The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-11-04
FARMER is VICTIM.
He Always oets Hot End Of the Tsrr
Poker, Says Senator shIvely

AT every turR the farmer has been
handed the hot end Of the tariff polk
er. says Senator B f. shively. in an
address The Farmer and the Tar
in. prepared especially sor the farm
ers of u lana
In the closing days Of the CAM
talgn, Republican leaders are making
frantic appeals 10 the farmers 70 come
TO the assistance Of the Republican
ticket against the rising tide OF revolt
In the cities" says Senator Shiyely.
WHY should tie farmer vote TO yindi.
cate the Payns-Aldrieh tariff Or why
should bs give countenanee - that
cunning dlftsrencs-oicost, piusa-proht
svsngsl IN which panic stricken states
n 81 are seeking ehelterY Government
has 40 fund out ~ which 70 guaraptse
pro1ts IL can !egislAte proht TO one
man only as It legislatss losses to an
other American agriculture is a hen-
protected and non.proteotabls indus
try
The genius OF man cannot device
system of import duties that could
protect the farmer Every year mil
lions OF bushels Of bis wheat and corn
and millions Of pounds Of his hegs.
cattle and cotton GO out 70 the grSat
surplus market OF wsstsl Europe.
Would a single bushei or pount go
there bat fer ths fact rnst It brinn .
higher price there than at hsEnsf Asy
day OF the year the priee Of wheat In
lower at New YGk rAaA Lily srpool..
lower at Chicago than New York,
lower at ST. Paul than Chicago, and
lower at Farfe than az 81. faal. The
surplus wheat from. rAs pampas OF
South America, The table-lands Of In
oia, the valley Of the Nile. and the
plains OF Russia IN poured into the
markets OF Western Europe in. compe-
titIon with the surplus wheat from
the farms OF the United states. There.
under the competition o; the whole
world, is fixed the price OF aaplss OF
the farm, and from there the price
ranges backward and downward past
every farm and ranch
Stream Is Outward.
"The stream OF surplus Is outward.
not inward. Duties OF one hundred
dollars per bushel or ten dollars per
pound could not help the farmers TO
the extent Of a single penny. He
stands between two markets. neither
OF which he controls He makes his
sales at prices nxed by others. He
makes his purchases at prices fxed
by others. He sells his staples at
prices fixed by worldwide competition
and then buys the things he needs for
self and family. under what condi-
tiOns7 Under the same conditions on
which he sells his products? No. He
buys in a market from which foreign
com petition is bs~ed by prohibtive
tariff schedules, and from which do
nestle competition is removed By do
mestic combinations organized under
the shelter OF such schedules.
"A protective tariff protects the
wooden and cotton goods the farmer
must buy. but cannot protect the corn
ana wheat ne hRs 20 sell. II protects
the farm machinery. the furniture. the
iron ware. woodenware. glass and
glassware, carpets, paints and dozens
OF other things which he must buy.
but cannot protect the oats. rye. cattle
or hogs he has To sell 1t protects the
things he must buy by enabling the
trusts controlling them TO write UP
artificial prices on them. Thus the
farmer sells at normal. competing
prices, and buys at highly abnormal
and fictitious prices written up by
greed without reference TO cost.
so situated, the farmer. for forty
years. has been the special victim OF
the system. All this time he has been
exchanging a part OF his annual output
for watered prices instead OF for
goods. swift advance was made from
the sickle to the sslt.bin der, ard other
improved means OF producing. harvest
ing, storing aud MARKETING bis crops.
But by the cunning device OF artificial
prices on what he must buy. these ad-
vantages served only 70 make fortunes
for Others rather than for himself
"If the farmer OF this country rc-
esiyes higher prices than once pe