Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-08
WHAT WE SELL ABROAD
Our Exports Nearly All Agricul.
 tural Products.
THE TARIFF A BARRIER TO TRADE

Why the Foreigner Refuses to Buy
 Our Manufactures = Our Surplus
 Farm Products Sold In the Cheap
 est Market, while the Farmer Buys In the Dearest.
 The proteetionist boasting of the vol ume of our export trade does not show up very well for our manufactures when the facts are investigated While the United States exports large quantity of agricultural products-that | is, raw materials-only s per cent of all our exports are manufactured | goods, and these form but l per cent of all our manufactures. That shows the low ebb the protective system, which culnainated in the passage of the Dingley tariff bill, has brought our foreign trade to, and there is no possi- bility of increasing tie amount of man. ufactured goods we can sell to for eign countries until the Dingley tarir is revised.
 The foreigners will not buy of us if we do not buy of them, except our az ricultural products and the products of our mines and forests, of which the foreign countries that purchase cannot produce enough to supply their own necessities. Our wheat, corn, cotton, pork, timber and metals have to com pete in price with like products of other countries, and the price paid for them is what the foreign purchaser is willing to give.
 Protection adds nothing to the price we receive for these raw products which our farmers, lumbermen and miners have to sell, but the tariff does add very largely to the price of ail kinds of manufactured goods which our own consumers have to buy and there fore increases the cost of producing our agricultural products. This Is an admirable system for the manufac- turers. who, by the way, are mostly combined together into what we call trusts, but are a constant drain upon every one else. and, most of all, upon the farmer, who is compelled to sell his surplus products in the cheapest mar kets-the markets of the world-and buy what he cannot produce in the dearest market, which the trusts have created here
 The defense of this system of pro lection is even more extraordinary and misleading than the statements sent out from Wall street by the masters of frenzied finance to induce the pub lie to buy the watered stocks they have created. The protectionists tell our farmers and other producers Of raw products that the home market Is preserved and increased for them by the protective tarlff, but forget to say that the price for which these raw products must be sold is settled by what the surplus will bring In the world markets, after our own people are supplied with all they can con sume and afford to pay for.
 Every farmer, and especially farm CTS sons, should study these simple facts of political economy and arrive at a conclusion if this system of pro- tection is best for their interests or whether fl has not been invented to ln- directly prey upon them. The success sion Of good crops here and partial failure abroad for the past few years are hardly likely to continue for another series Of years and the good times en- joyed by our farmers may at any time be changed into hard times, either by large cereal crops the world over CT by partial failure of crops here. When either Of these events occurs the pro tective system built up by the Repub- lican party will be exposed in all its hideous deformity and the demand for reform will be irresistible
 The part of wisdom is to prepare for what must happen in time to avoid great disaster, and this can only be done by a reasonable revision of the tariff that will be fair alike to all classes and yet produce enough rev enue to run the government, honestly and economically administered.