decay 4 business that forms the base
OF every other. without which the channels N
trade would run dry. the cities Of the earth
molder into dust. and the wealth Of the world
disappear
the bone and ~inew ~ this Nation. with their
own calloused hands they have produced IN.
bulk q is wealth; in times ~ war they have
been its sturdy defenders. in ,ifnes ~ peace the
promoters ~ It's welfare.
Who shall set the limit q. .heir rs.tifui dr.
mand upon country they have made and r.
serye1s Surely I can no- % this tonight
Brief indeed must be my reference thereto.
They have right 70 demand that in the
future policy 81 this Government no diScrimi
nation be made ia favor Of other industries az
the expense ~ their own that the poner 7, 7
the Government 10 levy taxes be limited Ia the
single purpose OF raising necessary revenue 10
be economically expended: that all property
bear its just portion OF that burden: that mar.
kets broad enough 10 consume the products OF
their labor and capital az compensatory prices
BE- as carefully looked after and nurturrd as
those that consume the productions " labor
and capital employed Ia other lines OF business.
They may also demand that a currency
which Is good enough for one man shall be-
made good enough for all others and plenty
enough 70 preserve a just equality between its
value and the value OF the products ~ labor In al
legitimate kinds OF business. That both the M
tion and the State shall exercise over lines of
tran sportation reasonable and Just control
70 the end that their products. the most bulky
compared 70 their value 81 any produced shall
not be subjected to charges out Of proportion 10
such value.
II T. because the Republican party In line
q SUGGESTIONS but once broken IN a third ~ I
century has ignored their reasonable demands
because in all that time but one voice Ia high
places has called attention 70 the most essen.
tial ~ their wants ana that vnicc wA- the voice
81 Democratic President. that they turned 10
hls party In the election. the results II which
WI assembled to celebrate
II thu Democratic party T. true 10 itself 4,
will b. true ~ rs new allies IN the Northwest.
and hcncefofth the union between them il com
nlefe