Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 October 1892 — Page 8

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CongrcKfiintin Warner Tells Why Farming lines Not Fay—Protection Huh Depopulated the Country in the .Manufacturing States of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Here, let us say, as a farmer, located on a bit of laud one hundred miles away from the nearest city. That city is his market. There are farmers all about him: lie cannot sell to them either his staple products or the occasional surplus or fruit or garden stuff which unusually good seasons may bring upon j his hands. The cost of transportation j is so much taken from his profits. Here steps in the protectionist. There is in this region, say. a stream capable of abundant “water power. “Let us put a woolen mill here." the protectionist urges: “•let us tigree to pay something more than we pay now for woolen stuffs, and so make it an object for some one ome here and start a manufactory. Hundreds of hands will l* employe : t). railway will be put through ! | We \ !1 b ald up a town right in the midst of our farms and have a market at our very doors. Good prices then for everything.” It is done; the mill is built, the railway is laid, the town grows up. And the farmer—what of him? Strange to say, we presently find him

getting poorer.

Where is the mistake? It is just here—in the agreement to “pay something more than we pay now” for manufactured goods. .In the protectionist’s theory that “something more” is put away in a quiet corner; in the actual practice it comes out and plays the mis-

farmers in this locality

want a woolen mill, those 1 in that locality want a cotton mill, ami those in the next county an iron furnace, and so on. The result is that the fanners pay everywhere “something more” for everything

they buy.

| But this is not all. The promise of j higher prices for wheat in the “home I market” calls for scrutiny. The appeal, sifted down, comes to this : “Pension a number of corn consumers to come and buy of you. Subsidize an army of artisans to settle at the farm gate. Pay them for making goods at a loss, and out of their profits they will purchase your abundance.” Where lias the Dome Market Gone ? This, however, is not the worst. It is bnt fair to admit that th High the protectionist was always at fault and the farmer never helped by “protection,” yet that, in fact, the farmer did once have the “home market" for which he bargained—paltry its might lie the whistle for which he had paid so dear. But nowadays there is no such thing as a “home market” for any considerable portion of his produce. The fanner in the Genesee valley not merely sees the trains run past him to Rochester, laden with flour rolled in Minneapolis from Dakota wheat, but uses the same flour in his own household, and his village butcher sells fresh meat from beeves killed at Kansas City. No manufacturing town dreams nowadays of looking I to the locality about it for any supplies, except only the cheapest part of its “garden truck.” The labor markets of the world are open to the American manufacturer, who thus has free trade in the one thing he buys most of—labor. He lives in a land where transport facilities are so developed that he need not depend upon the locality alxiut him—and he does not in a locality whose surplus of food products is so great that their first price-fixing markets are found at Liverpool. a free trade city, and so he gets them, too, at free trade rates. The American farmer has sold his birthright and has lost his pottage to boot. What the American farmer most needs is a home market in which he can purchase his supplies as cheaply as his comjietitors purchase theirs, and if he can not secure this, then he should have the poor privilege of making his purchase where he is compelled to make his sales, and be permitted to bring his goods home without being compelled to pay unreasonable taxes and fines for carrying on legitimate business. But as to the “home market” fallacy, no logic is half so remorseless ami resistless as that of experience. It h;is been worked out thoroughly under ideal circumstances, the characteristic nature of which no one can question. Before the war no states were more thriving in agriculture than New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. And they earliest of all developed their manufactures, and throughout their length and breadth built factories of “protected" industries on every hand. There never was a farming population more alert to exploit a home market; there never were manufacturers better pleased to create such a market if it could be so created. What

is the result ?

Jfew York Worst of All. Worst of all. however, and most characteristic, is the situation in New V’ork state. The most populous of any in the Union and once the first in agriculture, surpassed by no other in fertility, her Genesee valley was the granary of the country, and supplied our expert trade long before Minnesota was a state, or ] Dakota had a name. Her Orange county

gave the name to the first standard BREAKING A FELON’S SPIRIT, brands ot butter, and her Herkimer Thr Tcrrinie orUeai That i>w Prisoner* county did the same for choose—all this! Can survive. long before the war. Of late, her old I To obtain some idea of the terrible great city has become greater till in pop-! ordeal which the prisoner who is con*

