The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-13
FREE TRADE PLAGUE.
HAS ALREADY AFFECTED THE
VALUE OF SHEEP.
Farmers Who Cling to Democratic Policy
Cling to Poverty-How Democratic Plat
forms Contrast with Democratic Prom
isss- National League Republican Clubs.
The Lost sheep.

There are forty-seven different States
and Territories in the United States in
which the farmers look to their sheep
as money crop to supply them with
cash for buying new implements and
tools for the Improvement OF their
stock, for paying off mortgages, and
for general comfort, and without mon
ey, scrimping, poverty and distress
take the part of comfort and good
times.
Farmers know that sheep in this
country increase largely in numbers:
they look forward to the Landing sea-
son, because it adds to their flocks, and
every little lamb that lives is worth a
few dollars to the IA mer. But there
must have been something the matter
with sheep between 1892 and 1894. III
the good old Mckinley protection days
there were A, 1888 sheep in the
United States, yet two years later
there were only 81, 430 more sheep.
This is very small percentage OF
mbing. In the year 1898 the Landing
season must have been very bad, or
some plague must have struck the
plague of Grover Cleveland which
struck every other part OF the country
and blasted business.
Whatever the trouble was the
American farmer will know and will
guard against it. He will prepare a
good remedy against return of the
disease. ana that remedy he wi i rub in
we'll this fall before winter comes. The
farmer knows that each one of his
sheep is worth more than half dollar
less money now than 1T was in 1892. In
Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, and New
Mexico each sheep is worth less than
81 this year, yet we find the Demo
cratic Senators from Mississippi,
Texas, and Arkansas, not satisfied with
the present loss they have brought
upon the farmers, still wishing to en-
tirely wipe out the sheep industry.
The constituents of these Senators
should lCoS into this matter.
The total money loss throughout al
the United States, through the lower
values of sheep at the beginning Of
this year, as compared with two years
ago, exceeded $25,000,000. There are
S31 900 sheep farmers in the country,
so that each farmer lost almost 81
through the lower value of his sheep
This does not include the lower price
that he received for hi, wool. in all
the New England States there was a
loss of no. $50 sheep this year as COM
pared with 1892; in all the Southern
States there was loss of $500 sheep
and in the Western States the sheep
farmers had 81, COZ fewer sheep than
they had under Mckinley protection.
How was this for Landing season?
AS stated, the total amount of money
lost through the lower per cent. OF all
our sheep exceeded $25,000,0G0. In
New England the farmers lost 81, 900,-
600; in the Middle States they lost al
most $500, 900; in the Southern States
they lost 81, 7tO, 600; in the Pacific
States they lost 81, COO: and in
other States and territories farmers
lost more than 100000. This free
trade that has got among the sheep i,
worse than the scab or foot rot, and it
will take strong remedy to wipe 1T
out. Farmers must be prepared, and
mix up good, strong old sheep wash
and have il ready to rub hard into the
Democratic party on the first Tuesday
of next November. When the Demo
Gratis are wiped out of Office, then the
farmers sheep will be worth more
money t. him.-Chas. r. auckland.