The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-07-20


department of truck farming alone there.
are upwards of 100000. 900, invested
in this industry, the annual product
thereof reaching value of SIC, 517.155
on the farms after paying freight and
other charges of handling and selling.
There are employed III this industry
216, res men, 9,254 women and 1854
children aided by 1856 horses and
mules and SIS, 791 ,207 worth Of farm irri-
PIGMENTS. This vast industry could not
be possible were we selling these goods
in the markets of the world. The goods
are perishable and would not stand long
shipments, must be consumed when ripe
and are DINO value except in home
market, and with home consumers who
are able to buy and pay for them. In
April 1890 we imported 100000 dozen
of eggs, mostly from Canada, into our
market. The Mckinley bill placed a
duty of five cents per dozen on eggs and
in April 1891, six months after the pass
age of that bill, we imported but PC 900
dozen, while the American farmer found
a market for for 425,00O dozen more
eggs one month, or 5000, 900, 900 dozen
per year more than he did under free
trade in eggs. Does this benefit our
farmers? Certainly it does. The estab-
lishment oil even one industry in this
country, and the consequent employment
oflabor and good wages, makes home
market not only for farm products, but
other products and raw materials. For
instance the alum and soda works of the
United States have been built up by pro-
lection. This fact is undeniable for un-
der a revenue tariff we had none of them
although we had the raw materials in
abundance. Fifty thousand people are
dependent on them alone for support
with capital OF $1O,000,0o0 invested on
them. comprising about twenty-five
firms and establishments. They consume
crude materials, per annum as follows:
Salt, 100000 tons; sulphuric acid, 3d.
600 tons; lime and limestone, 100000
tons; coal, $4,000 tons; nitrate of soda,
1900 tons; alum clay, $4,000 tons;
tons; sulphate of ammonia, $4,000 tons;
pyrites 100000 tons and for packing and
shipment, 100000 barrels. These in
dustries. therefore, make an additional
home market for the farmers products
not only among those they directly en-
ploy, but also among salt makers, coal
miners, quarry men, ETC., over wide
extract of counery, and it should be re-
membered that the crude materials
above mentioned, and the labor en-
ployed arein additionto those consumed
and employed before protection made it
possible for these industries TO exist and
flourish in this country.
But this is not all. The starch fac
tories OF the country consume about
100000 bushels of potytoes annually
and pay twenty-five to thirty cents per
bushel at the factories for potatoes too
small for market for food, and they con-
sumo about one halt of the potatoes
raised in this country. The corn starch
factories consume 100000 bushels of
corn annually, employing about $4,000
farmers per year to raise it. The annual
value of the product is about $15,00o,-
900, capital invested about SO, 900, 900
employing abont 5000 laborers. in the
factories. About 55, 900 people are sup
ported by the industry. Duty two cents
per pound. 1t may be well to remark
here incidently for the edifcation Of our
Democratic free trade friends, who tell
us that the consumer pays The tariff,
that in 1865 wnen we made corn starch
in this country. but imported it, the price
was $40 cents per pound, i'll 1875, 5
7-10 cents, in 1885, A cents and in 1887
cents, cents, Reduction over CT per
cent. Prior to 1885 no soda ash was
made in this country, though we used
$4,000 tons year. We imported all
this and paid for it $48 90 per ton. In
1888 congress imposed duty OF $500
per ton on this commodity In making
it at home we consume annually 70, 900
tons more of coal, 100, 900 tons more of
limestone, 10000 tons more of cake and
10000 tons more of salt, when not a
pound OF either was used before. and
paw 100000 per year in wages and
in freights one hundred ard ffty-two
thousand dollars per year. The price
dropped from forty-eight dollars per ton
in 1888 to twenty-eight dollars, saw
Ing of twenty dollars per ton or three
and half million dollars, besides Great
ing new home market for our products
in additional workers in coal. limestone,
coke, salt and in the manufacture of
soda ash itself.
Such in brief, is the American home
market, built upby the benign influence
OF protection, which gives to labor the
highest wages, higher than in any other
country in the world, and consequently
a desire for the comforts as well as the
necessaries of life and the ability TO paw
for them.
M. HOGAN,
what DO You Take