Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — FARMERS ARE ANGRY. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS ARE ANGRY.

British Agriculturist* geek John Bull’s Protection. A national conference of British agriculturists was held in tne St. Janies Hall, Picadilly, London, In conformity with resolutions adopted by various chambers of agriculture throughout Great Britain, to the effect that some decisive step should be taken at once to relieve the distressed condition of British trade in general and of British agriculture in particular, and also declaring that: “No permanent good can be attained without jsome stringent measures being adopted'by which the British producer shall be placed upon a footing where ho can compete with the foreign producer upon fairer terms, especially as regards manufactured gobds that can be produced in this country, and that relieving the land of a portion of Its burden will only partly meet the case." Representatives were present from nearly every Chamber of Agriculture in the United Kingdom, and, the report says, doleful tales were interchanged among the farmers present of farms desorted, the soil untilled, and agriculture brought to the verge of ruin. Thero was a general consensus in favor of protection for agricultural products.