The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-14
DENNIS AGAIN,

Il EDITOR UNlON:-ln your Issue OF Jitilli-
t airy 18th you wish someone to tell you
Ebow much protection cost the farmer on
| a $40 suit OF clothes, 81 worth OF sugar..
, one barrel OF salt and Il pair OF "~stosa'
; boots. ! am glad Of the opportunity:
A suit OF clothes, all wool-no shoddy,
: smind--well made, can be boughtinLi Liver
i pool, or any other European market,
, for ten dollars, orelcven bushels OF wheat
at the present price in Liverpool, ninety
cents. Surprising that suit weighs five
'ipounds, the duty-or fine for trading
where we can, to best advantage
would be forty cents per pound-twO
dollars-and t%hirty-fivc per cent adva-
! lorum-thrce dollars and fifty cents.
Total, five dollors and fifty cents.
The duty on sugar, raw or the cane
growers protection is one and One-halI
cents pcrpound, and the r%efincrs' black
mail is two cents; therefore, if the north
western farmer gets ten pounds OF granu-
lated sugar for one dollar, the duty is
thirty-live cents.
The duty on salt, in bags or barrels, is
twelve cents per hundred, or tlIirty'Tour
cents on Il barrel.
Ii the leather in Il pair Of boots or
shoes is worth one dollar, the duty on
| that is fifty cents, and the wholcsn!epr price
OIL the shoes is two dollars and fifty
cents. The duty is t~llirty-iivc per cent
cighty-sevcn and onc-haN cents. Total,
one dollar and thirty-scven cents.
i fuller extract from the tariff schedule
} will be given atHnothcr time.
There appeared II wonderful article in
i 1t late issue from the New York Tribune
to which Senator CullOm is credited with
q the cue. The only thing in il which is
Vt worth consideration is the ~'clearly dem.
onstratcd points'-in theory. How
" about the practice? The first point is
II the development OF our home market
What the American farmer mostneedS is
e Il home market in which he can purchase
his supplies us cheaply as his compcti.
II tors can theirs.
n l1l venture to say thatanorthwesterl1
farmer will have to part with forty
bushels OF wheat to become the owncr o.
that ten dollar suit OF clothes which his
q English competitor can purchase with
eleven.
AS long as we raise more than we con.
sumo, the home market cuts no figures
S The price We obtain for our surplus il
. ~themarket OF the world Is what we gel
for what is consumed athome. Nomore
IS 'Thn tiIsf iS M 1,nip4 II, ,r.,ctioo md ti,,
second is no more SO. AS to the third
the effect OF the protectionin this country
has been to reduce the cost OF manufac
tured goods to our people. In some in
n stances this is true. 1t is the exception
n not the rule. An American ak anc
handle put in can be bought in Europe
for s~eyenty-iive cents. The American
protected citizen pays S1.25 for tht
same article. Observation-Disclosures
in Chicago can be bought in Australi;
for 500. The northwestern farmer
pays S175 for the same machine, and sc
n on.
o AS to cloth and clothing. the American
1t manufacturer beats the world forshoddy
How is it that everyone who can affort
n it, goes for imported goods like a duel
Us for a June bug? 1t is because the i'm
y ported article is what it is represented tx
be, in fact, honest goods.
81 The writer once bought some harness
n makers avis and paid ten cents a-piec
st for them. When 1 had occasion to us
them they doubled M as if they wer
< made OF lead. The truth is, that every
IS body needs to be IN expert to Judge al
kinds OF goods, or he will get swindlet
L whenever he buys anything. That is tn
II beauty OF protection, whereas. lfEurope
n an manufactures could come in will
their goods on equal footing, the .Ameri
can manufactures would be compelled
d to make honest goods, and every on
would be the gamer.
/ wish to add to Bro. Parrish's articl
the item OF coal, which is now largel,
q used in Rapid City, and money sent ou'
n OF. the county. Before we had arailroat
the people got along very well withou'
coal. Why not use wood, which we have
plenty OF, and thereby give employment
n to people who need it, and who would
It spend the proceeds at home? Pinelimb:
d will give as much heat, pound forpound
as coal, and will also give as lasting
heat, and it is a home product which
now goes to waste. Will someone nov
u using coal try a load OF large pine limbs
l. and let the result be known? ".Protecr
k our Home Industries is the motto.
y DENNIS.
George Slick, foreman of the black
smithi1lg department., informs the Mine: