34 The Tariff and the Fanner. 



CHAPTER III. 



Less Foreigx Demand for Agricultural Products. 



AVe have met and refuted the claim that farmers profit 

 bv "protection." "We now advance to the next position, 

 which is that the system is most disastrous to agricul- 

 tnral interests. 



In the United States the trade interests of agriculture 

 and manufacture are antagonistic in the highest degree. 

 This must be the case from the industrial relations they 

 bear to each other. The farmer buvs what the manu- 

 facturer produces and sells, and those engaged in manu- 

 facture buy what the farmer produces and sells. Here 

 is a double relation — each buvs of the other and sells to 

 the other. When from the foundation of the world 

 were the trade interests of buver and seller ever the 

 same? 



In this chapter we consider the effect of protection 

 upon the farmer's foreign market. 



The famous report of Secretary Walker made in 18-15 

 bears upon this point. The following quotations are from 

 that document: ''It seems strange that while the profit 

 on agriculture varies from 1 to 8%, that of manufacture 

 is more than double. The reason is that whilst the high 

 duties secure nearly a monopoly of the home market to 

 the manufacturer, the farmer and planter are deprived 

 to a great extent of the foreign market by those duties. 

 The farmer and planter are to a great extent forbidden 

 to buy in the foreign market and confined to the domestic 



