The record-union., 1895-02-16

nnS, ,Iatu tures-they are not brought into
I'm I'm peLluon with the free-trade worlds prices
| because they are not exported
Inc EXPORT SURPLUS GOVERNS HOME PRICES
now, what IS staple? A staple is this-a
ttioniHloulty OF which there is usually GUAM
lily Tor export, q surplus which IS sold to
soine otner country. There is always a sur
pius OF the agricultural products In our coun-
NY, ana we produced surplus even before
| we We're republic.
What is done with this surplus? It is sold
| 10 Whatever country will buy it. Who is the
| ouyef? England chiefly. What Will she pay
| Tor this surplus? No more than she can buy
Inc same surplus from the cheapest labor
countries of the world-not a copper more
what then? on, we say, admitting that this
surplus Is SOLD at the cheapest prices in the
world, IN direct competition with Argentine
inGla, Russia, the cheapest labor countries OF
Inc "orld, That OF course is sold at the tree
traue prices But this is q tritie when we
compare the much greater quantity con-
Sulned at nome for siXty-IiVe millions of peo-
PIE VINO WIZ pay the protection prices for it,
NOW, some say, by putting great big fac
| torres alonSslde OF the great big farms, we are
going 10 receive protection prices in place of
sending our staple agricultural products
ABROAD 10 other countries and receiving free
J trade prices. That is very good argument to
make Tor people lifted to receive such an argu-
ment. But II Is q blind. There is not q par
ticle of truth or sense in such a statement.
Such an argument is made by either Il knave
or 1901, Tor, mark, as soon as there is a sur
pluS, That surplus is sold in Chicago San
EIahclScO New lorH, IN an open market,
commonly called the wheat pit" or where
they sell cotton, the cotton exchange" or
Ior TOBACCO the tobacco exchange" Now if
you go IN there, we will see a great clock,
as we see at st. Louis, that says, Liver
poo" Chicago" Detroit" Baltimore
ana different shipping points, and here
! is Il big bulletin showing how much wheat is
available, what is afloat all these different
! Things that these buyers understand. 1t is
portion OF their business Now then, how is
| the buying done? Surprising that gentleman
indicating Shall be q buyer for Liverpool
and am q buyer for Sacramento. We wouId
In hr,Nrc >
oI4 would buy at 6114, and there would
not be difference of a copper between u.s.
Consequently, you our factory alongside
OF Ihe iarm IS an excellent argument to pull
the WOOL over our eyes with, but it is abso-
| Iutely without value as fact There is not
Now, what takes place? Protection against
imports creates an artificial wall; that artifi-
cal wall IS the amount OF the fine. When
! tney Talk OF 500 duty, we must get rid of that
! IDEA; it is $50 20 for every $50 duty paid
But even II 1t We're 500, it would be an
enormous duty. But it is $50 20. What be-
| comes OF II? Here is the strong division line
Inc producer OF agricultural staples, as we
nave seen, sells at home and abroad at the
! Liverpool Tree trade price, less the cost OF
carrying the product from the place OF pro-
! auction TO Liverpool. Therefore, the pro-
! lecL2Q manufacturer in our own country will
! never pay more for agricultural staples than
! the Liverpool price. less the cost OF carrying
this product from the place of production to
! LlNerpool, even when ii may not go over two
duced
| INJUSTICE TO THE FARMER.
now, let US sum up. The producer of agricult-
4ral staples sells his products at the lowest
/ lfee-trade price in the world, whether he sells
! II for nome use, or whether he sells it for ex-
/ port Therefore, he is compelled TO sell at the
cheapest prices OF the world, and Our present
! one-slded protection system cOmpels him to
! BUY what he needs at the highest prices in the
/ world. As these producers are the only class
VINO 90 TINS III our country, it follows that
! lhey pay the entire cost OF the protective sys-
tenn.
