The Farmers Are Satisfied

The McKinley bilí increased the tariff on the farm producís, oats 15 cents per bushei, barley 30 cents, wheat 25 cents, wool 11 to 13 cents per pound. Everything that the farmer raises is now protected. As a consequence farmers of Manitoba are thrown out of the American market and the prices of those articles in Manitoba are very much reduced; oats selling for 14 cents per bushei, barley 18 cents, wheat 30 and 34 cents, wool 11 cents, and everything correspondingly low and without purchasers. In the mean time the farmers of the United States are doing a much larger business, are getting good prioes, paying ofï the mortgages on their farms and listening to the calamity bowlers who saj' "tariff is a tax" and if you do ïot lmy you cannot sell, and trying to couvince the "poor farmer" that he is taxed to death. They know that the cost of plows and other agricultural machinery is less than ever before. They further know that the price of wheat was not below $1 for inany years until during Mr. Cleveland's ;erm of office, and that the first year of General Hamson's term it again arose p$l.