The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-10-14

countries was almost impossible. The
people of the United States were great
ly injured by the enforcement Of those
laws, while our government looked
upon the enactments as unfriendly leg
islation. Our ministers to the coun.
tries were charged with the duty Of
securing the repeal, cr ~ least a modl.
fcstion, Of those oppressive laws The
skill Of diplomacy was exerted TO the
utmost, and happy results have 4cl-
lowed There has been notifications,
not to the extent asked for by our gov
ernment. but sufficient to largely bene-
At the market for hog products.
The United States in 1890 passed .
law known as the Mckinley bill, which |
almost every nation on the earth has |
deemed unfriendly Legislation. The
partial dependence Of ono nation on
another for its prosperity is not
recognized by this law Its only aim
is to isolate the United States from
other civilized peoples, and at the Same
time to oppress tho consuming class Of
this country to the very limit Of en-
durance. Its operation has to a great
degree destroyed the foreign markets
for the surplus of our fields and thue
so glntted our home markets that val
ues sunk below the cost of production.
Take our trade with England and
let us honestly enquire as to the effect
of the Mckinley bill on the intercourse
between the two countries. Up until
within few years neither the United
Kingdom, nor all the colonies com.
bincd, produced enough of cereals to
feed their people To-day England is
not dependent on the United States
for a single barrel of flour or
pound of wheat with which
to sustain her people. Her colonial
possessions, without counting British
America, this year, have the extraor-
dinary surplus of ss,OOOoo bushels.
The United States have surplus Of
, 90, 600, 900 bushels, 100000 less than
: the colonies of Great Britain. Ten
, years ago the American farmer had no
| such competition to meet The ques-
l tion arises, how is 1t that he has to
, meet it to-day? Tho answer is, that
; this competition is one of the results
, of tho operation of the Mckinley bill
) and other high protective tariff legis-
lation. Deprived OF markets In tho
l United States the English people looke
| ed around for some means for tho in.
r vestment Of capital which would pay
q good returns, and at the same time re.
: lieve them Of dependence on the Amer.
, fcan farmer for breadstuffs. This In
, vestment was found in the lands Of
: India Ten years ago the wheat pro-
a duction Of India was 70, ooo, 600 bushels.
{ To-day it is s74,00o, 900 bushels The
y American farmer is required to meet
q this immense addition to the grain
i product of the world, which he would
r not have had to meet had not the pro-
a tective policy of the republican party
4 driven English capital to seek retaliar
4 tory measures against the prohibitory
policy of which William Mckinley is
the embodiment The indigo fields o'
- India were turned into waving savan
nahs of wheat Railroads were con
=, structed through the vast plain!
! which roll back from the banks
of the Ganges, and thus ia
cilities created whereby the grair
reached the sea, and thence to ths
>, markets of the west, to compete witt
the American grown product Eng
!, land has brought the labor of the
slower CASTE of India into competi
ton with the farmer of the United
States. This competition would no
:. be in existence were it not for the pro
!, tective tariff policy of the republican
party, which has excited retaliation.
- Again, English capital, by the hun
dreds of millions, has sought the Ar
;. gentine republic to make grain field
:. of the rich plains which lie in the sam.
latitude south which the grain bel
of the north occupies. Within tel
- years the Argentine republic ha
= quadrupled her wheat crop, so that to
day she produces moro bushels o
~ wheat than do the people Of any M
;s tion, per capita, on the earth. TIL
- protective tariff of the United States
- the principle of which finds its highes
- eXeHlpllHcaUlOn III Clo noLorlouS Nc
Kinley bill, has done more to excit
rivalry against the farmer Of IT,
&C United States than all other causes pu
= together. If it is continued in fore
= ten years longer wheat will sell at 81
-. points west of the Alleghenies a
~ thirty-fve cents bushel Whea
&c growers, stick a pin there, for you vii
a realize that prediction. Cling to tn
es protective idea. and as certain as nigh
Up follows day and day the night, you wi
a become impoverished.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNRGIE has per
NC chant for literature. His desires seem
y. to be to view economic questions froI
40 a scientific standpoint In the Septen
ber number OF the North American RI
view he treats the silver problem
Nv While we do not agree with the prem
~ ises ON which his article is based, "
80 are frank to acknowledge that M
Ao Carnegie is not SO wildly wrong as
~ deserve unqualified disapprovaL IL
go deed, he says some good things, anon
'N which is that the present silver sit1
49, alton, brought about by the enactmeI