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EXPORT BOUNTIES.
SENATOR CANNON INTRODUCES LU
BIN’S SCHEME TO HELP FARMERS.
He Makes a Hot Speech and Floors All
Opponents- Present Protection Is One
Sided and Robs tho Farmer—He Now
Sells In tv Cheap aud Buys In a Hear
Market—Can He Protected Only by Ex¬
port Bounties on Farm Products—If He
Cannot Get These lie Wants Absoluts
Free Trade.
Senator Cannon of Utah introduced
on May 23 an amendment to the tariff
bill which is likely to make trouble for
the Republican leaders and which may
break down the whole protective sys¬
tem. The amendment favors the Lubin
scheme of paving export bounties on
farm products. This scheme is now be¬
ing pushed vigorously, not only by its
author, David Lubin, but also by the
granges of many states aud by trades
unions and ministers. It makes its fight
inside the ranks of protection and has
already opened more farmers’ eyes to
the folly of the system than till of the
tariff reform work that has been done.
Senator Cannon told some plain truths
when introducing this amendment. He
spoke in part as follows:
It was with great surprise, upon an ex¬
amination of the measure, that I found
that tho great class of our population
who have from the beginning not only
supported the protective tariff party by
their votes, but have supported the pro¬
tective tariff principle by their industry
from the beginning of its operation,
were in a large degree excluded from
any of its benefits. It is, I say, to sup¬
ply a very patent omission from the
measure as it now stands that the
amendment is proposed and will be ad¬
vocated here until a vote shall be had
thereon.
The bill r,3 it is offered today affords
There no protection to agricultural staples.
is remaining, I presume^ no ad* j
vocate of the protective tariff system 1
who will contend that in this bill, with
these import duties, there is afforded
anv protection cr benefit of increased
price arising from import duties upon
any of those commodities of which we
export our surplus, nor are there re¬
maining at the present time in the
school of protection very many men
who will contend and none who will
prove that the indirect protection afford¬
ed to the farmer by the tariff on man¬
ufactured goods is sufficient compensa¬
tion to him for the vast cost entailed
upon him in carrying tho protective
tariff system upon manufactured goods.
It has become apparent to all thought¬
ful observers, and certainly it is known
to all who have any direct connection
with the agricultural industry of the
United States, that the farmer cannot,
and the man who reads him well knows
that the farmer will not, much longer
bear this burden.
There are three remedies possible.
The second remedy, aud one which I,
as a believer in protection, would be
ready to accept rather than to hold to
and vote for an inequitable bill, would
be absolute free trade, by which the
farmer might buy as cheaply as he is
compelled to sell, and that remedy this
congress will not seek to enforce. There
remains, then, bnt the third—the appli¬
cation of an export bounty which shall
in a measure give restitution to the
farmer for the higher prices which he is
compelled to pay in protected markets.
No proposition based upon the decla¬
ration of equal protection to all the in¬
dustries cf the United States is corn
plete, nor can there be successfully
made a contention that it is just, unless
it gives to the exporter of agricultural
staples from the United States an eqniv
alent benefit to that given to the manu¬
facturer by the imposition of an import
duty.
A duty of 25 cents a bushel upon
wheat is a delusion and a snare. The
farmer of the United States gets no ben¬
efit from it. The imposition of duty upon
cotton, if that were attempted, would
be of n o val ue to the cotton producer,
The imposition of a duty on rye is of no
value to the farmer of the United States.
Every other protected industry has a
direct benefit from this tariff, because
where we do not produce in the United
States sufficient for our own consump¬
tion and a quantity considerable in ex¬
tent for export the import duty serves
as a means whereby the local producer
can enhance the price to the local cou
sumer.
The immediate benefit to the farmer
derived from the treasury of the United
States would not be all. For this com¬
paratively small expenditure to him he
would receive for these staples more
than $225,000,000 in higher prices than
he now receives. It is true that this
would increase the price of breadstuff’s
to the consumers in the cities, but un¬
der the declaration made here today
that with higher prices the people will
be more able to buy we w r ill have a
larger consumption of wheat aud wheat
flour and other agricultural staples in
the cities of the country than we have
now at the low prices.
