What is true of wheat is equally true of other grains: therefore the farmer has no protection directly. and whatever benefit he derives is indirect and from the onme market furnished for agricultural products. Unfortunately for the farmer the niarket price for his wheat is fixed by the price which the surplus will bring abroad or the price of wheat in London or Liverpool. At that market. where the surplus is sold and which fixes the value of the whole crop. he cones in competition with grain produced in Crimea. in Hungary. and in the region of the Baltic. from fields cultivated by what is known as "pauper labor. But I am told that we must so legislate as to furnish a home market for all our agricultural products. and this can only bo done by a high tariff. Anyone examining the subject will see that our agricultural products increase mire rapidly than our population. so that if we do not export these products in the natural condition. we must do so by converting them into manufactured products when they are the cheapest. and the nation selling cheapest will control the market. rhis will exclude our highly taxed manufactured articles made from highly taxed materials from the markets of the world. although we have natural advantages possessed by no other nation. Hence our manufactured products are $10.0.(ot less this last year than they were ten years ago. But our policy with reference to agriculture has a tendency to increase its products rapidly. We give every man who will till the soil. whether native or naturalized. 160 acres of land. I do not condemn this policy. It is a policy which has developed the western portion of the country more than any other policy which could have been devised.
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