Show DESTROYING THE FAUJIKK Tho census figures of population for this territory are significant Tho increase of 02535 in ten years has been largely confined con-fined to Salt Lake and Ogden Tho country coun-try districts havo not filled up Thonum bars of farms and farmers havo not kept pace with the general growth In a country coun-try in whch farming constitutes the basis of industry directly employing nearly half our working population and therefore supporting fully threefifths of the people peo-ple it must seem strange that farming is Jon J-on tho decline while other occupations are prospering There is no class of people in any country that should be more prosperous prosper-ous than the American farmers The should be the most prosperous people of this country and for several generations they were The wellto do farmer was the talk and pride of the country coun-try but it is no longer so Everywhere this greatest otall industries is languishing in its chosen home The farmers Industry is now morejrcductlvo than ever before but it is not productive to tho farmer The country as whole has grown In wealth at an unexampled rate but farming does not share in the growth In 1850 the value of the total agricultural wealth was nearly four billions of dollars in 1SGO it was nearly eight billionsan increase of 100 per C2n In 1S70 the value was eleven billions and in i 1850 onlyitwelve billions In these last ten years the wealth of agriculture has increased in-creased only 11 per cent as compared with an increase of over per ceht 100 per cent in the same length of time thirty years ago What the census for 1890 will show almost a anyone can Imagine for the farmers have prospered pros-pered less since 1SSO than ever before I Tho monster tariff is destroying the farmer The manufacturer has declared though it isnot true that he must receive bonus by means of a tariff that will cub cu-b nce the price of his goods or he must gout out of business He gets noneof the tariff f I > p j on imports this is paid to government his protection consists of an increase of price on goods that are not imported And the unprotected Industries chiefly farming farm-ing have to pay this tax of increased pri eon e-on nearly every conceivable article that must be bought for farm or home In 1880 the manufactures of the country sold here aggregated five billions of dollars in value The average tariff was 48 per cent If the tariff Increased the C9st of the home product to only ono fourth of the amount of the duty the increased cost of these home manufactures was over six hundred million dollars to begin with and much more when finally consumed The citizens dependent on agriculture must pay overfour hundred millions of the increased cost The farmer gets practically nothing from the tariff and bears the chief burdens it imposes Ho has the home market right at his door nevertheless he grows poorer The tariff compels him to pension a number I of corn consumers to live near him so that ot they wIU buy his corn Manufacturers urge that he must pay them for making goods at a loss and out of their profits they will then purchase his farm products But the subsiuized manufacturers import farm products and even the home market is divided di-vided with foreigners Is it any wonder that the farmers are now forming the Farmers Alliance in an effort to protect themselves Is it any wonder that L L POLK president of that organization said on April SJJ before tho Senate com mitteo on agriculture Retrogression Retrogres-sion in American agriculture means national st tional decline The power aud grandeur of this great country cannot survive the degradation of the American farmer Struggle toil and suffer as ho may each recurring year has brought him smaller reward re-ward for his labor until today surrounded by the most wonderful progress and development devel-opment the world has ever witnessed he is confronted and appalled with impending bankruptcy and ruin We protest and with all reverence that it is not C us fault We protest that it is not the farmers fault Wo believe and so charge solemnly and deliberately that it is the fault of the financial system of the government a s stem s-tem that has placed on agriculture an unduE un-duE unjust and intolerable proportion of he burdens taxation |