Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-22
TARIFF VS. FARMER.
Major pickier Discusses the
Wilson Bill.
Extract from his speech I'm
Congress.


that since the Mckinley bill was
passed they have received better
prices for their barley, for their
FAX, for their horses, for their wool
for their potatoes, for their eggs,
their butter, and other articles,
than their neighbors across the Ca
madam line hare received. That
they know, aud no theory can dis
place the knowledge of this fact in
their minds.
We know these things to be facts
and this theory that protection does
not help the farmer is regarded a
fallacy beyond all doubt in our
state. We know that it does; and
then, beyond that even, from your
own standpoint, If protection to
farm products does not give a cent
better prices, which it does, there
Is this point to it: Every horse that
a Canadian sells in this country
prevents the sale of a horse by an
American farmer, and | desire to
call attention to the admirable list
the gentleman from Illinois TMr.
Hopkinsl furnished in his able
speech the other day, as to some
articles. He shows that the mum.
Der of horses imported we're 16,4Il,
on n average a year for i've or six
years before the passage OF the Ne
kinley law. ] see it In evidence
before the committee on WAYS and
Means, that q man states that
from Mexico alone there were
driven m 100000 Mexican
horses annually. Undoubtedly the
large share of these horses came
into tina country without paying
any duty, thus defraujing the
horse-raisers in this country as well
as the Government of the revenue.
We ought to supply the hors. 5
that are used in this country. Our
farmers ought to raise these horses,
and if we get no more out of pro
lection, it is a great advantage to
US to furnish this sixty thousand
to n hundred thousand horses an
~nually, and it would give US the
market of this country for our
horses. Every Mexican or Canadian
who sells a horse to u people de-
priyes the farmers of this country
of the sale of that animal. So
every steer, sheep, hog, bushel of
barley, flax or potatoes furnished
by q foreigner presents our farmers
from furnishing these articles.
What do Jon put in this bill on
horses? Twenty per cent ad valor
mn. 1t is in evidence before the
committee on Ways and Means that
that duty. 20 per cent ad valore m,
was enforced before the Mckinley
law and that 1T amounted to 81 on
the horse. The duty of % on
horse, as you fix it in this bill, is
an insult to every horse raiser in
the United States. Two dollars a
head protection; what q humbug!
OF cattle there were imported
Sc, 900 head annually on an average
before the passage of the Mckinley
We have the territory, we
have the grass, We; have the facll-
ties for raising these cattle; and
farmers are anxious to produce
hese horses and sheep and cattle,
nd all these other products, and
I'll them as 3 livelihood, but by the
of this act, you %nullify {
iery advantage we have to do SO.
Is "a great injustice, great hard
up. and 4 great detrimeut to my :
isstituents, and ! protest against
Your pretense for this onslaught !
The farmer is that you want 4
: usanuf~rturer to have free raw I
'Issisl. ion destroy our WOOL :
|ustry, yos, declare, TO ges cheap !,