The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-07-28

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succeed. HENRY N. corp. :
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How 1t Affects thk Farmer.
IN. o. Daily State&I
There is very little wonder that
the Republican farmer Of Illinois,
taking example from his brother
In Minnesota and Iowa, is kicking
agaist the tariff plank of the plat
form adopted in Chicago. He has
it painfully impressed on him that
no relief of taxation is ever to come
to him from the party to which,
hoping against hope, ne has so long
and faithfully adhered. For the
final sentence has gone forth in
that recently adopted platform that
not one cent of reduction shall ever
be made from the protection du-
ties, even if to avert financiaI-dis-
aster the country has to be hnHa-
ted with free whisky at 80 d3nt a
gallon. hi,
Sol. Putnam, in the July num-
Der of Belford's Magazine, sets be-
fore the reading public of the
United States the Illinois farmers
view Of this tariff, and how it
works. The exposition has moth
ing of novelty in it. The States
has presented the case over and
over again to its readers. But as
q vicious system, of long establish
ment, has to be shown up and de-
nounced many a time before the
public comes to have full knowl-
edge and clear realization Of it's
enormity, we make no apology for
conveying section of Sol. Put
MANS lucid and able arrangement
of this ruinuous tariff system. He
says:
10 begin with, my house, frame one,
may be valued at $500. This, II were |
building, would be the price; but when l |
had deducted the protective tax ON lum- |
Der, glass, shingles, hardware, and paint, (
found the real cost of my house was I
only $500. Here Is dead loss to me OF I
$780, / had paid $500 to the Carnegie /
Get to keep mp their palaces and taIly-hos
at home and in Scotland.
Ny stable, also a frame one, cost me
$500. Calculating as before, 1 found the
same proportion held good, and I am
skinned to keep up the protectionists 10
the time OF &150-another loss to me of
that amount.
have pair OF old work horses. The
harness on these cost me forty dollars;
The unnecessary tar ON these is 81, sure.
Ny three ploughs cost me $50. TH
tax on these is in steel, iron and lumber.
The neat little sum of, as near a. can
calculate, $12.
-Four years ago l bought binder.
paid in installments 8225. An agent, who
had quarrelled with his manufacturing !,
told me that the binder cost
$50. Twenty-Five dollars went to adver-
Using, and when the agent sold one he
vas allowed $25. OF the remainder S125. !
10 went in - profit to the company. and :
80 to the prOtectiopistG q
This is only - Beginning. There is
'othing s3sffner purchases that does not |
nay teR TO these protectionists. l take
- two horses to the blacksmith's to be
bod, for example. The blacksmith
harges me for all-round shoeing, 81 20.
u this 40 cents il retained for pr0tec-
ion. To have a new roof ON shed
caves 81 in the hands Of Mr.. Carnegie :
nd such. to keep palaces in Scotland, !:
nd ut home. Mr.. Blaine says protection !
} Republican principle and must be l
ustained. He was rolling along over j
Gnglish pixies, behind four blooded horses, :
nd sitting by Mr.. Carnegie Probably,
were 6xed that way, I would zee !
eautiee in the system. But you zee, II
m on the side that seek only the swindie.
49, NJ :
We lsave>the picture, without q {
omment, foNpur readers to rumi- 8
ate on. Wink they have done 50, I
hey will probably not be surprised {
hat the farmers of the United '
'tates are kicking Justify against o
be tariff systepG and against the
Iepublicsp platform. Il,
A sars path % success, v t. ne :
Chill Tonic ard hafnv !.