Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-24

Do YOU remember what the Boer
War revealed to England? That her
Military recruits were understood and
that their vitality was lowered by tile
conditions of crowded city life. Well
NAV her statesmen have turned their
eyes backward tn those stalwart far
mer boys, the ycoman archers of Eng
land, who laid low the mailed chivalry
of France, or those other country
boys. stalwart in form and stern Of
conscience, whose Valor at Dunbar and
Worcester commended their leader To
immortal fame and their model of or
ganizatiun to English speaking sol
diers for 80 years. And so the Eng
lish Observation-Disclosures themselves
of valor as we'll as of trade--recom-
mondcd a tariff ON agricultural prod
ucts. applause on the Republican
Sidc)
That is what English statesmen
recommended after investigation and
study. What You propose to do here
and now is to tear down American
agricultural duties after neither in
vestigation nor study. Applause on
the Republican side)
E1O" tG'i VI SlffiCio az NCA
Was Lost.
Since othor nations have thought il
worth while to study the equilibrium
OF the farmers market. it MY BE-
worth our time tn halt for momeny
the speedy onward course of this bill
and reflect on il ourselves. 1t con
Germs all. tn" rroudcst city and the
smallest toWn. 1t oVerrides all con-
sileration of special profits or losses
that we may think We see in this
agreement
Up to 1880 this equilibrium between
agriculture and the home market was
maintained the world over, becauss
Transformation was still costly on land
and sea, and agricultural products. be-
ing bulky, We're restrained by the cos;
of freight from flooding any particular
market. But from 1850 onward the ap-
plication Of steam to land and water
transportation feVolutionized the eco
nomic condition of the world. and soor
brought to the front one great and all
controlling economic phenomenon-tht
opening of the broad and fertile prai.
rias of The western United States.
Farm products began to fly through
space and hurl themselves upon far.
distant places in unheard-of quantities
This was especially so with farm pro
ducts raised on new lands, under
the stimulus of natures stored-up fertili
ty In 1873 the fast-freight and refrig-
orator car came into activity. and th'
dairyrnan Of the West was constructivel!
moved Up To the door of the eastern far
mer. and the two went merrly to WORK
To make one another poor with over
competition. The equilibrium of the mar
kct between the farmers surplus and tht
artisans product. from being constant
and sure under the eyes of all. became
a flightv and inconstant thing. doing tin
expected acts in response to distant
voices. That German farmer on III,
sands of Brandenburg should find th'
conditions in the little market tow
where his fathers had resorted for thre.
centuries turned upside down by som'
farmers on River Platte III lane
called Nebraska, thousands of miles dis
tant under the westward sun, was phe
nomenon astounding and portentious
Well NAV 1t have driven bismarck. i'm
bued with the free-tradc theories of til,
universities and sharing the prejudiees
OF the country squircs of Germany
against manufactures from the free
trade 10 the protection camp. tAppiaust
on the Republican sidej