Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29
The FARMERS FRIEND
A Comparison Between the Policy
of the Republican and
Democratic PARTIES
LEGlsLATED FOR AGRICULTURE
John NJ. Stah| Tells Why the Farmer
Should Stand by His
Friends.
LEGiSLATED FOR, AGRlCULTU Re

John M. Stahl, practical Illinois,
farmer, and a land owner in Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska, who is the editor
of the Farmers Call, Quincy, and also
secretary of the Farmers National Con
gress, is man who has made his way
from poverty to affiuence, by the use
of his own head and hands. His promi-
hence in the Grange, Farmers insti-
tutes and all movements calculated to
better the condition of American agri-
culture, gives weight to his judgment
and makes his vi VS. on all public ques-
tions Of value.
In recent interview he discusses the
relation of the American farmer to the
two great political parties and points
out the fact that in legislation the Re
publican party has always kept the in
terests of agriculture in view. He says:
SIT must be said to the credit Of the
farmers of the United States that they
have never asked for more at the hands
of Congress or lesser legislative bodies
than they were ready to have granted
to others, or for legislation that they
did not believe would be of benefit to
all the people. No exception to this is
furnished by the tariff, which has been
the most persistent political question in
our history. No other question has been
an important issue in so many cam
Congress Of the United States was
| tariff act The bill was introduced and
! discussed before Gen. Washington was
| inaugurated President and the bill was
enacted into law two months before the
passage of the law creating a treasury
! department Tariff for protection and
tariff for revenue, ad valorem duties
and specific duties, etc, were thorough
| ~ discussed while the first. tariff bill
was pending; and there have been few
years since in which these questions
did not engage the lively attention of
the American people. 1t was inevitable,
! therefore, that the tariff should have
the frequent consideration of a repre-
sentative agricultural body meeting to
discuss proposed legislation and to rec
ommend to the favora BILE consideration
Of legislative bodies such measures as
are deemed worthy of that recommends
ton. Such a body is the Farmers Ma
tional Congress and at its last annual
meeting it adopted the following reso-
luton: d.
Whereas, It is an established principle
with both of the great political parties that
a tariff on imported goods adequate to meet
levied; therefore, 7 -
Resolved, that we demand the same meas
ureof protection a+ for agricultural Industries
At the meeting referred to there were
delegates from states in which are more
than Efour-ffths of the farmers of the
country, from California to Florida and
from North Dakota to Texas The reso-
luton was adopted without one dissent.
ing vote. AS the honorab BILE gentleman
who has been master of the National
Grange for eight years past and many
ton may justly be'S taken - Expressing
the sentiments Of TIE Grange also. Ger.
tainly the Farmers National congress,
being composed 6f farmers should not
have demanded less; and, as it ID non.
4 sistently say more. Similar resplution.
have been adopted at previous meetlngss
Protsstioa unders 1EcIlinlsyy Kaw
The cKinley law gave 80 asricultural
industries the same measure Of Eprotec
ton that it gave. to- other industries
Horses; hay, potatoes, onions, eggs bar
lev, fruits, wool and other products o1
our farms. the producers of which de
rive a direct benefit from protective
duty on those articles, were given just
and satisfactory protection; and thus ths
Mckinley law met the proper wishes 0nC
the Just and reasonable demands Of the
/ farmers. AS soon as they had the power
the Democrats FASTENED to remove the
duties on farm products or to remove
them altogether, and the Wilson law doe.
not give the same measure Of protection
to agricultural industries that It gives tt
:. other industries. Wool is a striking ex
ample Of this. The Mckinley law CAV,
it proper protection, and while that Law
was in effect only a very short time, i