EXPORTS OF INDIAN CORN. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



EXPORTS OF INDIAN CORN. 



IN continuance of our plan of giving facts instead of assertions 

 about the facts, as Free Trade journals do, we will next show that 

 farmers have received, under the policy of Protection to home in- 

 dustry, higher prices for corn, and that larger quantities of it have 

 been exported, than under the policy of partial Free Trade. Here 

 are the official figures of our domestic exports of Indian corn for 

 the past twenty-six years, to which we have added a calculation of 

 the average price per bushel. 



These statistics establish the fact that, during thirteen years of 

 Protection, the average export price of corn was very nearly 6^ 

 cents per bushel more than it was during the previous thirteen 

 years of Free Trade policy. Is that evidence that Western farmers 

 have been plundered by the series of tariffs since 1861? If the 

 207,221,555 bushels exported in the period 1862-74 had obtained 

 no greater export price, on an average, than $0.68.571, such having 



