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The Farmer's Markets

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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All tliings seem to be working togeth'or the good of the American farmer, nul we take pleasure in reruinding hini ;hat they have been set at work by Eepublican policy. The latest beneficia! movement is the removal of the embargo on American cattle ; this is the work of Ambassador Phelps, octing under instruetions from the Kepublican Secretary of State. Moréover, Mr. Phelps has been able to créate an extensive demand for American beef in the capital of the Germán empire, and to induce Germán capitalists to invest $800,000 in slaughter houses at Hamburg, mainly for the preparing # American beef for the Germán ínarket. The prohibitory orders against the introduction of the American hog also are likely to be repealed as a result of Republican diplománcy. Let us review what has been done for the American farmer since the passage of "the infamous McKinley bill," and either directly or indirectly because of it. The Brazilian market has been made free to United States grain and meat. Millions of dollars' worth of Canadian produce has been excluded from competition with United States produce. A bounty has been provided for every pound of beef, maple or sorghum sugar produced. An Ímpetus has been given to the industry of wool growing. The Germán market has been reopened to American beef. Millions have been or are being, spent in the erection of tin-plate works, the operatives of which will be consumere of farm produce. One American tin-plate factory already producing roofingplates at "a little lower cost than that of foreign goods of like weight and quality." This being a purchaser's testimony. The duty on cheap sugar has been repealed on nigh grades reduced to a merely nominal tigure, with the all but certain result of reducing prices by 2 cents a pound after the lst of April. The wholesale prices of flannels and gome other woolen goods are a shade lower than at this time last year. Freights are lower than In any other country of the world. So is the price of nearly all farming implements. Farm produce is bringing better prices than at this time last year. ■ These things being thus it is difficult to suppose that the American farmer will be anxiousto change them for those to which he or bis father was accustomed in "the good oíd times of free trade," when hogs were 2 cents and sugar worth 15 cents a pound.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier