The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31
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The protective tariff duties have increased
steadily every year. The tax on your pay
ment when 1t enters into competition with
their mill products IS levied specifically, not
by percentage, 90 that 1t shall increase in
percentage every year. The average, which
In 1881 was ~ per cent, In 1855 was ~
per cent. You could not pay this tax and
compete with them Your farm products
were held here. there was . glut In this mar
ket, and you know how your prices here have
dropped without being told.
4. The last Congress raised tho Tar on
the foreign payment II You approve. that Il
your business. The people want cheap food.
s. Your foreign market gives you the only
control OF prices you can have here, BY pro-
v1ding two customers, Americans and foreign
ers, competing against each other TOR your
farm products, making prices high.
q. once confined to the "home MARKET
your own competition with ono another will
destroy you. There were 4 .s07 ASS more on
farms In 1880 than were required TO supply
the home market"
Z. The protected manufacturer Is carrying
the war into your own corn-nelds. Manufac-
turing as cheaply as the foreigner, having no
duty to pay on foreign farm products-for you
are not protected on anything. except, per-
haps, wool. although you think you are-he is
selling his mill products abroad for foreign
farm products and underselling you In your
own home market. II you do not believe It,
look At the exports Of agricultural products
for 1883 or 1850. published recently In TEE
WORLD. Here Is the result:
EXPORTS or AMERICAN LABoR YRoDrcTA
1884,, ,ss, s y; 81 ~ az az s:s
His exports have increased 20 per cent.
Tour exports have decreased 81 per cent.
OF the total exports you have lost 10 per
cent and he has gained 10 per cent.
II may be that you prefer to believe thu
mill-owner when he tells you:
l. That you were never worse on than n
165O-l86O under the low taxation or
the payment you received for your farm
surplus sold abroad, and when you sold
your surplus TO the American people In fret
competition with him after that surplus had
been exchanged by you for foreign mill pro
ducts
3. That ron are most prosperous when yos
can have market at your farm gate, aseverJ
farmer In New Jersey has had for the last
twenty ycars-to hts ruin.
s. That tho tax imposed &C the Custom
House on the foreign manufactures ron re
ceive In payment or exchange FOR your farm
surplus Is not TO protect him against you, bu1
to protect him against the foreigner, VINO doe
not care whether your payment Is or IL no
taxed by your Government.
1. That the tariff Is to tar tho foreigner
and while It would not be right 70 tax tho for
eigner enough TO pay oil the expenses OF ou
Government, We win and do tar him enough
to pay two-thirds.
products In foreign markets, In open Ant
direct competition with the foreign manu-
facturer, and under his very nose, paytn,
freight, he cannot AFFORD to sell to his coun
trymen as cheaply as he gladly sells TO th
foreigner; stu less can he afYOrd to let TIL
foreigner compete through you IN this market
9. That II you viii permit him TO limit 20,
by law to the homo market which you alread,
have, and permit him TO deprive you OF you
present small hold on the exchange uoreign
market, you viii DO Infinitely better on. BE-
cause-because-well, because he win be D
much better on that he can buy more iron
you than he does now he Is very fond Q
cabbage, and II you will stop exportinl
wheat he can buy more cabbage and have
every day TOR dinner.
II you do not wish TO shut YOUR eyes 70 tn
facts, II you desire to know more about Nh
tox on your payment for your surplus, II yol
care to hear how protection benefits the mill
owner only, you can obtain full Information
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