Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1890 — THE TROUBLE IS RIGHT HERE. [ARTICLE]

THE TROUBLE IS RIGHT HERE.

Farmers Can Not Obtain Living Prices for All Their Products Luder the Conditions Noir Existing. The American farmer's market is being usurped by foreign farm pro. ducts. Importations of food have grown enormously under the tariff of 1883. Last year they amounted to more than $65,000,000, as this table shows: Importations of Farm Produett Into the United States during 1890. Horses, sheep and cattle $3,917,031 Barley . 7,691,763 Other grains...... 169,199 Potato starch and dextrine....... £30,000 Egxs. 2,419,004 Flax 2,060.664 Hemp 2.047,9-27 H0p*...™..,..,, 1,100,408 Meats and dairy products 1,769,89: Flaxseed and seeds 5,517.198 Tobacco.... 8,603,76:' Potatoes, vegetables and beans...... 2,295,199 Lumber..... 9,768,641 Wool. 17.432,758 T0ta1.................... 65,132,519 Republican legislation has provided three efficacious remedies for this state of things: First. \lt has increased the duties on foreign farm products so as to shut off foreign importations. Second. It has optmed the way for reciprocal trade relations with South American countries. Third. It has restored silver to its money use. It should be borne in mind that the Prohiboerats of Indiana are alone in their war upon local option. The National platform says nothing against it, and jnst two weeks before the nomination General Fisk made a speech in the general conference in favor of the deliverance in the discipline which says: “It is the supreme duty of the State to provide for the protection of the home against the saloon by local option.” In that speech he lauded local option, and told how he had labored to make it a success in Michigan. It is more than doubtful whether be would have accepted the nomination if hostility to local option had been in the platform. The plea that it is unconstitutional in Indiana is the sherest nonsense in the world, in view of the opinion of the Supreme Court sustaining the Baxter law.—Temperance Evangelist.