Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-18

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OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900.
TARIFF FOR The FARMER.
Senator Cannon's Amendment to the
Tariff Bill and Accompanying
Speech.
Senator Cannon of Utah has intro
duced an amendment to the tariff
bill which looks to the interest of the
farmers ana producers of the land.
Instead of the sham protection of
dollar and half ton on straw, and
four dollars ton on hay imported as
provided in the Dingley bill, it pro-
vides that "From and after sixty days
from the passage of this act there
shall be paid out of any moneys in
the treasury, not otherwise appropri-
ated, to any exporter of wheat or
wheat -four, rye or rye flour, corn,
ground or unground, cotton, hops,
or tobacco produced wholly in the
United States and exported by sea
from any port in the United States
to any port in any other country the
following export bounty, by way of
an equalization to agriculture of the
benefits of this act to encourage the
industries of the United States, to-
wit: ten cents per bushel on wheat,
so cents per barrel on wheat flour, 10
cents per bushel on rye, SO cents per-
barrel on rye flour, cents per bushel
on corn, 10 cents per GENITAL on corn
ground, cent per pound on cotton,
Q cents per pound on hops, cents
per pound on tobacco.
And all payments Of bounty under
this act shall be made upon negotia-
~ble vouchers, issued by the collector
of customs at the port of clearance,
upon presentation at the Treasury or
sub-Treasury of the United States;
the Secretary of the Treasury is here
by charged with making and enforc-
ing such regulations as may be nee
essary for the full protection of the
exports or the government according
to the true intent and meaning of
this law
grounds when bs,. PRESIDENT. dc. not
3arst time.
In the Auditorium.
/ Above the boom of the national salute
and the hum of thousands of voices
in the great auditorium rose the strains
of Dixie" from wandering band on
the outside.
Exactly ut noon President Mckinley
walked down the main aisle, on hi.
arm the stately MgivGan Lseeffe Eainnadl
man, president OF cation to the PEG
tLne pres sad ~ We States. 1t was with
man. Alrer, Ga,upon an examination
distinguished Es, I found that the
panying ladbg our population who
to the regr HE beginning not only
exported the protective tariff part,
by their votes but have supported
the protective tariff principle by theil
industry from the beginning of it,
operation were in large degree ex
Guided from any of it's benefits. 1t is
! say, to supply very patent omis
sion from the measure as it nov
stands that the amendment is pro
posed and will be advocated here I'm
til a vote shall be had thereon.
The bill as it is offered to-da.
affords no protection to agricultural
staples. There is remaining, I pre-
sumo, no advocate of the protective
tariff system who will contend tina
in this bill with these import dutie
there is afforded any protection o
benefit ofincreased price arising iron
import duties upon any of those com
: niodities of which we export our sur
plus. Nor are there remaining at tn
present time in the school of pro
lection very many men who will con
tend, and none who will prove, tina
the indirect protection afforded
the farmer by the tariff on manufat
tured goods is sufficient compensation
to him for the vast cost entailed upo
him in carrying the protective-tari
system upon manufactured goods.
The day was, Mr.. President, wbe
the American farmer, with free soil t
all, with the most advanced agricu
tural machinery known in the world
could not only pay the cost of hi
production, but could carry tn
weight Of the great civilization {
this country. But new world Col
dition has arisen. There are val
areas of agricultural land opened
the steppes of Russia, in Argentin.
and the Hungarian peasant and th
peon of South American countrie
to-day have machinery only one yea
behind the most advanced in use j
the United States, and the produce
OF staples in America must sell
competition with these lands. 1t bit
become apparent to all thoughtfl
observers, and certainly it is know
to all who have any direct connectio
with the agricultural industry of til
United States, that the farmer cal
not, and the man who reads him we
knowa that tho farmar will not ynuo