For great many years this state of affairs
nus oeeh gong on. Notwithstanding this,
! strange as IL may seem, the country was pros
/ porous. Notwithstanding the enormous load
! thatthe producer of staple agriculture had laid
! upon hiln, ne could until recently maintain
/ an equilibrium under protection. Staple az
/ riculture, true, never was protected aud vet
! II was protected. What strange thing pro-
( tecteu him 1t was not the Govern ynent hut
] II was by this means our protective system
/ created a high wage rate; labor became Skilled
! became me most skIllful in the world. 1t in
/ vented Iabor-saving. agricultural machinery
( Nlich was utIllZeu by our producers of agri-
( cultural staples. and we were almost the ONLY
people III the world that utilized labor-saving
agricultural machinery. our producers cOuId
! therefore. afford 10 pay the cost of protection
and enrich the manufacturer and still not
suIler thereby, because no nation in the world
with their cheapest labor. toe most rniserably
! paid labor, could compete with our produnars
/ OF agTicu tural staples because they mad al
most exclusive use OF these agricultural ma
chlhes, ana which gave them world ad-
vantage.
WHERE ENGLAND STEPPED IN,
highlands policy, however, has changed all
TINS 10 our Getriment. England being a free
trade nation, desired the factors whicl9 TrorId
give her the commercial supremacy of Tho
WOTld,anI these factors consist in two tainGS-
cheap foou and cheap raw material Ifsbe
could obtain cheap food and cheap raw mate
rIal,she mad the key o the lock that would rive
Aer the commercial supremacy of the world
ana TINS she started out To get; and when she
succeeded, as She has now, it has q most now
erful elect upon the commercial future of this
nation. And while we seem to be in hard
times now, we have OuIv had q trifIino r1Ste
Of what is coming, If this same condition
! should prevail, or II the same conditions are
TO continue 10 accentuate themselves.
England introduced these labOr-saving ma
culnes on her immense domains in India and
in Egypt and Argentine Republic. and finaiiI,
Russia followed suit. The result is that these
machines which have preserved this enT1iIi
brium heretofore between manufacture an !
labor IN our country having been now placed
III the hands OF the cheapest labor countries of
the WorlG-haS destroyed the equilibrium
That staple agriculture has declined to the
present worlds rate OF about one-han or less
Its former rates is the cause OF economic dis
turDance- DO not think you can dispute
that because it is clear and plain TO ali think
ing people.
THE INEVITABE OUTCOME
Now, if these prices continue to prevail.
what must take place? The producer of arr,
cultural staples, the independent land-own-
ing farmer, Will be eliminated Ffrom the land.
he must surely be eliminated from his hold
n
sell his product at one-half the price formerly
received and keep on paying the old priraS
that ne formerly paid. 1t is true that manu-
features have declined too but only a y-or~.
little as compared with the staples of agri-
culture, and IN proportion as the decline in
agriculture has been so very heavy the 1ariff
Is that much the greater burden than it was
before, for, IN proportion the tariff rate re-
mains and protects, it makes the wider Gan
between the price of the product and Inc
tariff wall. So all the Wilson bills that Won
could devise II they are after the pattern that
have been passed, are absolutely Worthless TO
effect a remedy.
WHAT Is THE TRUE REMEDY?
Now, what IS the measure, the remedy now
proposed? 1t is TO either force the protected
industries down to the level of unDrotecfed /
agriculture by Tree trade; or, We have cot TO
force agriculture up to the level of the Dro-
tected industries by protection. We must do
one or the otner IN order to maintain the
equilibrium. We have now got 10 really pro
tect staple agriculture, even if il never was
protected before.
Let US now look into the face of Cs.lifor-
man who takes Il pride in his State VINO
claims 10 lie statesman representing his con
stituents, who. assuming now that he is not
able TO deny what has been set forth here will
still take the stand Tor a measure of legisla-
ton OF one-Stded protection as now in on
Grafton and denOunce this proposition That
man would be as base traitor 10 the State of
California, and to its best interests and 10
the best interests Of the United States as any |
rebel was in the time OF the war. He would |
have no right to this floor, because he would !
be arguing against the best interests of this |
State.
1t is not IN our interest to preserve a one |
sided, unjust. tyrannical system OF protection |
which robs this state of millions OF. dollars |
and rDGS the South ana the West of hundreds I
OF millions OF dollars-yeS, running up TO the |
billions. This is not justice: il Is not fair /
You have only TO prove that what l have set /
forth here is false, then proceed with our !
present one-sided protection system. But, if |
you cannot prove what has been set forth here /