Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-18
EXPORT COUNTIES.
: ,ENFfoR CANNON INTRODUCES lu-
 BINS SCHEME TO HELP FARMERS.

He Makes Hot Speech and Floors All
 Opponents-Present Protection Is One
 Sided and Robs tile Tarnaer-He New
 Sells In e Cheap a1d Buys In Dear
 Market-can Be Protected Only by Ez-
 port Bennties on Farm Prodects-xf Ha
 Cannot Get These He weats Absolute
 Free Trade. ss e
 Senator Cannon of Utah introduced on May 25 an amendment to the tariff bill which is likely to make trouble for } the Republican leE aers and which may break down the W hole protective sys- tenn The amendment fayors the Lubin scheme of paying export bounties OH farm products. This scheme is HOW be- ing pushed vigorously, not only by it's author, David Lubin, but also by the 8ranges of many states and by trades unions and ministers. It makes its fight Inside the ranks of protection and has alrehdy opened more farmers eyes to the folly of the system than all of the tariff reform work that has been done.
 Senator Cannon told some plain truths when introducing this amendment. He spoke in part as follows:
 Itwas with great surprise, upon an ex- Examination of the measure. that I found Nthat the great class of our population who have from the beginning not only Supported the protective tariff party by their votes, but have supported the pro Elective tariff principle by their industry from the beginning of it's operation were in large degree excluded from any of its benefits. It is, I say, to sup *ply very patent omission from the measure as it now stands that the amendment is proposed and will be ad- vocated hero until vote shall be had thereon.
 Nhe bill as it is offered today affords no protection to agricultural staples. There is remaining, presume, no ad. vocate of the protective tariff system who will contend that in this bill, with these import duties, there Is afforded any protection or benefit of increased price arising from import duties upon any of those commodities of which we export sosr s.ea plus, nor are there re- maining it the present time in the school of protection very many men who will contend and none who will prove that the indirect protection afford ed to the farmer by the tariff on man. ufactnred goods is sufficient compensa- tion to him for the vast cost entailed upon him in carrying the protective tariff system upon manufactured goods
 It has become apparent to all thought fu1 observers, and certainly it is known to all who have any direct connection with the agricultural industry of the United States, that the farmer cannot, xand the man who reads him well knows What the farmer will not, much longer bear this burden.
 There are three remedies possible. The second remedy, and one which I, as a believer i'll protection, would be ready to accept rather than to hold to and vote for an inequitable bill. would be absolute free trade, by which the farmer might buy as cheaply as he is compelled to sell. and that remedy this congress will not seek to enforce. There remains, then, but the third-the appli- cation of an export bounty which shall Ill ~ lHtGSuIG~ SlN6=s sitSlieullODas tO bilt farmer for the higher prices which he is compelled to pay in protected markets.
 No proposition based upon the decla- ration of equal protection to all the in- dustries of the United States is com plete, nor can there be successfully made contention that it is just, unless it gives to the exporter of agricultural staples from the United States an equiv Talent benefit to that given to the manu facturer by the imposition of an import duty.
 A duty of 25 cents a bushel upon wheat is a delusion and snare. The farmer of the United States gets no ben- eft from it. The impositiono duty upon cotton if that were attempted, would be of no value to the cotton producer. The imposition of aduty on rye is of no value to the farmer of the United States. Every other protected industry has a direct benefit from this tariff, because where we do not produce ill the United States sufficient for our own consunlp- tlon and a quantity considerable in ex- tent for export the import duty serves as means whereby the local producer can enhance the price to the local con- sumer
 The immediate benefit to the farmer derived from the treasury Of the United States would not be all. For this com paratively small expenditure to him he would receive for these staples more than $225, 000,0o0 ill higher prices than he now receives. It is true that this would increase the price of breadstnffs to the consumers i'll the cities, but un- der the declaration made here today that with higher prices the people will be more able to buy we will have a larger consumption of wheat and wheat -four and other agricultural staples ln the cities of the country than we have now at the low prices.