, 1869-09-10
TIE COST OF LIVING.
The New York 7riihnns publishes COM
rat.tit list Of prices VI ecrtain articles Of

rat:.tiy. l'st Of prices of certain articles OF
domestic produce, US follows:
wnelE=A. rs.eEs n *Ew yonK.
wscat :. 81: :> s' * !: 81 q
81 y: 5,s'r ~ Tsu.- y: T.: = -; :: :. e =
xsta N,c: s::::::::... ss, - - s i: Il: e is
Mes rc7I, : t.l....,. 1s.;%a!4 81 3l.75 tas2M
ryc do. {. ira........ eatt.a eo2,D :2,to t-42c0
:lh,et 10, 7 ........... l's u 1o.'s Il
Tie 7rihunr admits that the increase in
the price uf the iron is greatly in excess Of
that OF The domestic profit, but insists that
ta1es nze essential to pay Of our debt, and
- Of course the farmers have tu shoulder
part of this load rs well as The rest OF ns,"
Rut the tases paid on iron are not collected
for the use Of the government. The whole
importation II the three kinds OF iron in The
year 1862 vas ns follows: Pig
iron, l:s,1 ,1fEo tons; bar iron, 1G?. lii, I'll
pounds sheet iron, .2.15;, SGT pounds.
The duties on these arc: Pig irou, :? per
ton: har and sheet iron, from X to y cents
per pound. The aggregate duties on these
inptztatiops were about three and half
million lonars. But this came tax was
added to the price Of the American pig iron,
of which l.Ion0oO tons were sold. The
farmers who paid this tax Of Sl:5, 900
on the American pig iron, paid it to the
mar ufac:urer rs a bounty, and not to the
government to aid in paying the debt oni
pensions The suue proportion Of tax on
the other kinds Of iron was collected Of the
farmer rs bounty to the privileged elass,
and not to help pay pensions or interest on
the public dtIt. That is the way the taxes
collected on iron nre distributed.
The New York Tritunts tables furnish
so1nc striking examples of how the tariff
bcrtG1s Tie country. Thus, in 1850. 1000
bushels of pheat were worth, in New York,
SJ,4O0, which would have purchased sixty
tons Of pig iron, and left $50 over: would
have purchased thirty ions Of English bar
it,,n, md srft $50 over; while, in 1860, i.
will require ,4Gl bubhels Of wheat TO prlr-
chnEc the same quantity Of pig iron, and il
will require over l,5ai bushels to purchase
the snnle quantity of bar iron. The thrift
requires The farrner 10 misc ] .52l bushels
III wheat to hug the nlnount Of iron which,
in 1864, eu,.ld lie honght with LOON bush-
els, and thnt in chilled benefit to Tie pro-
tlncinE clfsTea. One thousand bushels Of
ccra, in lsG:', will purchase less than four
teen ,nr,a sf bnr iruu, @Liln In 1870 it
would have 1,onGst OVER eighteen tonH Of
,Le Fnme iron. II il this excessive thxasiun
,u all tle essentials Of life which swelts TIC
c.,si uf living II this ta1 wcro raid to tho
government il would rnpihly pay the debt
l,ut il is paid nvtr to the protected nr priv.
i]cscl class g. wlln nre thereby ,lailr accn,
rutlnti1,r tLr wenlth If TIN country. elitl
;,urn,c1isl,ut ;1,o ,,rs1ucinc clnssce.
lin ,,,uc t,s wores IL In jl,c nuurn, ol
,,o ,,r,r,,,;,e .f III, t,,cr will 1ur. 4
,recbp,;r ,e,u,x,nu II nrr In. s,u1 rc,,,,;rcj
IL, ,r,re,,d :. III, for }u,sc rr,t md tl,o mr.
tf.snt,,.,rnstu If bfs family IN upt t1prJ
pa will es In s,n11 If 1iH vapcB wcre 81. II
o,,1 hi, ,4,,t,1itu1,s ~, Al TIM ,,Yc4o,,
r.;"r. II VII ,,,. N-,"~ sntetin,s ,ntn l.r II,
,tin,rn.n nl,le naea Df N fe,n,1y I. il iu,1",sai
,le tor ,ue,. tlr1nn,t.u, n1rh thc,r ,nrrua
.in,ly ur weekly waEra h, eava \ jmtlh5
I1n ,r,,.s4ly u rns l." snisn wagra, Lrrn','
shn,, !sy increasing tho coal Ut ,.r"luctlu.,
int.rnhru nil lin e,,.snhtm a' living IN
Etrhtrr ,alln Int tlr Hrl, rr,hr,ly h To +,
tiEcr The cont nf living. That Ia ID" poif,
ut ~hicl, trf"fm ','ssl l"gtn. Every r'"!'If
tlnn III Ihe price " wiinat va haVr t" hu
isn Ss.!Acts"u In favor If labor; every nj
.ii,I,rn IL ile cont of Wheat We hny IL lhh
mich tnk"n from labor. Every mnn VII
lnH 10 hnv corn, or amy 1natnfncturn 4
iron, or anything produced by iroa n,achin
try or t.s,ln, pnya n tax Of 5iG per to,