Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-11
RHAr ARE TAxED.
A correspondent writes to the
I.Ouis Renuhlic A. follows.

WHAT ARE TAXED.
A correspondent writes to the st.
Louis Republic as follows:
Please give the amount of tariff taxes
levied on leading articles. look upon
the war tariff as swindle upon the
mass OF the people. robbing them To
put money into the pockets of the few.
we are having a warm tune here.
Yours Tor truth, honesty and equal
rights.
The Republic answers that the
present tariff taxes, levied on more
than 1900 articles, constitute a tax
averaging IS per cent. on foreign
prices. That is, where an article is
worth dollar in New York harbOr,
the tax makes the price of it on the
New York wharf S1.45. The tax paid
primarily by the importer, is added to
the selling price and paid by the pur-
chaser. 1t is also added TO the price of
similar articles produced in this country,
and is paid by the purchaser direct to
the seller without going into the treas
uTy at all.
The American citizen who wishes to
build house is taxed 30 per cent. on
the value of his common planed lumber;
81 thousand feet on his pine lumber;
50 thousand feet on all other articles
of sawed lumber; 10 cents a thousand
on his laths; 80 cents thousand on his
shingles; g thousand on his pine clap
boards; cents ON every four pounds of
cut nails; cents pound on wrought
nails; 40 per cent. on the carpenters
hand saw and other tools; 20 per cent
on pickels for fencing; 80 per cent. OH
his paints and colors, and from 81 to
100 per cent. or his window glass.
When he begins to furnish his parlor
he is confronted by tax increasing the
price of his carpet and rugs from 40 TO
81 per cent of his wooden furniture 30
per cent; of his mirror from 4 to 60
cents a square foot, with an additional
tax of 80 per cent. on the legitimate
price of the frame. The tax will add
80 per cent. to the price of his cotton
curtains and 81 per cent. if the curtains
are worsted. He will be Obliged to pay
Sl.35 for every 81 worth of furniture he
buys for his bed rooms. In his kitchen
he will pay 5 cents tax Oh every four
pounds his stove weighs; y cents on
his elght-pOund sadirons; cent a
pound on his stove pipe; cents a
pound on all tin vessels; and the same
on all baking pans and hollow ware of
iron. In his dining room he will pay
50 per cent. on his table and chairs;
81 per cent. on his britannia tea and
coffee pots: 80 per cent. on his table
knives and forks; 60 per cent. on his tea
cups and saucers; 50 per cent. on all his
crockery, and 45 per cent. on his glass
ware.
On clothing for himself and family he
will pay 80 per cent. on cotton stock
ings, suspenders, garteTs, braces, and
! braids; 40 per cent. on cotton laces
: trimmings and inserting; and cents
yard on unbleached cotton cloths; &C
! per cent. on prints, calicos, bleached
/ and dyed cOttons; 80 per cent on brown
e and bleached linens, ducks, diapers
j crash towels, handkeTchiefs and lawns;
on ready made clothing, part wool AZ
cents a pound, and in addition 30 cents
. I'D valOrem. On wOmen's and child
. ren's dress goods, part wool, worth less
, than 20cents yard double tax OF {
{ cents yard and 80 per cent. of foreign
: price; if all wool or alpaca, double
Q tax of cents yard and 40 per cent Of
d foreign price; on fannels, blankets, hats
e balmOrals and all knit goods of wool, {
! double tax of from 10 TO 80 cents {
pound, and from 50 to 40 per cent Of
d foreign price; on wooden shawls the
= double tax of 30 cents a pound aud 8!
e per cent. of foreign price; on ladies' anC
children's cloaks the double tax of 4!
cents pound and 40 per cent. of foreign
: price, and at the same rates on Othel
f manufactures of wool. Nothing is lef
untaXed. Every article in the wife,
work basket pays tax of from 80 to q
per cent. Even the chlldren's slate:
: and slate pencils are taxed 80 per cent
e above foreign prices for the benefit Of
the slate pencil trust.
J. Every article in use iii the household
! in the shop, or on the farm is taxed
from One-third to three-fourths of IT.
foreign selling price, and these taxes
J as President Cleveland has pointed out
! are surely added TO the cost of the ma
TONS life"