The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-13
FARMERS NOT PROTECTED.
Do You Get High Prices for. Your Crops?-
How Much Money Do You Make in a
Hear?-Is Your Farm Out of Debts?

DO bou Get High Prices for. Your Crops
How Much Money Do You Make in a
Hear?-Is Your Farm Out of Debt?
Issued By the Manchester Tariff Reform League, IS
State-st., Boston.
For twenty-five years the "protectionists"
have kept you down under high tariff. They
pirate about "home market and diversity
ing interests" to help the farmer. What are
the facts?
Does your next door ueighbor paw YOU anv
more for wheat in the 'home market" than the
shipper for Liverpool? Does the manufacturer
pay you a higher price than the-g grain dealer?
The farmers are not protected" They pay
war tariff taxes on everything they buy, and
they get no more for what they sell.
More than half OF the workers of this couu-
try are farmers and farm labOrers. The far
mer is the strong horse who has to bear the
burden of taxes, while the wool is pulled over
his eyes.
You get for your wheat the price at Liver
pool, less the cost OF getting it there The
enormous duty on steel rails and on iron has
increased by untold millions the cost of the
railways that carry it, and SO increased your
freight and lowered your profit.
Every hoe and pillow and tin pan and
stove costs you more bec8use of the tariff
taxes. Your house and fences cost you more.
Your clothes cost you more.
What do you get for it all? The duty on
WOOL do you say? Well, only S10,0000 900
worth of wool (price paid farmers) is grown in
this country, 10 SDJu,UUU,UJU corn, t0JUUUUUJJ
wheat, S3j0,OO0,0OO hay, 100000 cotton,
Sl00000000 hens eggs. Not a thirtieth of our
farm products is wool. 1t is hard to tax thirty
men for one.
But the wool tariff hurts the wool-growers.
Why? Because the wooden manufacturers
have to buy imported woods to mix with do
mesto woods, and the duty makes the price so
high as to prevent their paving a good price
for home grown WOOL
Thus, the farmers pays more for his blanket
and gets less for his wool. England sold to
foreign countries in 1885 S115,000,000 worth of
wooden goods, where sold under 81, 900. O0Ol
The price of wool and of all farm products
averaged higher in the free trade than in the
protection period.
The tariff affects none of tho farmers
products in favor OF the farmer The tariff on
wheat, etc, is entirely a sham, because we eX-
port e rain and do not import it
If we were really to shut ourselves up to
"the home market" the glut Of produce would
ruin our farmers. The more freely Europe
buys the better OFF are American farmers.
Give our workingmen work all the year
round. by help OF free raw materials and more
foreign trade, and they viii have more money
to spend at home.
Think about these thingsI When you vote
for congressman, don't mind party names, bus
find out if the candidate believes in tariff re-
form and lowering taxes.
The Farmers Tax OF S345, 600, 900.
If the increased price of American manu-
featured goods, caused by the tariff is only one
fourth the average tariff rate, and you will add
the increased cost of their distribution. caused
By the law, il will be found that the sum is
something over $720,000,000. That is to our
people as low an estimate as, believe, would
be reasonable of the cost OF protection" The
sum is probably greater. But that much, at
least, believe, we annually contribute to try
and fill the rapacious and Unsuitable NAV OF the
hideous and detestable monster.
HOW THE FARMERS ACCOUNT STANDS.
Now how stands the account? ! have DEM
onstrated. I think, that to those directly en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits the total in-
creased price OF all their products in cOnse-
quence of the tariff cannot possibly exceed
S15,OO0OOO The total sum is probably far less.
But il the above figures are correct and my rea-
soning is sound-as / am confident it is-the
cost of the tariff to the farmers alone, in the
purchase of American manufactured goods
aside from all duties paid to the government,
cannot be less than $500 900 year. That
is the inside figure; and deducting from that
sum every possible cent of advantage they get
from protective duties-namely, Sl5000000-it
will leave as the net cost of the tariff TO those
who are directly engaged in agricultural pur-
suits the sum of S34j, 100000 year; and to all
other classes who are in reality and effect,
though not farmers, engaged in agriculture,
sum in addition of about 80 per cent. @
Smith, Farmer and Wool GrOl0er, Oakland, u