Show agriculture PROTECTED TED protection for our farmers found lo 10 the law lair at various times since the passage of the mckinley tariff law wo we have given facts and figures showing the beneficial influence that law has had on american agriculture how by decreasing importations of competing farm products it has increased tho tile demand for our own productions duct ions while at the same time still further extending tha farmers farmer 8 market by opening up new opportunities for employment to our people in manufacturing fac turing industries and thus creating a larger consuming class for the fa farmers rm products but those figures have necessarily been incomplete owing to the short period of time during which the new law had been in ili operation now however that an entire fiscal year lias bas elapsed since the enactment of the tariff of 1890 it is possible to make a fairly accurate calculation as to the larger value of the banners fan ners market due to mckinley protection this we have done by comparing imports of competing agricultural products or products which in somo some form or other compete with those of our farmers during the years ending juno june 30 1800 and juno june SO 30 1883 1 the two years immediately preceding and succeeding the passage of the tile mckinley act the statistics ar are taken from the summary State statement luent of imports and exports issued by the treasury department and they show clearly the benefits of the new law to agriculture protection TOR FOR OUR rAll MERS 11 isane TIIE LAW imports imports im aw 1802 1 animals a 0 st Bread breadstuffs stuffs Z eggs flax and hemp 0 OC ma fruits other than tropical 7 M hay 7 hops sm 4 provisions meat and dairy products seeds linseed or flaxseed tobacco oleaf leaf t tobacco manufactured vegetables totals CM ml larger market for american farmers it requires neither theoretical knowledge nor broad philosophy to understand tho the meaning of this table one fact stands out strong and clear the mckinley law has decreased the importation por tation of articles competing with the products of american farms by ma in other words in tho the first fiscal year of its operation it has made the tile farmers homo home market moro inore valuable by exactly that amount this however is but a small part of its work when we remember the now new industries established tho old ones expanded the larger number of laborers employed the wages inere increased aEed and the greater purchasing power on the part of nil all classes of our people which so prominent a free trade statistician as edward atkinson says exists it is safe to say that double that figure scarcely measures the value of the mckinley tariff to our agriculturists and the effects of this larger market of this stimulated industry wo we see all around us not for a long time timo have our farmers been so prosperous and contented there is no kind of a cliance ll 11 for calamity howlers bowlers in the great ari agricultural sections of the west and I 1 the farmers of those great and growing districts t can bo be depended on to roll up their usual largo large majority for the tile banners fan ners policy and the farmers candidates on the ath day of the coming november |