The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-09-12
How It Hurts the Farmer.


A farmer of Frederick county, Nd, asks what
articles used by farmers are sold at high prices by
reason OF the passage of the Mckinley tariff act
His inquiry is a very pertinent one. But for the
fancy prices that act and the like acts that preceded
it have forced the farmer to pay for nearly all he
buys he would be vastly better off than he is A
penny saved is penny made. If manufactured
articles used by farmers were cheapened by the
amount of the Mckinley tax agriculturists
would be astonished at the difference in their
finances.
The average tariff rate before the Mckinley act
was passed about AZ per cent, nearly half the
foreign price of the imported article The Mckinley
raised the average tax rate to about 60 per cent
which is much more than half the price the farmer
might buy at If there were no tariff. On many
articles used by farmers the Mckinley than
doubled the foreign price Of the imported article,
with the effect of course of increasing to that ex
tent the price our protected manufacturers trusts
combines, &c, can get for like articles produced
here On one kind of wool dress goods, for example
of the used by the poor the foreign price is 30
cents per yard; the Mckinley Is cents per yard
On pearl buttons the Mckinley tax is greater than
the whole price of the foreign article The is
to be said of spectacles, knives, and number of
other articles the poor must buy.
But the farmer will be more interested in the rates
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that ouI hl'uac'uieIs seii 'iieir ma
chinery abroad at heavy discount. The Engi-
neering and Mining Journal of New York publishes
regularly list of articles which manufacturers
sell abroad for less than they Will sell at here. II
gives inc "hoesale prices ioi -Aiieiie'iis' anu men
INC ulscouts oh Ior loIeisncIs' Iieceuins inc lisI
are the words discounts are Tor wholesale exports
only oi course, II our manufacturers sell abroad
with profit at the low prices fixed by English
competition they could, if 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 fol-
lowing is part Of the Journals illustrated hist and
is authentic;
PLANET Jr, No. ? seed drill" home price, 50; dis
count TO the foreigner go per cent" $40 off
net price to the foreigner $3.50.
combined drill cultiyator rake pillow, &c" HON
price SD; price to foreigner, $50
Fire Fly hand plow'' home price $3.50 to the
foreigner Sl.75
Uaylorks s2i per dozen: price to the foreigner
Hoes 81 per dozen: to the foreigner SS15.
Reversible Opeonta clipper pillow iron beam cut
ter Sli; to the foreigner $3.50.
Cast steel garden rakes per Dozen plain S. to the
foreigner $40.
Scythes fine cutlery steel full polished $40: To the
foreigner So.
Pecks axes. handled per dozen. SD: 10 the for
cirner $50
Pecks hatchets per dpzen. IS. IN the foreigner 81
Knives bone handles SIS 81 per gross pairs: 10 the
foreigner sIl52
Feed cutters. knives ten inches long. $50; 10 the
foreigner s2I
Portable FORCES SEQ: to the foreigner SD,
Horse lawn mower 500; to the foreigner $3.50.
Empire scroll saw. price. boxed, So: to the for
eigner $50
Lathe $40; to the foreigner $50.
Meat cutter 81; TO the foreigner s..
Syphon force pump. So; 10 the foreigner S12.50.
Rat traps $50 per gross; to the foreigner SIS.
Butter trip scales SIO.5O to the foreigner S5.25.
whinltrees double nc inches long No. g. So: to the