Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-03
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BACKYARD REPLIES.

the Homestead of December %, Farm
burrows, George w. Franklin, asso-
ciate editor. the following appears:
AT the iowa state agricultural meet
ing one man spent almost two hours
trying to convince the farmers that we
ought to exchange the home market for
a foreign one We can reach the home
market by paying the freight" but we
have no ships whereby we can reach
foreign markets We do not want to
exchange "a bird IN hand for one in the
BUSH Some of these reformers would
have us take pattern after the dog
crossing stream with chunk of
meat in his mouth, that seeing his
shadow, let go and lost all. know
of men who are not willing to nave
the times of 1890 and 1893 return
This reference is made to the adj
dress of ex-senator Harris, whose dis
tinguished services to the shorthorn
breeders association and his promln-
ence in the stock-men's movement Tor
wider foreign markets was the oc-
casion of his presence at the Des
tMoines meeting alluded to on the inVl-
tation of the state board of agricul-
ture. The address cited the glutted
conditions of the home markets for
cattle and the famine prices for meats
in Germany, the increased supply go
ing to England from Argentine as
reason why reciprocal relations should
be established with Germany and other
countries to extend our trade. Ihe
words exchange the home. markets for
foreign one" mean that If such con-
cession is made in our tariff rates
needed to open European markets to
our meats such lowering of the rate
on certain foreign imports would de-
stroy our prosperity and in any such
prosperity certainly feeders are not
sharing, thus exchanging a good home
market for foreign one. Senator
Harris was showing that the home
market was not a good one for cattle
and proposed to make the home mar
ket good by providing an outlet for the
surplus The Homestead's standpat
pabulum is regularly dealt out by the
representatives Of the eastern manu-
featuring trusts, in and out of congress
for the intellectual recuperation of the
western farmers and with the anti
Cumanins bias of Brother Franklin
through the columns of the Homestead,
PesA
tisan, 1T is attempted to foist 1t upon
the cattle feeders as good economic
policy.
If it were true that a good home
market was possible without an out
let for the surplus one could be pa
tient with such twaddle. For proof re-
call the glutted state Of the corn mar
ket in former years, say in the COS, be-
fore the foreign stock feeders had
learned to like OUR corn as animal food,
when next to none was exported, when
our corn was worth on the farm from
IA to % cents a bushel: the same con-
,ditions would exist today but for the
good demand abroad which absorbs the
surplus of from fifty to two hundred
millions of bushels at prices from so
to 20 cents a bushel at the shipping
point The only way to secure and
copper fasten" a good home market
for and of the standard farm crops or
products is to secure safe and profit
able foreign outlet for the surplus or
the amount produced beyond the needs
of our home consumption. The stand
patter opposes and defends the highest
tariff rate which was imposed for the
purpose of trading for reciprocal
agreements with foreign countries,
though fostering monopolies and will
not as President Mckinley advised
when some of our tariffs are no longe'
needed IS why should they not be
employed to extend and promote OUR
markets abroad?" so employ any of
the prohibitive rates to meet
the German empires request for re-
oa,, ant JUhirsi1 1yn1Ii6
greatly benefit the western farmers.
The standpatters are arranging for a
tariff war and to prepafe for it have
introduced a bill to add another
twenty-five per centum to the Dingley
tariff rates to any of country not Civ
ing us the benefit of their minimum
rate of duty. This protection pie has
been reserved from the first for the
eastern trusts that have their feet in
the protection trough and the western
farmers have "whooped it up" myself
among the others, at the instance OF
their party leaders in Washington,
susceptible to corporate influences in
aid of party discipline until everything
they buy is the product of a trust and
all they sell is taken by trusts or COM
binations so that the farmer looks in
vain for competition for his products
sold or in the merchandise he purchas
es. while he stood for a tariff that ben
Gifted none of his products but stands
in the way of his foreign market like
a wall Nothing but short crops and
diminished production of meats can
secure the farmer from loss if this
mischievous policy is to continue by
the Standpat congress.
The commorants dwelling in the
sunshine of protection, growing arro-
giant and rich as monopolists under a
prohibitive tariff will yield nothing for
the benefit of the farmer and it is left
to the Homestead to give them aid and
comfort in order to line UP with the
anti Cummins standpatters.
S. B. PACKARD.