The record-union., 1894-09-20


ter, dress better, live better than the
laborers of other countries. Our labor
ers send their children to school; they
buy their own homes; they see a promis-
ing future before them. There IS not
child born in the city of Sacramento who
may not in after years obtain the highest
Office from the hands Of the people of the
| Nation-something that cannot be said of
those of any other country in the world.
The Republican party has protected the
laborer and labor, and it is protecting it
against Democratic free trade, and yet
under the economic laws we cannot pay
our debts IN coin, and we must therefore
make up the deficiency that we owe in
some staple agricultural products.
we have done this contentedly for
many years. We thought we could do so
| forever. We find that we cannot,
| ION that a dream SO sweet and so enioyed
should be so sadly, cruelty destroyedp
THE FARMER CAN NO LONGER PAY OUR
DEBTS.
He is in very bad way himself. His
mortgage is running on. His crops are
not eXhuberant; the prices are low and
going lower: and his expenses grow no
less. His receipts are growing less each
year. 1t is the unfortunate condition of
the farmer that aids the Populists. 1t is
the farmer who is feeling the hard times
more than any other class of our citizens.
The farmer needs help. lie needs it
now; the farmer has been able to help US
! hitherto, and pay our debts and bear the
nigh tariff, which only incidentally bene-
hted him by giving labor better price,
and thus enabling the laborer to buy of
the farmer and pay him better price,
! because he had, first, virgin fields, fertile
beyond belief; because he had, second,
! labor-saving machinery, invented by
Americans, which reduced the cost of
| planting and harvesting to minimum;
! because he had few aud simple wants:
and, fourth, he had not much competition.
| Now these conditions are changed. The
farmers wants are many and expensive.
! His daughters want a piano; his wife
wants carpets on the floor and curtains
on the windows; his boys wish to go to
| the nigh school and the university. and
all these matters are expensive His fields
| are tired and need assistance, and worse
than all, competition has arisen where
| 1t is very dangerous, and where labor
saving machinery is used; the Argentine
Republic, Russia and India all are con-
tending against US. All use labor-saving
machinery and all have very much
cheaper labor than W
They have another and a greater ad-
vantage-they are nearer to the market
than we are. Liverpool rules the prices
for the worlds produce. American
prices are regulated by the Liverpool
prices, and the speculation in the wheat
PIT IN san Francisco or Chicago is a mere
| speculation which does not affect the
price. We deduct the cost of transporta-
ton from the price; that is the universal
rule of the earth. Values are regulated
! by the cost Of reaching the market. If
the transportation costs ten cents from
Sacramento to market, and only five cents
from Woodland, the Woodland farmer
has the advantage and can underseu the
Sacramento farmer.
1t is so with wheat and all other staple
agricultural products. The cost of
transportation to Liverpool affects the
price, and those foreign countries being
nearer Liverpool and transportation
costing less than from the United States.
they can undersell US and the American
farmer suffers. Wheat goes down and
the farmer goes broke. We must aid the
farmer or we all fail.
1t is as true now as it was in the six
teenth century when Hogarth produced
those wonderful pictures, the first repre-
senting the King, aud underneath it was
written, II govern ALL" the next the
priest, 81 pray for all,' the next the
soldier, 81 fight for ALL" and the next.
the farmer, with his pockets urned in
side out, Il pay for ALL" Laughter
And so 1t is to-day, the farmer really
pays for it all. We must aid the farmer
or we will ali go broke, and we will all
have hard times. How shall we aid him?
We cannot do it by tariff because he ex-
ports. We can only aid him by reducing
the cost of transportation of staple agri-
cultural products to Liverpool. The Gov
ernment does help the manufacturer bv
the tariff. The Government can also help
the farmer by using part of this tariff
money that has been collected for the
benefit of the manufacturer, and right
fully collected, and using it to help the
farmer by cheapening the transportation
of agricultural products from the United
States to their market in Liverpool.
And sound on this issue. If am elected.
l will endeavor to carry it into full force
and effect. 1t may not be perfect; it may
prove dismal failure. No man can tell,
but there will be no harm in trying it.
Something has got to be done. This has
been promulgated by our fellow-towns-
man, David Lubin, who will in time rank
with John Stuart Mill and Henry George,
That idea promulgated by him l heartily
lndorse. l believe in it, and will work
to carry it into effect. 1t was presented
to and repudiated by the Populists, the
self-appointed champions of the farmer.
1t was presented TO the Democratic Con-
vention, and was seorned there. 1t was
presented to the Republican convention
and indorsed, as the Republican party
has ever been the true friend of the
farmer and the laborer. When the farmer
is rich we are all rich, and when crops
are moved and paid for, money is
plenty. The doctor gets his bill. the
lawyer gets his bill, the preacher gets his
bill, and everybody gets his bill paid If
l am elected l shall do nay best to engraft
that on the laws of the country, and will
second Mr.. Lubin's efforts to have 1t
written into the laws of the country.
Following in the track of that, is the
building of
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
II should be built at once. and will
greatly benefit California. 1t will bene-
lit this State by bringing in a direct COM
petlng line with the railroad; it will re-