Show TARIFF faraher Fa raier FAUTS AND the protection given farm products markets that farmers rely on written for nothing is cheap when we have nothing with which to buy freedom and reasia makes ug men take these anav and what are wo then did it ever occur to you democrats that the principle of protection with man and beast is as old as the earth no creature bearing the form of life human or struggles with any more to carry out this principle in all ita ramifications ramification a than the american farmer whether he be a dem or a republican he knows with remarkable precision what would be tho were he to neglect the proper protection of hia farm by a substantial fence or hia crop from the of noxious weeds so no sensible parson would accio the farmer of inconsistency for enclosing his farm or attribute andus belf interests by nursing hia young and tender plants by keeping down the weeda and gibing tham free to grow until they were sufficiently strong lo 10 maintain a supremacy upon the same principle every other industry must or should have protection woven around it bat bays the objector this is a land of freedom Ys with pertinacity we maintain that idea to the utmost of and say on top of that let those who would possess themselves of its benefits become citizens of the common by identifying them relves as fauch in ayery deose ot the term thus throwing off the weeds choke out the farmers product Bro duct noxious interlopers interlope rs with tha products of cheap slave labor from abroad stultifies home products against thip objectionable feature the tariff lends a stunning blow no country feels this american ariff system more than geat britain the writhing swelling and heaving effects which it produced in that nilberto nil herto center of commerce great br taia ia tl 0 highest of the tariff system there is no single industry ia this broad and rich land that employs EO many people aa farming and yet only about 9 OJO follow that pursuit in the united states all others implored imp loyed ho earn wadea would not exceed while it ia true that the of the farm are not equal ti the products of the manufacturing industries yet it forms a substantial basis for all other industries and must therefore derive great benefit from the protective tariff this ia true directly and indirectly as every farmer cau authenticate who has followed up the statistical history of its in this country deteriorating effects in other lands the american people possess in tha principle of tanal the grandest moral power that could be wield id in its defense the arch la being built upon protection protection is ene of the first laws of nature the farmer has assigned to him a special part of that imp artent structure jivey industry ind depends upon the farm in teresta no other industry caa possibly exist without it america ia a world of itself it on bains in developed and andev eloped re all that is to austain its population its variations in chitu bite from the tropics to the frigid is unsurpassed the brodu ts in fr ills and cereals cannot be equaled in quant ity and quality anywhere elso lu toll the world her mineral resources are tible her laople therefore can exist comfortable i the commercial gates of all other countries are closed against her Noth withstanding there is a duty on aliye animals boef boik mutton hama bacon lard butter cheece bleat corn rye oats barley potatoes hay hope vinegar honey tallow tobacco wool rice and orchard fruits the im porta amounted ia 1887 in provisions meat and dairy products to ha breadstuff animals paying duty wool hav bobi and but few farmers are aware of tha suicidal encroachments encroach ments that are being made epou their home industries for the want of a more sweeping tariff the writer prays that the lime may navar cunie when the parts of our country will be thrown open to the imports of wheat free of duty from india in india the farmer can obtain all tin labor he needa for from six to eight benta per day with a high duly aa it naturally appears of twenty rents per bennal for wheat the india farmer can put hia wheat in the new york market for 95 bonts per bushel ii cheaper to the adian farmer andoor ando ou he will be a be to place in our markets hia products at a figur much below that of tha present enless the shall provide it and protect our farm interests ii I i a country abounding in tha richest aud moat productive land in all the world li in astonishing aston ishin that we boroni belted pelted to import in articles of food raire ilan fifty teven million dollars annually boea it not strike alii inner as a rather covol idea of cabotage from holland potatoes froia gotland and beans from cabadi bow fiat americans eat annually over woith of vei tables from abroad fit potatoes from aad bushels of heans and peas from canada farming an 1 manufacturing in iua iries ef america must ba pro sited against the cheap labor of nd older or we mut bably tably fall below our present status and with that oba pa pur artin 01 a thing wal will neyr M llin consent to |