There is no way to aid this depressed olass on staple products in this bill. or otherwise. unless you give a bounty or lower the rates on everything they consume. With our present facilities of transportation the price of all nonperishable products is controlled by the worlds market. If you should quadruple the wage worker in the mills from our own population. the farmer would but feed the same number of people. but would lessen the army of the unemployed. and if increased from immigrants. this would simply consume more of our farm products here. but at the same price that our surplus wheat and our surplus cotton. which fixes the price of the whole crop. brings in Liverpool. less the transportation. If the whole cotton crop was worked up at Mobile and Charles. ton. it would be purchased at home for the price in Liverpool. less the freight. The farmers have mortgaged or lost their farms in Pennsylvania and Connecticut quite as generally as in Kansas.
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