Milford chronicle., 1893-12-22
The Attaok upon Farmer.

The Attack upon Farmers.
The present Administration and
the party now in control of Congress
would appear to have prearranged a
plan ofattaclS upon the farming in.
dustry of the United States. The
present Secretary of Agriculture,
upon his assumption of office, in
formed the farmers that they did not
know what they wanted, but that he
would teach them. His lesson of
instruction has been progressing.
At Chicago he found fault with
the Oranges and Farmers Alliances.
which are the only method that far
mers have for meeting in a social or
business way. These meetings ena-
bic them to discuss what is for their
benefit, and, naturally enough, they
favor Protection, which, of course, is
not approved of by the Free-Trade
Secretary of Agriculture. Very
properly the Oranges throughoutthe !
country have been passing resolu-
tions condemning the Secretary of
Agriculture for his impertinent sug-
gessions and his evident desire TO
maintain the farmers of the United
States in a condition of ignorance
and knOw-nothingness.
The hatred of the present Admin
istration and of the present Free
Trade Congress for farmers and the
farming interests is shown by the :
new tariff bill which has Just been :
framed and put before the people. :
We are informed that "the high du- I
lies imposed upon agricultural pro- O
iucts to bring the farmers under b
,he sheltering wing of Protection r
will be mercilessly slashed." This ST
$ the way it is put by Free Trade al
'aper, the New York Herald. 1t is II
proposed to reduce the duty upon Sc
'otatOes, upon hops, upon tobacco
nd many other farm products. The
hange in the tobacco duty aud in =,
hat upon hops will not be so uni. -. -
ersally felt by farmers as that upon
otatoes. The cheap tobacco leaf
arift is arranged in the interests of
he importers and manufacturers of
ew York City. A low tariff on WI
ops has the same regard for the str
callers whose hop yards are confined LAP
thin the narrow limits of some of alV
ew York's side streets. Shrewd ira
rmers, these. They will import ioT
rye quantities of the cheap grades aei
Russian and German hops that nae nae
e grown in the cholera districts of iii'
irope, that are repacked into new ne
les and relabeled as choice Bavar- .. M
/ hops. nc
We all know what free potatoes M
an. We are to have potatoes to Il
'wn in Canadian soil to flood all NOR
territory along the northern Dor ing
s of our States,and which is now Hea
'plied by American farmers with oper
lerlcan potatoes. This drives the spec
ners Of the North to seek a mar amo
further South, and the farmers in j.
middle sections must 90 still sout
er. The farmers of New York the ]
in the New England States will ing
iriven from the Eastern seaboard his s
kets by the liberal importations geth
otatoes grown in Ireland, Scot son 6
|, ENGLAND, Germany and else the
re. These foreign grown pota- that
/, raised by the cheap and half. his ia
we'd European labor, are wanted lly 70
he rich in New York City.by the iesu,
who buy and sell offices, who .ne u
e their money here and spend it 5 .DE = /.
ad. They want everything that go a-y :,
reign-nOthing American is good o'oD ~,
Igh for them. They have no use ga n -, -
nd do not care straw for the iou,;.,
rican farmer or for his interests. ma.
+ Tariff bill shows it. staor
le farmers will note the differ cor /
in the price they get for their Huds,
,Oes, and will remember in the H To,
.ressional elections of / 894 that olson.
the Free-Trade party that is immec
ng them of their hard earned thing
y and of the value of their labor exarnii
e interests of the foreigners. eviden
with the Free-Traders.-Amer- play, a
Economist. the vel
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