The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-19
THE FARMERS LOSE.
Agricultural Products Declining Under the
Democratic Tariff.

Agricultural Products Declining Under the
Democratic Tariff.
Our imports of foreign agricultural
products are nearly three times greater
under the Wilson-Gorman law than
under the Mckinley law, the increase
applying absolutely to every article in
the list without exception. Meanwhile,
our exports of agricultural products
have declined by third, and this de-
cline also covers every article in the
agricultural schedule. In breadstufFs
and meats the decline in values
amounts to 500, 900, 900. And vet we
were compelled to produce and export
more breadstuffs and meats, as
measured by tonnage, to obtain re-
turn which was less by $50, 600, 600 than
the return obtained under the McKin-
ley law. Thus we are gradually chang
ing from a country which imports
nothing that its soil and climate can
produce, to a country that exports
nothing that other soils and climates
can be made to produce.
When our exports of agricultural
products fall within one year from
1929, 27O, s33 to S3Os. 925, 412 and our i'm,
ports of farm products rise in the SAINT,
period from S27, 122, 1868 to SCI, Dos, SAG,
our farmers as a class are running te
the bad at the rate of S16O. 900, 900 q
year. If we assume that there are 3d..
900. 900 persons in the families of our
farm population, this means that they
are worse off under the German Law
by over S. per capita by import and
export of farm products solely.
Only about one part in ten of the
products of our aggregate industry are
exported, the other nine parts being
consumed in our own production and
consumption And only one-tsnth o.
what we consume is imported Hence
the foregoing losses really measure,
even to the agricultural class, only a
tenth of their actual loss through
shrinkage in their capacity to produce
and consume, there being over and
above these the nine-tenths of their
products consumed in this country on
which there has been like shrinkage
in quantity and value, and the nine
tenths of their consumption OF Amer
lean products, shrunk in the same pro-
portion These included amount to a
loss to the agricultural population, in
products and consumption combined,
of S1.6OO,OOO in a single year for the
privilege of ''tinkering the tariff
Behind these shrinkages in value
there follows the painful array of de-
falcations, suicides, individual suffer-
ing and social crime, indicating not
merely an arrest of prosperity, but re-
lapse toward barbarism. Two years of
such conditions are blow at our civil
ization which no money damages can
Y. Press.
Democratic papers in this stata
think they are fooling the wool grow
ers by saying that wool is little
higher than it was a year ago under
the Mckinley law. If these editors do
not know the wool growers do know
that as the wool clip of 1894 had to go
into competition with goods made of
woods imported without duty its prices
sank at once to the level of free wool,
while the wooden industry was par
alyzed. 1t was known January 1, 1893,
that wool would go on the free list, and
free wool prices prevailed thereafter.
When will the democratic editors cease
assuming that the people are fools?-
Journal.
The democrats of Colorado mus
tered fifty men and called it stata