The Republican journal., 1896-09-03
months under the Republican tariff law.
This loss exceeds -. 600 600.

MS loss exceeds -. OOU, OUU.
1.-The total wheat, rye, barely, oats and
corn crops for 1895 amounted to sos,
900, 600 bushels. The total of this pro-
duct exported was 81, 364, coo bushels, or
little less than 4 per cent. of the total
product actually, and more than 96 per
cent. was consumed by your own fellow
citizens, your own natural consumers and
customers. lii 1891 = we exported ST.
; 420, GOO 600 worth of agricultural pro-
ducts. In 1886. the first two years I'M
der the Democratic tariff law, we export
ed 81, 124 600, 600 worth. We exported,
therefore, 1919, 900 600 worth less in the
two years under the Democratic tariff law
than in the two years under the Republi-
can tariff law. Depression in agriculture
has always followed low tariff legislation
1t was so after the tariff of 1876: and it
has been so under the tariff OF 1894.
''Can the farmer be helped by free
coinage of silver? (Cries OF NO. no,
no. No, forever no, my fellow citi-
zens. (Cries Of 'Hulrah for Mckinley J
He cannot be helped, because if 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 Cries Of That s
right, Major.) He would not get any
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 cannot help
the farmer by more coinage of silver; he
can only be helped by more consumers for
his products. y on 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 products than to
enlarge the mints for the silver product of
the world. Tremendous cheering and
cries, y GU are rightly You might Just
as well understand now that you cannot
advance anything by diminishing the
measure of the value with which the thing
is sold or exchanged Great cheering
and cries of 'Hurrah for Mckinley.') If
you can increase the value by lowering
the measure Of value, and want to benefit
the farmer, then make the bushel smaller,
the pound lighter and declare legal
dozen less than twelve Great laughter
The home market is the best friend of the
farmer 1t is his best market. 1t is his
only reliable market. 1t is his own nat
ural market. He should be protected in
its enjoyment by wise tariff legislation,
and this home market should not be per-
mltted to be destroyed by lessening the
demand for American labor and diminish
ing the pay of American workmen, and
thereby diminishing the demand for ag-
Iieultural products. (Applause.)
The sugar industry should be cult
waited and encouraged in the United
States. Diversity the products of agri-
culture and thus you will have additional
employment for your land. The only
way to help the farmer is to increase the
demand for his farm products. This can
be done by preserving a home market to
him, and by extending our markets, which
we did in 1892 ; f. under the reciprocity
provisions Of the tariff law Of 1890. (Great
cheering.) The best consumers for the
American farmer are those at home They
consume IS times as much of the products
OF the American farm as the foreign con-
sumner. Their earning power has been
cut off in the past two years SO that ii
makes our home market less desirable,
Prosperity of manufactures is inSeparable
from the prosperity of agriculture. Set
all our wheels in motion, set all our
spindles whirling, set all our men at work
on fulI time, start up the idle workshops
OF the country, bring back confidence and
business and the farmer will at once feel
the influence in the greater demand for
MS products and in the better prices he
will receive, Great applause and cries Of
You are right. y He wants to be protect
ed by wise tariff legislation from the com
petitor of the other side; and then he
wants the mines and mills and factories of
his own country humming with busy in
6nStrv wall
who can buy and consume his products
''When he has got consumers, he wants
his pay for what he sells in such unques-
toned coin that he will know it is good
not only to-day, but will be certain to be
good every day of the year and in all
countries of the world. 0ong and enthu-
siastic applause.) Free silver will not
cure over production nor under con
sumption. Iaughter) Free silver will
not remove the competition of Russia,
India and the Argentine Republic. This
competition would remain ii you should
&C i'll all the silver of the world. Free sill
yer will not increase the demand for your
wheat or make a single new consumer.
on don get consumers through the
mints. Great laughter and cries of no,
no, } You get them through the factories.
(Cries of that rightly You will not get
them by increasing the circulation OF
money in the United States; you will only
get them by increasing the manufacturing
establishments in the United States.
tremendous cheering and cries of 'hur-
rah for MckinleyD
+" 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
is for the farmer to have factory for his
neighbor. Laughter and applause.) 1t
would be better to have factory along
side of you than to have another farm
alongside of you. daughter and cries of
'Yes.') | have no fear of the farmers
the most conservative, the most consider
ate and the most sturdy of our splendid
civilization. They are not easily misled.
They have no aim in politics, but an hon
est one. In 1892, when free trade was
the battle cry of our opponents, it was
said that the farmers would follow this
heresy, but it was not 50. 1t was the
cities which followed the free trade
heresy in the country. (Cries of That's
rightly The country voted for protection
while the great cities did not. So this
year they will vote against free trade and
free silver; they will vote for home
market and for a dollar as good as gold in
every mart and market OF the world.
(Great cheering