150 THE GREEN RISING 



of foreign goods, and thus by lessening competition, 

 has increased the price of manufactured goods 

 plows, clothing, etc. Immigration laws have shut 

 out foreign labor and this hi turn has enabled our 

 American laborers to charge and get more for their 

 services. The farmer is paying his part of what it 

 costs to promote the welfare of these classes. He 

 has been taxed hi order that the life of the Ameri- 

 can laborer might be made more pleasant and to 

 make even more exorbitant the profits of the Ameri- 

 can manufacturers. He has suffered all this for the 

 sake of a protective tariff, but when it comes to 

 making farm prices higher, the tariff 'hits only on 

 one cylinder.' It helps considerably with certain 

 minor crops, and to a certain extent with more im- 

 portant ones, but any impartial student of agricul- 

 tural economics will tell you that the tariff costs the 

 farmer much more than it brings him. 



"It is this condition of affairs that has made farm- 

 ers dissatisfied and brought about a strong demand 

 for legislation that will relieve the situation. All 

 over the country farmers are saying, 'I buy in a pro- 

 tected market but when I sell I take pot luck with 

 the rest of the world. Protect me as you have the 

 laborer and the manufacturer or quit helping these 

 other two classes at my expense/ Since the manu- 

 facturers of the East will not agree to any reduction 

 of the tariff, the farmers of the West are demand- 

 ing agricultural legislation to level things up. They 

 insist that the Government give them some sort of 



