Show V 7 DO FARMERS HOW FREE TRADE WOULD a i THEM TO MERE they are above all others other I 1 alth rt t rj tt i fac mut oo 00 to t tho the id f I 1 Ts tnt I 1 of all those engaged in p product r od act k I 1 austry there is no one that liaa 14 a interest in the preservation of 0 thea he aan AU protective system than to fa a the crocodile tears of sympathy oa 07 I 1 poor oppressed farmer that ar at I 1 shed by free traders only serve fe thia this out more strongly but til clate what protection has do don doing for the farmer it is only i to consider what the result 0 f A nans I 1 it would be in other wor worda word 1 would be the effect of free tradell 81 first ultimate destruction ofa 0 i I 1 can manufacturing industry th tatt contestable it is not merely tida pay IN ity higher money wages to onata our all american industrial conditto conditio condi tio to this result let us even assume m 6 fora I 1 purpose of argument that the ratio rating 1 tween efficiency of labor and waa y pa is such that us as a result of the great fici ency y of our laborers we are analu to produce as cheaply at present a of prices as the foreigner even oa aliu wit which ich is far from being bos hot out in experience we cannot co com rap with him and for the following reason in a contest between two labor in one of which labor is well paid ax greslie gres greb alve lve and determined to to assert its h rights ri lits while in the other labor is fl graded unorganized organIzed nn and unable to frith with cistand egand the assaults 0 of capital the latter Is fit will w always win for under each a agn tem manufacturers can cati always redact cost of production by cutting dow wages whereas under the former talis ii is impossible la in a contest therefore b ix tween our manufacturers and those st ct foreigners we must inevitably iner itally pea this then is established second secona As a result the in manufacturing would lih arye to take tu ke to the land landi 1 e engage lu n I 1 cultural pursuits what this is n very clear under present condition conditions M iper per cent of american agricultural products iuchs a are re consumed at home tind ind find a ready market for consumption by those engaged erigan ed in while the 6 per cent surplus that la is exported seldom finds a sure market and even it if it docs aws in transportation freight and midd lemens charges have taken t away almost almot the tile entire profit from t the 0 tanner ainner I 1 11 I 1 such is the case what then would be the result of not only taking from him his hom home market but at the same time giving him as competitors all those who formerly engaged in manufacturing and were hu hij I 1 customers it could only ba be a glut glut both in the home and in the foreign market third when as the result of 0 this thi immense overproduction of agricultural products the price would have fallen to a starvation point and arid when at the theuma as it result of the greatly increased demand for foreign manufactured goob the price of these would have risen tow to aa extortion point what then would be abe ratio of exchange it could mean both ing but lint ruin ruin min complete and di disastrous Ms for tha the Ame american producing classes but this is not all when capital can no longer find profitable investment ia in manufacturing industry there can ba be but ono one result a distinct lard holding class clam with great estates on one haud hand and a class of rent paying tenant farmers on the other for this is the inevitable I 1 effect of a nations capital being invested exclusively in agriculture what then would be the american farmer f the pride of american institutions and american national life the miserable slave lave s of an absentee landlord abow condition could only be b paralleled by that of the irish tenant fanner farmer of today 4 11 hounded bounded through life by the in 1 alent middleman and deprived even of the last hope in death by the heart f rending reflection that ha he must leave his I 1 I 1 childrens children to bear like himself this abominable bondage this is no partisan picture drawn to suit stereotyped stereotype Ll ideas it is founded on a knowledge of established economic laws justified in theory and sad proved ia in practice and is but a fair statement of the awful effects that would ultimately I 1 follow the adoption of free whatever ground for discontent th the i farmer may havo have today is not daei due d I 1 protection but to the fact that he isial I 1 protected enough lie re needs a isiria home hom 1 e market marker to completely him from his ills bori bondage dage t to 0 the foreign net I 1 and thia this can catt only be obtained by byca careful rehl discriminating duties adjusted in ln accordance aci ati 1 I cora cor dance since and sympathy with thu the protective I 1 policy |