Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-09-02

country, for liberty aud for honesty
IGsest applause Whatever the farm
er is suffering to-day is because o'
his competitors having increased in
numbers and because his best Gus
toners ere
OUT OF WORK.
1 do rot know that We cnn de
creass the number Of your competi
tors, but with ,he adoption OF a true
American protective policy we can
set your best customers to work.
Tremendous cheering and cries oi
'.hurrah for Mckinley"
WE HAVE SUFFERED
IL cur foreign trade and we have SUI.
fsred ia cur domestic trade. The
farmers have suffered in their export
trade ard they have likewise suffered
in the home market. Under the re-
publican tariff of 1890 VS. imported
in 1898, 1l1,O00,0OO pounds wool,
valued at S33.07o,000. Nearly S2O,,
600, coo worth more Of wool was im-
lported under tie democratic tariff
law than under the republican law in
1894.
| The imports OF woolsn goods ir
1898 amounted to Sl6,8O0,0O0 and
those of 1896 TO $57 7,494, 900. From
the report of the Treasury depart
ment we find that there were Az ,273,
1000.
in the United Statesin 1892, valued
at S125, 100000. On the 1st Of Jan
uary, 1886. there were 3S,29S, S,00C
sheep in the United States, valued al
| SG5, 100000, a decrease of 100000
i'll the number of sheep and of Co.
100000 in value. Two million two
huucred thousand dollars worth
more of sheep was imported under
tie democratic tariff law than under
the republican tariff law.
II wooLEN GOODS
the difference is more than $4,000,
| 600 in favor of the foreign manufac.
turer aud against the domestic pro.
ircer. The total loss in these three
items TO the American wool grove;
and the wage Garner in American
wool manufsctorios is mora than $62,.
100000.
| Is it any wonder, my fellow cisi-
zens, that sheep husbaDdry is 70
more profitable? So with other agri.
cultural products. During the last
seventeen months of the republican
tariff there were imported in this
country 10000
| TONS OF HAY
and during the first seventeen
months of the democratic tariff law
thero vera imported $4,000 tons.
The Wilson law gave the foreign
producers q markst of $4,000 tons
moro than they bad enjoyed in the
LAST seventeen months under the re
publican tariff law This icss ex-
ceeds 100000.
THE TOTAL WHEAT,
rye. barley, oais and rn crop for
1895 amounted to 3 $50, 100000
bushels The total Of this product
exported wss 1872, 364, ,OOO bushels, or
a little less than 4 ger cent. of the to-
tai product annually and more than
90 per cent. was
CONSUMED AT HOME.
The great bulk was consumed by
your fellow citizens, your own natur
al consumers and customers. La 1891
90 We exported 81, 100000 coo worth
OF agricultural products. In 1895
SO, tie first tuo years under the dem
ocra.ic tariff law, we exported 81,
124, 100000 worth We exported
therefore 1886. .0O0,O00 worth less in
the two years under the republican
tariff law
| DEPRESSION IN AGRICULTURE
has always followed low tariff legisia
ton. Il YVES SO after the tariff of
1876 and it has been so under the
tariff Of 1894 AppIause.] Can the
farmer be helped by
| FREE COINAGE or SILVER
You canaot heip the farmer by the
free coinage OF silver; lie can only be
helped by more consumers for his
products. You cannot help him by
free trade, but as l have ahown, lie
can be hurt and seriously burt by the
free Introduction of competing prod
uc;s into this country. Better a
thousand times enlarge the markets
for American products than to en-
large the mints for the silver product
Of the world. Tremendous applause
aod cries OF you are right" You
might just as we'll understand now
that you cannot tEst you cannot add
value to anything by diminishing the
measure OF value with which the
thing is sold or exchanged. Crest
cheering and cries of ..aurrah for
Mckinley If you can increase the
value by lowering the measure of val
lie and ycu want to benefit he farm
er then make the bushel smaller, the
pound lighter aud declare legal
dozen less than twelve. Great
laughter. The home market IS the
best friend of the farmer. 1t is his
bert market. It is his only reliable
market. Il is his own natural mark
et He should be helped in its en-
ijoyment by wise tariff legislation and
this home market should not be per
mitted to be destroyed by lessening
the demand for American labor and
diminishing the pay of American
workmen and thereby diminishing
the demand for agricultural products.
Free silver will not remove the
competition of Russia, India and the
Argentine Republic. This competi-
ton will remain, ifyou would coin all
the silver of the world Free silver
| will not increase the demand for