Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-03
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
WHY THEIR VOTES SHOULD BE GIVEN
FOR ALTON B. PARKER,
What the Tariff and Trusts, On Which
Roosevelt Stands Pat, Cost The
American Agriculturist.

No class of American citizens suffers
more severely from the excessive and
unjust Republican tariff system than
the farmers. 1t is well-known fact
that the cost of all production falls Ill
timately upon the land, that whoever
dances the farmer has to pay the piper,
that when the great heads of Eepubli-
can trusts travel over the world in
their yachts and automobiles, it is the
farmer planting his corn and gathering
III his crops who has 10 pay for their
enjoyment. while he and his help
sweat and tug i'll the field and the
barn. AS all wealth is really based on
land and its products the farmer, who
is nearest the land, ought to have his
fair share of it. But does he? Let us
see.
The Republican high tariff gives the
trust yacht-oWninS, champagne-guZ-
Zling mOnOpolists the power to charge
what prices they please in the United
States, where competition has been
practically destroyed by the trusts,
while the same mOnopolists, when they
sell their American goods abroad, have
to meet competition there, and as
consequence they sell to foreigners
cheaper than they sell to Americans.
The American farmer has 10 pay. for
instance, $11 for 4 trust-madc Ameri-
can cultivator, while the same Ameri-
can cultivator is sold abroad for $50.
The American farmer pays $14 for q
truSt-made American pillow, which is
sold abroad for $3.50.
The American farmer pays SS.25
4 dozen for trust-made American axes,
which the same trust manufacturer
sells abroad to the foreigner for 500
a dozen.
The American farmer has to pay an
American trust SIS per 100 pounds for
barbcd wire, when the same American
trust sells the same barbed wire
abroad to the foreigner for s. per 100
pounds.
If the American farmer wants q fine
sewing machine for his wife lie has to
pay the American tariff protected sew
ing machine trust $3.50 for a machine
which the same trust sells abroad for
5000. And about the same difference
in prices here and abroad applies to
American-made medium and cheap
sewing machines.
And so on through every thing used
by the American farmer. 1t has been
carefully estimated that the 100000
families in the United States engaged
in agricultural pursuits pay Il tribute
annually to the Republican tariff pro-
tected trusts of $517,700,O00. This
vast amount the Republican trust mag
mates are enabled to eXtOrt from the
farmers of the United States by means
of a high tariff which prevents compe-
tiIiOn from abroad. and of unlawful
trade combinations which the Repub
lican Administration has done nothing
to break up, and which virtually con-
troll that AdminiStratiO ton.
Judge Parker. Democratic candidate
own uttcranceS and the party platform
to bring about such revision OF the
tariff as will prevent the trusts rom
discriminating in favor Of the foreign
er and against the American farmer
in the sale Of American goods.
Judge Parker is also pledged to
break up the unlawful conspiracies
called trusts. and reduce prices by re-
storing competition. TO this end he
Will enforce statute law, and. where
that is lacking. The comm III law.
President Roosevelt. on the other
hand. says distinctly that he and his
party stand pat Oil the tariff and trusts
that the trusts. under protection of
the Republican high tariff. will be per-
mitted, if the Republican party is sue
cessful in November. to continue to
cxtort about $51S.C0o,0G0 year in the