The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-20
agriculture, being 81 $40 of all the

agriculture, being 81 $40 Of all the la
borers of the nation.
According to the census OF the
United States for 1870 the to-
tai value of all the manufac-
lures made in the United
States was - "a, 2S3 900, 900
Of these we exported only. 10000, 900
Leaving a balance for home
consumption off,. $500. "a ,2O7 ,0OO, 900
Add to these imported manu-
features Census 1870. .. 462, ST, 587
Total .. go. 80. 81, 669, 377, 587
Of this the farmers consume 81 $40,
which is equal to $2,4l0,608, 629.01 :
nearly two billions and half annually.
Or, combining the estimate to domes-
tic manufactures alone and we find that
the farmers consume annually $780,
GAO, 900.
At the prices paid for the same kind
of articles in 1860, they would have
cost 81, 405, 5000 that the farmers
pay every year 100000 to the
manufacturers of the country more
than they would have had to pay under
the tariff which existed prior to the
war.
Now, if we divide this increase of
1901, $50, 900, caused by the Protective
Tariff, by 5,525,2O3, the number Of
farmers, we will find that each farmer
pays annually to the manufacturers OF
the country the sum of $l25.2l!!'
And if we divide the total tariff rev.
enue paid into the United States Treas
ury, to wit $462,377,587, so as to get
the 51.8 per centage thereof, we will
have $235,8l8,265.38, which is the pro
rata share the farmers of the nation pay
toward the support of the general gov
eminent. Now, if We divide this again
by 5,525, 2O3, the number of farmers in
the United States, we find the
share of each amounts to $44.6I.
This is what each farmer pays annu-
ally through the increased price of for
eign manufactures for the support of
the general government.
Now let US add these together
Taxation annually paid by the farm
ers to the manufacturers 80. 80. 1925 81
Taxation annually paid by the farm
ers to the United States 49,. . ~ 81
Total ... 80. ...... ... sl69 80
Th,,c q W T v-,1l coo that NJ. ~
ms pays, in addition to his State, coun-
ty, and township taxes, $l69,82 each
year. If his home taxes are $500;
this makes a total of over $4,000 per
annum.
We have not time to figure out what
this would amount to, compounded with
II per cent, interest every year but
it would be somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000 in twenty years!!!
Nowif there is any fault in this cal
culation we would be glad to have it
pointed out. 1t is based on the facts
furnished by the United States census,
worked out by the simple rules of
arithmetic.
But even this startling result does
not tell the whole story.
This is only what Mr.. Jackins pays
as his own share of taxes.
But if Mr.. Jackins hires two or three
farm hands, they have been taxed to
the amount of the increased cost of
their clothing, hats, boots, &C., and of
course they have to receive back from
Mr.. j. wages enough to make them
whole.
If Mr.. j. buys hammer, plough.
a reaper, threshing machine, or any
other implement, he not only pays the
increased cost of the iron, steel, brass,
&C., used in making it, but he pays
back the increased wages which the
manufacturer of the implement has had
to pay to the man who felled the tree
from which the wood work was made;
the man who fashioned the wood work;
the man who dug and mined the iron
and copper ores; the man who smelted
the ore: the man who wrought the pig
iron into nails, screws, plates, castings,
&c. Nay more, the manufacturer has
to get back from the farmer, the in
creased cost on his own living, the
clothes Of himself and family, the high
rent he pays in consequence of the
general imitation Of prices, the high
prices paid his servants, &c.
In fact, the whole thing is saddled
upon the farmer at last. He is the
only one who cannot put up his price
and collect back his taxes from some
one else; for the price of his chief prod
uct, his wheat, depends upon the price
in foreign markets, and is not inflated
BY the causes which affect domestic
prices.
Hence, while at the end Of twenty
years the farmer has dug large for
tune out of his rich fields: he has but
little to show for it. He has worked