The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-11-03
A FARMERS VIEWS
ON THE TARIFF.

q L @AASV41A1O VIE WS s- II
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 Bnrdensome 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 gath,
1910. The title of it is the Tariff
and Prices" Our protective friends
want to impress it on the farmer hat
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 whatNwas un-
changed. Among those reduced he
quotes: Beef 25 percent, veal rs
per percent, pork rs percent. bacon
and hams 20 percent, lard rs percent,
cabbage 33 1-3 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 i'm the thun-
der would anybody want to import
! corn or corn meal to this country for
when this country is the corn produe-
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 e a list of the
revenue that is collected ON the above
named products2 Then there is a
tariff on -four, 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 morel 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 a 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 IN them, in
this already glutted market?
Butter and milk has a tariff on it,
and what is that for, and how much
duty does the government collect on
imported butter and milk?
Maybe a few Lincoln county radi-
cal politicians would like to import a
few ship loads of buttermilk and pay
the tariff ON it, especially il 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 IN agricultural pro
ducts. when the farmer is always ar
exporter! Where is there a country
i'm this world that can spare its farm
products to ship to this country? ii
, seems to me that all this talk about
the tariff on farm products protecting
the farmer is all tomfoolery. What
the farmer wants is a market for thii
produce. He already has the worlC
for "a market for his corn, wheat OF
-four, beef, pork and cotton. He pro
duces three-fourths of the cotton OF
the world and the world is his market
and tWo-thirds of it has to go to for.
eign countries to find a market. And
if the American manufacturers RaG
t shown the business ability that thc
English manufacturer did, tney
could have been selling two-thirds o!
their goods to- other countries anC
! owned their ownships to ship theii
/ goods in. Then there would be nj
; need of them being such rampant PR
I t~ectionists.
Mr.. Mckinley also said in hi
speech, THAT the tariff on shoes haC
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