Milford chronicle., 1892-10-21

arming. saw tile spacious farms w''h
heir painted huiiiings aad donhi@-
ecsed barns-their fields Of grain ana
heir cattle, hogs, mules, S ieep and h"rses
saw the immense clevat rs coutaining
of bushels of grain. saw their
logs and splendid cattle coming into
Chicago and Kansas City BY tens OF
aud there being slaughtered
aud sent all over the world Only about
fity-six years ago the State Of Ohio was
West, now it is east. or in the eastern
part ofthe United States away out thous-
ands of miles beyond is growing grain.
Kansas now grows 10000, 600 bushels OF
wheat, Dakotah 100000, and Mime
sofa about as much. I am surprised at |
its bringing fifty cents per bushel Oniy |
last year the enormous amount OF ooo'-
ooo. 900 bushels of wheat was raised III
this couutry-enougt TO load train Il
cars that would reach around the world
Think of such a volume. Che farmers
are living and developing as was never
known before. No history Of any peo-
pie affords such evidence OF such VOL
derful growth. The value of exports of
cattle sheep, hogs, cotton, bread stuffs.
aad provisions. cassed as agricultural
products of 1892, exceeded these exports
OF 1890 by the sum Of SI5e,23S. .323. BY
these figures you can see that the farmers
are making a wonderful progress each
year The wealth Of our country in
creased from over I6. 900, 900, 900 i'll 1860,
to nearly as, 900. 900, 900 III 1890; or nearly
400 per cent-all under a tariff, my DEM
ocratic friends.
Ny friends, this wonderful prosperity
is the secret why so many ship loads of
emigrants leave Europe aud come to this
land of "milk aud honey" They leave
their poor free--trade-starvation-wage-
countries, where they scarcely get enough
by excessive toll 70 keep soul and body
together, aud they seldom return.
This is the strongest argument in favor
OF tariff cursed country" as the DEM
ocrats cali this In the name of heaven,
whv do the poor people come here, if they
are robbed? They must love such rob-
biug. believe they do. The poor far
mer is robbed-the Democrat SAYS. Now
I will show you how. the farmers inter
est aud the manufacturing interest, like
peas in the pod, are side by side-or as
have referred you before, how the lameu'
ted Alexander Hamilton locked down
the ages with the interest of his great
country glowing in his bosom and ut
tered these immortal words, viz /: "Agri-
culture manufactures aud commerce go
hand in hand."i The two former we now
have hand in hand and side by side, thus
supporting, sustaining and backing up
the other, although the Democrats are
trying to maze believe that the farmers
are being imposed upon by the manufac-
turers thus trying to array the one
against the other. l have told you that
there were millions of people engaged in
our factories at good wages. They don't
i've like tne pauper labor of the Old
World, on brown bread and soup. One
American lives on what would support
| four uropeans-therefore, we have the
! best market at home. Take the one item
of eggs, which is said to be equal to the
wheat crop in value, they are consumed
i'll this country by factory workers largely.
Potatoes, veal, butter, cheese, fruits of
all kinds are used by them freely. Where
does all our produce here i'll the Middle
States go viz: Wilmington, Philadel-
phia, New York, B )ston, etc. What are
these cities engaged in? Manufacturing
and consuming what the farmers are pro.
duciug. What would become with our
large peach crops that now go to these
cities if these people were uoi thus en-
gagged at paying wages +? They would
lot pay the freight. These people
are engaged III manufacturing
the nude or raw materials that
this country produces, and the
farmers are the producers. Thus they
are developing and turning into wealth
the raw materials ofthe country; whereas
before the days of tariff, this raw ma
terial was freighted by English ships
across the ocean, manufactured, reloaded
and then brought back, and then sold
here. We paid freight and paid them
for manufacturing. We now save all
this.
asked the President of the Grain Ex-
change in Philadelphia something about
the foreign demand for grain, He replied
that it would not be sufficient to cause
much advance, and then told me bv ac.
tual statistics, only one bushel IN twenty
raised here crossed the orean, and that it
J was consumed here. was surprised at
this; but upon reflection 1 can see that
the many millions of workers in towns
and cities are great consumers. Now sup
pose that the Calhoun doctrine was car
ried out and give us absolute free trade
this would Shut up our factories and turn
these millions largely to agricultural
pursuits Reflect for a moment and Won
can see how our farmers are dependent
on our manufactures, and how the man
ufactures are in turn dependent upon our
farmers. As Hamilton said: "They 90
hand in hand" England draws her
grain largely from her own province.
India, which only a few years ago was a
land of heathens, is now an agricultural
country raising millions of bushels of
wheat, and they say they can raise it for
forty cents per bushel. So cheap and
plenty is labor there, that men labor for
20 cents per day. England owns India
as she once owned US, and she is by this
tie bound 10 take all the wheat that India