New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-02

This table, however, does not include the enhanced
price which the duty added to the value of many I'm
portant products of agriculture 1t is impossible to
ascertain the total value of the cabbages. caulfower
beets, turnips, carrots, parsnps onions, celery GU
| cumbers, pumpkins, squashes and other vegetables
| which are protected by duty of 10 per cent pro
lection which, according 10 the Cleveland Free Trade
Idea nearly quite' 10 per cent added 10 tbs
value of the total product of those commodities II
pears safe to that such data could be collected
the above total showing the enhanced price which
the duty adds 70 the value of the annual product Of
| agriculture would be increased 10 $500 100000.
Eggs admitted TO market free OF duty. Mr.
| Edward Atkinson states that the annual value OF
eggs consumed in the United states is about Sl25,o0O,
OOO protective duty Of 20 per cent, which would be
about 3 cents a dozen, would according to the
! Free Trade doctrine put S25000,0O0 into
| the pockets Of American farmers every year. This
| is matter worthy OF serious consideration
Hides and skins also are free of duty. The vale
OF their annual product In this country is not far from
500 900. A duty on them OF, say, 20 Der cent
would according to frce-trade doctrine, put about
SIS 900 900 into the pockets Of our farmers This,
also, is worthy OF consideration.
But the above falls very far short Of pre-
senting the total conferred upon the farmers
Of the country by protective tariff According to
Mr. Cleveands Free-Trade doctrine, the protective
duties enhance the price all protected products OF
labor therefore 90 per cent Of the total value OF
animals on farms 81 .5O7 O5OO55 is derived from the
operation OF tho tariff. This alone amounts to
$417 Sal ,676
But even this affords an inadequate view of the
benefits which according to the fundamental docrrns
of Free Trade the tariff confers upon the American
farmer Anything which enhances the price Of the
product OF farming lands, also enhances the value OF
such lands. What this added value is, no person can
accurately compute. AS the total value OF farming
lands the United States upon the basis of the census
of 1880 is not far from $12 900 100000 appears safe
to say that the increased value OF farming lands due
10 our protective tariff according TO the Free-Irade
theory IS about two thousand million dollars
So much for the benefits conferred upon the Amert-
can farmer by protective tariff Now let US turn
to the burden imposed upon the farmer by the tari'
Like the benefits conferred It IS impossible TO ascertain
their totally. But IT IS quite practicable to present
probably over 90 per cent of them. This will serve
clearly to illustrate the subject The manner In which
the computations made IS shown follows in re
gard TO and steel industry. The value of the
total production of iron and steel in the United States
in 1855 according TO Mr.. James VI. Swank, General
Manager OF the American Iron and steel Association
was about $360Oo0O0O. This, according 10 tho
FreeT Trade theory, embraced an enhanced value'
due to the tariff Of Al 40 per cent which added value
was S1O5, 942, 134. Adding 10 this the duties col
lected on i'm ported iron and STEEL which S21 2S,i
500 and we have the total Increased value due 20
the tariff the sum Of 1927 ,225,06 As tho agri-
cultural workers OF the country, male and female,
constitute "A per cent Of the total number Of persons
engaged in galnfu vocatons tho poportionate burden
which the tariff upon iron and steel imposes upon the
agricultural class is according the free-rade theory
$50 07e,425.
In this manner the following table has been
nled Wherever the value of the product for 1883
could be g from reliable data 1t has been taken,
and in other II has been computed by adding
90 per cent TO the Census value Of the product Of
1880