The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1888-09-20
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Farmer No. Z Replies 60 Farmer No. 2.

PARADISE VALLEY, Sept. IL, 1883.
EDITOR SILVER STArE:--On September
the 9th we notice what purports to be
reply to an article published in your
paper on the 25th OF August; bot without
attempting to refute a single assertion in
the communication of the 25th of August,
the writer begins by saying that be Is
farmer himself and in an apologize essay
he sage, sit may seem strange to my
neighbor that look upon the protective
tariff as blessing to the masses who de.
pend on labor for their support" Now
there are different kinds OF farming here
as else where. Their is the grain farmer,
the hay farmer and the baby farmer. and
from the tone of the article of the 9th,
one would naturally conclude that the
writer was of the latter class OF farmers.
He says. according TO the beet informa.
tion can obtain, there is but eighty
millions raised annually by tariff on the
necessaries of life, which would make it
about $l30 per head foreach person, if all
were to buy and consume alike.
Now right here is where the shoe
pinches the farmer who raises hay and
grain.
UNEQUALLY TAXED.
We do not all pay alike for the sup
port Of the tariff protected rniilionaires.
On the contrary. while the manufacturer
emplo5s 500 men these same men pay
500 times the amount Of taxes on the nec-
esssries Of life that sbe protected manu-
facturer pays No protective tarif can
raise this waees OF labor unless IT dis
tipetlY provides taat the Artificial value
impsrtea 30 protect goods shall be di.
.id,sti oe:~eea the manufacturer and bis
employers. There never has been tariff
act passed that made such provision for
the working man On the contrary the
manufacturer is left free TO dispose of the
bounty he receives in any way that he
may sec tit, consequently he keeps it all
TO himself and hires his labor at the low
est price possible, always being careful
to keep the price of labor as low as possi-
BILE by importing cheap labor from Canada
for there factories q Massachusetts, from
Russia for the factories in New York and
from Hungary for tho coal mines aud iron
factories OF Pennsylvania.
THE EoG STORY.
The hog shearing story was certainly
too stale for joke, but blind man can
see at once that the object OF the writer
was to draw the attention Of the reader
from the main question at once, namely,
the tariff.
But since Farmer No. 9, has seen lit to
introduce the hog into the issue, we have
another version of che hog. to which we
want TO call the attention OF the over
taxed farmer, as there are always more
or less hogs fattened in this section. No
one will deny that everything that is
used in cultivating the ground TO raise
the needed food to fatten the hog, such
as harness, lumber for the pen, nails.
pump, pillow, cultivatos, harrow, hoe,
spade and shovel, are all taxed for the
benefit OF the manufacturer but there is
no tariff on the pork. and the American
farmer has to compete with all the
markets OF the world when he sells HE
produce.
PROFITABLE ADVICE
Now ii Farmer No. is seeking light
on the tariff question and is open to con-
viction on question that so materially
affects his welfare, which means the con.
dition Of his home and all that is both
near ADD dear to him. he will profit by
reading a little of the history Of the oast.
He viii find that the farmer is taxed
enormously on almost everything that he
purchases without increasing the price of
his products single cent. That the
price received for tho staple productions
of the farm, such as wheat corn and
pork, depends almost entirely upon the
price offered for them in Liverpool, Lon.
don and other foreign markets, and
further that the expectation Of their pro-
ducts is increasing very rapidly, making