The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-27
in like measure our expor,s.

| ENJOY the same beneti s.
Five years ago the Free Trade
journals tried to fan a fame of dis
content among farmers by telling
them that they were not Protected
as they should be-which was not
true. Now that duties are higher
on imports of farm products, they
are told it is all unreasonable and
unphilosophical.' The demagogue
crops out in all this. The Enquirer
say: IF our farmers are to be
confined to home market their
condition is pitiable in the ex-
IRENE" Who proposes such con-
finement? If a farmer has thous-
and bushels of wheat to sell and
can sell half of it at his door, does
that bar him from selling the other
half for a foreign market? Does
that home market lower the price
abroad? No; if it had any effect it
would be to raise it.
The talk about being shut out
of all foreign markets if we
could not buy where we hope to
SELL" is simply nonsence. If a
man within a hundred miles of
Cincinnati thinks, as many do, that
the Enquirer is the best and cheap
est newspaper, he buys it, and
never thinks or cares a copper
whether he shall ever sell anything
from his farm to the Enquirer man
ar the reaper maker or not. So on
a larger scale. If our wheat is best
and cheapest England buys it.
whether we buy anything of her or
not. If Russian wheat is penny
a bushel cheaper they buy it and
leave ours to rot, although we buy
of England four times as much
merchandise as Russia does.
"The more extensive our imnorts
the larger and more profitable our
export trade" is nonsense also. 1t
is as though the farmer, sitting by
his door Of summer evening, and
seeing his wife and children start
out for the villige store, should
call after them and say: "Wife
and girls and boys, buy all you
want; the more we buy the more
profitably we can sell. If we buy
81 500 worth, and have but 81 900
worth to sell at the years end, all
the better, for the moro we buy the
richer we grow. Eve just read it
in my Enquirer, a good sound
Democratic paper with no Protec-
tive Tariff nonsense IN it. Sail in,
all of you, and bring home a wagon
full of nice stuffs. The more we
buy the richer We grow. Hurrah
for my Enqujrer!"
Today the great anxiety of Eng
lish financiers comes from their i'm
ports. vastly larger their exports;
and the perilous outflow of gold
from New York to Europe is in
creased by our increased imports,
which the foreshadowing Free Trade
policy of the Government must
make greater still.
ga high Tariff reduces exports"
a brazen assertion in view of the
fact that our exports were never so
great as within the past four years.
For three fiscal years-1S59-61-
under low Tariff, our foreign trade
IN merchandise averaged 5000, 1913,
9S1 per year, imports exceeding ex-
ports all average of $40, 742 ,6S7.
In three years-1SSs-9l-
higher Protective Tariff, our for
eign trade averaged 81, 62l $3.50, 700,
exports exceeding imports an aver
age of S35, 117,537. These facts
knock the empty assertion "higher
than kite" Growth of a home
market and of home labor is the
only solid basis for prosperous
foreign commerce. The farmer
should realize this truth.
[ Further along in this article we
are told what "the Walker Tariff"
did from 1915 to 1860, or rather
that part of the matter which helps
! to make out that ''if that low Tar
\ if had continued" our exports and
;,,,>o.te would baya haoD for Vroa Tor