The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-08-14
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF
The Prime Cause Of All the Farmers
Troubles.

C9nL., OF nearly ndlI the IOTelku UTlCt VI
the imported article. The Mckinley net
raised the average tax rate To about go
per cent, which is much more than IN {
the price the farmer might buy at If there
were no tariff On many articles used
by farmers the Mckinley act more than
doubled the foreign price of the imported
article, with the effect Of course, of in
creasing 10 that extent the price our
protected manufacturers, trusts, com
bines, ETC., can get for like articles pr,
duced here. On one kind of wool dress
goods, for example, of the sort used by
the poor, the foreign price il so cents
per yard; the Mckinley tax Is % cents
per yard. On pearl buttons the McKin-
ley tax is greater than the whole price
of the foreign article. The same is to Q
said of spectacles, knives, aud number
of other articles the poor must buy.
But the farmer will be more interested
in the rates of duty and the increase Of
duty on the larger items of his yearly
expenditure. Agricultural machinery is
taxed in the Mckinley act As per cent.
That is to say, the protected home manu-.
facturer is enabled to get nearly half as
much again for his goods rs they could
be had for abroad. This is shown in the
fact that our manufacturers sell their
agricultural machinery abroad at heavy
discount. The Engineering and Mining
Journal of New York, publishes regular
ly list of articles which our manufac.
turers sell abroad for less than they will
sell at here. It gives the wholesale prices
TO Americans and then the discounts off
for foreigners. Preceding the list are
the words, Discounts are for wholesale
export only" Of course, If our manu-
facturers sell abroad with profit at the
low prices fixed by English competition,
they could, il they chose, do the same
here. The discounts given below show,
therefore, the extra profit they make out
Of the American farmer by means of the
Mckinley tariff. The following is part
of the Journals illustrated list, and is
authentic:
Planet, Jr., No. 2 seed drill, home price
g.; discount TO the foreigner, 30 per
cent. or 500 of, net price TO the for.
eigner. $3.50.
Combined drill cultivator rake, pillow,
etc, home price Sl2; to the foreigner,
90. 40.
FREELY hand pillow, home price $3.50;
TO the foreigner $l.75.
Hayforks, ga per dozen; to the for
eigner $40.
Hoes, % per dozen; to the foreigner
1915.
Reversible Oneonta clipper pillow, iron
beam cutter, $l4; to the foreigner 90 so.
Cast steel garden rakes, plain, per doz
$8; TO the foreigner $500.
Scythes, fine cutlery steel, full polish.
ed, $40; to the foreigner sc.
Peck's axes, handled, per dozen, $l5 TO
the foreigner $3.50.
Peck's hatchets, per dozen, $8; to the
foreigner "a.
Knives, bone handles, 1855 per gross
pairs; to the foreigner $ll.52.
Feed cutters, knives ten inches long,
$50; to the foreigner Ell.
Portable FORCES, $50; to the foreigner
ell.
Horse lawn mower, eos; to the foreign.
er $3.50.
Empire scroll saw, boxed, $25; to the
foreigner $40.
Lathe, $40; 10 the foreigner $50.
Meat cutter, -; TO the foreigner ~.
Syphon force pump, $25; to the for
eigner $3.50.
Rat traps, $50 per gross; to the for
eigner $l5.
Butter trip scales, 5000; to the for
eigner 1926.
Whifietrees, double, 80 inches long,
No. 3, g.; TO the foreigner S1.6O
Windmills, ten feet, pumping, $75; to
the foreigner t37.60.
These figures show sufficiently that the
Mckinley tariff Is enabling the tariff
lords to get too much for their goods,
and they show how much more than
fair profit 10 enables them TO get on the
articles named.
But the farmer buys other things BE-.
sid, agricultural machinery and tools.
He buys salt and pays Mckinley tax
Of A per cent. on IL, which means that
he pays $l.44 for 81 worth of salt. On
stoves he pays a tax Of As per cent. on
bride and harness, 30 per cent; on horse
shoes, 81 per cent. on tinware, So per
cent ON spoons, 40 per cent. on saws,
IS per cent. on wire nails, $50 per cent;
on hammers, 80 per cent on br00ms, 80
per cent. on thread, "A per cent on
common wooden goods, Ill per cent. on
glass tumblers and lamps, $50 per cent.
on hats, l05 per cent. I; on locks, As per
cent. on flannel shirts, 100 per cent.
on socks, l2O per cent. ON clothes, So
per cent; on psregoric, 40 per cent. on
shoes, 20 per cent. on bibles, 70 per
cent; on his coffin, 10 per cent. These
figures are eloquent. They tell what has
become of the farmers money. His
money has gone In the payment Of taxes
concealed in the price OF what he bad TO
buy. His remedy. of course, II 10 de-
mand the repeal OF laws that authorize
his fellow.citizens to rob him. What he