The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-11-03

be true and then to others you cannot /
be false.
V. s. LUSK.
A FARMERS VIEWS
ON THE TARIFF.
A Lincoln County Farmer Writes an |
Article From the Farmers Stand |
point and Shows That the Tariff |
Does Not Help the Farmer, but
Rather is Burdensome to Him
He Buys and Raises the Stuff and
Ought to Knock.
Editor NeWS:-I have before me
some campaign literature, among
which is a speech made by Hon. VIM.
B. Mckinley, of Illinois, in the house
of representatives, February oath,
1910. The title of it is the Tariff
and Prices" Our protective friends
want to impress it on the farmer that
the Payne Aldrich tart flaw was for
the protection of the farmer and Mr..
Mckinley in his speech gives a long
list of agricultural products showing
what was reduced and what was I'M
changed. -.mOng those reduced he
quotes: Beef % percent, veal 20
per percent, pork % percent, bacon
and hams 20 percent, lard % percent,
| cabbage 33 Is percent, corn meal 5
percent, -four, tariff, unchanged; pO-
| tatoes, unchanged; beans, unchang-
| ed; eggs, unchanged; butter and
milk, unchanged all dairy products,
| unchanged" Now, what is puZZling
the old farmer is what good does it
| do our government to have a tariff on
any of the above named products?
How much revenue does our govern
ment collect on imports of the above
named articles? What in the thun-
der would anybody want to import
corn or corn meal to this country for
when this country is the corn prOduc-
ing country of the world? 1 would
like to know where there is a country
! that produces omre beef, veal, pork,
bacon, hams and lard than this cOun-
try? | would like to see a list of the
revenue that is collected on the above
named products? Then there is a
tariff on flour, when everybody knows
that the world is looking to this
country for bread. Then there is a
tariff on potatoes. Please tell me
where there is a country that is cap
able of growing more potatoes than
this? Then why should there be a
tariff on eggs, when from the gulf to
the lakes, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific every home in this broad
land has egg producers and there are
now few millions in cold storage.
some of them five years old, waiting
for a market. Where is there a coun-
try that would think of importing
eggs and paying a tariff on them, in
this already glutted market?
Butter and milk has a tarIff on 1t,
and what is that for, and how much
, duty does the government collect on
| imported butter and milk?
Maybe few Lincoln county radi.
: cal politicians would like to import q
few ship loads of buttermilk and pay
the tariff on it, especially if it is to be
? hauled in one of McNinch's (dream)
ship subsidy boats.
What is all this talk about the tar,
if being reduced on agricultural pro-
. ducts. when the farmer is always al
( exporter! Where is there a country
IN this world that can spare its farm
t products to ship to this country? Il
seems to me that all this talk abOu
: the tariff on farm products protecting
q the farmer is all tomfoOleiy. Wha
: the farmer wants is a market for thi!
n produce. He already has the worlC
i for market for his corn, wheat o.
: flour. beef, pork and cotton. He pro
= duces three-fourths of the cotton O
! the world and the world is his mark e.
j. and twO-thirds of it has to go to for
e elgn countries TO find a market AnC
= if the American manufacturers haC
| shown the business ability that tn,
: English manufacturer did, the,
, could have been selling two-thirds o
$ their goods to other countries anC
5 owned their ownships to ship thei
h goods in. Then there would be NJ
need of them being such rampant PR
: / tectionists.
Mr., Mckinley also said In hi
70 speech. THAT the tariff on shoes ha,
been reduced 60 percent and hide
were admitted free" but shoes wer
:, higher than they were before tn
= Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was passed
/. Now the trainers of that tariff bill