Mr. Butler—Mr. President, the sena¬
tor from Utah said he was in favor of
about $13,000,000 export duty on wheat
at 10 cents a bushel. If we pay an ex¬
port bounty of 10 cents a bushel, that
will raise the price of every bushel of
wheat, whether exported or consumed
at home, that much, will it not?
Mr. Cannon—Certa'inly if will.
Mr. Butler—Then, for an investment
of $13,000,000, which the government
would payout in the shape of an export
bounty, the wheat farmers of the coun¬
try would get their protection of $60,
000,000 or $70,000,000, would they
not?
Mr. Cannon—They would, if there
be any truth in the protective principle.
Mr. Butler—That would be a very
good iuvestment.
Mr. Cannon—It would be a very good
investment if it were to be made in be- |
half of any manufacturing industry or
any trust in the United States, bnt any¬
thing in behalf of the farmer is looked
upon with scorn and is considered a
doubtful investment by the legislature
of the United States.
I 11 addition, Mr. President, it is} a
very poor argument, when you have
been robbing some man for years and
he asks you for justice, to say that you
propose to continue to rob him of more
and say that you do not know where
you are going to get tiie money with
which to restore that which you have
unrighteously ta&eu. It is the very first
duty of the congress of the United
States to provide a bill which shall not
only be honest in its present applica¬
tion, but which shall pay back some
portion of that which has been taken
from the pockets of the toilers of this
land.
I have talked with the farmers in 20
states of the Union since last fall, and I
firmly believe that this tariff will no
longer endure than until the farmers of
the United States can have a chance to
revise it at the polls, if you do not give
to them some portion of its benefits.
The farmer is bending beneath a bur
den which he cannot carry longer. He
has been the backbone of the integrity
of the United States, but there comes in
the place of the free and independent
farmer of this country a race of tenant
ry to reap servilely where he sowed
nobly, men who receive their opinions
from others instead of giving their own
independent voice at the polls and in j
all their declarations to their fellow
men.
The senate of the United State.3 can
afford to bo absolutely just. I believe
the amendment should be adopted.
Mr. Chandler—May I ask the senator
from Utah a question?
Mr. Cannon—Certainly.
Mr. Chandler—I heard the senator
speak of robbery a little while ago with
reference to the tariff. Does the senator
mean that the farmer has been robbed
all these years by the tariff? Is that the
senator’s argument?
Mr. Cannon— Yes, sir, decidedly.
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Mr. Chandler—When did the senator
first think that the American tariff sys- ,
tem was a robbery cf the farmer?
Mr. Camion—Just so soon as the sen¬
ator gave sufficient attention to the sub¬
ject to understand the truth of it. I ad¬
vocated Republican tariffs as earnestly
and as faithfully in my humble way as
the senator from New Hampshire, and I
believed exactly wink I taught.
— jfut I am not disposed any longer to
advocate a sySttMlI bv which one portion
of the population is taxeu4or the benefit
of another portion of the popuhlBfi'.l I
think that it is unfair to cherish only'l
one class, and that the class which has
already the most power of self proteo- j
tion. If the senator from New liamp
shire will go across the plains of Kansas,
as I have gone, and across the plains of
Nebraska. 1 believe in him sufficiently
to think he will come back and say that
this bill is robbery of the American
fartnei. I
I have stated that I am in favor of a I
protective tariff system. I stated that
in the guilelessness of my soul, being a
Republican, I went out and advocated
the Republican idea of a protective tar
iff. I never was brought quite so close
to responsibility concerning it before as
I am today. Heretofore I have discussed
it on the stump, advocating it in gener¬
al terms, but as soon as I am confronted
with responsibility which obliges me to
look more closely into its application to
all the people I am simply discharging
my duty when I sock to amend this
measure so that it shall bo honest to all.
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The monkey could pull its own sugar
out of the fire, but prefers to use the
paws of the cats. Poor cats, how it
must hurt them! Yes, it does hurt
them a little, hut they can stand it for
the sake of their good friend the mon¬
key. Perhaps they will get a share of
the sugar, or if not that something elso
which they like better. Perhaps! It is
certain that they have long been fast
friends of the monkey and that they
like him for his sly and cunning tricks.
PERFECTING PROTECTION.
Two Slight Changes Suggested In the In¬
terest of Farmers and Laborers.
