| Show RECALLING THE RECORD Until a few years ago Senator ALLISON of Iowa was anything but a protectionist protection-ist in the sense that the word is understood under-stood in politics Ho lived in a farming community and know how oppressively so called protection bore down upon the agriculturists agri-culturists ALLISON used to proclaim against high tariffs but after he heard the Presidential beo buzzing in his bonnet his opinions changed and he has since been straying farther and farther away from the honest opinions he once held Just now there is an animated campaign in Iowa and ALLISON is taking part in it asa as-a consequence the Democratic editors are drawing the deadly parallel columns on him publishing by the side of his protection tpecUe of today I some of his logical addresses before he bowed down before the power which makes Presidents Hero is an extract ex-tract from one of his speeches delivered 1S70 which is being circulated extensively among the farmers of the state and is having hav-ing good effect because they can readily comprehend its truth and they know that it was delivered by a man who was then their friend I believe no ono will claim that agriculture la directly protected It is true that under our customs laws there is a small duty upon wheat barley oats and other agricultural products but it does not adonl any protection to the great wheat ana grain producing regions of the country coun-try The farmer has ptacticolly no protection at all and whatever benefit ho derives Is from what the home market furnishes for home products I pro-ducts Unfortunately for the farmer the market I mar-ket price of wheat Is fixed by the price vhich i the surplus will bring abroad or the price of wheat in London or Llv crpooL At that market where the surplus is so d and which toes the lulus of tho whole crop he comes Into competition competi-tion with the grain produced in the Crimea In Hungary and In tho region of the Baltic from fields cultivated by what Is known In comparison compari-son with our n as pauper labor |
