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HURTS THE FARMER
rHg DISTINCTIVE EFFsoTs q
THE WILSON TARIFF.
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injured Michigan farmers.
~ II has curtailed tho exports OF
farm products. In tho fiscal year 1892
under the Mckinley tariff and the 70
ciprocity treaties, the total value OF
such exports was 87o0, 3ss,e 32. In th,
calendar year 1895, under the Wilson
tariff their value was only ssss, els. at,
q falling OF of $246, ll6,elS, or over &c
per cent.
(e) 1t has increased the imports of
many farm and pasture products, in.
Guiding almost everything that il
raised In Michigan. OF woohIAlone the
imports during the fiscal year 1894.
which was the last full year of the Nc.
Kinley tariff, were 55,l52,5s5 pounds.
In the calendar year 1895, which was
the first full year under the Wilson
tariff, they were 24s, 0s9,2i7 pounds, an
increase of io3, ss6,6a2 pounds, or ISL
per cent.
(3 by its depressing effect upon
manufacturing industries, especially of
wooden goods aud iron manufactures,
1t has greatly injured, and in some
cases destroyed. the home market,
which Is the most valuable market for
the farmer.
az 1t has been especially disastrous
in its effect upon the lumber and iron
interests of Michigan. which in 1892
were employing more than 100, 900 men
ut good wages, and which were large
consumers of almost everything that
was raised, for man or beast These
industries are not, now, employing one
fourth as many men rs in that year,
and their consuming capacity Is re-
duced in even greater proportion.
One of the main questions In this
campaign Is whether the tariff policy
which has been thus destructive of
American industries and of home mar.
kets shall continue.
The Republican platform says: "We
renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection rs the bull
wark of American industrial independ-
ence aud the foundation of American
development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign
products and encourages home indus
try; it puts the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; it secures the American
market for the American producer; it
upholds the American standard Of
wages for the American workingman;
1t puts the fac tory by the side of the
farm, and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign dc mand aud
price; it diffuses general thrift. and
POUNDS the strength of all on the
strength of each. In its reasonable
application 1t is just, fair and impartial
equally opposed to foreign control
md domestic monopoly, to sectional
discrimination and individual favor
tism. To all our products
% those of the mine and the field as
we'll as to those of the shop and factory
Ito hemp, to wool, the product of the
great industry OF sheep husbandry, as
we'll as to the finished woolens of the
nills-we promise the most ample pro-
ection,"
The Chicago platform. upon which
5ryan is running, holds that tariff
iuties SHOULD be levied solely for the
purposes of revenue" and adds, until
he money question is settled, we are
opposed to any further changes in our
ariff laws, except such as are neces-
airy to make up the deficit in revenue
.aused by the adverse decision of the
upremc court on the income tax"
Mr.. Bryan himself is even more
trongly opposed to protection than
IRE the various parties which arc sup
'orting him. His chief reputation in
congress was made by his tariff
peeches of March 10, 1892, and
January IL, 1894. In these speeches
,e denounced protection in every
orm, and in the 1894 speech he
dvocated every reduction in the tariff
hat was proposed, his only lament be-
ug that the reductions did not go far
nough. Here are two extracts from
he 1892 speech, and columns OF the
anne sort of stuff might be quoted:
II desire to say that am In hearty
ympathy with the majority of the
ommittee In its decision to attack the
arif in detail; and think that the
ills which have been reported and the
ills to be reported will fully answer
he argument of the gentleman. that
Sc are making only slight assault
pom the system.
1.-The reduction which we have made
a the tariff upon manufactured articles
50 great reduction In existing sched-
les. 1t Is not rs great a reduction as
aight be made. l believe that we
ave left far more tariff than can be
hown to be necessary to provide for
ny difference, IL there is any differ
nee, between the cost of manufacture
ere and abroad. But am led to
gree to this moderate reduction of the
ariff upon manufactured articles for
wo reasons: First, because. in going
rom q vicious system-and / believe
hat our present system Is vicious
Iystem, created by the necessities of
,ar and continued by favoritism-be-
ause, say, in going from vicious 70
correct system, the most rapid pro-
ress can be made by degrees"
The following is from the Congress
.onal Records report OF MIR. Bryan's
peech Jan. 10, 1894, when the Wilson
i'll was under discussion.
Mr.. Bryan: II have said that the
urpose Of the protective tariff was to
'ansfer money from one mans pocket
another mans pocket. want to
low to you and to this committee
lat II is the only purpose protective
trih can possibly have. Why do you
npose q tariff? You impose IL upon
,e theory that you cannot produce in
his country the article which You
rotect rs cheaply MS il can be pro-
iced abroad, and you put The tariff