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

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nlnety-six per cent was consumed
at home. The great bulk "a on
sumed 10y your own fellow citizens,
your own natural consumers and
customers. In 1912 we exported
81 ,420, 000, 600 worth of agricultural
products. In 1856, the first two
years under the democratic tariff
law, we exported 81, l24, 600, 900
worth. We exported, therefore,
1919, 600, 600 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 always followed
low tariff legislation. l. was so
after the tariff of 1916 and it has
been so under the tariff Of 1894.
On December 2, 1851, President
Fillmore, in his message to Con-
gress of that date, affirming the
condition of the C unity, and espec-
Tally the effect of the tariff leglsla-
tlon upon the interests of the
American farmer, said /:
"The values of our domestic ex-
ports for the last fiscal year, as
compared with those of the previous
year, exhibit an increase of $43,-
GAG, 1922. At first view, this con-
dition Of our trade with foreign
nations would to present the
most h~attering hope of Its future
prosperity. +. An examination of
the details of our exports, however,
will show that the increased value
of u exports for the last fiscal
year IS 10 be found IN the high
price of cotton which prevailed
during the last half of that year,
which price has since declined
about one half. The value of our
| exports OF hreadstuffs and pro
visions, which il was supposed the
incentive of a low tariff and large
iu]portatioDs from abroad would
have greatly augmented, has fallen
from &68, 70l, 921 in 1847 to 826,
05I,373 IN 1850, and to $2l, S48.
GG3 IN 1851, With a strong prob,
ability, amounting almost to a
certainty, Of a still farther reduc
ton in the current year. The
aggregate values Of rice exported
durlng the last fiscal year, as com
pared with the previous year, also
| exhibit a decrease amounting to
$500, or, which, with a decline in
the values OF the exports Of tobacco
for the same period, made an aggre,
gate decrease III these two articles
of 1856, 151."
The policy which dictated a low
rate of duties on foreign merchan.
disc, it was thought by those who
promoted and established it, would
tend to benefit the farming popula.
ton of this country by increasing
the demand and raising the price
of agricultural products IN foreign
markets. The foregoing facts.
however, seem to show %incontest.
ably that no such result has follow
ed the adoption of this policy.
Then in his message a year later
he said !:
"The prosperity and wealth Of
every nation must depend upon iii
productive industry. The farmer
is stimulated to exertion by finding
a ready market for his surplus pro
ducts and benefited by being able
to exchange them, without loss g
time or expense of transportation
for the manufactures which hi
comfort or convenience requires
TINS is always done to the best ad
vantage where a portion of tn
community in which he lives is en-
gagged in other pursuits"
Mr.. Buchanan in his message t.
the thirty-fifth congress, speaking
on the same subject, SAID
"In the midst of unsurpassed
plenty in all the productions AM
in all the elements of nationa
wealth. we find our manufacture
suspended, u public works retard
ed, our private enterprises OF differ
ent kinds abandoned and thousand
of useful laborers thrown out o
j employment and reduced to want
The revenue OF the government
which is chiefly derived from dntie
on imports from abroad, has bee