Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Even in Pennsylvania the Farmer Is Robbed. [ARTICLE]

Even in Pennsylvania the Farmer Is Robbed.

How has this policy affected the agricultural industries of my own state? It <san be stated iu a few words and in a. manner that cannot bo mhuuKioi’Htood. b cr favm lands were valued at $1,048,481,582; in 1880 they wero valued ft $075,889,410. Thus in ten years the farmers of my state have lost $87,782,172 In the decline of their property. there were produced in my state 19,482,405 bushels of wheat; in 1887 there were produced only 11,105,830 ahhwing a falling off in seventeen years ot 8,007,117. Doubtless the next census will shew a cotlnuous decline in tho value of. real estate, so that the loss in these twas items of the Pennsylvania farmers m» fairly be estimated at iu seP enteen years. In 1880 there wero engaged in Pezmarlvania in agricultural pursuits 801, people over the ago of 10 years, and Ih manufacturing, mechanical and mining capital invested in mauuffcstruxjs in tho same year was §.'474,499,993, a:, agaiant $075,8W1,4i0 m vested in fajin tends. No account is taken of cattle, howes or agricultural implements, as there is not if tho value of the materials of the manufacturers. Now, even in my state, so highly favored by protection, it is shown' that fhere is a class of our people that? havo suffered almost, calamitous injuries by the invidious system of tariff taxation* and by reason of its enoirAns' iuvest-# inter- i,sentitled t , fair - lay, whiclT as one of their \ hero demand.—Hun L:vl of Pennsylvania, in House Debate. How tho I.HMftCT TVc-T-'r Ii “ l'rotecteti.v Isi here. :■ the representative of one of tho largest lumber constituencies in the U’uted fit: -a. Th ■ prOdooe of the fiaei d ug tho last year was 779,£aei Lumber. - That section in wbSrii ihe . 'pul p-u-iicu of the entire, lumbo?- product of Michigan is producer h roj|i»3T*nted \u thin floor by my col-Isw-UfvfMr. Firher) and by myself. And-' I have beef! accused of neglecting tho interesi I represent. Why, sir, as I have F.-’d, 1 fcdve sad to all tlfirf convorsa-' tirnt 1 j c-iii it c< rvt; • upon this il^or, ai’d ) have heard of the gr>.*4 benefits that Jsber has received bv re: >,( your protective tariff. Cut when d? 1 \ou ever hr*;- under t hat system of protection of its ever pr isxg the laboring man oak do-Yr’y vv.wtii iu the v. cu'le'! We cmpl|P thewtemds of meu iu our lumber industry, but l ,v vr they protected? Wlthin a few rv ; I>?A of the CVruifiian lino ve have fbuari vevu- after year that onr ltuuhemwx, tkstead of protecting the Av.eriaan laborer, would go into tiro province of Ontario and bring over cheap Canadian labor, bring them across the river and through the lines, and greet tlrim wish a good morning as they passed out of tho custom hoVw and canao into competition with American 1 ibor whom you pretend to protect. That is the way you protect American labor.-*-Hon. T. hi. Tarsney in Honua Di'l.ata. A!1 Yooifg Blood. It must not be forgotten that the St. Louis eonveution wa;, a young man’s convention, a majority of tho delegates being between twenty-five end forty years ©r age. Tho men who are to do the principal share of the fighting -iu thus campaign are not affected by tho sectional issues of twenty-five years ago. The civil war to them is only a question of history, not a vendotta to bo handed down from father to son. We merely mention this fact fpr tj»e benefit of Governor Forake^, Sh enn an and other “bloody shirt” oratory. WTr *. —— * ' M