Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-24

is what the price will be at
home less the freight. So, as 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 at
American prices. Then the Western
farmer will be able to pay off the mort
great benefit OF high protection, the
farmer is not even able to pay the inter
est due on the mortgages.
''Protection puts the chief burden on
the foreigner" says the protectionist.
The idea that the exporter pays the
tariff 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
22-shot cartridges. The advance on the
material to make 10000 cartridges was
90 cents, but cartridges advanced So. IS
per case. Better cartridges are made in
England, but they are kept out and the
present advance is kept up by tariff of
10 per cent. An Illinois farmer went
30 Chicago short time ago with 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 81 a
yard for this cloth? You do not have
to pay 81 tariff on it per yard The
merchant replied that the i'm
ported goods sell at s., and they
might just as we'll get 50 for theirs.
| 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 wanting so
much protection, and is trying to work
on the American voters to have pro-
lection, not because it is for their bene-
fit, but simply because it is American
(at present) 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 a southern sympathiZer. F."
What has that to do with tariff reform?
We are not going to fight the war over
again just to please the Republican
party. l feel sorry for the old party.
The people are beginning to understand
that the g. O. p.'s plan on the tariff ques-
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 to
vote as they shot, and | do hope they
will, for every man shot as he believed
was right and best for the country and
the people, and if they will vote that
way they will vote for tariff reform
The manufacturers made thousand
million dollars profit last year. Now
the farmer and the consumer want to be
placed where they can have some profit,
and | believe tariff reform commencing
with free raw material will be q great
benefit and blessing to all.-Robert LII.
Mott, in Chicago Herald.