Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-17
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SENATOR CANNON INTRODUCES lU- BINS SCHEME TO HELP FARMERS.


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 Senator Cannon of Utah introduced on May % an amendment to the tariff bill which is likely to make trouble for the Republican leaders and which may break down the whole protective sys- tenn. The amendment fayors the Lubin scheme of paying export bounties on farm products. This scheme Is now be- ing pushed vigorously, not only by it's author, David Lubin, but also by the granges of many states and by trades unions and ministers. It makes its fight inside the ranks of protection and has already 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:
 It was with great surprise, upon an ex- animation of the measure, that I found that 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- tectiye tariff principle by their industry from the beginning of it's operation, were in q large degree excluded from any of it's benefits. It is, say, to sup ply Q very patent omission from the measure -aa 1t now stands that the amendment is proposed and will be ad- yocated here until 8 vote shall be had thereon.
 The 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 our surplus, nor are there re- maining at 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 ufactured 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 ful 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, and the man who reads him well knows that the farmer will not, much longer bear this burden
 There arc threo remedies possible. The second remedy. and one which I, as a believer in protection, would be ready to accept rather than to hold to and vote for an inequitable bill, would be absolute freo 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- 1 cation of an export bounty which shall ill q measure give restitution to the | farmer for tho higher prices which he is compelled to pay ill 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 a contention that it is just, unless it gives to the exporter of agricultural staples from the United States an equiv alent benefit to that given to the manu facturer by the imposition of an import duty.
 A duty of % cents bushel upon wheat is delusion and snare. The farmer of the United States gets no ben- eft from it. The imposition of duty upon cotton, if that were attempted, would be of no value to the cotton producer The imposition of a duty 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 i'll the United States sufficient for our own consump- tion and quantity considerable in ex- tent for export the import duty serves as means whereby the local producer can enhance tho 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 s225, coo, GOO in higher prices than he now receives. It Is true that this would increase the price of breadstuffs l to the consumers in 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 w heat four and other agricultural staples in the cities of the country than we have now at the low prices.
 Mir. Butler-Mr. President, the sena- tor from Utah said be was in favor of