Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-06-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
HOW MATTERS ARE VIEWED IN THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.


As to the Work of OhiO's Republican Con-
Notwithstanding Noble is every Com
Portable Where he is, Thank You"-Fund
for the G. A. II. COnvention-COaling
Stations in the West Indies.
Especial Correspondence to THE TIMEs.l
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June %, 1S91.-
The national battle of 1892 was inaugu-
rated at Columbus, Ohio, when the Re-
publican state convention nominated
William Mckinley as its candidate for
governor of Ohio. Mckinley stands as
the exponent of the Republican idea of
protection for American manufacturers
against open competition with the under
paid labor of the older European nations.
No one should make the mistake of sup
posing that protection for our manufac-
ured articles means protection only for
the owner of the factory and the people
who labor in the factory. 1t means not
only that, but it means protection for
the farmer whose labor produces what
operatives in these factories eat; for the
men who dig coal and limestone and iron
ore from the ground, and who combining
these materials. make them into pig iron
and steel; for the men and women who
weave the cotton which make their
shirts, the woolens which makes their
clothing, the thread with which these
garments are made, as we'll as for the
producers of the food which they eat 1t
is upon this idea that the campaign of
1892 will be fought, and that campaign
was begun when Mckinley, one of the
foremost opponents of this idea, was
nominated. The Democrats talk about
campaign of education. This is what
the Republicans want. There is no sense
in denying the fact, which is apparent
to every man who studies political con-
ditions, that there is grave dissatisfact-
ion amongst the farmers of the country
with the Republican party. They must
be shown that this dissatisfaction comes
from their not understanding the ques-
ton at issue. That question is simply
this: "Shall we be nation of agricul-
turists, everyone engaged in tilling the
soil, or shall we, with our magnificent
resources, properly developed, produce
everything required for the use and COM
fort of mankind?' The one class of ma
lions is always rich ard powerful; the
other poor and helpless. 1t is easy to
see which is best for the farmer
whether we should all be farmers
and each man produce what he can
eat, or whether part shall be farmers
and a part engaged in other work
In Massachusetts, where only 20 pei
cent of the workers are engaged in agri.
culture, and 81 per cent in manufactur.
ing, the farm lands are valued at $6S &c
per acre and the value of the product is
$11.15 per acre. In North Carolina
where rs per cent of the working popu.
lation is engaged in agriculture and only
seven per cent in manufacturing, farm
langs are valued at 500 80 per acre and
the value of the product per acre i;
$7.95. The climate and soil of North
Carolina are both superior to that Of
Massachusetts, but North Carolina has
no home market for it's products as Mas
lies adjoining Massachusetts, and has
climate and soil similar in every respect
Fifty per cent of the persons engaged il
occupations are cultivatOrs of the soil
and only 20 per cent are engaged in man
ufacturing industries. Farm lands ar,
only worth 1913 % an acre and the valu
of the product is only Sc 20 per acre
Examples of this kind can be multiplie'
indie tinitely, but these are enough t.
establish the fact. These states live un
der the same form of government; ar
inhabited by the same class of people
and in one where the manufacturing in
terests predominate, the farmer VIII
owns hundred acres of land is wOrtl
$3.50 and his income from it is $3.50 pc
year. In the state where agriculture i
almost the only industry, the farmer VIII
owns hundred acres of land is wortl
5000 and his income from it is $795. Ii
Ohio, where the preliminary skirmish il
the coming battle for protection is bein.
fought, the farm lands are worth $62.6
per acre and 40 per cent of the peopl
are engaged in farming. These farm
are enjoying the benefits of protection
as is shown by the value of their lands
and they will be recreant to their duty i
they fail to sustain the gallant leader O.
the protection forces in his effort to re
deem the state from Democratic misrule
There is reason to believe that tn,
president and Secretary Tracy have re
Gently been devoting considerable TIM
to the subject of coaling stations for ou
navy in the West Indies. Secretary
Tracy says we must have one, and tina
we ought to have at least two in those
waters, where England has four. Al
important conference on this subject tool
place at the White House this week
which was attended by the president
Secretary Tracy, Hon. John w. Foster
representing the depal tment of state
and Rear Admiral .Gherardi, who ha
had charge of the negotiations for OBJ