Show L L ec the question of tariff reform defor is ons which arouse arouses iona 1 id erable dis op yc casion cu sion jt as one which is of lively fo t eve every ry fird farmer ii in n the thi y country from the fact that the tariff asit asit no now exists protects the manufacturer while the farmer or fp ji producer r isif isa leftin tin tho the cold the 11 louisville W villo courier journal bai has paid great attention to this thle subject and incessantly clamors for a reform with good argument showing ita necessity among other reasons advanced lor such a course bein being taken the journal in question says the tariff was imposed in order to equalize the benefits of nature in order to make the factory as profit table alle as s ahe farm it takes there tore jo rn the farm and gives to the factory it was imposed because the ordinary and natural returns of agriculture were so great that the factory i did not tempt the farm firm labor now biow let us see what the effect equalizing 1 In in things has bat been from 1850 to 1860 the increase in in the balue of farms firms was per 1 11 f cent or from 1860 to 1870 it was 41 per cent or 01 82 2 from to 1880 it was 9 per cent or Thede the decade cada f from rom 1850 to 1860 was that of a revenue tariff those of 1860 to 1870 and 1870 to 1880 were decades of a protective tariff the same lime indication of decay for P s i it 1 loehl ing clee else is shown if ir retake we take the th value of agricultural implements and machinery and of live stock and taking everything on the farm as well as the farm it self widd we and that in the first decade the increase was per cent the second it ft is was s 89 the third it was 9 only 0 taking the decade decide from 1850 aft t 9 acco as asa measure of the natu natural ral growth of agricultural wealth th the e aai no and healthy growth health alike for the whole people and extending it to 1880 we find that at a period the farming wealth a should have been when bon in fact it was only or if discarding the per cent we assume that the actual i in a crease create from irom 1850 to 1860 was the only fair measure the total aeri agri cultural wealth should have been fid ia in fact it was four thousand millions lees less than thin this SUB SUM we use these figures to indicate a Aen tendency deney which is ud undeniable deniable i which bas be been e n going on twenty years and which the farmers r are not able lo 10 counteract while on the one band hand their the ir value is impaired by the fact that in 1860 slave prop i erty was in included 1 eluded this effect is counteracted by the fact that since since 1860 evidences of debt public find and private v ee are counted as wealth the he farmers comprise one half 0 of i the alia population and the census hows slow that from 1860 to 1880 eased ihna wealth the other half increased r ith we all know that this must be d suejo ue f abnormal causee the wealth st of this js country is in the soil the chief advantage it u is in the vast extent of its territory yet we ve see that though one halt half our population is agricultural its savings sayings are only one sixth ol 01 the savings of all other classes that when the farmers make mate one dollar some one else makes six A to congressman Congre samaa tim campbell Can the congress afi of the united states is the bullseye bulls eje of ol 01 the atlo but you have bave to aim hiah bh if yon you want to hit it 49 I 1 |