The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-25

WHY THEY ARE BADLY OFF.
Free Silver Won't Close the Russian
and Argentine wheatfields.
bat q Protective Tariff VIII Put Am
erican workingruen at Work. and
ihey VIII Consume FOOD Products
second speech 10 the East Liver
pool Potters,

car faaas % knux county farmers reached
t4hFoa by special peunsylxansa train
Local fafsners headed the PROCESSION with
= t9ad of new-Eaosrn bag. They we're a
s.sifas locking set or men. and gave cheer
after cheer a. ~ siT chairman appeared on
las steps Eiih Mckinley a. D. Critch-
aesa. % Aeua, Vernon. son of KNOX
ssAaEE farmer, made a neat pTessnf alton.
AaJ Mckinley responded:
81. CetEchflsla and Ny Fellow Citizens:
kt gives me great pleasure 10 meet and
greet fhs citizens % Knox county IN the
ciiF OF canton ard az my o<R horas
am Esad 20 welcome Eny other comrades
g tne Grand Army. my fellow citizens
" 40 ara engaged Ia ssrlcslltzrai Indus tries
and my fellow citizens Or ali occupations
who are mere assembled this morning.
Your meeting demonstrates that you have
Keen interest IN the punisc caestions
Nntch are uow engaging the ps2ple OF the
nitea States and that you want this
year. ss you have always wanted IN The
pass, 20 vote for shose principles and those
policies which viii achieve the greatest
good sud 'Ae highsSf welfare 20 the coun-
try.
Il am glad especially 70 meet the far
raefs Of Knox coanty, for the farmers OF
the United States form the most censerva-
tive force ia oar citizenship and ia our
civilization. (ApplauSel 4 force mat has
always stood for good government. for
country. Tor liberty and for honesty. Great
aDpiaaseJ Whatever the farmer Is suffer
Ing today - because his competitors have
Increased IN numbers. and because hts BEST
customers are oat Of work. fApplagse)
] DO not know that Re can decrease the
number or yoar competitors 0ut with a
true American protective policy We can
sef yoBr best customers 20 work. Gre
mendous applaBSeb We have suffered IN
oar foreign trade. ans we have suffered In
our domestic trade.
The farmers have suffered In the EXPORT
trade and they have likewise suffered in
their home market Under the Repubiic-
81 tariff law OF $50 we imported ia 1888
over III .oeoe 30 pounds OF wool. valued az
over Sl2,t@ GO. In isa5. under the Demo-
cratic tariff law. We imported 2ss oso. 900
pounds Of wool. valued at So, 20 oo. Near
IS S@e@0.9 .99 worth more Of wool vas iFrl-
ported under the Democratic tariff law
than under the Republican tariff law in
iSs4. The imports OF woclen goods 10 1884,
amounted % SIS 500 0to and in 1886 20 S5T.-
ssi f1 From The reports Of the treasury
department az Washington City we find
that there mere 45.278.eoo sheep in the
Iaitest States IN isae. valued at si2ss %. gtsi.
ca the 1st Of January. 1885. there wers
q -. CO sheen in the Uuifs5 States, valued
a. s6S,e0.fso. a decrease Of s.poi.es1 In the
number Of sheep and OF 81, ,nso.fso IN value.
AMI e. 2oAo worth more Of shofdy was
Imported under the Democratic tariff laws
than under the Republican tariff law. IN
waolen goods the difference is mere than
So oo0 90 IN favor of the foreign and
against the domestic producer. The total
loss Ia these three items 10 the American
wool growers and wage-earners IN Amer
ican wool factories is more than S.. .o0a-a0o.
Is L any wonder that sheep husbandry Is
no longer progtahle7
50 with other agricultural products.
p1rinr the last seventeen months of tho
Republican tariff law there were imported
into this country 10000 tons Of hay, and
during the first seventeen months of the
Democrats tariff law there were imported
$4,000 tons The Wilson law gave the for
eiSn producers a market Tor G5.sa tons
more than they had enioved In the last
eighteen months under the Republican tar
IN law This loss exceeds 10000.
