The record-union., 1896-08-25

ley, oats and corn crops of 1893
amounted to 3,556 900, 900 bushels. The
total of this product exported was b.
364 600 bushels, or a little less than
per cent. of the total product annually,
and more than SO per cent. was con-
sumed at home. The great bulk was
consumed by your fellow citizens, your
own natural consumers and customers.
I'm 1912 we exported 81, ,420, 600
worth of agricultural products. In lS9o-
90, the first two years under the DEM
ocratic tariff, we exported 81 ia, 900
worth We exported, therefore, S3l9,-
coo worth less i he two yeHrs under
the Democratic Tariff la " than in the
two years under the Republican tariff
law.
Depression in agriculture has al
ways followed low tariff legislation. 1t
was so after the tariff of 1916, and it
has been so under the tariff of 1894.
(Applause.) Can the farmer be helped
by free coinage of silver? (Cries of
mo, noi') No, forever no, my fellow
citizens. (Cries of 'Hurrah for Nc
Kinleyi") He cannot be helped, be-
cause if the nominal price of grain We're
to rise through an imitation of the cur
rency the price of everything else would
rise also, and the farmer would be rel
atively no better off than he was before.
(Cries of That's right, MajOrl') 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. He can only be helped by more
consumers for his products. You can
not help him by free trade but, as 1
have shown, he can be hurt, and Seri-
ously hurt, by the free Introduction of
competing products into this country.
Better thousand times enlarge the
markets for American products than to
enlarge the mints for the silver prod
uct of the world. tremendous ap-
plause and cries of ''You are rightI')
You might just as well understand
that you cannot increase the value of
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 you want to
benefit the farmer, then make the BUSH
el smaller, the pound lighter, and de-
clare a 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 mar
ket 1t is his only natural market He
should be protected in its enjoyment by
wise tariff legislation, and the home
market should not be permitted to be
destroyed by lessening the demand for
American labor and diminishing the
pay of American workmen, and thereby
diminishing the demand for agricult-
raj products. (Applause)
The sugar industry should be culti-
waited and encouraged in the United
States. Diversity the products of 'agri-
culture, and thus you will have an ad-
ditional employment for your land The
only way to help the farmer is to in
crease the demand for his farm prod
ucts. This can be done by preserving a
home market to him, and by extending
our markets, which we did in 1S93-94.
under the reciprocity provisions of the
tariff law of 1890. Great cheering)
The best consumers for the American
products are those at home. They cou-
sumo eighteen times as much of the
products of the American farm as the
foreign consumer.
Free silver viii not cure over-produc-
ton nor under production. daughter
Free silver will not remove the competi-
ton of Russia, India and the Argentine
Republic. This competition would re-
main If you coin all the silver of the
world. Free silver will not increase the
demand for your wheat or make a sin
sic new consumer. You do not get con-
sumers through the mints Great
laughter and cries of mo, no.') You
get them through the factories. (Cries
of That's right,"O You will not get
them by increasing the circulation Of
money in the United States; you will
only get them by increasing the manu-
featuring establishments in the United
States. Tremendous cheering.)
Plant the factory by the farm.
said Jackson. and that is as wise now
and as applicable now as when the hero
cf New Orleans said it years ago The
best thing now is for the farmer to have
q factory for his neighbor. daughter
and applause.) 1t would be better to
have factory alongside of you than to
nave another farm alongside of you.
Laughter and cries of ''Yes.") In 1892
when free trade was the battle-cry 6f
our opponents, it was said then that the
farmers would follow this heresy but it
was not so; it was the cities which fol-
lowed the free trade heresy. The coun-
try voted for protection. So this year
the farmer will vote against free trade
and free silver They Will vote for a
home market and for dollar as good as
gold in every mart and market of the