Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-03

MI. Crltch1eld and my fellow
citizens 1t gives me great pleas
ure to meet and greet the citizens
OF Knox County In the city of Can
ton and at my home. | am glad to
welcome my old comrades of the
Grand Army, my fellow citizens
who are engaged in agricultural IN
dustries, and my fellow citizens of
all occupations who are here assem-
bled this morning. Your meeting
demonstrates that you have a keen
interest in the public questions
which are now engaging the people
of the United States, and that you
want this year, as you have al
ways wanted IN the past, to vote
for those principles and those
policies which will achieve the
greatest good and the highest well
fare to the country. | am glad
especially to meet the farmers of
Knox county, for the farmers of
the United States are the most con-
sentative force in our citizenship
aud N our civilization, (applause)
1t force that has always stood for
good government, for country, for
liberty, and for honesty. (Great APP
plause.) Whatever the farmer is
suffering TODAY is because his com
petitOTs have increased IN numbers,
aud because his best customers are
out Of WORK. (Applause and cries Of
"You are Iight.") do not know
that 8e can decrease the number Of
your competitors, but with the
adoption Of a true American pro
tective policy we eau set your best
customers 10 work. Tremendous
cheering, and crles,of ''hurrah for
Mckinley"
We have suffered IN our foreign
trade, ana we nave suffered III our
domestic trade. The farmers have
suffered in their export trade, ant,
theY have likewise suffered in the
! home ma ket. Under the Repub-
lean tariff law OF 1890, we import
ed IN 1898 over 1ll,O09, 600 pounds
of wool, valued at over #I3, 600. 600.
! In 1898, under the democratic tariff
Law. we imported PAS, 900, 600
pounds Of wool, valued at $33, no.
600. Nearly $50, coo, 900 worth
more OF wool were imported under
the democratic tariff law than under
the Republican tariff law in 1894.
The imports Or woolen goods III
1894 amounted to SIC, 800, 900 and
m 1895 to 7,494, 900. From the
reports of the treasury department
! at Washington, we find that there
we're 47,273,0 GOO sheep in the United
States IN 1892, valued at Sl25,9O9,-
600. On the first of January, 1896,
there were SO, 29S, 600 sheep in the
Uuited States, valued at s65, 600,
OoO-a decrease of 1900, 900 in the
number of sheep, and of $50, 900
600 in value. $1,000, 600 worth
more of shoddy was imported undei
the democratic tariff law than un'
der the Republican tariff law. In
WOODEN goods, the difference is more
than $50, 600, 900 i'll favor of the
foreign manufacturer, and against
the domestic producer. The totaI
loss in these three items to the
American woolgrower aud the wage
earuers in American wsolen fac
tories is more than S62, 000, 900.
Is 1t any wonder, my fellow citi
zens, that sheep husbandry is ne
longer profitable? So with Other
agricultural products. During the
last seventeen months of the Re
publican tariff law, these were i'm
norted into this country l4O, OOC
tons OF hay, and during the hrs'
seventeen months of the democratic
tariff law, there were imported 373,
600 tons. The Wilson law gave
the foreign producers a market TO.
23s 600 tons more than they haS
e~nioyed in the last seventeen
months under the Republican tarlf
Law This loss exceeds 1900, 900
The total wheat, rye. barley, oat
and corn crops for 1895 amounte'
10 1859 800, 000 bushels. Th'
total Of this product exported wa
132 1854 900 bushels, OF a little les
than four per cent OF the tota
product annually, and more thar