Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-06-27

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of the three goes beyond the 100000
mark. while no other reaches the 3,00O,-
| 600 mark
With the exception of Australia the
| United States leads the world in the pro-
| duction of wool, and it is precisely this
exception that renders protection indis-
| pensable. The total annual production
of all countries is put down as 2.4o6,-
li3,60O: of the United States as 1854 1885,
600, while Australia foots up 100000,
| and the Argentine Republic 376. 100000.
thus while this country produces about
one-elghth Of the total clip of the British
colonies in the newest world produce
one-tifth of the grand total, and the Ar
genuine Republic outstrips us. In both
OF these great sheep-raising countries
| land for grazing is almost as free as air,
and the climate is SO mild that the cost
OF tending the f1ocks is mere trihe. Our
farmers must use the fork, either in hay
ing or feeding, more than half the year.
Clearly it is in the power of Congress to
restore to prosperity or doom to destruc-
ton one of the most important agricult-
ural staples of the country
The Tariff and the Farmers.
How much the farmers of the United
States have suffered already from tariff
agitation no man can tell, Their direct
loss may not be enormous, but their in
direct loss amounts to millions. The want
reduction of wages, have forced down
consumption greatly, and the farmers
nave felt the consequences in the lowest
prices ever known for farm produce.
The Mckinley law gave the American
farmer the highest protection he ever
received. Many thought the protection
was not equal to the necessities of the
ease, but it was Il great Improvement on
former tariff laws. and on the whole
the farmers throughout the country were
satisfied. Now come the reform Demo
Gratis III the Senate with an effort to break
down what little protection the farm
ers have under the present law. On this
point the New York Tribune makes this
timely comment
TO the honor of the Republican states
men who represent manufacturing states,
it may be said that they have been as
earnest and as able in defending protec
ton for agriculture as their associates
from the great farming states of the
West. But the infamous bill of sale
has the slavish support of Populists like
Senators Allen and Kyle, who pretend to
represent Farmers Alliances, but have
sold out to the free traders for paltry
favors which give them personally hope
of reelection. The laboring oar in de-
tense OF the interests of farmers, not only
along the seaboard and the northern bor-
der, but elsewhere, has thus fallen to Re
publican senators like Aldrich of Rhode
Island and the senator's from Connect
cut and Massachusetts and other manu-
featuring states, who have shown by their
fidelity how clearly they understand their
duty of securing equitable defense for all
departments OF American industry
1t was to be expected that they would
fail. No power of reasoning, no array of
facts, can convince men who have inter-
est in sugar stocks, or who have blindly
pledged themselves to vote for anything
the Sugar trust and its instruments may
dictate. Because the Democratic Senate
is corrupt beyond all precedent in Amer
lean history, and as shameless as it is
corrupt the farming interest has to ex-
pect heavy reduction of the duties by
which it has been in a measure defended
for four years, in addition to the aboli-
ton of all duty on wool, and the prostra-
ton of the manufactures which supply
the home market for farmers products.
Their time will come, when they can vote
again, and it is safe to predict that many
who were Indifferent and wanted to be
carted to the voting places in 1890 and
1892 will so with definite purpose in
1884 and 1885,