Show HOME MARKET HUMBUG the mill owners say pay us to build mills give us enormous bonuses to run them and our workmen will eat your produce and give you a home market for nil all you can raise can the mill owners do this are arc they doing 0 it in the first place the mill enill owners and all their employees employ ces added to the lie miners include less legs than ten per cent of our working population we now make 93 per cent nearly 1516 15 16 of all the manufactured goods we WC use and mills and mines are shut down on the average froni from one tenth to one oi ath of the time when their working men inen must eat cat even though they do not work norl that is to say even if we absolutely prohibited imports and citizens lad to buy of our mill owner every severy dollars worth of goods they used there could be no perceptible cep tible increase in the number of those to consume the jarvers lar Jar mers products it is plain enough therefore that thai the mill however protected cannot give the fanner any better home market then lie ho lias has this is strikingly illustrated by our experience for thirty year shigh 0 tarin tariff stimulus has been 7 givon given t to 0 manufacturing in 0 industries they have grown beyond precedent and if they could have given 0 our farmers a profitable home a in aikem and made them thein independent of foreigners 0 they must have done so B but ut the fact is the reverse adopting the careful calculations of vr mr davis which arc quoted with approval by tha american the organ organ 45 of the protective tariff league we find that luring during a period of thirty nine deais s 1850 1889 population and the production of the more important staples increased ni as follows population percent cattle 14 swine ine ai cotton corn wheat 1 asa 11 oats that is to say after a whole e generation en of protection and un barall cled growth of manufactures the farmer has fewer people in the united states to feed in proportion to the crops lie ho produces than lie had in 1850 or to put it in another way after the mill owners have lave fooled him for thirty years in pretending to give liim him a leoine ionic market and make him independent of foreigners 0 the american farmer is today to day under tinder high protection more dependant than ever upon foreign 0 market and is forcel forced to find sale abroad for a labaer proportion of what lie he produces than lie was in I 1 under free trade tariff |