The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-13
SPECIMEN RoBBERIEs OF FARM
ERS BY THE M'KINLEY TARIFF.

tine roDDer tarlu."-lflke County re
publican.
Inscriptions liars like the above are
now doing their best to stay the rout of
their deluded farmer readers, all through
Ohio. They usually get their material
from the champion of monopoly and
many of them are so inexcusably igno-
rant that their lies can scarcely be class
ell as of the criminal class.
Now let us show up a few of the lies
of these partisan liars. Farmers buy
carpets, or at least they used to before
the robber tariff was born. The prices
of carpets have been advanced two or
three times since the Mckinley law was
passed. This was due entirely, as stat
ed by the manufacturers at the time, to
the additional duties levied by McKin.
ley on carpet wool which we neither
produce or are likely to produce In any
considerable quantity.
How about tin2 There has been such
an advance on tin, on account of the
additional tax of the Mckinley bill, that
one man largely engaged In the timing
trade in Canton, has had his business
ruined. De farmers use tin2 Ask the
milkmaid and the good house wife.
The average tariff rate before the Nc
Kinly act was passed, was about forty
seven per cent or nearly half the foreign
price of the imported article. The Nc
Kinley act raised the average tax rate to
about sixty per centwhich is much more
than half the price the farmer might
buy at If there was no tariff.
On many articles used by farmers the
Mckinley act more than doubles the
foreign price of the imported article
with the effect, of course, of increasing
to that extent the price our protected
manufacturers, trusts, combines, ETC.,
can get for like articles produced here.
All our farmers know that they are
getting less for their wool than year
ago, and yet wool dress goods, used by
farmers wives and daughters, are not
lower; far from 1t,
On one kind of wool dress goods, for
example, the foreign price is thirty
cents per yard; the Mckinley tax TWEEN.
ty eight cents per yard. On pearl but
tons the Mckinley tax is greater than
the whole price of the foreign article
The same is to be said Of spectacles,
knives, and numerous articles of the
household.
DO farmers and farmers
sons ever buy any shots guns. We learn
that they do. Well ell the cheaper
grade of guns, usually purchased by
farmers, have advanced in price, on &C
count of the Mckinley bill, while the
high priced guns, used by the city
dudes and rich hunting clubs have not
Window glass has advanced on ac-
count of the increased tariff given in
the Mckinley bill, and the organization
of the window glass trust. Do any of
our farmers ever use window glass =?
Plate glass has also advanced.
How is it with white lead. Why did
Nc Kinley not reduce the tariff on white
lead. OF course he would not do it be-
cause of the trust, which has realized
already and will make millions
more. Every farmer who paints
house, or a barn or a door yard fence,
contributes to this trust. Before the
trust, white lead at wholesale was five
cents per pound, now 1t ID seven cents.
Agricultural machinery is taxed in the
act forty five per cent. That
Is to say, the protected home manu-
facturer is enabled to get nearly half as
much again for his goods as they could
be he'd for abroad. This Is shown In
the fact that our manufacturers sell
their agricultural machinery abroad at
a heavy discount.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal, Of New York, publishes regularly
4 list of articles which our manufac-
,urers sell abroad for less than they
Will sell at home. 1t gives the Wholesale
prices for Americans and then dis
counts off for foreigners. Preceding the
ist are the words: discounts are for
export only"
OF course, If our manufacturers sell
.broad with profit at the low prices
ixed by English competition, they
'ould, II they chose, do the same here.
The discounts given below show, there
ore, the extra profit they make out Of |
he American farmer by means of the
tariff. The following is a |
'art of the Journals list, and is au-
hentic:
"Planet Junior No. 2 seed drill"
lome price, 80; discount" to the for
'igner, go per cent" or $40 Off; net
price to the foreigner. $3.50.
"Combined drill cultiyator, rake,
,low, etc." home price S12; price to for
igned $840.
"Fire-Fly hand plow," home price,
$3.50; to the foreigner $1.75,
Hayforks S24 per dozen; price to the
oreigner $18.40.
Hoes 80 per dozen; price to the for
igner, $6.15.
Cast-steel garden rakes, per dozen,
lain $8; to the foreigner, $500,
Scythes, fine cutlery steel, full pol
shed, $40; to the foreigner SO.
Peck's axes, handled, per dozen, $l5;
o the foreigner, $3.50.
Knives, bone handles, 1855 per gross
airs; to the foreigner, SlI.52.
Feed cutters. knives ten inches long,
i3o; to the foreigner, S2l.
Portable forges, $50; to the foreign
r, Sl2.
Lathe, $40; to the foreigner $50.