The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-03-21
How tho Farmer Cots L.sft.

If ever Il tax was imposed out Of ''pure
c~usscdncss" it is tho tariff on common
salt. This substance is one Of the primo
necessities of life. Man might possibly
find q substitute for bread or meat, but
i'll sonlc form or other lio must have salt
for his blood, for his tissues, for his
brain, and all the secretions which help to
carry through the processes of digestion.
Salt is not only Il necessity to man, but
one Of tho most important raw materials
used III manufacturing Industries. 1t is
chiefly used in the United States by far
mcrs, meat packers and fish curers.
Farmers have Il multitude Of uses for
salt. They place it in licking pans, to
keep their cattle and sheep in good
health. They sprinkle fodder with it.
Butter will not keep without salt, SO
large quantities Of it are used for this
purpose. Then every one knows that
cheese docs mo- taste of salt for nothing.
The immense meat packing industries
of tho west use worry largo quantities of
salt in making compressed corncd beef
and in other modes Of preserving fresh
meat.
Fishermen down cast also uso salt in
fish curing. Nota small quantity either,
since in the year 1886 they paid Sl26, 800
for it.
Largo meat packers are very rich, ana
powerful in II political sense. Nearly
all their preserved goods arc exported.
In actual figures So, $3.50, OFT worth of
canned beef products, and $2,Gl7, 05S
worth of sailed and picked beef were
exported from tho United Statcs in the
year 1888.
Blu fish canners and meat packers
have apparently q much greater pull
with tho powers that bo than farmers
have. Because, whereas the govern
ment, in tho year ending June, 1887, col.
lected 81 ,439, O31 duty on imported salt,
neither the meat packers nor tho fish can
ners paid any portion Of this tax, or else
had Il rebate Of the amount which they
paid when their goods were exported.
or tho entire quantity Of salt imported
Into this country, at least two-thirds arc
for tho farmers uses. No matter what
price limo foreign salt is, tho dairy farmer
who makes butter must apparently buy
it or sllller his butter to DO cInsscu
among inferior qualities.
Yet the farmer gets no rebate on ac.
count of the salt III The dairy products
which he exports II Of this country.
The fish clirer gets his salt free; the meat
packer gets u rebate Of the entire duty
and tho farmer gets left.
Tho lltcst article said to DO under
valued by tho assistant secretary OF tho
treasury is linoIeum. Tho New York
appraiser acmo timo ago raised tho
standard Of imported linolcums ono
grade all around. Tho importers np-
pealed and tho matter was referred TO
the managing partner Of Il very large do
nestle linoloum agency. lie decided at
once that tho imported goods were un-
dcrvalucd. Why not?
The man who holds the highest
Office in the United States is not Mr..
EarrIson, ms some people suppose, but
the postmaster at Mineral Point,
Colorado, whose office is twelve thou
sand feet above the sea.
LADIES
Needing n tonic, Or children that want building
Zip, should take
BROyyN;H RON HITTIGIls.
II Is pleasant to take, cures Malarin, Inliges.
ton, and Bllo'Isncss, All dealers Keep It.