The advocate., 1892-06-01

Ing interests have grown, while the men
who have had the benefits of protective
tariff have grown rich and built man
sions, and live in grand style, the farmer
has been driven from his farm, the stur-
dy agriculturist has been forced to be-
come tramp or a machine who works
In those factories, and suFrenders the
products of his labor TO the protective
tariff baron. There are some 900 sban-
doned farms in the state Of New Ham
shire, and understand that In the state
of New Jersey the report of the commits
sioOer of labor shows the same condition
Of affairs; that the abandoned farms are
so numerous that the governor, looking
over the figures OF the statisticlan, would
not allow the report to 60 out to the
country; 1t was 30 damaging.
Mr. DOckery, In his speech in the
house, quoted from the July report ofthe
superintendent of the census, giving the
amount of mortgage debt Of the farms
and homes of the country at 81, ,565 0OC ,0OC.
It Is well, understood that these figures
have been kept as low ss possible, be-
cause the present administration, the de-
tenders OF this tariff system, did not want
to make 1t appear that the farmers are
getting in debt, and we can we'll suppose
that those figures are very conservative,
II they tell the truth. will quote here
some figures taken from the st. Louis
Republic, which suppose are nearly &C
curste. 1t says:
II all the real and personal property of
Missouri, all it's lands, houses, railroads,
cattle, grain, stocks, farms, bonds, prOmis-
sorry notes, merchandise and other property
of all kinds, was sold at auction for its to-
tai assessed value in 1880, it would take
more than three times as much to pay this
debt. In taking the states in alphabetical
order in 1880, if they had been sold for the
total assessed value of all their real and per-
sonal property, the proceeds of the sale of
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida
and Georgia. would have been only 81, 545,-
600, 900; $40, ,O00, 900 less than the amount Of
this mortgage debt imposed upon the farms
and homes of the country under the past
legislation Of the Republican party. The
annual interest on this debt at 10 Der cent.
would be $3.50, 100000. II the state of Ala
bama had been sold at it's assessed value in
1880, including all personal property, there
would still have been q shortage of $b9,OCO,-
600 on the interest of this single year, and
throwing in Idaho at $25, 100000, and Ari"
IONA at $2l, ,000, 900, the total value of the
two states and one territory would have been
still $13, 600 short of the years interest
debt. Now, nearly all of this debt is on the
states of the Mississippi valley, nearly all
of the interest is paid by the labor OF the
PEOPLE of the Mississippi valley, who are at
the same time bearing the enormous bur-
den of the Republican tax on trade.
We are not repudiatorS out thsre. The
Republican party drove US into this debt,
but we borrowed that money and We will
repay it, principal and interest, all that
is named 10 the bond. But we must have
a system of trade that will allow US tO ex
change the products Of our labor FIR the
products of other peoples labor, trade il
not In restricted market, but In free
market We must have a system OF
Transportation which will enable Us 10
get the goods to market without paying
tribute to Jay Gould and Vanderbilt, aud
the other robbers that stand at the head
Of the railroad organizations OF THU
country. The Republican party, through
It's leaders, has poured out coJiOus
streams ofsympathy for poor, down -trod-
den Ireland, aud quote the following
from the NGtiOnaE Tribune, which |
hope the Republicans will consider good
Republican authority. 1t says:
England has mortgages on Irish lands to
the amount of eight hundred million, at an
average interest Of per cent. This would
make an annual tribute of forty million a
year from the little island to the English
capitalists. AS the population Of Ireland
is 100000, this would make an annual in
terest charge of IS per head or $40 per fam.
lily. No wonder at all that the people Of
Ireland are poor.
Now, Kansas can beat this all to pieces.
According 10 the last United States GEN.
sus Shylock has mortgages on Kansas