Arizona republican., 1896-08-26
Ma!or Mckinley Talks to
 farmers.
Tells Them the Reason Why,
 and the Remedy.
The Cause of the Ruin of the Wool Industry and Why Farmers are
 Kept Poor

CANTON, O., Aug. 25.-Major Mo Kinley addressed a large multitude Of Knox county farmers today and said in part: ''t
 'fWEhatever the farmer is suffering to- day is because his competitors have increased in numbers and because his best customers are out of work. (Ap- plause). do not know that we can decrease the number of your compet ttors, but with true American pro tective policy we can set your best GUS toners to work. Tremendous cheers.) We have suffered in our foreign trade and we have suffered in our domestic trade. The farmers have suffered in their expou,t trade and they have like wise suffered in their home market. Under the Republican tariff law of 1890 we imported in 1893 over ill., 00O,00O pounds of wool valued at over SIS ,000, ,000. In 1895 under tile Demo cratic tariff law we imported 248,0OO,- 900 pounds of wool valued at $33, ,0OO,- 900. Nearly $20,O0O,0O0 worth more of wool was imported under the Demo- cratic tariff law than under the Re- publican tariff law in 1894 The i'm ports of woolen goods in 1894 amount ed to $16,809, 900 and in 1895 to $57, 494, ,000.
 Prom the reports of the treasury department at Washington we find there were 47,273,O00 sheep in the United States valued at SIZE, ,209, 900. On the 1st of January, 1896, there were S8,298,000 sheep in the Limited States valued at $65,O0O,O00, a decrease of 9,000,O00 in the number of sheep and of $60, ,000,0 900 in value, $2,200,000 worth more of shoddy was imported under the Democratic tariff laws than under the Republican tariff law in woolen goods. The difference is more than $50,000,000 in favor of the foreign manufacturer and against the. domestic producer. The total loss in these three items to the American wool growers and wage earners in American wool factories is more than $62,0O0,O0O. Is 1t any wonder that sheep husbandry is no longer profitable? So with other agricultural products.
 During the last seventeen months of the Republican tariff law there were imported into this country 14O,- 900 tons of hay, and during the first ! seventeen months of the Democratic tariff law there were imported 383,- 900 tons. Ghe Wilson law. gave the foreign producers a market for 233. .O0O tons more than they had enjoyed in the last eighteen months under the Republican tariff law. This loss ex- ceeds $2,00O,00 The total wheat. rye, barley, oat and corn crops for 1895 amounted to 3,556, ,90O 900 bushels, the total of this product exported was 132 1884 000 bushels, or a little less than 4 per cent of the total product an- nually, and more than 96 per cent was consumed at home The great bulk was consumed by your own fellow cit izens, your own natural consumers and customers. In 1895 we exported S, 40 100000 worth of agricultural products In 1S95-96, the first two years under the Democratic tariff law, we exported $1,124, 100000 worth. We exported therefore $319, ,O0O, ,OOO worth less in the two years4und the Dem ocratic tariff law than the two years under the Republican tariff law. The depression m agriculture has always followed low tariff legislation. It was so after the tariff of 1S46, and it has been so under the tariff of 1894"