The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1912-09-20
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O Tharapid and pieaomepal .gnoE9tA9 81
mannfsatire d. ilyew, q esset sssce the
;, RspnPlje9Ip pelieg Of , taFTif protection
was begun updef the Morrill, tariff has
T rejected great baebeft Upon the agri.
euitdraf fiitidfr4ests bf TIE state
From 1900 TO 1910 the annual value
,afptlf tqEPn crops in New Jersey in
:, creased ,fflr9m $24.240, 179 to $67 ,7i5,872
IN, 1910 the total value Of farm prop
ertieg In New Jersey was 1854 ,S32, 665,
an increase Of SOS, $4,000 in ten years
fn farm property alone.
But this was only q part of the ae-
cumulated gain Of the farmer The
country banks tell the story of his de
posts and investments Fifty years
ago n farmer who had a bank account
Of $1,000 was considered rich by his
neighbors, and his afIluence was rare
Now q well 10 do farmer has n credit
running far up into the thousands, ano
many farmers have large investments
in stocks and bonds.
And 1t Is noteworthy that, WINE
there were 1907 ,042 acres under cult
walton in 1900 In New Jersey, there
were only 1.s03.33 acres IN 1910-that
is to say that the farmers of the state
got S13,40s, 693 more in value out OF
the land in 1910 than they did in 1900.
The explanation Of this lies In I'M
proved processes and in higher prices
for their products, and the higher
prices were due to tariff protection.
This was the direct benefit to the
farmer. Nor would this have been
possible without at the same time the
indirect benefit the farmer has reeeiy'
ed from the tariff on manufactures
Every industry and factory estab
lshed IN New Jersey means new con
sumers for the farmers products
Every increase in working population
is nm enlargement Of the farmers
market Every Increase of the wages
for the workers In mills and factories
means increased consumption of the
farm products because Of the increas
ed ability of the workmans family to
purchase them. The debt of the farm
er TO the protective tariff is q double
one. 1t has protected the fruits of his
labor from the competition OF foreign
crops, dumped upon our markets, and
it has made larger home markets for
him.
The way the farmer lives compared
with the manner of living before he
reoped the advantages OF tariff protee
tlon IS suggestive enough OF the good
wrought for him by the Republican
policy that Democratic politicians
would destroy.
Formerly the average New Jersey
farmhouse was bare OF everything of
the nature of luxury. Few indeed
could afford a piano; there We're no
pictures on the walls, and there was
little besides the family almanac and
the weekly local paper In the way of
literature. And what do we see In the
average farmhouse now?
If there is daughter there is
piano or pianola. There are books and
magazines In the library, and art pie,
lures are found on the walls. There is
a telephone in the house, and, IN
many cases, In the barn stands an au.
tomobile. There are rugs on the floors
that formerly We're bare or covered
10y rag carpets, The furniture is mod
ern and artistic. There is more Of the
air OF refined home,
Formerly the education Of the farm
ers son and daughter was what could
be obtained IN the district schoolhouse
10 the fnl and winter. Now the aver
age farmer is enabled to send his
daughter to a seminary and the son to
a college
The labor on the farm has been light
ened by the tariff The era Of ma
chinery aud improved implements is
coincident with tariff protection. AS
soon us ii became profitable for Ameri
cans 10 manufacture American inge
nuity was awakened. The inventors
got their first lessons in the infant In
dustrles They learned the principles
of machinery. and men who worked
on the farm began 10 study how they
could apply machinery OF agriculture
They accomplished maryels. Today
America leads the world in the manu-
faeture Of agricultural machinery. She
has revomtionized agriculture In Amen
ca and Europe.
With consummate impudenee the free
traders point to the tariff duties on
imported farm implements as n burden
on the farmer, ignoring the fact that but
for tarin protection the farmer would
have no farm machinery and would
be using hand labor at much greater
cost, while his products would have a
smaller market at much cheaper prices
Like Governor Wilson these free trad
ers also forget that there are no import
duties ON agricultural machinery aud
tools imported from countries that col
leet no duties on agricultural machinery
and tools of our manufacture. There
Is no such duty collected at American
ports on implements of husbandry
coming from England, for instance.
N the farmers clothing and house
hold articles cost a shade more by rea
son Of the protection given TO the fac |
tory hand in the cites, is he not richly |
compensated by the tariff which pro. |
teets his productsg
A lie is always blacker than the
wrong II tries to hida