The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29
A Reply to "G. T. D."

writer knows more about farming than
he does about the tariff, yet be doubts
that there is farmer in Anderson Coun-
ty that pays anything like the amount
of tariff on the articles mentioned by
&c. T. B." Now, the main object of
the larger number of the 1000 tariff
charges is to prohibit competition with
our products-hence the high tariff. If
the tariff was actually paid by our farm
ers, we would have foreign goods in every
market, and as it is, we scarcely find any
article that figures largely in the account
against the farmer save sugar, and this,
as we'll as rice and wool, are raised by
our own farmers. Now, the writer does
n wish to be understood as an advocate
of feeding the New England tariff bull
that keeps John Bull out, but at the
same time this does not cost US near so
much as it does to feed our hogs in the
West.
&c. T. B.'s" estimate of 1857 per capita
overcharge on goods caused by the tariff
rates" is simply ridiculous. We have
a number of farmers who raise all their
supplies that will grow on their land,
that do not trade in the stores for all
they buy in one year to the amount of
s57 per capita. The bulk of the "time
trade" among the farmers is for groceries,
fertilizers and other supplies that do
not come under the tariff. Imagine far
mer John plowing 35 per cent. mort
gagged mule, fed on 40 per cent. corn, and
eating 40 per cent bacon and other things
in proportion, and yet, to cap it all wears
$40 (s12 tariff suit) and kicks around
at night under a 80 per cent. blanket.
The writer wears a Sc suit, and has been
enjoying tolerable rest at night for the
last twenty years under a home made
blanket, and does not remember being in
terrupted once with one of those 80 per
cent. ia. IF night mares.
I would like very much to see tEat
New England tariff bull slaughtered,
and as &C. T. B." can give him harder
licks than any one | know of, l will
vote for him as delegate to Washing
ton to do the work if he can, but at the
same time will say that this will not
cause the farmers to raise their own sup.
plies, or the merchants to charge less for
the same on time. The. farmers in
Anderson County are far better off in
the way of raising their own supplies
than nine-tenths of the rest of the Coun-
ties in the Stale, yet there are thousands
of pounds of bacon going out to our
our farmers on time at from 10 cents to
121 cents, that costs from 81 to 81 cents,
and corn at rs cents to S1.0O that cost
from so cents to G5 cents per bushel -four
and lard are nearly as high, yet some
would say that the farmer cannot pay
ten per cent on money. Now, it would
not do to institute quarrel between the
merchants and the farmer, for if We did
some of US farmers would be without
rations very soon. Now, the merchant is
farmer Johns best friend. He will sell
him anything he wants at profit Of
from twenty to one hundred per cent,
while farmer John makes cotton that
cost him 7 cents per pound, and sells the
same at u to cents The merchant
does more for farmer John than farmer
John does for himself or the merchant,
for he sells him all the goods he promised,
but farmer John cannot pay 40 per cent.
profit on supplies with 2! to 5 per cent.
cotton crop. FARMERS Son.
PSI Pay Cash.