Show THE prof pro J it tanner whose speech i is ii i reviewed ed eleew elsewhere here in this iesue I 1 i has h is made a number of genii rk ible 1 statements according tu to the short I 1 hand anti report or of his lecture lie ile t tella ea Is tile the people that under the ro publican system of protection the american A in erica 11 barnier inner hecei receives ves nion mon benefits than dous docs any other ethl ir class Is it a fact that farmers have grown rich in proportion to in city people that we have milli millionaire r e farmers as we havo have manufacturers or have farmers even prospered under tinder republican republic lu le legislation isolation as they should have prospered in in the natural course of event let us free bee tile the relative i increase in tile the value of farms as co compared inba red with other oilier values in asco the farmers owned nearly one halfor half of tile the wealth of the nation aj folio aarni values value 14 other values ou cut but after twenty years of protection i in na ra baim I 1 ill values other values value 12 Itie reds ais 40 other olber valnes 23 3 3 Iner nase in farin values twenty years prot protection eption 51 ver yonei t ent il Incie ac lit in other vaters twenty bearo pro protection lection asu per ir cecii if is as prof jannex says the farmer fanner has been protected more dore than alian any any other class why lias has the number home owners decre decreased acl arid the number of renters increased under tinder the influence of republican tariff P protection protection wily why have ou our american farms become plastered with mort mortgages poes under this policy that is said to 6 protect them if tho farmer has been protected all t these 0 iese years atit time be beb hould know it ciflie if he his has been protected it is strange that 1 L L polk president deot of the national farmers alliance should sav eay to the U S senate committee on agriculture mr chairman retrogression 0 in ill american ac agriculture 0 nii ans national decline the power and 0 grandeur rand Fur of this country cannot survive the deara degradation 0 dation of the american farmer struggle L le toil and suffer as he mayi may each re currins year lias has brought to him sni smaller aller reward for his until today surrounded surround eil b by y we we most wonderful progress sg and development the world has ever witti witnessed eseed he is i confronted and appalled with impending din I 1 bankruptcy and ruin we protest and with all rever reverence that it is not lods clods fault we ve protest that it is not the farmers fault we believe and so charo ge solemnly aurl aud deliberately that it is is the fault of the financial system of the government a system that has placed on agriculture a 0 an all undue I 1 unjust and intolerable proportion of tile tiie burdens of taxation |