The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-27

farming population of this country by
increasing demand and raising the price
of agricultural products in foreign
markets. The foregoing facts, how
ever. show incontcstably that no such
result has followed the adoption of this
policy. Then in his message Il year
later. he said: The prosperity and
wealth of every nation must depend up
ON its productive industry. The farmer
is stimulated to excrtion by finding u
ready market for his surplus products
and benefited by being able to exchange
them without loss of time or expense of
transportation from the manufacturers
as his convenience requires. This is al
ways done to the best advantage where
portion of the community in which he
lives is engaged i'll other pursuits.
Mr.. Buchanan, in his message to the
Thirty-fifth congress, speaking on the
same subject, said: In the midst of I'M
surpassed plenty in all the productions
and in all the elements of national
wealth. we find our manufacturers sus-
pended, our public works retarded. our
private enterprises of different kinds
abandoned and thousands of useful la
borers thrown out of employment and
reduced to want. The revenue of the
government, which is chiefly derived
from duties on imports from abroad, has
been greatly reduced. while the appro-
priations made by congress ut its last
session for the year are very large in
amount
"This is description of the condition
of the country under the low tariff law
of 1886 and no better description could
be written of the condition of the coun-
try under the tariff law of 1891. CAP
plause)
H. L., l,I,
age of silver? Cries of mo, no.
NO, forever no, my fellow citizens
(Cries of 'Hurrah for McKinley.D He
can not be helped, because if the nominal
price of grain was to rise through an in
tiation of the currency, the price of every
thing else would rise also and the farm
or would be relatively no better off than
he was before; he would not get any
more real value for his grain than he
gets now and would suffer from general
decentralization, which would follow the
hclr the farmer by more coinage of sill
yer, he can only be helped by more con-
sumerS for his products. You can not
help him by free trade. but, as | have
shown. he can be hurt and seriously hurt
by the free introduction of products into
this country. Better thousand times
enlarge the market for American prod
uctS tnnn TO enlarge the silver product
of the world (Chcers.) You might
as well understand now that You can not
add value to anything by diminishing
the measure of the value with which the
thing is sold or exchanged. Great cheer
ing) If you increase the value by low
ering the measure of value and you want
to benefit the farmer. then make the
bushel smaller the pound lighter and de-
Nare legal dozen less than twelve.
Great Laughter) The home market is
HE best friend of the farmer 1t is his
bwn natural market. He should be pro-
tected in its enjoyment by tariff legisla-
ton and this home market should not be
permittcd to be destroyed by lessening
The demand for American workmen and
thereby lessening the demand for agri-
cultural products. (Applause)
1.-The sugar industry should be cultiva
ted and encouraged in the United States.
Diversity the products of agriculture and
thus you will have additional employ