The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-25
FILLED THEM
WITH TARIFF.
Major McKinIey's Talk to Knox
County Farmers.
Tells Them the Tariff Is What
Ais Them.
WHAT WILL HELP 'EM.
He Says Putting Protection on
Somebody Else
Is Just the Thing the Farmers
Want.
WHAT WILL HELP EN-.

Canton, o., Aug. 25.-In his speech to
the farmers Of Knox county who visit
ed him yesterday Major Mckinley
said:
Il am glad especially, to meet the
farmers of Knox county, for the farm
ers of the United States are the most
conservative force in our citizenship
and in our civilization. CApplause)
a force that has always stood for good
government, for country, for liberty
and for honesty. (Great app1ause.)
Whatever the farmer is suffering
today is because his competitors have
increased in numbers and because his
best customers are out of work Gap
plause and cries You are right.D I
do not know that we can decrease the
number of your competitors, but with
a true American protective policy we
can set your best customers to work.
tremendous cheering)
I'VE have suffered in our foreign
trade and we have suffered in our do
nestle trade. They have suffered in
their export trade and they have like
wise suffered in their heme market.
Under the Republican tariff law of 1880
we imported in 1898 over III, 600, 900
pounds of wool valued at over $13, 0O0,-
600. In 1895, under the Democratic tar
if law, we imported 248 OO0,O pounds
of wool valued at S33, 40, 900. Nearly
$50, OOO, 900 worth more of wool were i'm
ported under the Democratic tariff law
than under the Republican tariff law
in 1894. The imports of wooden goods
in 1894 amounted to 16,S09, 900 and in
1895 to S57. 494, 600.
sfE7ror77 the TaroTfe nj the tres s1IT-V
department at Washington, We find
that there were A, 273, 900 sheep in the
United States in 1892, valued at S125,-
sO9 coo. On the first of January 1896,
there were 3S,29s,O00 sheep in the Uni
ted States. valued at $65, 600 Coo de-
crease of 100000 in the number Of
sheep and of $50, 000, 900 in value. Twen-
ty-two million dollars worth more of
shoddy was imported under the Demo-
cratic tariff law than under the Repub-
Iican tariff law. In wooden goods the
difference is more than $50, 600 in
favor Of the foreign and against the
home product
In these three items the wool grow
er and the wage Garner in American
wooden factories is losing more than
$50 600 600. Is it any wonder that the
sheep husbandry is no longer prof1ta-
bic? So with other agricultural pro-
ducts.
-Dur1ng the last II months Oh the
Republican tariff law there were Inn
ported in this country 100000 tons of
hay; and during the first II months or
the Democratic tariff law there were
imported 1888, 600 tons. The Wilson law
gave the foreign producers a market
for 243,O00 tons more than they had
enjoyed in the last II months under the
Republican tariff law This loss ex-
ceeds 81, O00, 000.
The total wheat, rye. barley. oats
and corn crops for 1895 amounted TO
255. 100000 bushels The total of this
product exported was 132, 1854 900 BUSH
els or a little less than As per cent of
the total annual product. More than "a
per cent was consumed at home. The
great bulk was consumed by your own
fellow citizens. your own natural con-
sumers and customers
In 1872 we exported $40 900 900
worth Of agricultural products. In
1856. the first two years under the
Democratic tariff law, we exported ST.
124. 600. 600 worth. We exported, there
fore, S2I6, coo, 600 worth less in the two
years under the Democratic tariff law
than in the two years under the Re
publican tariff law.
Depression in agriculture has al
ways followed low tariff legislation. 1t
was SO after the tariff of 1886 and it
has been so under the tariff Of 1894.
"On December >. 1851, President Fill
more, in his message to congress Of that
date affirming the condition of the
country and the effect Of special legis-
latiOn on the American farm products,
EaAQs Inc Nalue OF our exports OF
breadstuffS and provisions, which it
was supposed the increase Of the low
tariff and large impOrtatiOns from
abroad would have greatly augmented,
has, fallen off S6IS.S42 to S26.510,OO0 on
the 1850 tariff and to S21 949 900 in 1851
with a strong probability, amounting
almost to n certainty, of a still further
reduction in the current year.
THE aggregate values of rice export
ed during the last fiscal year, as COM
pared with the previous year. also ex-
hibit decrease, amounting to $3.50. COO
which with decline in the value of the
exports of tobacco, make an aggregate
decrease in these two articles of 81
156. 600. The policy which dictated a
low rate of duties on foreign merchant
disc, it was thought by those who pro-
NOTED and established it, would tend
to benefit the farming population OF
this country by increasing the demand
and increasing the price Of agricultural
products in foreign markets. The fore
going facts, however show on the con-
trary that no such state has followed
the adoption of this policy.
Then in his message a year later
he said: The prosperity and wealth
of every nation must depend upon its
productive Industry. The former i.
stimulated to exertion by finding g
ready market for his surplus products
and benefits by being able to changt
them This is always done to the bes
advantage where a portion of the com
munity in which he lives Is engaged
in other pursuits
Mr.. Buchanan, in his message to the
Thirty-fifth congress, speaking on tht
same suject. said: In the midst of I'm
surpassed plenty in all the production
and in all the elements of natiOna
wealth, we find manufactures suspend
ed, our public works retarded. our pri
Wate enterprises Of different kinds
abandoned and thousands OF useful la
borers thrown out of employment and
reduced to want The revenue of tbs
government, which is chiefly derived
from import duties on products ha.
been greatly reduced. while the apprO-