The Washington times., 1904-09-12
INCREASE IN FARM EXPORTS.
Nearly ooo,OcO, 900 Added and Do
nestle Consumption Increased.

,
nestle Consumption Increased.
The annual output of our agricultural
products is nearly four billions OF dol
lars. Their increase I'm value has been
prodigious. although agriculture has lam
guished I'm most other countries; and the
main factor in this increase is the cor
responding increase Of our manufactur-
ing industries American farmers have
prospered because tho growth Of their
market has kept pace with the growth
or their farms.
The additional market continually fur
nished for agricultural products by do
nestle manufacturers has been far ia
excess OF tho outlet to other lands. Ar
export trade in farm products is neces-
sary TO dispose Of our surplus; and the
export trade Of our farmers, both in ami
mai products and in plant products. has
very largely increased. Without the en-
larged home market 10 keep this surplus
down We should have TO reduce prOduc-
ton or else iced the world ut less than
the cost of production. In the forty
years ending in 1900 the total value OF
farm property increased Sc. 800. O00. 900; the
farmer gaining even more during this
period tnan the manufacturer
Domestic Raw Material Used
Long aeo. overproductioa would have
checked the marvellous development OF
our national agriculture but for the
steadily increasing demand OF American
manufacturers for farm products, re-
quired as raw materials for steadily ex-
panding Industries The farmer has be-
come denendeut upon the manufacturer
10 utilize that portion Of his produce
which does not so directl- 20 food sup
ply. In 1850 - per cent. or a little over
half. Of the total value Of the farm
products Of the nation was consumed IN
manufacturing industries as the raw ma
teriais OF the factories. Evidently. the
manufacturer Is the farmers best and
most direct customer.
Moreover. the American manufacturer
purchases his farm supplies almost ex-
tonths Of all the raw materials OF every
kind and description consumed IN Amer
lean manufactures are CT American pro-
ductlcn. The manufacturing establish
meats tend steadily 10 migrate into the
heart of the great agricultural districts.
The center Of the manufacturing in
dustry in 1850 was near the middle OF
Ohio. and II is moving westward At
decade. and this movement l. invariably
accompanied by n marked increa Sc IN
the value Of farm lands.
Industries Independent.
Local causes. notably the compt ttion
between new farm lands and old farm
lands, tend here and there to obscure
what Is happening; but II is as certain
as the operation Of any economic law.
that IN the country as whole. farm
values will continue 10 increase as the
partnership between manufacturer and
farmer grows more intimate through
further advance OF Industrial science
The American manufacturer never could
lave placed this nation at the head OF
the manufacturing nations Of the world
II he had not had behind him, securing
him every variety Of raw material the
cXhaustless resources Of the American
farm. developed by the skill and the en-
terprise OF intelligent and educated
American farmers. On the other hand
the debt Of the farmers TO the manu-
factGrers Is equally heavy. and the fu-
ture of American agriculture IS bound
Up IN the future Of American ma1ufac-
lures.
The two industries have become. IN
der the economic policy OF our Govern
tneht so closely interwOVesi so mutually
luterdependent. that neither can hope 10
maintain Itself at the high-water mark
OF progress without the other. What
ever makes TO the advantage Of one Is
equally 10 the advantage Of the other.
Both Capital and Labor Need Protection.
So it is as between the capitalist and
the wage-worker. Here and there there
may be an unequal sharing as between
the TWO IN the benefits that have come
by protection; but benefits have come 10
both; and reversal In policy would
mean damage 10 both: and while the
damage would be heavy 10 all. il would
be heaviest, and IL would fan soonest
upon those who are paid IN the form Of
wages each week OF each month for that
weeks or that months work
Conditions change and the laws r,,,st
De modlhed from time 70 time to nj new
eNigencies But the genuine UNDERLYING
principle Of protection. as n has hos
embodied IN all but one OF the America,
tarlH laws Tor the last forty years has
worked out results so benefcent 60
evenly and widely spread go advantaQ-
eous alike 10 farmers and canifaiists
and WorkinRmen. 20 commerce and trad
OF ever kind. that the American neorio
II they show their usual practical b1s{
ness sense. will insist that when tbega
laws are modified they shall be- roodiald
with the utmost care and conserve tIs-,,
ard By the friends and not the enemies
OF the protective system They cannot
AFFORD 20 trust the modification TO those
who treat projection and robbery as syn
onymous terms
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In closing what I have to say about
the system OF promoting American in
dustry let me add a word of cordial
agreement with the policy Of I'm Some