Agricultural Masses Not Protected. 



These cases illustrate the effect of protection of such 

 goods as compose Class 2 upon the farmers of Class 3. 

 Where is there any compensation for the latter for the 

 loss that results! 



Now as to the very limited extent of production in 

 these lines. The growth of semi-tropical fruits is con- 

 fined almost entirely to two states, California and Flor- 

 ida, and the total value of all such products in the United 

 States was but a little over $8,000,000, while the value of 

 all the agricultural crops of those two states is given as 

 over $106,000,000. The value of all the wool produced in 

 the United States that year, 1899, the time the census 

 figures for 1900 were made, was $45,723,000; lambs 

 under one year, $42,000,000. 



Three states produce most of the rice — South Carolina, 

 Georgia and Louisiana. The total value is quite insignif- 

 icant in comparison with most farm crops — $6,329,000. 



The tobacco crop was valued at $56,993,000; three 

 states— Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia— are 

 credited with $33,789,000 of this. 



All that the farmers seem to get out of raising cane 

 and beets, etc., for the making of sugar is about $32,500,- 

 000; and a single state, Louisiana, produces nearly half 

 of this. Finally, the total value of all the wool, lambs, 

 semi-tropical fruits, tobacco, rice, sugar and sugar mate- 

 rial produced in 1899 (Continental U. S.), farm value, 

 was not far from $192,000,000, which was a little more 

 than 4:7c of all the value of our agricultural products. 

 Yet from this narrow field the government gathered from 

 importations in 1900 over $80,000,000 revenue money. 

 (In 1906, $94,000,000.) Of this a large portion over 

 $57,000,000 in 1900 came from duties upon sugar. 



The exportations of products of Class 2 were only to 



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