| Show LEADERS who admit the correctness of liesa principles we submit for the consideration of our democratic friends the following follo wint sentiments expressed by men who enjoy some distinction dig as aa democrats it will be noticed they are not in perfect P er accord with the present bostion po stion of the tha democratic party as regards man and protective tariff we must now place our oar mar manufacturers by the side aldo of the agriculturists 1 I 1 0 experience has haa taught me inc that manufacturers are now as leccas sary cary to 0 our ur independence as aa to our comfort upon apen the success of our oar manufacturers to ae the handmaid of agriculture and commer M de decerda peRda in a great dersam the inde independence pen dence of our country and lions aone can fel mr more re s thin than I 1 do the necessity if thesa then draw from agriculture the au abundant labor employ it in eban ism and thereby creating a boue boine market for your bread stuffs i and distributing labor to tn a more mori profitable profi taUl account and benefit bere fit to t the coun country tr y will result take from agrical agri cul ture la a the united states six hundred thou thousand sani men omen amen and childr children arl and you at once give a nome barket for bore 22 or breadstuff bread stuffs than all europe furnishes esus us heaven smiled upon dpn and anal gave us liberty and bence that same lame providence has bless 1 ed eds as with the means of national independence pen dence and national de felise if wi we omit emit or refuse to use the gifts which arl h baa extended to us s we deserve not the cuntin nation of his he has bai filled our mountains and our plains with minerals mineral lead iron and copper and given a climate and soil for ane raising of hemp and 0 ot these being the grand materials of our national def taise they ought to laye have extended tended az to them adequate and fair prot e tion that our own m manufactories manu factories and I 1 laborers may ma y he be placed on a fair competition with those cf europe and that we may have within ear own country a sup ply ay of those leahing and important articles so essential to war f 44 t andraw benator brodu of georgia has the following to say on the proposition that the tariff is added to the price of the home product prod act showing the farmers is i well protected prate cLed for lin stanco there was a tariff of 10 cents a bushel on corn in 1837 in creased by the mckinley bill to 15 cents in 1190 and the official statistical re port part puts down the whole of corn produced in this country in li 87 at bushels there were imported the same year SO bushels which paid a tariff of 10 cents per bushel in other words the tariff was added to the original price of the corn and that raised the price of all corn cern produced in this co country lantry 10 cents a bushel bushel now what Is tho result T ten cents a bushel on the aba quantity of corn above mentioned amounted to ta a net income to the farmers if the rule be bi correct of on ac count of corn alone for one year I 1 have a table here sh owins how bow much under that rule the farmers made net wheat rye iia oats barley potatoes pot pot aloe aloes tobacco cattle horses and sheep and other articles showing the aggregate of set net profit to the planters farmers and stock of of f this country andor the rule rala above mentioned a twelve hundred millions of ef dollars dellara in round su lumbers ii ilk a single year now who will say in the face of f these fiji faure taken from the official effi cial reports that the farmers are not r well ell protected by the tariff 7 if tha rule laid down dawn by tha tariff reform Is correct then there is no ne escape al frem rem the official figures and there is no question that the farmers sade made by thi over A billion of dol dolt A lars tin democratic ecna tor ter advantage of a home market in the hallowing language I 1 net only ahw althe price of ef land is ia greatly greata their proximity to and dimini by their remoteness irom manufacturing centers you may lad ind land telling selling at 50 an acre within a few milea milas of et a manufacturing town aid aad you yoa may buy the same quality of land at t 0 an acre SO 40 or r miles from man contres cen tres and why so because not only the good has a market for her butter and and aad eggs and cheese and everything of that character that is produced upon the farm but the farmer has a market for every buhel of 1 cru corn wheat rye ye etc and for every apple peach pear melon anil aai a everything thing of that character that he makes upon aba firm farm when located nea a manufacturing contra centre and he be gets the belt beat price for I 1 alacorn A flour meat ani other notes lary sarr act acles produced upon the farm so B in every view of it no class of el pletto people in this country are more benefited y the increase of and the diversity of ef laher thus putting down the price sf of articles arti ples and putting cutting up bp the rica ol of farm fara products oro Dro ducts the farmers themselves them selvas |
