The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-02-19
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR
THEIR ENTRY FREE or
DUTY
y. ny American manufacturers sell ChspsE
20 EoEsIEn thar American
EaEm1Ea.


EaEm1Ed.
The first attempt to enlarge the
/ scope Of the democratic policy of the
ways and means committee was a
resolution introduced by Mr.. FithiHn,
of Illinois, directing the ways and
means committee to report "a bill plac-
ing all kinds OF agricultural nipple
ments upon the free list. Mr.. Fatllian
thinks the proposition should have the
support of every democratic repre-
sentative from the agricultural dis
tFiets, and he has already received
assurance OF support from Congressman
Watson and colleagues Of the peoples
party in the house. BIr.Fithian's resO-
luton is somewhat vOluminous, and
opens by asserting that it has been
established by satisfactory evidence
that manufacturers OF farm nipple
meHts IN the United States are selling
farm implements in foreign countries
and to jObbers for export for less tlAi.n
tie same implements are sold to farm
ers Of this country This fact, it says,
has been conelusively established by
the following answer Of a. B. Farquhar,
agricultural implement maker of York,
Pa, to the Home Market club
We do sell goods cheaper to Gus
toners in foreign countries directly
| and to jobber5 for export than we do
| to the domestic trade. This / could
not truthfully deny or candidiy conceal.
| You would ike to learn the process by
which a manufacturer can afford TO
/ sell foreign buyer for less than the
| home customers. The reply is sim
/ plicity itself. We receive prices cur
| rent on the market in which We sell.
| We cannot get more and cannot be ex-
/ pecLed TO take less"
The resolution concludes
WHEREAS, UHder the system OF plum
dering the farmers of our country, who
| are compelled to pay mUre for their
| Implements than the same implements
are sold for to farmers abroad whose
! prOdus IS are marketed in competition
| with products OF our farms, and
WHEREAS, The duties upon farm
| implements are an unjust discriMun-
alton against American farmers for
the benefit of manufacturers who do
not need it and is therefore legalized
| robbery, therefore. be It
J Resolved, That the committee on
| ways and means is instructed to report
a bill At an early day placing all kinds
of agricultural implements on the free
list.
My reasons for tile introduction of
the resolution said MIR. Fithiau, sis
indicated by the resolution itself. It
has often been asserted and never sue
cessfully denied that Implements
manufactured in the United States
were sold to foreign trade for less than
the same were sold to our own farm.
ers, There is no class OF people Of
our country that felt the unjust bur
dens OF our present tariff system more
than the farmer. They We're compelled
to sell their products III the free mar
kets of the world, and buy all thei
necess aries i'll u protected market.
know no bettor way TO attack the Nc
Kinley bill than by placing farm nipple
ments on the free list. I believe tina
all raw material should also go on tn
free list. If our manufacturers o
Implements are now competing witt
.
present tariff laws, If they had Tree ray
material they could supply our Ow.
people with implements much cheHpe
- and capture the markets of the worlt
I in the implement trade
In regard to the resolution, MI
d Watson, of the peoples party, said
Il think that it is proposition tina
will have the support of the people
party representatives, If it is reporte,
1 from the committee. It seems on
way within the reach Of congress t
5 afford the farmer partial relief, an
we would naturally be in favor of tn
d free list being as far as possible ex
e tended to all articles except Iuxuries
/ For that reason we would favor thi
d proposition
Chairman Springer of the way
and means committee was not pre-
p pared to say that tue committee woul
> receive favorably Mr.. Fithian's resc
= luton as an independent proposition