The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-25
ITO TILLERS OF THE SOIL
M4JOR M'KINLEY ADDRESSES 4 DETECTION OF FARMERS.

His Able Exposition of the Benefits to be l Derived From Sound Money and Protec- tion-Adduces Figures to Prove His | Assertions-The Speech Teemed With
 Data Setting to Flight the Silverites' Theories Unbounded Enthusiasm is
 Created by His Logical Presentation of l Facts.
 l Canton, O., Aug. 24.-In addressing a large delegation of farmers here to-
 day Major Mckinley said in part: i T am glad especially to meet the 1 farmers of Knox county, for the farm
 CTS of the United States are a most
 conservative force in our citizenship
 and in our civilization; force that
 has always stood for good government, I for country, for liberty and for honesty. 1 (Great applause.) Whatever the farm
 CT is suffering to-day is because of his I competitors having increased in num-
 bers and because his best customers are
 out of work. Applause and cries of you're rightly do not know that we
 can decrease the number of your com 1 petitors, butwith the adoption of true American protective policy we can set your best customers to work. Gre mendous cheering and cries of 'hurrah 1 for McKinley')
 We have suffered in our foreign trade and we have suffered in our do- nestle trade. The farmers have suf- 1 fered in their export trade and they have likewise suffered in the home mar ket. Under the republican tariff of
 1890 we imported In 1893 Ill 0Oo,0 pounds of wool, valued at over s1S,0OO,- 900. In 1895, under the democratic tar l if law, we imported 24S0oO, 900 pounds of wool, valued at $33,070,000 Nearly $20,000,000 worth more of wool was im ported under the democratic tariff law than under the republican tariff law in l 1894
 The imports of wool goods in 1893
 were SIS, 800, 900 and those of 1895 to s57,- 494,000 From the reports of the treas | ury department at Washington we find there were 47,273000 sheep in the United States in 1892 valued at $125 ,909. .000. On the first of January, 1896, there were 1 3S, 29S,0OO sheep in the United States valued at $65, 1000 900, decrease of $9,- | 100000 in the number of sheep and of $60, 100000 in value $2200, ,000 worth more of shoddy was imported under the dem- ocratic tariff law than under the repub- lican tariff law. In wooden goods the difference is more than s50Oo0, 900 in fa nf ,fs against the domestic producer. The to- tai loss in these three items to the Am erican wool grower and the wage earner in American wool manufactories is more than s62000,900.
 '1s it any wonder that sheep hus- bandry is no longer profitable? So with other agricultural products Dur ing the last seventeen months of the
 republican tariff law there were im-
 ported into this country 1000 tons of hay and during the first seventeen months of the democratic tariff law there were imported 373,000 tons. The Wilson law gave the foreign producers
 market for 233,oOO tons more than
 they had enjoyed in the last seventeen months under the republican tariff law. iiio io6S CALCULUS 9GtUUU,UUU. The total wheat, rye, barley. oats, and corn crops of 1895 amounted to 3,556, 300 900 bushels
 "The total of this product was 132,- 326, 900 bushels, or little less than 4 per cent. of the total product annually and
 more than 96 per cent. was consumed at home The great bulk was consum- ed by your fellow citizens, your own consumers and customers. In 1891-2 we exported S1,420000,00 900 worth of agri- cultural products. In 1s95-6 the first two years under the democratic tariff law, we exported $1,124 ,0oO, 900 worth. We exported, therefore, S296, 6,000,0 GOO worth less in the two years under the democratic tariff law than in the two years under the republican tariff law.
 Depression in agriculture has aI- ways followed low tariff legislation. It was so in 1S46, and so under the tariff of 1894 Can the farmer be helped by free coinage of silver? (Cries of no, no,' no.O No, forever, no, my fellow citizens. (Cries of 'hurrah for McKin- leyD
 '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 before. (Cries of that's right, major.O He would not get any more real value for his grain than he gets now and would suffer from the general demoralization which would follow the free coinage of silver. You cannot help the farmer by more coin age of silver. He can only be helped by more consumers for his products. You cannot help him by free trade, but as I have shown, he can be hurt, and seriously hurt, by the free introduction of competing products into this coun- try.
 Better a thousand times enlarge the markets for American products than to enlarge the hints for the silver product of the world. Tremendous applause) You might just as well understand now that you cannot add value to anything by diminishing the measure of value with which the thing Is sold or ex- changed (Great cheering) If you can increase the value by lowering the measure of value, and you want to benefit the farmer, make the bushel smaller, the pound lighter and declare a legal dozen less than twelve (Great laughter)
 "The home market is the best friend 1 ze d. Co ic hoe