Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-10
TEST THEIR SINCERITY.
AN AMENDMENT is INTRODUCED
FOR AN EXPORT DUTY.
Senator Cannon So 8 No Beuofit TO bs De.
rived By the Farmer from the Tariff
Bill Unless Il Contains CLAUSE Giving
an Export Bounty on Grain.

Senator Cannon, of Utah, who was
elected as a republican and though
now belonging to the free silver wing
of the party, has declared himself
protectionist He has submitted an
amendment to the tariff bill asking
that the farmers be given an export
duty of 10 cents per bushel on wheat,
so cents per barrel on -four, 10 cents
per bushel on rye, cents on corn,
cent per pound on cotton and 2 cents
per pound on tobacco.
In stating briefly his reasons for sub
hitting this amendment Senior Con-
non declared that the proposition was
directly in the interest of the protective
principle and its equitable application
tothe people of the United States. "It
was with great surprise upon an ex-
animation of the measure he declar.
ed, "that found that the great class
of our population who have from the
beginning not only supported the pro
tective tariff principle by their votes,
but have supported the protective tar
if principle from the beginning by
their industry were excluded from its
benefits, 1t il to supply very patent
omission from the measure as it now
stands that the amendment is proposed
and will be advocated here until vote
shall be had thereon.
1.-THE bill as it is offered to-day" con.
tinued the Utah senator, affords nc
protection to agricultural staples. "
Then he added "There is remaining,
/ presume, no advocate of the protect
i've tariff system who will contend that
in this bill with these import duties
there is afforded any protection or ben
eft of increased price arising from i'm
port duties upon any OF those commod.
tiles of which we export our surplus
Nor are there remaining at the present
time in the school of protection very
many men who will contend, and none
who will prove, that the indirect pro-
lection afforded to the farmer by the
tariff on manufactured goods is suffi-
cient compensation to him for the vast
cost entailed upon him in carrying the
protective tariff system upon manu-
featured goods"
Then to show how the conditions are
different to-day than they were few
years ago Mr. Cannon pointed to the
vast areas of land which have in COM
paratively recent years been opened up
in the steppes of Russia, in Argentine,
while the Hungarian peasant and the
peon of South America have machinery
only one yea behind the most advanc-
cd in use in the United States and the
producer of staples in America must
sell in competition with these lands.
ut has become apparent to all
thoughtful observers" he continued,
land certainly it is known to all those
who come in direct contact 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
In view of these facts and the condi.
tions, Mr.. Cannon sees three possible
remedies.
The first of these is restoration OF
money conditions by which we will get
q worlds rise in prices particularly
beneficial to the agricultural producer,
particularly applicable to the present
situation in the United States. This
he declares to be the right remedy, but
there is OF course no chance of its adop-
tion by this congress.
The second remedy he declares to be
absolute free trade. "As believer of
protection, - he declared. Il would be
ready to accept that rather than to
vote for u bill thai is negotiable; for
under that the farmer might buy as
cheaply as he is compelled to sell"
But of course that remedy will not
seek to enforce.
So he comes to his third remcdy-the
application of an export bounty which
shall in measure give restriction to
the farmer for the higher prices
which he is compelled to pay in
protected markets. mo PROPOSE
ton based upon the declaration of equal
protection to all the industries of the
United States is complete, nor can
there be successfully made a conten-
ton that it is just, unless it gives to
the exporter of agricultural staples
from the United States an equivalent
benefit to that given the manufacture
ers by the imposition of an import
duty"
That is Senator Cannon's doctrine in
a nutshell.
Speaking further to the sham of the
republican pretensions of friendship
for the farmer and certain duties i'm.
posed upon agricultural products by
the Dingley-Aldrich bill or bills, Sena-
tor Cannon said: