The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-25

sion for the current fiscal year are very
large in amount
This is a description of the condi-
ton of the country under the low tar
if law of 1876, and no better description
could be written of the condition IN
der the tariff law of 1894. (Applause-)
can the farmer be helped by free
coinage Of silver? (Cries of No, no,
NOD No, forever, no, my fellow cltl-
zens. (Cries of 'Hurrah for McKin-
ley) We cannot be 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 relative
ly no better off than he is now. (Cries
of That's right, Major.O He would get
no more real value for his grain than
he gets now and would suffer from the
general decentralization which would
follow the free coinage Of silver.
You can not help the farmer by mere
coinage Of silver He can only be
helped by more consumers for his prod
ucts. You can not help him by free
trade, but as I have shown he can be
hurt, and seriously hurt, by the free
Introduction Of competing products in
to this country
Better a thousand times enlarge the
markets for American products than to
enlarge the minis for the silver prod
uct of the world TREMENDOUS cheer
ing, and cries Of You're right.')
you might just as well understand
now that you cannot add value to any
thing by diminishing the measure of
value by which the thing is sold and
exchanged. If you can increase the
value by lowering the measure Of val
ne and you want to benefit the farmer,
then make the bushel smaller, the
pound lighter and declare q legal doZ-
en- less than twelve. Great applause
and laughter.)
The home market is the best friend
of the farmer. It is his best market.
It is his only reliable market. 1t is his
only natural market. He should be
protected in its enjoyment by wise tar
! iff legislation, and this home market
, should not be permitted to be destroy
ed by Iessening American labor and
diminishing the pay of American work
men and thereby diminishing the de-
mand for agricultural products. Gap
plause.)
The sugar industry should be Gull
tivated and encouraged in the United
States Diversity the products of agri-
culture and thus you will have addi-
tiOnal employment for your land The
only way to help the farmer is to in
crease the demand for his farm prod
ucts This can only be done by pre-
serving a home market for him and by
extending our market, which we did
in 1924 under the reciprocity tariff
law of 1890. Great cheering.)
THE best consumers for the Ameri-
can farmer are those at home. They
consume eighteen times as much of
the products of the American farm as
the foreign consumer. Their earning
! power has been cut off IN the last two
years so that it makes our home mar
ket less desirable.
THE prosperity Of manufa ctures is
inseparable from the prosperity of ag-
riculture. Set all our wheels in mo-
ton; set all our spindles whirling; set
all our men at work on full time; start
up the idle workshops of the country;
bring back confidence and business, and
the farmer will at once feel the fnf1u-
ence in the greater demand for his pro-
ducts and in the better prices he would
receive. Great applause and cries of
You're right.'')
He wants to be protected by wise
tariff legislation from the outside and
then he wants the mines and mills and
factories of his own country going with
! industry, employing the well paid work
/ men, who can pay and consume his
! product.
When he has got consumers he
wants his pay for what he sells in such
unquestiOned coin so he will not only
know it is good but it is certain to be
good every day of the year and in all
| countries of the world.
| Free silver will not cure overpro-
/ ductiOn nor under consumption. Gaugh-
/ ter.) Free silver will not remove the
! competition of Russia, India and the
would remain if you would coin all the
/ silver in the world. Free silver will not
/ increase the demand for your wheat
/ nor make more consumers.
/ You don't get consumers through
/ the ulints. Great laughter and cries,
! No, MOO You get them through the
/ factories. (Cries, That's right.O You
viii not get them by increasing the
| circulation of money in the United
| States. You only will get them by in
| creasing the Industries. tremendous
/ cheering and cries Of -Hurrah for Nc
Kinley.D
Is Plant the factory by the farm said
/ Jackson, and that is as wise now and
| as applicable now as when the hero OF
| New Orleans said it. years ago. The
best thing now is for the farmer to have
| a factory for his neighbOr- daughter
| and applause.) 1t would be better to
| have a factory alongside of you than
| to have another farm alongside you.
/ daughter and cries of 'Yes.)
! I have no fear of the farmer-the
most conservative. most considerate
and the most sturdy of our splendid
| civilization. They have no aim in pol
tiles but an honest one.
In 1892 when free trade was the bat
tie cry Of our opponents, it was said
| then that the farm would follow this
| heresy but it would not do So 1t was
the cities which followed the free trade
/ hereSy in this country. 6Cries of that's
right.) The country voted for protec-
ton while the great cities did not. Sc
this year they will vote against free
trade and free silver, they will vote fol
/ a home market and for a dollar as
good as gold in any city in the world
L thank you, my fellow citizens fOl
this call It is great compliment t
have had you travel this long distance
to bring me messages of good will anC
! cOngrat ulations Old Knox county il
every contest in which have been en-
gagged has firmly and unalteringly beer
my frien3 and it will give me SINGER
pleasure TO meet you all personally
| (Long and continued applause.)
| GOOD SCENIC EFFECTS.