The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-04

com PEELED TO expend them at the great national
pluck-me-store of the protected industries that
our tariff has built to fleece them"
On the 4th day OF this month the democratic
house of representatives passed bill ito abso-
lutely prohibit the coming of Chinese into the
United States" Almost every democrat pres
ent. / among the number voted for the bill,
while the republicans voted against it. Yet
the republican party processes to be the friend
OF labor.
Home Market
The claim made that the Mckinley bill is
beneficial to the farmer because 1t creates for
him a home market, or for any other reason, 10
false and hypocritical as the claim that it
benefits our lRbOring classes H. Agriculture is
the basis OF civilized life everywhere. Every
thing else is dependent upon it. 1t is not only
the hope. but 1t is the very life and soul of our
country. Therefore, If in any possible case the
government could be excused for intervening
in favor of an industry, il would be for doing
so in favor OF agriculture. A protective tariff
not only increases the cost Of living TO the
farmer by increasing the price OF all commodi-
ties be consumes, no matter whether he buys
the domestic or the imported article, butt also
increases the expense of the conduct of his
business By increasing the price OF all imple-
ments and machinery he uses and giving him
no corresponding increase OF price for his mar
ketable products. 1t absolutely cbeapens the
price OF his products.
The cry that home market is beneficial to
the farmers certainly will not longer deceive
our agricultural people. There are three times
at least many people in the United States
engaged IN unprotected occupations as there
are those who are engaged in protected occu-
patiOns. Ihere Is q much greater number OF
people engaged in farm life than there are those
who are engaged in the protected industries for
whose benefit the Mckinley bill was passed.
The agricultural people, because Of their large
numbers, can furnish profitable market for
the productions of manufacturers. But there
are not enough manufacturers, including all OF
those who are associated with them in
business TO furnish market for the
products OF our farmers For the year 1891
our agricultural exports we're nearly S13l ,OOO,-
600. After fully supplying .the home market
demand. after having made provision Tor all OF
our own people, this vast amount OF farm and
field surplus productions found its way into
( European markets and went far toward pay
ing our import account. Without this vast
agricultural surplus we could not pay our I'M
port account, without Withdrawing from our
selves almost every dollar OF gold ana silver
money we possess. IL is the farmers surplus
that finds its way SIS best il can TO foreign
markets that saves our country from bank
ruptcy and ruin, and yet the republican party
says restrict our farmers products to the
American market. And when the republican
party is told of large an
nual agricultural expectations, and that
they are certainly increasing. It says
that a protective tariff will exclude agrloult-
ural Imports ana widen ana enlarge the
American market for the American farmer.
! This it says in spite of the fact that we have
practically no agricultural imports. we eX-
port annually millions of bushels OF wheat,
oats, corn, aud other field products. We ex-
port millions of pounds of beef pork, bread
stufs, and other agricultural productions.
These things 60 abroad because our own mar
ket is not large enough 10 consume them.
They must either 90 abroad for sale or waste
and decay on the farmers haEds.
10 ln.- - fla NrrN
ing to the United States beef, pork, corn, wheat
oats, hay. breadatuffs. live animals or other
| agricultural productions to help supply the
American market? Whoever heard OF the
price of American agricultural produo-
I tons being regulated in the American
market by agricultural productions i'm
J ported from abroad? No one. The price
( Of our agricultural productions in our markets
is regulated by the irrevocsble law of supply
and demand; and the supply being greater
! than the demand, low prices follow. Cut Oft
! your foreign market and the supply will largely
/ inc ease, causing still lower prices, and event
4 ually the death of agricultural life.
! Our surplus agricultural productions sold in
/ foreign markets represent in a measure so
much American labor. And they are not sold
! in protected. but unprotected, markets The
American farmers surplus comes in direct
/ competition with the cheapest paid labor in
/ the world. 1t comes in competition with the
Ignorant and poorly paid labor of India.
]
/ 1t comes in competition with the pauper labor
\ of all Europe, and yet the American farmer is
! asked 10 gulp down the Mckinley bill as the
! panacea 10 cure all his ills.
| here appropriate the words of the Hon.
I Josish Patterson of Tennessee uttered IN con-
gress on the 10Th day of last month as further
expressing my opinion on this subject. He
said:
Whatever restricts importstions restricts
the foreign market, and the farmers are not
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! pay an enormous tax on the necessarles OF lie,
| whether purchased from the importer or the
| manufacturer OF this country as have already
| explained, but they are forced TO sell at low
/ prices in the foreign market because OF the re-
straints which this system places on trade. We
may here and there curtail appropriation
| bill, we may resort to this or that device, but
! as long u this nefarious system of indirect
taxation and robbery continues to exist, agri-
/ culture will not and cannot prosper. Its de-
! cadence began with the system and nothing
| will restore its prosperity but Its abrogatlOn.
The farmer needs no nostrums, he needs no
| props 70 sustain him. and he has no favors to
! ask. Untrammel him. turn him loose, let him
have justice, not as q boom but as God-Riven
right and he will not complain, but will grow
in strength, happiness, aud prosperity"
Free Sugar.
1t is being constantly thrown in our ears that
sugar is cheap, and that it is made so by the
Mckinley bill Il is true that by placing raw
sugar all below No. 10 Dutch standard of color
the free list. the price OF sugar has materially
declined. Formerly the tariff on sugar brought
the government annually about $50. OO0,0 900 OF
of revenue. 1t was almost pure revenue tax.
BY taking the duty of OF raw sugar the govern
ment loses that amount of money, and the
price of sugar is cheapened. which cOnolusively
proves that the tariff is a tax. But the sugar
made free by the Mckinley bill is not con
sumable sugar 1t is q coarse brown sugar
full of i'm purities, and is seldom on sale. The
sugar substantially used by all classes of con
sumers is white, graduated and other sugar.
which have gone through some
refining process, which the duty still
remains. All cleansed and refined sugars Of
higher grade than No. 10 are still dutiable. VIZ
have two enormous sugar rehneries in THU
country, Claus Spreckles' aud the sugar trust
who substantially control the price of all sugar.
sold in America. For their benefit the McKin
ley bill put tariff tax on imported refined
sugar high enough to enable these two refining
establishments TO receive a bounty annually o
$40 per ton on their refined sugar, and the
power to control the American market anC
make for themselves millions annually. Tn,
Mckinley bill furnishes them raw sugar, al
below No. 10 duty free, and gives them tariff
on it after they refine it. They refine il
and put it the market for consumer
ct price low enough to almost exclude foreign
refined sugar from our market and make
profit of more than S15O0O,O00 annually. Tit
reason why refined sugar has been made
cheaper to the consumer is because our REIN