Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1905 — FARMERS SHOULD. PONDER. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS SHOULD. PONDER.

Voters of the Repablieaa Ticket Have Food For Thought. Hon. E. N. Foss, the Boston manufacturer and tariff reformer and a former Republican congressman, said something at the Chicago reciprocity conference that every farmer that votes the Republican ticket should ponder over before he casts his next vote. The problem stated by Mr. Foss was: “Has there ever been a time in the past fifty years, if in the history of the United States, when the American farmer could afford to sacrifice his foreign outlet? Yet that is what his pretended friends among the stand patters of the country are asking him to do. They have asked him, for their sakes, to submit to a high tariff on everything he buys, and he has done this cheerfully. Now, made bold by monopoly, they ask him to withdraw from the markets of the world.” The result of our high protective tariff wall has been that Germany and other countries of Europe have also erected a tariff wall, much higher than our own, for the evident purpose of preventing a bushel of American wheat or corn or a barrel of pork or beef from entering those countries. This new prohibitive tariff becomes operative March 1 next and will soon have a disastrous effect on our exports to those countries. That result will, perhaps, not much affect the price of our agricultural products for the crop of this season, but is certain to reduce the price in the future. The high firice of trust products here will be still higher, so the farmer will be the sufferer both ways. This Is the result of the Republican policy of protection.