I signed to the “solitary” dungeon has to

illation it now approaches 3,000,000. Brooklyn, her second city, has grown tc 1.000. 000 from a quarter of that number. Buffalo, at the western end, numhers 350,000: Rochester. 150,000; Albany. 100.000, and Syracuse and Troy, 75,001 each, while there are numerous others from 30,000 to 50,000. She has meanwhile become by far the greatest manufacturing state in the Union. Every one of her large towns is a manufacturing center, and throughont the state, close to every one of the old farming centers, extensive factories, mills and workshops have assured to the farmer whatever advantages the best possible “home market" can give. Not merely this, but the state us a whole has increased in wealth with unexampled steadiness and rapidity. Since the war the vineyard interest h;is become an enormous one in her lake region: she has become the first of the northern states in fruit culture; her old rich farming localities are today bettei worked and more fruitful than ever, ami her farming population not decreasing as a whole. There can be n > question as to the prosperity of the state of New York; there can he equally little that a great share of that prosperity is due to her farmers. Do they share it? The Trit>une*a Testimony. The following is published in the New York Tribune, the great home market

organ:

"State Assessors Ellis, Wood and Williams are making their annual visitation to the several counties selected for this year’s inspection. Each year they look into the condition of affairs in half the counties, so that it makes their visits to each county once every two years. Saturday they looked into Albany county, tomorrow they will visit Sche-

nectady.

“ 'We find a general depreciation in the value of farm lands,” said Assessor Wood. ‘We have visited fourteen counties—Monroe, Erie, Chautauqua. Catta raugus, Chenango, Broome, Delaware, Sullivan. Franklin, Clinton, Es<ex, Wa-h ington, Warren and Albany counties. In all we find the same condition of affairs. City property is increasing in value, while farming property is growing less and less valuable. 1 can not see any way for it to improve, and in a few years you will see more tenant farmers than anything else. 1 don’t see how these insurance companies that have advanced money will get out whole. No on-* wants to buy farm lauds here. They can’t get their money out of them. Most of the farms were bought about war times, when big prices were paid. In Washington county I had an illustration of the receding value of farming land. A man took a mortgage for $10,(NX) on a farm just after the war. He has held it ever since, and today will take ijcstHili for the entire farm, after foreclosing thc-

mortgag?

“‘The reasons for this state of affairs are m my. In the first place, the farmer here can’t compete with the farmer in the west. There is very little grain raised within our borders now: potatoes don’t bring any price; butter is selling in the dairy district for fourteen cents a pound, and other products are equally low. This is good for the consumer, but bid for the producer. A few years ago western butter was n wanted; today it gets the cream of the trade in New York city. In a few years you will sc.' the present owners of farms in many in stances tenants on them. “ ’The cities are prospering though. New York city has added about $f>0,000,000 property to its real value the past year: Brooklyn has added between $30, ■ OOb.OOO and s-io,000,000 to its real property: Buffalo has increased §5,000.000; Rochester between $3,000,000 and 000,000, and Albany and Syracuse $1,Ouo.ouo each.' ” Th«- Home Market Club. But there is one point further. As the home market is to be a benefit to the farmers, of course it is the farmers who have organized the Home Market club, of Boston, which is doing so much just now to uphold this beneficent system of protection. But the fact is that it is the manufacturers who are doing it. not the farmers at all. It is as if the people of the Cannibal islands should organize a missionary immigration society as a sure and easy way of getting a meat

supply.

Tito home market theory may be briefly stated as follows: If you farmers

undergo, says the Auburn Advertiser, it is only necessary to know that after the third day the man loses all appetite for the morsel of bread which is given him as his day’s rations, lie looks with loathing upon the only means of keeping life within his body, aud prefers to starve rather than eat it.’ He wastes away in flesh and strength, until the most vicious thug becomes as manageable as a kitten. Upon his release the fear of future punishment of a similar nature prompts him to obey the rules of the prison to the letter. It is scarcely probable that he will be able to resume work immediately after his release, but he manifests the most earnest desire to work to the best of his ability as soon as he shall have recovered his lost

strength.

Some of those whom it is necessary to break in spirit by these means are occasionally irremediably broken down in health. Sometimes it happens that the man is carried from the dungeon to the hospital, and his journey from there to the potter’s field is sure and swift. Many' are the assaults which are happening weekly in the various shops of the prison, and for which the prisoners receive sentences to the dungeon for greater or lesser periods. Phthisis pulinonalis is the favorite malady announced in the death certificate of these unfortunates who are carried out of the dismal walls to their last resting place. Starvation has never yet been assigned as a reason, but the emaciated frame and condition of the sufferer might be mistaken for consumption.

LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA.

The Percentage Ih Less by One-Half Than It Was a Decade Ago. An English paper gives some suggestive figures in support of its statement that beyond the noble service done by legislation for the protection of sailors from the practices resorted to in the past by rapacious ship owners the decrease in the annual loss of life at sea is in a great measure due to improvement in the design of sailing ships, which arc now better able to withstand great storms, aud the adoption of steel, which minimizes the danger of stranding. The small, old wooden vessels are disappearing at the rate of about 1,000 a year. The proportion of lives lost to .the total tonnage entering and clearing English ports has decreased from 4.17 per 100,000 tons in 1881 to 3.00 in 18'jo. This represents a decrease according to tonnage of about one-half. In the case of steamers the increase of traffic was equal to 43.0 per cent., and yet there was a decrease in the number of lives lost of 28 per cenL In other words, the lives lost were equal to 0.57 per 100,000 tons of steamers frequenting English porta in 1881, and in 1890 0.41 per 100.000 tons. In 1882 the ratio was 1.05, and in 1880 0.10 per 100,000 tons. These were the highest and the lowest in the decade, and indicate the possibilities of great fluctuations, due to extraordinary disasters. The tendency, however, is toward a substantial decrease, and it is satisfactory to note that in ten years the deaths among’ masters and seamen from all causes decreased from 23.3 per 1,000 employed to 13.1 per 1,000. Steeps In the House of Lonlg. It is said the duke of Devonshire goes to sleep in the house of Lords. What else is he to do should that august house sit late, as it does three or four times a year? Besides, it is the custom to go to sleep in parliament when you have a mind to. r l lie rules forbid the perusal of a newspaper, a magazine or a book. If a peer or a member of commons desires to read he must go to the readingroom or the library. Therefore, when a bore is on his legs about ten or eleven o'clock, and his diffuse and uninteresting commonplaces arc running out in turgid verbosity, what better thing can a statesman do, asks the San Francisco Fall, than go to sleep? When in the lower house ns Lord Harrington the duke was a confirmed sleeper, with his legs against the clerk’s table, his hat tilted down over his eyes, his mouth open and arms folded, or balancing his body upon the seat. At times his lordship was guilty of an approach to snoring. People who go to bed about three or four o’clock in the morning must take their sleep somewhere.

Her One Defect.

In a breach of promise case, the barrister who held the brief for injured beauty arranged that his fair client should he so placed that her charms should be well under the observation of the jury. He began a most pathetic appeal by directing their attention to her beauty, and calling for justice upon the head of him who could wound the heart and betray the confidence of one so fair, concluding with a peroration of such pathos as to melt the court to tears. The counsel for the defendant

then rose, and after paying the lady the

will only give us m umfoctnrers enough i Compliment of admitting that it was

money to enable us to go into business,

and will consent to pay prices high enough to make it possible for us to continue our business at extraordinary profits, we will agree to buy what we need— what we must have from somesource-

impossible not to assent to the encomiums lavished upon her face, he added that nevertheless he felt bound to ask the jury not to forget that she wore a wooden leg. Then he sat down. The important fact, of which the fair plaintiff’s counsel was unaware, was

from you at low and steadily diminish-1 P resent ^J' established; and the jury, ing prices—if wo can’t get them cheaper ! feelin 8 rat -her sheepish at their tears,

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elsewhere.

That is all there is to it. John DkWTtt Warner.

assessed damages nt the smallest

amount.

iiagplpi.g In a Church Service.

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Railroals and corporations all over part in a military service recently held the state are evading the new tax law, * n York cathedral. A great sensation aud are testing the constitutionality of '' as cren ted when eight kilted llighthe increased rate. This is the same ani 1 lcrs , . of the regdment-under the , ,, ,1 x, , r .. leadership of 1’ipe-Major Matheson— law that the Republican press over the p laye(1 a Highland “Lament” as an instate have lieen howling themselves tegral part of the anthem. The effect hoarse, in Hying to make tiie masses of on the congregation is described as “inthe people believe that the farmer was finitely touching and beautiful.” True, the one who suffered the increase. We ^be first skirl of the pipes there was don’t know of a:iy railroad company a tendency to smile, but it was “instantthat is fighting a law that injures the ly “ bdued by the solemn and pathetic

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