The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-11
SOME TARIFF McoNeRUITIEs.

To the Editor Of tie Eagle.
1t is self-evident proposition that the
farmer is the principal factor in feeding
and clothing the people. His prosperity
should be the first consideration OF the
legislator The manufacturer and laborer
next, but in lieu of that the protection OF
the manufactures by high tariff, and the
free importation of the raw products OF
the farmer is reversing the order TO the
detriment OF all and is the main cause OF
our present financial troubles. Hides are
admitted free, to the loss and damage OF
our cattle interests, while leather receives
1917. 600. %, or nearly a million dollars
Sheep and goat skins are free, except the
wool thereon, while the duty on gloves IS
=, 2SS 045.55. Cotton is on the free hst,
but cotton goods are advanced 3, l6o, U5i Oh.
Silk is free, including reeled silk, while
silk goods are raised Si1, $50, 1U2. -. Inc
duty on fax straw and tow of flax ana
is but $40. Hiss, while the manufacture OF
fax hemp and jute is SIS, $50, l62 o.. WOOL
is benefited but 81, SIC. 351. "A. while WOODEN
manufactured goods receive SIS, 81, 9o'.5.
givlDg to the manufactures OF those artl-
Giles this So. .524 30 and to the farmer
not Iii or 81, $50. O63. So II the raw material
was as well protected as the manufacture
thereof we would save the cost OF the raw
material imported about $50 OOO, OO0,OO0 ana
the cost OF the imported goods Sl1.z05,-
OS3 % in all over 800 OOO, COO, OOO per annun-
This saved in the next ten years would DE
over two billion dollars, ana TINS Is Only
for the matter of clothing; better grow,
make and ware homespun than buy broad
cloth and be deprived of helping elothe
ourselves. All the money paid out LOT
what we can produce at home, raw or
manufactured, is so much thrown away.
Is there one man in the United States VINO
thinks and votes intelllGently. that OeileVeS
South America should furnish us hides,
Australia sheep skins and wool, SPAN goat
skins, China and Japan raw and reeie9
silk. when we have immense tracts OF lana
naturally adapted to them and many
neonle who would care for them success
fully, if the American producer received
proper encouragement at the hands OF our
legislators.
We want men to represent up who have
the courage of Senator Plumb TO vote for
the people though in opposition TO botn
nolittcaf narties The idea that we must
do as we are doing TO collect the revenue
for the government easily is absurd when
we pay out three dollars and get but one
and one-half, that one IS squandered-
Don't talk about the creation OF trusts,
RINGS pools and combines who handle
these products to make nillionalres OF
themselves and paupers OF the people
here in free America bya few money kings,
bankrupting the people By legalized rob
berry. 90 -, ~
When the Mckinley tariff Dill Is the
o,,.aa+ort Of ali robberies Better veil the
canitaI at Washington and cover with a
shroud BarthaIdi's statue of Liberty, En-,
tightening the World, than TO cloud
American country homes with the uncer-
tainty of iemuneratiVe prices-made SO oy
unequal tariff legislation.
The great American tulH Dill Is DuIlU
tect American industries. Then why are
500. 2S7. $40. IS of cotton goods imported,
$40 O9S. 455. IS of hemp aud lax I'M
ported, ..o,,
ST.. l5S. 633. % of wooden goods imported
s34 $50 72S. ~ of silk goods imported,
$40 Z. 322. - of leather goods imported!
And why is the greatest fall industries,
the farmin & industry, lett almost entirely
unprotected? II. E.lBIDwSLL.