The total wheat. rye. ha stey, oats AMI
corn crops for 1895 amounted 20 35ss.9@l@l0
bushels. The total - this product export
"a was iss Sft GO bushels. or a nttle less
than per cent. OF the total product an
nualiy. ard more than rs per cent. was
consumed at home. The great hulk was
consumed by yoar ewn fellow-citizens.
your own natural CONSUMERS and custom
ers. In lSsi-9z we exported sl.430eooo4
worth of agricultural products. In iSa5-af,
tha first two years under TIE Democratic
tariff Law. we exported H-i24 eSes We
exported. therefore. Sis worth less
m the two years under the Democrats
tariff law than In ere two years under the
Republican tariH law. Depression in ag-
rfcaitmre has always followed low tariff
legislation IL was 80 after the tariM of
1886 aa4 Il has been 50 unaer the tariff
OF iss4
"On December :. Is5s. President FIJI
more. fu hss message - congress of that
date. affirming the condition % the cogn-
try. ana especially the efrect e. the tariH
legislation upon fhs Interests of the Amer
lean farmer. said: "rhe value of cur *
ports az hreadstuns an3 provisions. vhich
81 vas supposed tee Incentive oE q low
tariff and large Importation from sbroad
Nouia have greatly augmented. has fallen
frorn s.. 711 90 In ISL to 81 90 in fVa
sud 70 s2f Sss. sla fn 1851 wlth strong pron-
ability. Amounting almost te q certainty.
~ a stlu further reduction "a the current
year. The aggregate values % rice ex-
porttd gtninr the Asst fiscal year. as
cou,rarea with the previous year, also ex-
hablfs decrease amounting 20 some S3as4
Ha vh5eh. witb a decline ia tht value q
'tba exports 90 toh8cco cov thc Same Pc
rtoA. makes a. zrE~e~sts decrease ia these
tae articles az Slssa on
.~T,e aalfey ~ ~h dictated q icw rate of
datics or foreign merchandise. 90 was
tNourht ~ these y ho prem Qtei and es-
tahlsbed I:. eop,a fend so benefit the
farming population - fhis country bv .n-
creass-E fhe demand and raising tha price
~ agricultural protucte 81 foreiE1 rna~-
kets. Tha fors EoinR facts. however. sAovs
fucontest63v that 10 soch rrsa1t hss fal-
lowed she adoption - tajs policy. Ora hjs
message year later President FE1mc-s
safd. The prosperity ard wealth % ey-
cry nation musg 6epent upcn ttE rrcGac-
tive Industry. TEE farmer s. stimulates
40 evevttnn hY EaagnE ready r8arSet sGr
S.s Furnlus nrs1Hcts ard benefits hF tse-
gnw anle % exchange yAegu without i0sH
- tis~s or expense q Transport tlon for
ne naanufacturrs ahSch ais corrfcrt av
f-rvsnEsree requires Tn4s vas always
e7ne 10 hest advantage where a EscrtsoG
~ ea.e community la wasnA BE Eves IS en-
gszed sa oSher naFsaits
-sWe Euchanan. g. lie message 20 the
T-ssIr-v-HstA coExrrss s{-saSlnE ca tse
esrsa suafaet. said In the u1l&st - Hn-
sarrasse4 plenty ta al the Vrotarfiaaa ard
IN an eha elements - u&ttOn84 w-eatsh.
Ne eus car MANUFACTURES Suspended. ear
r,.fest. vge~as eJ&r8e3. oar private eafer-
r,sf4.sq az 4sNerfat ktult= ahan3are3. a-1
sf,.e,se~F< 81 HsefGi ssaererF thsewa aHt
~ es..-sgrr.ssrat aa6 Fraagssf Co want Taa
p, vessss sE ths government ~ greatly rc-
a.t.-<f whs3a 1NA arnsonT. s sons ra&1e 5g
-rrr~-~s AZ tts ssssEcc soT tes c-ErTrnf as-
rsT x~a~are very large n amount
s-Tsts as 4 ssfscrss sskserl - re condition 81
-~e eaan-re nn5eV taa a9as tsrE t51 -
gsss ana re oatEfr dfss em ta ae
urzsa - sae erltsan q tes sItfg
e-stcr tas safs& law eg 1sst - s&Al>si