The senate is now engaged in remedy¬
ing the small imperfections of the Ding
ley bill, which, as all good protection¬
ists assert, is one of the best tariff bills
ever drafted. V It *0 distributes .'.xrrserr*?*«••:.*’ its blessings Q
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to all—farmer, laborer and manufac¬
turer. Without doubting the good inten¬
tions of the makers, wo wish (0 suggest
ono or two minor details which might
possibly help the bill to fulfill the ex¬
pectations of its authors:
First.—Lubin’s export bounty scheme
might enable the farmer to get a small
slice of the benefits of protection. Of
course the farmer doesn't expect—espe¬
cially at first—to get as much of the
benefits as tho manufacturers have been
getting for 30 years. A protection of
about 20 per cent—that is 10 cents per
bushel on wheat, 5 cents on corn, etc.—
would satisfy him, while it takes four
times as much to satisfy ordinary tariff
infants.
This small export duty would not
make good the farmer’s loss because of
import duties on manufactured prod
nets, saying nothing about past losses,
but in course of time, after his industry
bad felt the stimulating effects of real
protection “what protects,” the farmer
might muster up courage enough to fol
low the example of Oliver Twist—
which example has grown into a cus
tom with protected interests—and ask
for “more.” Possibly also he might
form political trusts or combines to de
mand “more” and raise millions of dol
lars to send lobbies to Washington to
bribe congress. While protection is in
order export duties are the farmer’s on- |
ly hope. With them he may hope not
only to change his losses to profits, but
also to regain that power and position
which were once his, but which have ;
long since passed into the hands of the ;
manufacturers,
Second.—It is also fitting to recognize
the laborer in the distribution of tariff'
profits. Like the farmer, he now puts
his hand into his pocket to help swell the
profits cf protection, practically none '■
of which comes his way. It is not an
easy matter to equalize the benefits
of protection so that the workingman !
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shall get his full share. A prohibitive
duty on imported labor might in the
course of time afford some protection
by restricting the supply of labor, so
thiit manufacturers could carry out
their good intentions (expressed when
asking for higher duties) aud pay
“American wages to American work¬
ingmen. ’’
At present tbo condition of working¬
men in the protected industries is pitia¬
ble in tho extrt me. The Philadelphia
Ledger, a good Republican paper, told
us about May 1 that- in tho protected
iron aud coal industries of Pennsylvania
the wage rate has been reduced so low
“that it is scarcely sufficient to provide
the necessaries of decent, sanitary liv¬
ing. ” It says “the lowest classes of
alien cheap labor swarm in the iron ami
coal districts of the state,” and the com¬
petition for work is so tierce “that they
contend, not against the employers for
the highest wages, but among each
other for the lowest?” “A* appears by
the testimony presented to the legisla¬
tive committee, * * * they herd in squa
lor, subjects of abject penury, and are
beset by disease, dirt aud hunger. ” The
Ledger thinks our immigration laws
aro “defective and improvident” and
suggests that “to properly protect
American workmen congress should
pass an immigration as well .as a tariff
bill.” This i3 a good idea and should
bo acted upon at once. Tho only wonder
is that some of the good manufacturers,
in their anxiety to protect and raise the
wages of their workingmen, did not
think of this plan before. Then, if they
should have a law passed which should
make it compulsory for them to give at
least one-half of their protection and
monopoly profits to their employees,
protection would begin to be an all
around blessing. The manufacturers
might still be getting the lion’s share,
but they would not get all
When these changes are made in the
bill, it will undoubtedly be what the
New York Tribune declared its proto¬
type, the McKinley bill, to be—“the
bravest and best;tariff bill ever passed.”
Will they be made?—Byron W. Holt.
1‘usliing Along a Good Thing.
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The Sugar Tariff Prize Fuzzlu.
A reward of $25 is offered by the
New York World for any linguist who
will translate the sugar schedule in the
new tariff bill into English that can be
understood. It is said that the sugar
men understand it perfectly, and if they
do what business is it of others? The
Sugar trust is running the United
States senate at present, and it is hold
ing up all legislation until it gets what
it wants. If the people of this country
had a chance to vote on the election of
United States senators, some of the old
fossils in the senate would never be
heard of again.—Harrisburg Telegraph,
The Trust’s Warm Friend.
Senator Aldrich has always been a
truly good friend cf the Sugar trust,
and it is apparent that this friendship
has not grown cold.—Boston Herald,
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