St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-19

uuStIlcS, anu you nave ny tHo
census less than 10 per cent of our
couraging. There Is a mighty ARMY of
lawyers, doctors, teachers. clerks, and
long catalogue of unprotected work
men, such as Shoemakers. carpenters,
stonemasons. day labOrers and the like,
who eat and don't ask to be protected.
The facts are that protected workmen
eat but triflo of yGIr produce. But
suppose you enter into jug-handled
contract with these protected eaters,
who comprise less than 10 per cent Of
our population. Do you get any better
prices for your products? Not bit Of
it. Why? Because the prices on all your
farm products are fixed III Liverpool.
Your only real market is the broad
world. which is, or ought to be, gov
erned by the law of supply and de-
mand. If you pay onerous taxes for
planting new Industries at your doors,
you get nothing i'll return, except pos
sibly on garden truck" and you are
not gardeners. MinneSota'S staple crop
is wheat. Its price is fixed in Liver
pool. Why, therefore. should you enter
into contract to pay 81 per thousand
extra on lumber. 81 per cent on blankets,
on the preteXt that such mills raise the
price of wheat for you? You are robbed
by this delusiOn to the extent of the tariff.
The fallacy, upon analysis, is perfectly
apparent. Consider. further, that the
tariff has increased for you the cost of
the transportation OF your wheat by the
Increased cost of steel rails, and the en-
HANGED price of every thing that enters
into railway construction. 1t has in
creased tile cost OF farming by enhanc
Ing the price of every machine or nipple
ment you use. 1t has increased the cOst
OF living upon the farm by increasing
the cost of ali you are compelled to bly,.
Let me state broad fact! There Is
not manufacturing town in the
United States that longer looks
to the farms about it for
food. The farmer of the Connect
cut valley daily see Dakota wheat and
Chicago dressed meats feeding the
mills at his door. The farmer of the
great Genessee valley see daily trains
of Minnesota wheat and flour pass
through where he is blowing to
feed the mill eaters in the old
manufacturing city of Rochester.
transportation has so equaliZed prod
uctS that no manufacturing town looks
to its own locality for supplies. Be
sides. the manufacturer buys his wheat
on the free trade prices of Liverpool
and buys where he can buy cheapest,
and laughs at the American farmer who
pays high tariff tax to him on the pre-
text that he gives him more for his
wheat. A voice, That's true."l But
that is not all. Go and witness the d.
cay-of New England farming side by
side with her great factories. Under
the very shadow of her great mills her
farms are going to decay. Homes are
deserted, farms are abandoned; the
''home market theory could not save
them. No one proposes to break down
the "home market" We have that al
ways. The farmers of this nation have
been taxed through three generations
to build up this home market. IG is
ours, for we have payed for it in the
sweat of unjust taxation. Cheers. Our
farmers would have the "home MARKET
underany policy. protection or free trade.
These $1,000, 900 of people must and
will eat. the manufacturer simply buys
food of the American farmer because ne
can't buy it cheaper OF any one else.
He buys his food just as he buys his
labor, where it can be had for the least
money. He has no sentiment Ill
either transaction. Ii our tariffs OH food
products tended to enhance the price of
those articles, the manufacturer would
shout Corn laws!" and demand their
immediate repeal. Applause.
The Real Danger.
The peril to American agriculture is
not the loss or impairment of the 'hOme
market" it is the loss of its foreign
markets, where the real danger lies.
Our high tariffs are quoted the world
over as a reason why our agricultural
products should be shut out of Europe
an markets. They have inspired hostile
and retaliatory tariffs Oh the part of
other governments. They have melted
other governments to search all
lands FOR agricultural supplies
other than from the United States.
1t is a reckless policy which throws
back upon US the surplus OF our own
farm products. When Europe did not
take our surplus corn we burned it for
fuel in the stoves of Nebraska and Kan
sas. So it they should reject our sur
plus wheat, it will rot in your bins, and
you will 90 lover the Hills to the poor
house." Voices, That's sop Larger.
broader. Worldwide markets are de-
manded by the farmers of the United
States. But McKinlsyism says, No!
Rzoyv the Farmers Preserve tiae
s's5alance Of 'Frade.'
The balance of trade" is one Of the
great preServerS of national health and
wealth. In this great and necessary
work the farmers have always borne
the brunt OF the battle, and have
held the ''balance Of trade" from sap
ping our life-blood away. The coddled
manufacturing interests have done
next to nothing i'll preserving this bal
ance. The great volume of exports
which have kept the nations gold at
home have come from the farmers Of
the South and West. They have not
only supplied our own people with
bread, but have offset impOrtationS TO
stop the drain of specie. Year by year
the governmental statistics prove that.
the farmers products alone save the
nations exchanges with the rest of the
world. Take any year you please, say
1889. which is less than an average year.
The treasury reports which L quote
show the value of all manufactures eX
ported from the United States for that
year to be only s13S, 675, 500; while the
exports Of the products of agriculture
for the same year were S532, 14l, 400. In
1890 our agricultural exports were over
S700, 1000, 600 in value. Over rs per cent
of the total of our exports have been
furnished by our agriculture alone. Our
financial necessities require that our
farming exports be increased, ana not in
any wise diminished. They can only be
increased by more liberal exchange
policy with other nations; and against
this, protection stands arrayed in open
battle. And yet these exports are now
on the decrease. while the tariffs which
so affect them are steadily on the in
crease.
Compelled 10 Compete With Pauper
labor.
But Notwithstanding the farmers
products are so imperatively necessary,
as balance wheel to preserve our great
international exchanges. he is treated
by his government with total disregard
of both his value and his rights. The
tariff laws of the land have placed the
farmer of this country in a hlgh-prced
market for weary years; the same laws
compel him. as if felon. to an unre
stricted and pauper- competing market,
as a seller. Consider with me the fate
of our staple, wheat, In the hands of the
tariff.
The American surplus of wheat goes
to Liverpool, and there the price Of that
wheat is fixed in the greatest free trade