Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-01

home less the freight So. IS the
tariff reformer says. let us put the
manufacturer in = position that he
will be able to manufacture more and
need more laborers, and by so doing con-
sumo more of our agricultural products
and not ask the farmer to sell his
products at Liverpool prices, but 1t
American prices. Then the Western
farmer will be able to pay of the mort
cages on his farm. To-day, under the
great benefit OF high protection, the
farmer is not even able to pay the inter-
est due on the mortgages.
Protection puts the chiea surden on
the foreigner" says the protectionist.
The idea that the exporter pays the
tarin is so utterly false and ridiculous
that don't believe any one honestly
thinks that such is the case. Every one
knows, or should know, that the ex-
porter is not going to dispose Of his
goods for less than cost. We believe
that the American manufacturer gets
his profit and adds the tariff as profit,
or puts it in his cost so as to blind the
American consumer-as in the case of
27-shot cartridges The advance on the
material to make 10000 cartridges was
60 cents, but cartridges advanced s.. IS
per case. Better cartridges are made in
England, but they are kept out and the
present advance is kept up by tariff of
IS per cent An Illinois farmer went
to Chicago short time ago with a car
load of stock, and while in Chicago
wanted to buy a pair of ''Sunday-go-to-
meeting pants" He found what he
wanted, and the price was 81 per yard.
and he told the merchant he thought
that was too high. The merchant re-
piled that the goods were imported and
that he had to pay 81 per yard as tariff.
The farmer goes to another store and
finds what he supposes to be the same
thing; the price is the same. He asked
the merchant where the cloth was man
ufactured, and was told in Philadelphia.
''Then why do you ask me 50 q
yard for this cloth? You do not have
to pay 81 tariff on 1t per yard" The
merchant replied that the inn
ported goods sell at q, and they
might just as well get o. for theirs.
I would like to have Mr.. Morrill,
tell who paid the tariff on that yard of
cloth-the exporter or the consumer?
Mr.. Morrill, evidently feels very unsafe
about the American people wantins SO
much protection, and is trying to work
on the American voters to have pro-
lection, not because it is for their bene-
dt, but simply because it is American
lat presently and free trade is English.
The American people don't want free
trade for the benefit Of England or any
| other foreign country, but we do want
tariff reform for the benefit of our own
people. Mr.. Morrill, says that Mr.. Glad
stone was Southern sympathizer.' u
| What has that to do with tariff reform?
We are not going to fight the war over
again just to please the Republican
party. feel sorry for the old party.
The people are beginning to understand
| that the g. o. p.'s plan on the tariff CUES.
! ton is for the benefit of the monopolist
and trust makers. and not for the farmer
| and consumer. They will make one
more grand effort and tell the people te
vote as they shot, and do hope they
| will, for every man shot as he believed
1 was right and best for the country and
the people, and if they will vote thai
way they will vote for tariff reform
The manufacturers made thousand
million dollars profit last year. Nov
| the farmer and the consumer want to b.
| placed where they can have some profit
| and.I believe tariff reform commencing
with free raw material will be a grea
benefit and blessing to all.-Robert 81
Mott, in Chicago Herald.