Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — CANADIAN FARM COMPETITION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CANADIAN FARM COMPETITION.

American Agriculturists Find tbat Our Imports Are Increasing. American farmers look with a little anxiety along the Canadian border, as they find that our imports of Canadian farm products are increasing. From an official report just issued by the State Department at Washington we have compiled the following table, showing our imports of Canadian farm products received from Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, during the three months ending March 81, 1595. 7 Imports from Ontario, Quebec and Maritime Provinces, for three months ending March 31, 1805: - Apples $32,731 02 Barley .. 221,116 46 Beans 190,248 27 Dried apples 1,000 00 Eggs 57.798 94 Grain .....; 9,726 93 Hay and 5traw,........53,301 26 Hides and skins 181.467 77 Horses 153,742 DS Meat 1,751 70 Onions and turnips 12,340 09 Potatoes . ... 86,103 39 Poultry J; 6,768 00 Seeds % 55,029 32 Sheep and lambs”. 46,480 92 Tobacco leaf 64,703 77 Wool 359,977 71 Total for three months. $1,504,349 13 Yearly average. 67257*396-52-The total of these”exports exceeds a million and a half of dollars for three months, or at the rate of $6,257,390.52 a year. It is clear that Canadian farmers are coming in direct competition with the products of American farms in every principal article that our farmers can furnish for the home market. The largest imports were of wool, next coming barley, beans, hides and skins, horses, eggs, potatoes, leaf tobacco, hay and straw, seeds, sheep and lambs, apples, onions and turnips and poultry. When Canadian farmers begin to sup"piy the American towns along the border line with Canadian farm products, then the American farmers who used to look to these home markets for an outlet for their products must turn elsewhere and go further south, paying more freight before they can sell their goods, and also coming into competition with other farmers and naturally depressing the value of farm stuffs everywhere through a glut in tho market. Later in the year the exports were undoubtedly larger. Give the home market to the American fanner. Will it Come to This?

More Free Goode Under Protection. From the latest report of the Bureau of Statistics we are enabled to present a summary of our imports during the last six years, as follows: Year Free of ending Free of duty. June 30. Dutiable. duty. Per cent. 1890 . .$523,641,780 $265,068,629 33.60 1891 .. 478,674.844 360,241,352 43.35 1892 .. 369,402,804 45?,999.658 55.35 1893 .. 421,856,711 444,544,211 5181 1894 .. 275,199,145 370,796,006 57.98 1895 .. 368,729,601 303,228,274 49.62 In 1890, when the McKinley law went into operation, only one-third of our total Imports were free of duty. During the fiscal year of 1894 nearly twothirds of our total Imports came in free of duty. But in 1895, the first year of the Gorman tariff, less than half of out* Imports were free of duty.. Vi T Japan aa a Manufacturer. Consul Troup, of Yokohama, sends to the Foreign Office an Interesting report on Japanese trade during the past year. The significant feature of his statistics and observations is the growth of the imports of raw materials, showing that Japan 4s becoming more and more a manufacturing, and consequently an exporting, country. She is, nevertheless, a good customer of ours, her business with Great Britain and Its depencles amounting to nearly five millions and evincing a tendency to Increase. In addition to -the numerous articles Japan makes for herself ttnd others, she h«s recently taken to manufacture iron pipes and electrical appliances. It

is thought she will be able to turn out the whole of the 00,000 tons of piping required for the completion of the Tokio waterworks; she manufactures her own dynamos and the telephones used are all of native fabrication.—Hyland’s Iron Trade Circular. Examine the Books. The fact Was that during that trying season, when nearly all llie mauufactering industries in this country were at a standstill, the keenestsufferers were 1 the middle, classes; for the first time in their lives they were brought face to face with starvation. Why? Because there was no employment for their hands. Business was dead. And that, we believe, was since the beginning of the Cleveland administration. As to the stringency, It has no doubt been real. If one doubts it, let him ask tlie butcher, the baker aad the candlestick maker. They are especially fitted to tell whether the stringency, so far as “private lines are concerned,” was real or fanciful. Their books will give e.vldence of the stringency. Ask to examine them. And we believe that these books were kept during the Cleveland administration.—Daily State Gazette, Trenton, N. J. Why the West Grows. The home market for American farmers exists wherever there is a factory or- a»-employme»t whieb depends m any way upon manufacturing. The marvelof American industry has been the diversification of industry generally during the last third of a century —particularly toward and In the West. Take, for example, the prodigious manufacturing industries of Illinois, not to speak of Indiana and Ohio. Manufacturing industry has likewise, although a little later, been developed in the Southern States. Even west of the Mississippi River vast manufacturing interests have been developed with unprecedented rapidity —down to the time when the Demecratic party two years ago took hold of the Government under pledge to revolutionize industry to the basis of “low tariff or free trade.”—Sioux City Journal.

Sound Western Progress. Protectionist sentiment continues strong and active in the great West. In the South it is also developing more and more. Why? Because the value aud benefit of manufactures are better known and understood among places that have few or no factories, than In the industrial centers of the East The resolute, energetic pioneers who are building up States such as Montana, the Dakotas and Washington, regard the establishment of new industries as the only sound basis of prosperity. Such men study practically the growth of commonwealths and become, as the result, zealous protectionists. Russia as a Competitor. A number of manufacturers at St Petersburg have approached M. Witte with the request that special facilities shall be granted for the export of certain Russian products to Hamburg, whence they are destined to enter tho markets of tbe continent The wtfres chiefly affected are cotton, woolen and silk goods of Russian manufacture, porcelain, soap and confectionery.—Ryland’s Iron Trade Circular. A Time They Forget. One of the cuckoo organs stepped to the little door and with flapping wrings shouted: “The great corn crop will make good old-fashioned Democrat times.” Indeed, and did It allude to the times when for want of a market “corn was burned?” Those were good old-fashioned Democrat times, but they are out of fashion now'.—Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald. Fixing tbe Price of Lambs. The best lambs are selling now in the best part of Kentucky's farming country sos iy s cents a pound. It is tlie tariff and not the silver question that fixes the price of the lambs that the farmer has to sell.— (Ky.) Commercial. Tbe British Lion’s Gorge.