The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1870-07-15
From the Free Trad,-.l
TARIFF THIEVING.
How it Affects the PeOplc--Intcr.
csting and Suggestive Facts.

| cStlnS ana suggestive ractss
One weeks wages of female Oper-
tive in wooden mill in New England
is s. G2, which will buy her 12l yards Of
ALPACA, at 60 cents yard. The wages of
the same class of operatives in Brad
ford, England, is but So 3S, which will
buy In Bradford the same kind Of al
paca for IS cents a yard, or 18a Yards
Thus the one weeks pauper labor Of
England buys over yards of alpaca
more than the boastcd wages of the
United States. Duty OIL alpaca, 6l3 per
cent.
A weeks wages Of female operative
in New England. 81 SO, will buy rs
spools of siX-cordcd thread. 200 yards
per spool, at 10 cents each, leaving 2
cents over. The English wages of So
38 will buy in England "a spools Of best
corded thread, at 4 cents spool, 1cav-
ing 2 cents over, or s spools more. Duty
OH spool-thrcad. 674 per cent.
| Fifty pounds Of I blood mcrino wool,
at As cents per pound, will buy in New
York 562l pounds common bar iron at 4
cents per pound. The same so pounds
of wool will fetch in England rs cents
pound, and buy 800 pounds Of the same
kind Of iron at 2 cents pound. Duty
OIL bar-iron, 66a per cent.
In 1860 and 1861. / blood mcrinO wool
sold in New York for fifty cts. pound,
and best Collins axes at 50 a dozen. Fif-
~ pounds of wool would have bought
SO axes, leaving 25 cents over. In 1870,
SO pounds of the same wool tctches $22
Sc, and axes cost $l2 a dozen; it would,
therefore, only procure 284 axes. Duty
OH steel and iron averages 60 per cent.
! In 1860 the price Of five hole stove
WAS So; il took just II pounds of three
quarter blood merino wool, at 80 cents
iper pound. TO buy a stove. The price of
IL six-holc stove of the same class in 20
lis ~ 80, and merino wool sells for 40
per cents per pound; it takes II 5-45
lpounds of wool TO buy a stove. Duty OH
lpig-iron for casting stove, 55 per cent.
1t takes at present just nine bushels
lof Ohio wheat to buy fivc-holc stove,
the price Of it being 80 80 in New York
In 1890 the same stove could have been
Ibought (allowing wheat to fetch the
same price, 81 Uo) for less than 81 bush.
4 In 1860 the price of Sheffield cast steel
was IA cents q pound, and wheat was
ISl OS per blishcl: 10 bushels would
have bought just IS pounds Of steel
DUTY Oh steel in 1860, Is per cent. IN
'I1S7U steel costs 10 cents Il pound and
10 bushels OF wheat will only buy b54
Iponnds of the same class OF steel, or
Inearly 20 pounds less. Duty on steel.
I4Sa per cent.
I \ farmer selling lCO bushels Of wheat
lin 1860. and realizing thcrcirom S1l0.
.lcould have bought in New York 1863
yards Ingram two ply Lowell carpet at
I75 cents yard. Duty in 1860, 25 per cent.
! \ farmer selling 100 bushels of wheat
in 1870, and realizing $llO, can only
,Ibuy 84S yards of the same carpet at the
'Iprcvailing price OF 81 80 per yard. Duty
in 1870. 75 per cent.
One hundred bushels of wheat. real
lizing Sll0 in 1860, would have bought
-|73k yards Of all wool cloth, weighing IA
ounces per yard. Duty "a per cent. AT
81 so per yard. The same 100 bushels OF
wheat in 1870, realizing Sll0, will only
lbuy So yards Of the same cloth ut 81. per
slyarl. Duty in 1870. ~ per cent.
In 1860. a seamstress, earning 80 cents
ia day, could have bought 10 spools of the
sbcst six-cord ClaYk's 200 yard thread,-
: In 1870, the seamstress earns 20 cents a
iday, and the price Of the above is 10
lcents spool; she can buy only Z! spools
for her one days labor. Duty OH thread,
I67i per cent.
n In 1860, 20 pounds of ! blood merino
wool, fetching $40, would have bought
.2l4 pounds of Liverpool salt, at p
: cents per bushel Of 20 pounds. Duty OH
=. salt. lj per cent In 1870, 20 pounds OF
Z blood mcrino wool tetches 50, and
\ 'lbuys only 1915 pounds of Liverpool
!. salt, ut 40 cents per bushel of ~ pounds
Duty, los per cent.
In 1860, u laborcr earning ono dollar n
day could have bought just rs pounds
Of Goldfish at cents per pound. In 1870,
he earns 81 so u day, and Goldfish cost
ling "a cents n pound, lie can only buy
,..I2O pounds Of Goldfish for his days labor,
! Tor 5 pounds less.
Owners of shipping on the lakes,
! when they buy 1900 pounds Of yellow
I metal shecting for vessel, have To pay
! I3O cents per pound, or $500. Duty on
yellow metal, As per cent. None is i'm
Iported. The same metal can be laid
a down in any portion of the lakes, ii no
!. duty was on it, for ~ cents in carrency.
J, "A thousand pounds of yellow metal
! shccting would, therefore, cost $50, Or
$llO less.
in 1860, five bushels Of wheat, in Chi
lcago, fetching 81 per bushcl, would have
bought 7lA pounds assorted shot, at s
|ccnts per pound. Duty OH lead. 10 per
: slccnt. In 1870, i've bushels of wheat
q. n