The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-06
/ IMPORTANT FACTS FOR FARMERS
How the Best Ever" Tariff Picks Their Pockets
(, IMPLEMENT PRICE AT HOME AND ABROAD
Protection On Wheat and Corn a Rank DeIusion

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no protection to the farmer because
this is an exporting nation. In 1906
we produced 1927 100000 bushels OF
wheat and imported only 10000 bush
els and this was mostly for seed. For
every $500 bushels produced we i'm.
ported a pint. Terrible competition
that. And the farmer must be pro-
tccted against the foreigner and a
tariff of % cents bushel is placed
upon corn. This is an outrage and
an insult against an American farm
er's intelligence. The farmer Is not
only being cruciied upon this cross
Of high protection, but he is being
compelled to. carry his cross TO his
own crucifxion.
glance at the market will show
that the farmer in Winnipeg. Canada,
gets more for his wheat than the
farmer in Missouri and Ohio by sew
eral cents.e On June IL, 1909, the
Chicago Record.Herald quoted the
market OF July wheat as follows:
Winnipeg ......"..s1.3 80 bushel
Duluth ......,,....$1.3 80 bushel
Minneapolis .r.....$1.31 a bushel
When you leave the Canadian line,
July wheat was quoted in New York
at s1.26 a bushel; in Chicago AZ from
$i.lS to SI22 bushel, notwithstand.
ing the tariff Of % cents a bushel.
July wheat was quoted In st. Louis
at st.l6. ID cents less than In Winni-
peg. Notwithstanding the duty Of 25
cents, and in Kansas City July wheat
was quoted at but $i.I2, IS cents less
than the Canadian wheat in Wlnni.
peg, notwithstanding the protection"
OF 20 cents bushel.
When you talk about competing
with the pauper labor of Europe, Asia
and Africa, what's the matter with
the American who has TO compete
with the coolie laborer of India. the
sheap laborer OF Russia and Egypt,
while he is compelled to accept the
price that is made for his wheat at
the market In Liverpool, England
Yet when the home farmer buys his
agricultural implements he Is being
charged from 20 peT cent to 30 per
cent more than the foreigner has to
pay for the same article. Is II not
then Just kick that the farmer
makes against this tariff OF is per
cent being placed upon these arti.
cles7
The tariff on corn and wheat Ia q
Aalnuinn NJ In
tended to be a delusion and a snare,
and whenever farmers complain that
duties have been Increased upon the
necessaries Of life Senator Aldrich
tells them that they need not mur.
muir; that they were not neglected !;
that the duties were increased upon
agricultural products.
These increased duties on farm
products are intended to dazzle and
to deceive the farmers of this coun-
try.
In spite Of all the Republican par.
tvs protection the farmers OF the
United States must meet the pauper
farmers OF all the earth In the mar.
ket places Of the world. Since they
must sell In the cheapest mar
kets OF the world. they ought to be
allowed to buy their farming imple'
ments In the cheapest markets In the
world, and for them the cheapest
market In the world for farming i'm.
plements ought to be here at home,
where the implements are manufac'
tured.
II is simply a question who stands
higher In the esteem and affection of
the Republican psrty-the farmer of
this country or the international trust
on farming implements.