The American guide., 1896-08-29
M'kINlEY TO FARMERS.
The Republican Nominee Talks on the
Tarin and Currency Questions.

county, oHlb, uSstllblti III iai ~ MUM
bers and were treated to a somewhat
lengthy address by the republican nom
lnee for the presidency. In the course
IF his remarks Mr.. Mckinley said:
MY Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me great
pleasure to meet and greet the citizens
Of Knox county in the city OF Canton and at
my own home am glad to welcome my
old comrades Of the grand army, my fellow
citizens who are engaged In agricultural
Industries and my fellow-cltisens OF all
OCCUPATIONS who are here assembled this
morning Your meeting demonstrates that
you have a keen interest In the public ques.
tlons which are now engaging the people OF
the United States, and that you want TINS
year as you have always wanted in the
past, to vote for those principles and those
policies which will achieve the greatest
good and the highest welfare to the couh-
try, | am glad, especially, to meet the
farmers Of Knox county, for the farmers OF
the United States are the most conserNa-
tive force In our citizenship and in our CIV
ilization fapplausel. force that has al
ways stood for good government, for coun-
try, for liberty and for honesty lSreat
applause Whatever the farmer II suHer-
Ing to-day is because his competitors nave
increased In numbers and because ms pesi
customers are out OF work, Applause and
We can decrease the number OF your COM
petitors but with true American pro-
tectlye policy We can set your best GUS
toners to work, Tremendous cheering
We have suffered In our foreign trade ana
we have suffered in our domestic trade,
The farmers have suffered In their export
trade, and they have likewise suffered In
their home market Under the republican
tariff law of 1890 we imported in 1898 over
III 10000 pounds OF wool. valued at over
;l3 0O0. 900 In 1896, under the democratic
tnrlf law, we imported 2Si,0D.o0O pounds OF
wool valued at S3S0O,0Oo Nearly w.
go worth moro Of wool was imported
under the democratic tariff law than under
the republican tnriff law in 1891 The I'M
ports OF wooden goods in 1891 amounted
to slG 10000. and In 1895 to i,i4,o0o
Decrease In Number of Sheep.
From the reports Of the treasury de-
partment at Washington we find that there
were Il, 20, 900 sheep In the United states
In 1892, valued at s1e5, 200. 900. on January !,
1890. there were 3S,2gSooO sheep in the United
states, valued at s65,O0J OO1-a decrease OF
10000 In the number Of sheep and OF w.
az, ,o0O in value; $4,000 worth more or
shodly was imported under the demo-
cratic tariff law than under the republican
tarln law. In wooden goods the difference
IL moro than $50 10000 In favor OF tho
democratic producer The total loss In
these three itecs to the American wool
grower and the wage-earners In American
wooden factories is more than S62,00O,0o Is
It any wonder that the sheep husbandry
is no longer profitable2
80 with other agricultural products
During the last II months Of the republican
tarr law there were imported into this
country 10000 tons OF hay, and during the
first II months OF the democratic tarin
law thore were imported ass.o0O tons The
Wilson law gave the foreign producers
market for 233. 900 tons more than they had
enjoyed in tho last Is months under the re-
public tariff law. This loss exceeds s2.-
00000c
"Thc total - -'sv. oats and
f17rv5upylpr AT AL.uunteu sS'assnrpssrg
bushels The total OF this product exported
was 49,, ,sGi, 900 bushels, or u little less than
four per cent OF the total product annually,
and more than "a per cent. was consumed
at home. The great bulk was consumed
by our own fellow-citizens; your own nat.
urai consumers and customers. In lSl-2
we exported 81, go 0oo, 900 worth OF agricult-
urnl products In 1885, the first two years
under the democratic tarlfr law, we ex-
ported ylgi, 10000 worth, We exported,
therefore, tSlq, 900 worth less In the two
years under tho democratic tarlr law than
tho two years under the republican tarin
law. Depression In agriculture has always
followed low tarlfr legislation, 1t was so
after the tarlff Of 1876, and II has been SO
under the tariff Of 1884,"
Quotes from Fillmore and buchanan.
Mai Mckinley quoted the messages
jf Presidents Fillmore and buchanan
10 show the effects OF n low tariff upon
the country, and said:
can the farmer be helped by free colr-
age OF slver7 tCrles OF no. no. noVl No.
forever no. my fcllow-citlzens, lCries OF
hurrah for McKinloy.l lie cannot he
helped, because II tho nominal price OF
grain were to rise through an Imitation OF
the currency tho price Of everything olsr
would rise also, and the farmer would be
relatively no better on than he was before.
fCriea OF that's right, maiorl lie would
no, 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, You can
not help tho farmer by moro coinage or sill
ycr. he can only hc helped by more con
sumcrs for h1 product You cannot holp
him by FREQ II. lc, but as have shown,
he can he hurt and seriously hurt by the
free Introduction OF competing products
into this country. Better thousand times
enlarge the markets for American prod
ucts than to enlarge the mints for the
silver product Of the world, Tremendous
cheering and cries OF you are rlght1 You
might iust as well understand now that you
cannot add value to anything by diminish
ing the measure OF the value with which
tho thing Ia sold or exchanged, lGrcnt
cheering and cries OF 'hurrah for Nckln-
lcy'1 u YOU can Increase the value by
lowering tho measure Of value and you
want to benefit the farmer, then make the
hushel smaller, the pound lighter and de-
than
lnughlcrl The home market IL tho best
friend Of the farmer II Is his best market
It IL HIS only reliable market II IN hts own
natural market lie should be protected
IN It's enjoyment by wise tnrln lcgislns
tlon and this home market should not b"
permitted to be destroyed by lcsscnlng the
demand for American labor and diminish
Ing the pay Of American workmcn, and
thereby diminishing the demand for agri-
cultural products Applause
Talks of Free SILVER
oThe prosperity OF manufactures Is In
separahle from the prosperity OF aRrl-
culture Set all our wheels In motion, set
all our aplndlcs whlrling, set all our men
at work on full time. start up the idle
workshops OF the country bring back con-
ddence and business, and the farmer will
at once foll the influence In the greater de-
maud for his products and In the better
prices he wauld receive, lGroat applause
and cries OF you are rlghtl He wants to
bc protected by wise tarlN legislation from
the competition Of the other side, and thon
h. wants the mines and mills and factories
Of his own country humming with busy
industry, employing well-pald workmen
who can buy and consume hts products
when he has got consumers he wants his
nay for what he sells In such unqucs,ioned
coin that he will know It IN good, not only
to-day. hut viii be cer,ain to be good every
a ..ll 80.
world. li.onE and enthusiastic applause.
Free silver Will not cure ovcrproduotlon or
under-consumpton, tLaughtcrl Free
silver will not remove the competition OF
Russia, India and the Argentine republic
This competition would remain II you
would coin all the silver Of the world Free
pllyer will not increase tho demand for
your wheat or make a single new consumer