Show THE MKINLEY FRAUD On the Farmer the Wrage earner and the People DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE now the Farmer Is Taxed to Prevent Him from Exporting his Surplus Product Pro-duct Census Facts Our high tariff politicians who for a generation gen-eration bate posed as the friends of the farmers have been put to great straits of late Their tariff has worked just as it I was intended to donot to aid in the development devel-opment of this country for it has rather retarded itnot wholly to check our prosperity pros-perity for with tho most enterprising people peo-ple and the greatest natural resources that ever blessed a nation and with absolute free trade between all parts of our own I vast country wo have prospered in spite of I restrictive laws but to secure to the manufacturers I man-ufacturers and mine owners who procured I the tariff to be enacted the lions share of i such prosperity as it is permitted I The farmer unfortunately too bitterly I familiar with the facts as to which there is no disputecan be nono During each decade de-cade since IboO the wealth of the country has greatly increased both in ratio and extent ex-tent During but one decade ISoOlbGO has the increase in farm values kept pace with the increase in other respects That was tho decade when we bad practical free trade We have had high protection er since 1S61 and in every decade since I860 tho prosperity of agriculturalists bas fallen far behind that of the other clashes of citizens citi-zens During the last decade 1SSO1S90 the increase of wealth has been greater than ever before and our manufacturing wealth has own faster than ever but during these ten years the wealth of our agriculturalists has actually decreased COMPAKISOJf OF RESULTS Taken as a whole the United States has grown in wealth at an unexampled rate So far so good That is just as we should expect And under low tariff it was the agricultural interests that not only profited most by tho increase fn wealth but prospered pros-pered at a rate that distanced all others Under high tariffs our crops have been as good our growth in wealth not so great proportionately to be sure but still enormous enor-mous in the aggregate and rapid in rate but this time it is not the farmer that gets the lions share His Industry is more productive pro-ductive than ever but not to him He is taxed to subsidize the manufacturers And thus is inaugurated a new sort of partnership partner-ship tho farmer produces the most of tho wealth and the manufacturer gets the most of it The farmer need not be shocked at this He ought not to be surprised That is just what the tariff is for There is no malice about it The manufacturers simply want all they can get They dont care where it comes from The nearest estimate that can be made of the value of the agricultural wealth of this country is based upon the valuation of farms farm animals farm implements and machinery The ownership of the land its improvements the ownership of all the stock upon the farm the ownership of all the tools and machinery necessary to nit n-it constitute the farmers capital In 1850 the farmers of this country v d ffitfoT I > 7 t y i 1 o AI < 10 ii fzs I 343580 of property In 1860 mark this they had Increased their aggregate wealth from the sum named nearly eight billions or to bo more exact 7980493063 a little more than doubling the original capital in ten years and showing by calculation a net increase of about 101 per cent In 1S70 they had increased from 7950493063 to 11124 953747 not quite 40 per cent In 1550 they increased from 11124953747 to 12104 001533 or only about 9 per cent Between 1S50 and I860 we had the lowest tariff and the lowest rate of tax collection that we have had in this country for the past seventy sev-enty years Between 1S70 and 1SSO we havo had the highest we have ever had Between 1550 and I860 the farmers of the country moro than doubled their wealth > and between 1S70 and ISbO they slated s-lated but 9 per cent increase I hs ttO I QO C I 0 e I oc ocJ 08 fie F t E to 0 F c m Shiati 1 B ci m = OlIo lit i d 25P Y 5 o l a5 M d < c > x or = r xF I < > f I z ace a I < 0 r F 1 66 m s I B 1 > r 0 d CDIo = 8 d a n oI C7 eO 1M 1M 10 IIro > j a to s me C = I 888 I one fI4Wr t |