Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-04-14
From the Atlanta Constitution
Tine Beauties of the Radical
Tariff.
How THH WORKING MAN Is ROBBED Te
PAY THE MoNopoMsT

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How THH WORKING MAN IS ROBBED TO
PAY THE MoNopoLIsT.
We have received among our exchanged
copy of the Peoples Pictorial Tax Payer,
published by the Free Trade League of New
York, which gives US series of cuts illus
trating the grinding burden Of the present
Radical Tariff
The illustration is entitled, How the
Tariff Robs the Farmer and Workingman
to Benefit the Monopolist
We cannot reproduce the cuts, but we
give the significant and startling explana-
ton Of them, as worthy of reproduction, and
as meriting the careful, earnest thought Of
good men every where.
The farmer rises in the morning puts on
his flannel shirt, taxed IS per cent; his
trousers, taxed 90 per cent his vest, taxed
5O per cent, and his oyercoat, taxed--cloth
go per cent, buttons 40 per cent, braid so
per cent, lining 80 pei cent, and padding
100 per cent. He draws on his boots, So
per cent; puts some coal, taxed 60 per cent,
into his stove. taxed SIS per cent, with
pipe, taxed $50 per cent; and cooks his
breakfast He seasons his food with salt,
taxed l0S per cent; and pepper, taxed 100
per cent, and eats out OF a plate taxed As
per cent, with knife and fork taxed IS per
cent.
He reads his daily journal, whose paper
is taxed 20 per cent. ink 80 per cent,
and type rs per cent.
He puts on his hat taxed 70 per cent,
smokes cigar taxed $50 per cent. bitches
his horse, shod with nails taxed 81 per
cent, to a pillow taxed 45 per cent, with
chains taxed 100 per cent. and harness tax.
ed 35 per cent.
He goes to the village stere and buys for
his wife handkerchief, taxed 35 per cent. !;
a shawl, taxed 200 per cent wooden
dress, taxed LOO per cent, hat, taxed 40
| per cent; d pair of stockings, taxed IS per
cent an umbrella, taxed 80 per cent;
package of needles, taxed Is per cent; a
spool of Goats thread, taxed 70 per cent;
paper Of pins, taxed IS per cent; writing
pen, taxed 70 per cent.
He stocks his pantry with rice, taxed 81
per cent soap, taxed 70 per cent, candles,
taxed 40 per cent. starch taxed SO per
cent.
H. lays in lot Of tools: An axe, taxed
IS per cent; jack-knife, taxed so per
cent; well bucket, taxed so per cent; a
spa-le taxed Is per cent; saw, taxed IS
| per cent.
He buys gun, taxed IS per cent He
papers his walls with paper, taxed 35 per
cent. His window glass is taxed IS per
cent. He washes his hands in crockery
bowl, taxed 40 per cent
He makes his crop and sends to market
on rails, taxed $3 900 mila in cars taxed
90 per cent; drawn by engines, taxed As
per cent.
This all absorbs his funds. He pays all
these taxes as he buys these articles. He
is the consumer, and the consumer fovts all
these heavy taxes-taxes paid every day of
the farmers life, on every tool used, and on
everything eat, drank and worn.
When he understands it, he gets sick.
thinking of how Radical taxation robs him
for the benefit Of few rich monopolists.
He takes TO his bed, made of wood, taxed
20 FER cent, draws over him sheet taxed
.55 per cent, and blanket taxed $40 per
cent. He takes quiniue taxed As per cent
But it does no good The tariff kills
him. He dies and is buried in all sorts Of
taxed things. His fate is recorded on q
marble stone taxed 70 per cent, and he
goes whers there are no Tariffs.
His epitaph reads thus: Here lies the
American Farmer Taxed to Death by Mo.
nopollsts
So let him retaliate and vote down to
death the Infamous Radical party that thus
crushes him