Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-10

/ farmer and the laborer. all consumers.
Does he let them have his purchase at a
price that does not include the amount of
the import duty paid by him to the whole
| saler and by the latter to the importer
OH 10. He cannot afford to do tnat.
On every article affected by import
duties he is forced to add to
the price This the final purchaser, the
tOwnsman, the farmer and the laborer
pays Thus it will be seen that the tariff,
collected originally from the importer at
the sea coast, is in the end inevitably paid
by the last purchaser, who is the con-
sumer.
This tariff, it may be stated in all hon
esty for the benefit of the consumer, re-
quires him to pay at least twice as much
on an average for the protected articles
woolen and cotton goods, glassware and
earthenware, metal products, including
tinware, tobacco, boots and shoes, and
hundeed other things-as he wauld pay in
the absence of tariff laws.
THE TIN TARIFF.
Congress enacts tariff law one day and
the next its effects may he felt thousand
miles westward by the Wisconsin farmer.
Cause and effect are connected as by an
electric current. Trade. agriculture and
commerce are as sensitive TO the atera-
tions IN our economic laws as the photo
grapher's plate is to the light
There is a huge milk condensing factory
at Monroe, in the neighboring county of
Green 1t absorbs all tie milk that can be
produced in a wide radius Of territory and
forms at once benefit to the young city in
which it is located aud 1t great blessing
to the farmers Of the neighborhDod. 1t
pays on an average the year round one
dollar per hundred weight Of milk. This
both insures just return to the owners Of
the factory on their investment and for
their labor and handsome profit to the
farmer for his product. II is Is much ds
the operators Of the factory can pay and
yet be true to their own interests They
exhibit no trust tendencies, but con
conduct business on the principle
Of live and let live. Things have been go
ing on smoothly in and cut Of the factory
The owners have prospered and been salts
fed; the farmeI~ have looked upon the in
stitution as II grrlt benehcence, which con-
stanty, month il and month out, placed a
liberal quantity of ready money at their
disposal.
But the Mckinley bill has become a law,
and what is the consequence at this single
factory so near as to cause us 10 feel
special interest in It's affairs? Just this:
The farmer patrons Of the factory will, as
soon as all the provisions of the law go
into effect, receive for their milk from 80
to s. cents per hundred weight instead of
one dolIac as now.
Tins very uateria! loss which they will |
suffer is chargcabIr to the new tariff on
tin Il tariff imposed in the hope that it |
would be the means of inducing the estab-
lsluent of some industries in South
Dakota to determine if the ore supposed |
10 Xtst there. and controlled absolutely |
by an English syndicate is of such a
quality and quantity as to permit this |
country to eventually supply itself with
tin plate! The Monroe factory makes its |
own cans and the Mckinley bill |
will SO increase the cost of tin |
rs to make it impossible for the |
factory operatrrs to pay the old rate for
milk and still conduct their business at a |
JUS profit They say they cannot safely |
put higher selling price on their pro-
duct, but must make up the difference be-
tween the pres EFT and future cost to them
Of tin by making Il corresponding reduc-
ton IN the price they pay the farmers for
milk
Here, again, the fact that tariff taxes in
evltabIy come directly home to the farmer.
is proven anew. and by so simple and plain
a process rs to come within the understand
ing ot the commoncst thinker.
Mr. la FoIctte WAS one of the architects
of this tin tariff absurdity- this travesty
ON political economy, this outrage on an
honest people.