The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-22
price, 81 O8) for less than s. bush,

price, 81 08) for less than 81 bush
els.
In 1860 the price of Sheffield cast
steeel was IA cents a pound, and
wheat was 81 08 per bushel; 10 bu-
shells would have bought just rs
pounds of steel. Duty on steel in
1860, is per cent. In 1870 steel
costs 10 cents a pound; and ten bu-
shells of wheat will only buy 554
pounds Of the same class Of steel, CT
nearly twenty pounds less. Duty
on steel, As! per cent.
A farmer selling 100 bushels Of
wheat in 1860, and realizing there-
from 800, could have bought in
New York 146$ yards of ingrane
two-ply Lowell carpet at 75 cents
per yard. Duty IN 1860, 24 per
cent. A farmer selling 100 bush
els of wheat in 1870, and realizing
$40, can only buy $40 yards ofthe
same carpet at the prevailing price
of 81 80 per yard. Duty IN 1870,
IS per cent.
One hundred bushels of wheat.
realizing S110 IN 1860, wonll have
bought 738 yards of all wool cloth,
weighing II ounce per yard. Du.
ty "a per cent. At 81 80 per yard
the same 100 bushels of wheat in
1870, realizing S110, Will only buy
So yards Of the Same cloth at 50 90
per yard. Duty IN 1870, seventy
per cent.
In 1860, a seamstress, earning so
cents Ia day, could have bought ten
spools of the best slx-cord Ciark's
200-yard thread. Duty on thread,
a per cent. In 1870, the seamstress
earns 70 cents a day, and the price
of the above is ten Genus a spool;
she can only buy = spools fer her
days labor. Duty on thread, G71
per cent.
In 1860, 20 pounds of Z blood me-
rino wool fetching SO, would have
bought 3,214 pounds of Liverpool
salt, at % cents per bushel of 40
pounds. Duty on salt, Is per ct.
In 1870, 20 pounds of I blood meri-
no wool fetchos 50, and buys 1875
pounds of Liverpool salt, at forty
cents per bushels of 20 pounds
Duty, 108 per cent.
In 1870, a la6orer earning one
dollar u day could have bought just
% pounds Of Goldfish at 5 cents per
pound. In 1870, he earns 81 so a
day, and Goldfish costing q cents a
pound, he can only buy 20 pounds
of Goldfish for his days labor, or 3
pounds less.
Owners of Shipping IN the lakes,
when they buy l 600 pounds of yell
low metal sheating for a vessel,
have 10 pay 80 cents per pound, or
$500. Duty on yellow metal, As
per cert. None is imported. The
same metal a be LAID down in any
portion of the lakes, if no duty was
on it, for 20 cents currency. A thou
sand pounds of yellow metal sheat-
ing would, therefore, cost $50, or
lSIl0 less,
In 1860, five bushels OF wheat, in
Chicago, fetching one dollar per
bushel, would have bought 7l3 lbs.
of assorted shot, at Z cents per Id.
Duty on lead, Is per cent. In 1870,
five bushels of wheat. fetching one
dollar per bushcl, will only buy so
pounds of assorted shot. Duty on
lead, Az per cent.
In 1860, a female weaver in 4
New England cotton mill earned
81 80 per week as wages, and good
black taffeta silk sold at 81 so per
yard. 1t therefore took her just
twenty-four days 10 earn the prlcc
of q silk dress of twelve yards. Du-
ty on silk. ten cents. In 1870, the
female weaver earns So g a week
as wages, and the same kind of
black taffeta silk costs So per yard,
it therefore takes 28B days work to
earn the same dress of u yards of
silk. Duty on silk, sixty per ct.
In 1858, under a moderate tariff
the price ofa pair of mems stout
boots was 81 40; at the present
time, under an extravagant tariff,
the same boots cost SO 80.
The exports of American manu-
tGctured cottonsgoods in 1860, un>
der a low tariff, we're four times as
great as in 1869.
The export of wooden fabrics CT
American make has declined, withs
in the last fiscal year, go per cent.
amounting in the aggregate to
about $4,000; while Great Britain,
under free trade, exported in the
same year, s129, 600, 600.
In 1860, A and L white fianDels
sold for Is cents a yard ; a seam
stress earning so cents a day could
nave bought 81 yards of flannel for
her three GSvs of labor. The price
of the same kind Of flannel now, in
1870, is 80 cents n yard, and the
seamstress earns rs cents a day /;
her three days high wages will on
Iy procure her q yards of flannel.
Is tAls not the best proof how a
high tariff Expresses the poor,
when the three days boosted high
wages in 1870 buys less flannel
than the low wages IN 1860 did?
A days wages for a female oper.,
alive in 1870, in New England, is
81 q, while the price of good vel
low soap Is 20 cents a pound ; il
therefore follows that the days Ia.
Dor will procure her II 7-10 pounds
of soap.
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