America. under the rule of the Republican party. is leading in the policy that is shutting up the markets that once were open to whatever products of our farms other countries can producewithin their borders. and so it comes to pass that the American farmer is impoverished by the very superabundance of his crops. In the midst of plenty he is becoming poorer every day. He must still sell his surplus abroadsell for low prices in the restricted markets of the world. sell in competition with all the pauper labor of the world--and yet he is not allowed to buy where he sells. He must buy at home at higher rates. No wonder the prices of agricultural lands are tending downwards. In New Hampshire recently the commissioner of immigration advertised that 1.422 farms had been abandoned by their owners. The promise that the system of exclusion was to give our farmers a better and still better home market year by year has proven a delusion and a sham. Take cotton as an example.
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