Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-18
,ucer. particularly applicable to the

Queer, particularly applicable to the
present situation in the United
States. But l venture to say that
such remedy will not be adopted by
this congress. 1t will scarcely be pro-
posed here. The second remedy, and
one which I, as believer in protec-
tion, would be ready to accept rather
than to hold to and vote for an in
equitable 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 application
of an export bounty which shall in q
measure give restitution to the farm
er for the higher prices which he is
compelled to pay in protected
markets.
No proposition based upon the dec
laration of equal protection to all the
industries of the United States is CON-
plete, nor can there be successfully
made contention that it is just, un-
less it gives to the exporter of agri-
cultural staples from the United
States an equivalent benefit to that
given to the manufacturer by the i'm
position of an import duty.
A duty of Is cents a bushel upon
wheat is delusion and snare. The
farmer of the United States gets no
benefit from it. The imposition of
duty upon cotton, if that were
attempted, would be of no value to
the cotton producer. The imposition
of duty on rye is of no value to the
farmer of the United States. Every
other protected industry has direct
benefit from this tariff, because
where we do not produce in the
United States sufficient for our own
consumption and a quantity.consider-
able in extent for export, the import
duty serves as means whereby the
local producer can enhance the price
of the local consumer.
We have the highest testimonials
in behalf of this proposition. Some
of the purest aud best statesmen the
United States has had have been its
advocates. Hamilton and Albert
Gallatin gave their voice to it. Hamil-
ton went SO far as to say that every
dollar of duty collected for the pro-
lection of manufacturers should be
given back to agriculture through
the medium of an export bounty, be-
cause it was inevitably taken from
agriculture. Webster and Clay in
ferentially Endorsed the same propo.
sition, and the people of the United
States are giving their approval to il
now.
am in receipt of communications
from state and Pomona oranges
shipping organizations, boards OF
trade, and clergymen, all advocating
that this principle shall be inaugural
ed at this time in behalf of equitable
protection to the people of the
United States.
Mr.. David Lubin, who in recent
years has been the unceasing advo.
cate of this principle among the PEG.
pie, has found within the last eigh'
teen months scarcely any opposition
'layen among the laborers Of the Unit
3, ststesnghifarles..' gined thai
Fireworks and Hlum,s to be in
| At eight o'clock fine dishsure.
works over the lake and olive Fhe,
was viewed by Mr.. and Mrs, ~ nositioy
and their party front,
parthenon. Tf-4'on MANUFACTURED
seers were gust to the treasury o
i. ! ls-.-------.~.a ey;fates will not be burden
some. If we shall take out from tn
treasury an9 distribute among tn
farmers of the United States the $48,
1919, b46 per annum which this system
will cost, based upon our exports o
agricultural staples in the year end
ing June 81, 1896, we will only hav
given back to the channels of trad
some port ion of that surplus which
the pending bill will otherwise pile VI
in the treasury, according to it's ad
vocates.
AT the rates proposed, and tekint
our staples exported during the yea
ending June 30, 1896, the United
States treasury would pay for whea
and wheat flour sent abroad annual
ly 1913, 1915, 440; for corn. ground ant
unground, $5,O55, 0ls; for rye and ry'
flour 500, 1874; for cotton $23, 1862, 1868
for hops 1886. 1905, and for tobacco S.,
91O,7S6.
The immediate ben eft to the farm
er derived from the treasury of tn
United States would not be all. Fo
this comparatively small expenditur
to him he would receive for these ste
Piles more than 1925, 1000, 900 in highe
prices than he now receives. 1t
true that this would increase the pric
. of breadstutfs to the consumers in til
, cities;but under the declaration mad
here to-day that with higher price
the people will be more able to buy
: we will have a larger consumption c
= wheat and wheat flour and other az
ricultural staples in the cities of til
country than we have now at the To-
prices.
The Senator from Missouri inquire
today if the remedy for the people
: inability to purchase was to tax th
people and make goods higher, &
= that they who could not buy to-da
might be able to buy at higher price