The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-05
M.xINLEy TO FARMERS.
rhe Republican Nominee Talks on the
Tarin and Currency Questions.

| Al the nome OF NH. Mchinicy, cah
ton, August "a, the farmers of Kno,
county, Ohio, assembled in large mum
bers and were treated to Il somewhat
lengthy address by the republican nom
inee for the presidency. In the cours'
of his remarks Mr.. Mckinley said:
| my Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me a grea
pleasure to meet and greet the citizens
| ofknox county In the city OF Canton and a.
my own home. am glad to welcome my
| old comrades Of the grand army. my fellow.
| citizens who are engaged In agricultural
| industries and my fellow-citisens OF al
| occupations who are here assembled this
| morning. Your meeting demonstrates that
| you have keen interest In the public ques-
| lions which are now engaging the people OF
| the United States, and that you want this
year. as you have always wanted IN the
past, to vote for those principles and those
policies which viii achieve the greatest
good and the highest welfare to the coun-
try. / am glad. especially, to meet the
farmers OF Knox county, for the farmers OF
the United States are the most conserva-
tive force In our citizenship and In our CIV
ilization Iapplause], force that mas al
ways stood for good government, Tor coun-
try, for liberty and for honesty. lGreat
applause.1 Whatever the farmer Is suner-
ing to-day is because his competitors have
increased In numbers and because his best
customers are out of work. Applause and
cries of you are right do not know that
we can decrease the number OF your COM
petitors, but with true American pro-
tective policy we can set your best GUS
toners to work. Tremendous cheering. ]
We have suffered In our foreign trade ana
we have suffered in our domestic trade.
The farmers have suffered In their export
trade, and they have likewise suffered in
their home market. Under the republican
ariff 1a w IF W - Unmarried
Ii, 100000 pounds of WOOL valued at over
f13, 100000 In 1895. under the democratic
tariff law, we imported 2Si000,O0O pounds or
wool. valued at $23,770,0O0. Nearly s20,-
100000 worth more of wool was imported
under the democratic tariff law than under
the. republican tariff law in 1894. The Inn
ports OF wooden goods In 1894 amounted
70 SIC. COO. and in 1895 to s57,49i,ooO.
Decrease in Number OF Sheep.
''From the reports of the treasury de-
partment AT Washington we find that there
were A. 273,000 sheep in the United States
In 1892, valued at 1925, $780, 900. On January ],
1896, there were SS29S, 600 sheep in the United
States. valued at SOS, 000. 000--a decrease OF
100000 In the number of sheep and of $780,
Co., 600 in value: 50, zoe, 900 worth more of
shoddy was imported under the demo-
cratic tariff law than under the republican
tariff law In wooden goods the difference
Is more than $50,000,000 in favor of tho
foreign manufacturer and against tho
democratic producer. The total loss In
these three itecs to the American wool
grower and the wage-earners in American
wooden factories Is more than Sc, 100000. Is
Ii any wonder that the sheep husbandry
Is no longer profitable?
so with other agricultural products.
During the last II months of the republican
tariff law there were imported into this
country 10000 tons OF hay. and during the
HpmOcrQtic
law there were imported 3SS.000 tons. The
Wilson law gave the foreign producers a
market for 1884, 900 tons more than they had
enjoyed in the last is months under the re-
public tariff law. This loss exceeds So.
900, 900.
1.-THE total wheat, rye, barley, oats and
corn crops for 1926 amounted TO 1856, 100000
bushels. The total OF this product exported
was 132, 9Gi 900 bushels, or little less than
four per cent. Of the total product annually.
and more than SO per cent. was consumed
at home. The great bulk was consumed
by our own fellow-citizens: your own nat
ural consumers and customers. In 1872
we exported 81, 1901 oo0 900 worth OF agricult-
ural products. In 1856, the first two years
under the democratic tariff law, we eX-
ported $l,l2i0o0,00o worth. We exported,
therefore. $4,000, 900 worth less in the two
years under the democratic tariff law than
the two years under the republican tariff
law. Depression in agriculture has always
followed low tariff legislation. 1t was so
after the tariff of 1876. and II has been so
under the tariff of 1894"
Quote, from Fillmore and Buchanan.
Maj. Mckinley quoted the messages
of Presidents Fillmore and Buchanan
To show the effects of a low tariff upon
the country, and said:
Can the farmer be helped by free coin
oF fr-tA
forever. no, my fellow-citizens. [Cries of
'hurrah for McKinley.'l He cannot he
helped, because II the nominal price OF
grain were to rise through an imitation of
the currency the price of everything else
would rise also. and the farmer would be
relatively no better off than he was before.
tCries of that's right, major.'1 He would
not get any more real value for his grain
than he gets now, and would suffer from
the general Generalization which would
follow the free coinage of silver. You can
not help the farmer by more coinage of sill
yer; he can only be helped by more con-
sumers for his product. You cannot help
him by free trade, but. as ! have shown,
he can be hurt and seriously hurt by the
free Introduction of competing products
into this country. Better a thousand times
enlarge the markets for American prod
ucts than to enlarge the minis for the
silver product OF the world. Tremendous
cheering and cries of you are right You
might Just as well understand now that you
cannot add value to anything by diminish
Ing the measure of the value with which
the thing is sold or exchanged. TGreat
cheering and cries of 'hurrah for McKin-
ley.'l If you can increase the value by
lowering the measure of value, and you
want to benefit the farmer, then make the
bushel smaller, the pound lighter and de-
clare a legal dozen less than IL. [Great
laughterl The home market is the best
friend of the farmer. 1t is his best market
1t is his only reliable market. II is his own
natural market. He should be protected
In Its enjoyment by wise tariff legisla-
ton and this home market should not he
permitted to be destroyed by lessening the
demand for American labor and diminish
Ing the pay OF American workmen, and
thereby diminishing the demand for agri-
cultural products. GApplausel
Talks OF Free Silver.
"The prosperity Of manufactures is in
separable from the prosperity of agri-
culture. Set all our wheels in notion set
all our spindles whirling. set all our men
at work on full time, start up the idle
workshops of the country. bring back con-
fidence and business, and the farmer will
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