The Forrest City times., 1892-02-12
WHICH IS THE sEsT7
Home Marxct or Forrf .n Market;-
 We Need Both of Them

{ Home Marxet or Forrf n Markst;-
 We Need Both of Them
 The gentleman from Ohio (Mr Nc Kinley) asked was the foreign mar kef better than the home martets Who was ever fool enough to answer ! that it wass The answer that the democrats gave was that the home and the foreign market is better than the home market Applause on the Democratic side We want them both. What have you done for the farmers who are paying tribute to your high tariff to-day? In 1920, about the time we started out on this tariff crusade. we were promised tha we were going to have manufactures right by the side of every farmer in the country that wewsre going to bring consumer and producer together and that we were going to anuihilate mid d,emen. and going to furnish home market at the very door of the farmer We then exported of our agricultural products 80 per cent of the entire ex- ports of the country.
 In 1850 it was S2 per cent in 1s40 it was S2 per cent. and in 1850 80 per cent i; in 1860. SI per cent; in 1870 it was 79 per cent. and in 1880 it was o3 per cert Ton have given us thirty gears of your piunder; you have given us thirty years of concentration Of the wealth made by the millions of people. We see 1t in casties--castles here aud in Europe; we see it in cas- ties on the mountain tops in castles by the seaside; we see it every where except in the homes of the working men of America. where it rightfully belongs Applause on the Democratic side
 You have strangled your commerce: you have retarded its growth. you have '.checked" it to use your favor ite expression Check is an ominous word. It is the word which the chess player uses when he sounds the alarm that your king or queen is in peril. and the game is about to be lost; check is the signal which the in- vader gives to the fortress when guns are trained upon the walls and the breach is made. The American peo- pAc VIII dtCCpb yOuA anu check you Applause on the Demo- cratic side.
 Look at these pitiable figures which ! I hold in my hand What Is the for eign commerce of the United States2 We should all blush to tell 1t. Twen- ty-four dollars per capita of our popu- lationl Here is the most intelligent yaaonIa au anPth. haPa ia the seat of the most illustr-ous civilization on earth; here is the greatest productive power ever known among men; here is the steam engine at it's greatest effi- ciency. and the railroad and the mills and the foundry and the furnaces with out parallel; here are the most ener- getic and productive farmers in the world; here is ingenuity and genius and pluck and energy. and when it is all checked and our foreign trade 1 summed up it amounts to the munlf- cent sum of $24 per head to our popu- Iation. [Applause on the Democratic i side
 How does that compare with other nations? Norway and Sweden have $3i; Germany $34; France. si2; Dem mark. $45; Argentine Republic. S69; Switzerland. $7l; Uruguay way down 1 in South America, that exports horns and hoofs and hides. $50; Belgium S83; Great Britain $9l. and the Nether- | lands, xl90 a head From q speech by Roger o. Mills in the house of rep- resentatives-