Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-18

are exact enough for our purpose.
Great Britain-No duties levied on
farm productions. except tobacco.
Frsnce-Wheat, 81 cents per bushel;
flour, 211s cents per barrel; other grains
and flours, free; butter, II cents per
pound; cheese, 4 cent per pound; cotton
and wool, free.
Austro Hungary-Wheat, 6 cents per
bushel; barley, oats, corn and rye,
cents; -four, 81 per barrel; butter, IL
per pound; lard and bacon. cents per
pound.
Germany-Wheat, Z cents per bushsl;
flour, A cents per barrsl lard, a cents
per pound; cheese, 24 csnts per pound;
cotton, free; wool, not mentioned.
Belgium-Wheat and rye, 6 cents per
bushel; -four, IS cents per barrel
Italy-Whest.s cents per bushel; flour,
40 cents per barrel; cheese. II cents per
pound; meats smoked, "a cents per
pound; cotton and wool, free.
Norwsy-Wheat. ~ cents per bushsi;
flour, SO per barrel; cheese, 2 cents; wool,
free.
Russis-Flour, 40 cents per barrel;
cheese, IL cents per pound; butter, 80
cents per pound; wool and cotton not
mentioned.
Spain Wheat, % cents per bushel;
-four, S1.1s per barrel; pork and lard,
1.3O per 100 pounds; wool. less than Il
cent per pound; cheese, 81 cents per
pound.
Standardization, almost free; meat
smoked, SO cents per 100 pounds; wool,
less than 4 cent per pound.
limited States Clothing wool un wash
ed. 10 to IL cents per pound; washed,
double duty; and on secured, 80 to SO
cents per pound; wheat, 20 cents per
bushel; barley, rye, corn and oats. 10
cents per busbel; hay, 81 per ton; beef
and pork, cent per pound; hams and
bacon, cents per pound; cheese and
butter, cents per pound.
To take the tariff of all Europe in the
aggregate. and they will not exceed
much over 25 per cent. of the amount
levied by the United States, yet searly
all our industries are anxious for higher
tariff. The subject is now being agitat-
ed in England. in regard to levying du-
ties on imports, on all nations that levy
on them; and 1 have no doubt but as
soon as England can obtain cheap bread
stuff, from India and other nations that
give her free trade, but that duties will
be levied on our exports to them. She
will then be paying Us in OUT own coin.
Should such an event occur, it will mod
ify very much the farmers opinion in
regard to the tariff question.
To summarize: 1st. 1 show that the
present tariff is. the highest that there
has been On wool. taking it in all its
grades for over fifty years excepting the
tariff of 1861 and for the last few years
the lowest price fer wool in that time.
I'd. l affirm that wool has got an equal
share of protection with other industries
and that it is inconsistent to attribute to
the tariff the present depression. Supply
and demand rule the market
Sd. That all the nations of Europe ex-
cept Spain and Switzerland, which have
mere moity of duty, admit wool free,
although their lands will average three
times at least the price of ours. Cotton
and wool are considered raw material
and almost indispensable to the human
family, and those nations think it not
wise policy to tax them. My opinion is
to let well enough alone, and that the
tariff should be let severely alone" but
should Congress undertake to revise the
tariff laws and reduce the present tariff
on wool, farmers should be well organ
lied to resist pertinently any such meas
ure. The true remedy for farmers was
the one proposed By Mr.. Close at one of
our Institute lectures, viz: to try and
grow two pounds Of wool where only one
grew before, which would likely prove
more successful and permanent.