The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-25
At ssa no 600. Nearly $4,000, 600

worth more of wool was imported I'M
der the Democratic tariff law than
under the Republican tariff law IN
1894 The imports of wooden goods IN
1894 amounted to $16,S09G00, and in
! 1895 to $57, 494, 600. From the reports OF
the treasury department at Washing
ton. we find that there were 47,27300O
sheep in the United States in 1892.
valued at SIPS, 909. 600. On the first of
January 1896, there were 3S, 29S,000 sheep
in the United States valued at sos, 00O,-
900 decrease of 100000 in the num-
Der of sheep and of s60,00O000 in value.
Over two million dollars worth more
of shoddy was imported under
THE DEMOCRATIC TARIFF
law than under the Republican tariff
law In WOODEN goods, the difference
is more than $50,000,0OO in favor Of the
foreign market, and against the Co
nestle producer. The total loss in
these three items to the American wool
grower and the wage-earners in Ameri-
can wooden factories, is more than
S62, 900, 000 Is it any wonder, my fell
low citizens, that the sleep husbandry
is no longer profitable? And il is so
with agricultural products. During
the last seventeen months of the Re-
publican tariff law, there were i'm
ported in this country 140, 1000, 600 tons
months of the Democratic tariff law.
there were imported 373000,000 tons.
The Wilson law gave the foreign pro-
ducers a market for 233,000,000 tons
more than they had enjoyed in the last
seventeen months, under the Re-
publican tariff law. This loss exceeds
81, coo, Geo. The total wheat, rye, barley.
oats and corn crops for 1895 amounted
to 1856, 900 900 bushels. The total of
this product exported was 132, 900
bushels. or a little less than 4 per cent
of the total product annually, and more
than So per cent was consumed at
home.
THE GREAT BULK
was consumed by your fellow citizens.
your own natural consumers and
customers. In 1872, we exported ST.
100000 worth of agricultural products.
In 1855, the first two years under the
Democratic tariff law, we exported
81. 12400O worth. We exported there
fore, 1926 GOO, 900 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 always followed low
| tariff legislation. 1t was so after the
tariff of 1876; and it has been so under
the tariff of 1894. (Applause)
Can the farmer be helped by free
coinage of silver? (Cries of mo, NOD
No, forever no. my fellow citizens.
(Cries of "HuTrah for McKinley.") He
cannot be helped, because if the NOM
inal 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 bet
ter off than he was before. (Cries of
That's right major.'') He would not
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
cannot help the farmer by more coinage
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 pro-
ducts into this country. Better a thou
sand times enlarge the markets for
American products, than to enlarge the
minis for the silver product of the
world. tremendous applause and cries
of You are right.'') You might just
as we'll understand now, that you can
not increase the value Of anything by
diminishing the measure of the value
with which the thing is sold or eX-
CUdIlE6N. ANTT6dI
"Hurrah for McKinley.") If you can
measure of value, and you want to
benefit the farmer, then make thu
bushel smaller, the pound lighter and
declare a legal dozen less than twelve.
(Great laughter.) The home market is
the best friend of the farmer It is
his best market. 1t is his only reliable
market. 1t is his only natural mar
ket. He should be protected in its en-
joyment by
WISE TARIFF LEGISLATION
and the home market should not be
permitted to be destroyed by lessening
the demand for American labor and
! diminishing the pay of American work
men and thereby diminishing the de-
mand for agricultural products Gap
plause.)
"The sugar industry should be cul-
tivated and encouraged in the United
States Diversity the products of ag-
riculture, and thus you will have an
additional employment for your land.
The only way to help the farmer is to
increase the demand for his farm pro-
ducts. This can be done by preserving
a. home market to him, and by ex-
tending our markets, which we did in
of the tariff law of 1890. Great cheer
ing.) The best consumers for the Amer
lean products are those at home. They
consume eighteen times as much of
the products of the American farmer
as the foreign consumer. Free silver
will not cure over production nor
underproduction. (Laughter.) Free
silver will not remove the competition
of Russia, India and the Argentine
Republic. This competition will re-
main if you coin all the silver in the
world. Free silver will not
INCREASE THE DEMAND
for your wheat or make single new
consumer. You don't get consumers
through the minis Great laughter
through the factories. (Cries of That s
rigiA.'D You will not get them by
increa sing the circulation of money in
the United States; you will only get
them by increasing the manufacturing
establishments in the United States
tremendous cheeTing) Plant the fac
tory by the farm said Jackson, and
that is as wise now and as applica bic
now as when the hero of New Orleans
said it years ago. The best thing now
is for the farmer to have a factory for
his neighbor. daughter and applause.)
II would be better to have d factory
alongside of you than to have another
farm alongside of you. daughter and
cries Of "Yes.0 In 1892, when free
trade was the battle cry of our OPP
ponents, it was said then that the far
mer would follow this heresy, but it
was not so; it was the cities which
followed the free trade heresy. The
country voted for protection. So this