Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29

was IN effect long enough to show that
under its operation our production of
Wool would rapidly increase. to the ulti-
The Democrats fastened to put wool on
the free list, while retaining substantial
duty on the product of the mill and the
mine. In 1889 there were in the United
States 42,599,O 79 sheep, valued at $780,
oao,569; IN 1898 there were 47,273,553
t tbherp' valuss 2 at W $l25 264 in 1895
$50, 167, 1856: Under the Mckinley yo law
the value Of our sheep increased $35, $685.
o99; the Wilson law has taken from the
value of our sheep $50, al, 500, or very
nearly one-half. Under the Wilson law
the importa ton of wool has doubled and
the price Of the domestic product has
been halyed. The Mckinley law gave
and equal protection demanded by farm
ers; the Wilson law removed this pro-
lection, and, discriminating against the
farmer, singled out wool growing as the
one considerable industry to feel the full
force of disastrous free trade policy.
Reciprocity.
At its annual meeting in 1890 the
Farmers National congress passed a
resolution in, favor Of reciprocity; and
that it yet .&1vors reciprocity is shown
by the following resolution at its last
meeting:
Resolved, that the Farmers National con.
gress has listened with profound interest to
f9 rs ape and i instrvctiye address Of Senior
1.-The 1.-The C Commercial ,, Relations of American Re
and tie
American republics, this congress favors
les, and aid for steamship lines sufficient to
answer all the purposes Of such trade.
The benefits to our agriculture from
fair reciprocal arrangements were so ap-
parent that the resolutions were adopted
in the congress were delegates of all
shades of political belief. The peculiar
relation of reciprocity to agriculture APP
pears from reading of the reciprocity
section of the Mckinley law:
That with a view to secure reciprocal
articles, and for this purpose, on and after
the first day Of January, 1892, whenever,
| and SO often as the President shall be salts
| fed that the government of any country pro-
| ducing and exporting sugar, molasses, COT
| fee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any
Of such articles. imposes; duties or other ex-
ductions Of the United States. which in view
| of the free introduction Of such sugar, mo-
| lasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United
Or a. Unreasonable. he shall have the u power
and it shall be his duty to suspend, by
proclamation to that effect, the provisions
Of this act relating to the free introduction
hides, the production Of such country, for
such time as he shall deem just, etc.
Although in, effect only short time,
the reciprocity arrangement made under
the Mckinley law demonstrated the
great benefit that reciprocity would be
to our agricultural interests. Space will
permit Of the citation Of only one case in
point: Our production of wheat SO far
exceeds our needs, while the expectation
of Russia and Argentine has 50 rapidly
increased that it is of the highest i'm
portance to our farmers that our wheat
markets be enlarged. The ability Of re-
ciprocity to, do this is shown by our -four
trade with Cuba. In less than four
this trade increased 4SO per cent. while
in the first year after the arrangement
was terminated it decreased AZ per cent.
All the. reciprocity arrangements would
| have been of much benefit to our agri-
cultural interests; and the Democrats
fastened to terminate them.
Home or Foreign Sugar, Which?
Each year we send abroad more than
500, 100000 for sugar. All doubt Of our
possessing the soil and climate over a
sufficient area to produce from beet the
Our natural advantages for the rroduc-
ton of beet sugar are such that, not
Withstanding the higher wages paid here,
! aid given our beet sugar industry equiv
alent to that which has been given to
their beet sugar industries by France and
Germany by means of bounties, exemp-
ton of land from taxation, etc, would
Srosnetien. IKE Mckinney IA ,aw 5,
means Of bounty, gave to onr bet
sugar. industry the encouragement sAAt
1 the history Of the industry in Germany