Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-10
The SO CALLED FARMERS TARIFF.
NcKinIey's Duties on Agricultural Prod
ucts-A Cheap Way to Fool Fa rmers.

ucts-A Cheap Way to Fool Fa rmers.
No assertion of the high tariff jugglers
is more absurd than the claim that our
farmers derive any substantial benefit
from the duties on farm products Where
the production in country of any given
article is sfar in excess of the home de-
1nand, and where a large surplus is sold
for export to other countries, it Is simply
impossible that duty should have the
slightest effect in raising the price of the
domestic product.
Of this character are all our great
staples of agricultural foundation. Not
withstanding this fact, Mckinley raised
the duties on. all farm products and
wrote down these higher duties in his
so-called Farmers Tariff. ;"
The cheap humbug of the whole thing
nav be seen from the following sum
mary showing our principal farm prod
rcts. the old duty and the Mckinley
duty. together with the imports and ex-
ports of each article for the fiscal year
1850:
Barley-Old duty 10 cents bushel, Mckinley
duty - cents; imports, u,330,0O0 bus heels; ex-
norris, l400,000 bushels.
Corn-Old duty 10 cents, Mckinley duty II
cents imports, l,o6 bushels; exports l0l 800 OOG
bushels.
Oats-Old duty 10 cents Mckinley duty Is
cents imports, 2l,0OO bushels: exports, 1850
QD bushels.
Dat Meal-old duty half cent per pound,
Mckinley duty l cent per pound imports,
$4,000 pounds; exports, y, 900 pou nds
Wheat-Od duty % cents a bushel McKin-
ley duty p cents bushel; imports, Is. 900 bush
els: exports, 54,3S0,0O bushels
Flour-Old duty 20 per cent, Mckinley duty
. per cent; Imports l,al9 barrels; exports L..
81 go barrels.
Hay-Old duty 81 per ton. Mckinley duty 81
imports, l2t.uO TONS exports. 5000 tons.
Hops-Old duty cents per pound, Mckinley
duty ID cents; imports, G:iS,G9 pou nds; ex-
ports, $4,000 pounds tin 1889. imports. 4.OO0.OU
pounds; exports, l., 10000 pounds.
Potatoes-Old duty 10 cents per bu shell, Nc
Kinley duty p cents imports, 3. ;l5 0OJ bushels
exports, $4,000 bushels.
Apples-Old duty none, Mckinley duty q
cents per bushel; imports, none reported; ex-
ports. As 600 barrels.
Dried Apples-Old duty none, Mckinley
duty cents pound; imports, none reported
exports, ~, SO0OD pounds.
Butter-Old duty cents per pound McKin-
ley duty cents; imports, 1913 pounds; ex-
ports, 29.7is,0i2 pounds.
CheeSe-Old duty 4 cents, Mckinley duty
cents; imports, Q. 263 573 pounds; exports g, $50
0I3 pounds.
Bacon-Old duty . cents, Mckinley duty ;
cents: imports, too insignificant TO gee into the
treasury reports, but all meat products were
about $50, 900 WORTH exports, 81 500 0C) pounds
Hams-Old duty cents, Mckinley duty
cents; imports, none reported; exports, 10 so,
G0 pounds.
Beef-Old duty cent, Mckinley duty . cents
imports, none reported; exports, ;53, ,OO
pounds.
MuttOn-Same duties as beef: imports, none
reported; exports, $4,000 pounds.
Tallow-old duty and Mckinley duty cent
per pound; imports, none reported; exports
1l2,NN1cl rognds.
Pork fresh and pickled)-Same duties as
beef imports, none reported; exports, SOOOO,0u
pounds.
Lard-Old duty cents, MCKINLEY duty
cents: imports, none reported; exports, Al 600.
600 pounds.
And such is the so called farmers
tariff. Only in the cases of barley. hay
and potatoes do imports exceed exports
and even if it could be shown that the
tariff will raise the price of these com.
modities. still the fact would remain that
only a small part of our farmers are in
terested i'll these as money crops, while
not few farmers are also purchasers OF
them