The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-28

SOME T.pyrr RABY-TALK.

The waria Waila Union says no one
seems able 70 point out the way by which
We can build up a home market. Nearly
everything" says the Union. 'the farmer
raises is food of some kind. and to in
crease the home market for his products,
We must either get more people. or people
with larger stomachs and appetltes. If we
get more people into the country they
must have employment OF SONS kind. or
they would not be able TO buy the far
mers products. and hence would not fur
nlsh home market unless the state sup
ported them and provided for them. In or
der TO consume tho products Of the facto
rles we must wear mors clothing. and
consume more per capita. or get moro
people. II we get more people they must
either 80 10 farming. stil further injuring
the farmers home market by over-produc-
tion. or they must so TO manufacturing
something. curt&iling stlll further the
wages Of the TIN bucket brigade and max
.ng thar class less able to buy. The home
market IL an excellent thing. but 1t is not
enough
II viii hardly be contended. however. that
we are consuming TO the extent OF our ca
paclty There arc very many things peo-
PIE should have which they are now COM
PEELED te 80 without. It is true that there
= very little actual starvation 10 the point
~ death. bat thousands OF our people
have scarcely enough to keep body and
Nav4 a. a
have more than he haresu necessaries OF
life
or course. We want a market for our
SURPLUS. The Democrats told us that n
the tariff we're taken OF and We bought
freely of other countries they would buy
of ms. pu. they didn't. They sold 10 us
goods that could have been manufactured
here. hat A. little higher price: when
they wanted 10 buy they went 70 the
cheapest market. They would come to
us 10 bay anything We could sell more
ehesplv thar they could huv elsewhere.
even IL We bought nothing ~ them in ex-
change Same countries might re;aliate.
hnt the world Sc wide and We can open
new markets II 80 Shows enterprise
Free trade is theoretically the IDEAL
condition. Just &c universal equality would
r. bat - is inprecticable if We are - de-
Nelop our resources. The day may come
when tho United states can say 10 every
citizen. "Grah syc yourself: buy IN tbs
cheapest market" ~ present. however.
= tire farmer wants good market Ia
cannot make IL hv going 20 other countries
neiehbor th8t ueiehhor can buy If him.
AL business IS exchange. hut We cannot
regulate tho markets 81 other countries.
We have been TRYING taat for tho last
year and u Is s failure.
The farmer makes abe most money who
"a thriving nei<hh'rs Who are not farm
ers. tie cannot keep those ueissho-s un-
Iyss ho TRACES vita tsem because + tesv
cannot 3 pose ~ their lasee~. roer sam
= 80 or manufactures locally. thsy VIII gr
elsewhere. ard the farmer will re ler5 in
isolation TIE eaUns Is true 90 the me-
chsa5c and the merchant. II thry da rot
Nuy u ne lacal farmer. bur sen1 Their
money away 70 ether districts or other
countries The local farmer will become
.npo sersShed ana % usahie % trade 81
the stores or employ thc mechanic.
rbls reads Ike haey-ta}k. yet i: has
taken Two years II terrible distress -
make many 81 ear eoeutrysneu under
stand s. They left the heraely. naked
truth % follow she gu;terinS eahh'ss -
az iridcscert dream, they dcsrised the
simplicity az the direct path ard wan
dered OF IN the n1axes - speculative pail
esopAy u Is = condition not theory
which ceufronts uS row.