Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-21


tn this add increase in lSs7............ 322 900
And we have..................... sl,sSi,ooE
Less than 1900, 600 of the farmers five
and quarter millions goes to labor, the
balance the manufacturer sticks in his
pocket as his perquisite for giving the
farmer the privilege of buying from q
S'bafon."
Taking the whole list through, scanning
every article which the farmer or his fam
lily must buy, and there you find the
baron, with his open hand and his tariff
pistol, calling upon the consumer to stand
and deliver. And farmers submit to the
robbery to the extent of at least $50, ,OO0,-
600 year.
And this is very low estimate. On
clothing, bedding, implements, harness,
cordase, baggipg and little dressing up
of wife aud daughters, every farmer in the
4 OOS. .907 farms ependa at least S75 year
OF this amount SIS represents "lordly pro-
tection." Pat it, then, this way
Farmers purchases SIS per year $500, ,66S, ,025
Protection sl5 per faI 6o,lSS6oo
Real value received only...-".., $40, ,5Si, i20
A farm paper says most farmers in West
Virginis spend very much more than the
above specifisd smount-viz, that the
average is $40 to s220 year. Take the
first figure, $l7O. and make the tariff
average az low as 80 per cent-much lower
than it really is-and you fiud every West
Virginia farmer contributes $40 so year
70 the bsrons. Of course 30 high an aver
aye would not hold good throughout the
country, or the tribute would be nearer
six hundred than sixty millions.
WHAT THE FARMER GETS BACK.
And for all this what do the barons give
the farmer in return?
Why, they put duty on wheat to pro-
tect him, which. instead Of protecting him,
protecte the fellow across the ocean, as
Americans are exporters and not importers
of wheat, flour and corn. The barons fail
ed to fipd the farmer "hOme Market"
SO he has to look for one for his surplus
over the seas. If the home market hsd
been made these prices of corn and wheat
would have been in favor of the American,
instead of in favor Of the Englishman:-
Corn. Wheat.
Chicago. .ig1s 'iys
III .....sss -
These are Chicago quotations, and show
thst American wheat is % per cent and
American corn 40 per cent. higher in EGG
land than in America. This, after the
farmers have paid 10 twenty-five years
81. 500, ,OOO, COO 70 secure home market
and protect the baronsl
What else have the extreme tarifites
given the farmer? They 'protect" the
wool on his sheep to the extent of about 30
cents fleece. Given the official average
of nine sheep per farmer, we See that while
be he steals from him SIS. he only pro-
.ects him to the amout Of $2.70, if at ell.
Thus:
Barons steal from the farrner..............s150 %
Give back [slleged in wool tariff. 30
Balance In bsrons' favor. ...... SIP 80
OF course the REGISTER has taken the
lowest possible average of robbery. But
every farmer can secure copy of the tariff
giving the tax on the articles he and his
family bay, and can then work ont inst
about how much be is individually plum.
dered. With the reeult Of this figuring in
his vest pocket be can make things very
interesting for the Republican stump orator
when he comes into the "deestrict" to
howl for Blaine's G. O. P. and his partic-
ular friends, the tariff barons.