The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-19
THE "FARMER'S TARIFF"

Agricultural Produce Not Raised In Price
by McKnley's Dutics-A Protectionist
Paper Exposes the Fraud of the Farm
er's Tarif"-Figures of Exports and I'm
ports of Farm Products.
A protectionist organ in attempting
to show that the Mckinley tariff law
has not raised prices prints list of
articles which are as cheap now or
cheaper than year ago, The curious
thing about this list is that it is made
up entirely of articles produced on the
farm. OF course McKinley's duties on
farm product have had no effect in rails
ing prices. How could they have when
our farmers are exporting every year
vast quantities of their products, and
our imports of those products amount
in most cases to almost nothing?
Let every farmer examine the follow
ing figures OF exports and imports, and
old and new duties of agricultural pro-
ducts and see if he can discover any sub
stantial reason in them why the Me
Kinley law should have been expected
to help the farmer. The figures for eX-
ports and imports in the following sum-
mary are taken from the official report
of the treasury department for the ifs
cal year ended June 30, 1890:
Barley-Old duty 10 cents a bushel,
Mckinley duty 80 cents: imports, IN
$50, 900 bushels; exports, l, 400, 900 bush
els
Corn-Old duty 10 cents, Mckinley
duty Is cents; imports, 1926 bushels;
exports, 1Ol, 900, 600 bushels.
Oats-Old duty 10 cents, Mckinley
duty Is cents; imports, $1,000 bushels;
exports, IS, 500. 900 bushels.
Dat Meal-Old duty a half cent per
pound, Mckinley duty cent per pound;
imports, 2,S6O,OOO pounds; exports, 25,-
| 400, 900.
Wheat-Old duty 20 cents a bushel,
Mckinley duty 25 cents bushel; inn
900 bushels.
Flour-Old duty 20 per cent, McKin-
ley duty 25 per cent; imports, 1919 bar
rels: exports, II, 231 900 barrels
Hay-Old duty 81 per ton, Mckinley
duty 81; imports, $4,000; exports, $4,000
tons.
Hops-Old duty s cents per pound,
Mckinley duty Is cents; imports, $3.50,
900 pounds; exports, 1910, 900 pounds
Tin 1889, imports, 100000 pounds; ex-
ports, 1880, 600 pounds).
Potatoes-Old duty Is cents per
bushel, Mckinley duty 25 cents; i'm
ports, AIS, 900 bushels; exports, 406, 900
bushels.
Apples-Old duty none, Mckinley
duty 25 cents per bushel; imports, none
reported; exports, 453, 900 barrels.
Dried apples-Old duty none, McKin-
ley duty ? cents pound imports, none
reported; exports, 20, 800, coo pounds.
Butter-Old duty cents per pound,
Mckinley duty 6 cents; imports, 75,523
pounds; exports, 20, 74s, O42 pounds.
Cheese-Old duty 4 cents, Mckinley
duty cents; imports, 9,263, 573 pounds;
exports, %, 376, 053 pounds.
Bacon-Old duty . cents, Mckinley
duty 5 cents; imports, too insignificant
to get into the Treasury reports, but all
meat products" were about $500, 900
worth; exports, 531, s99, 900 pounds.
Hams-Old duty 2 cents, Mckinley
duty cents; imports, none reported;
exports, rs, 59l, 900 pounds.
Beef-Old duty cent, Mckinley duty
cents; imports, none reported; exports,
35s, 500, 900 pounds.
Mutton-Same duties as beef; inn
ports, none reported; exports, 256, 900
pounds.
Tallow-Old duty and Mckinley duty
cent per pound; imports, none report
ed; exports, IL, 1000, 900 pounds.
Pork (fresh and pickled) Same duties
as beef; imports, none reported; ex-
ports, so, 900, 900 pounds.
Lard-Old duty ? cents, Mckinley
duty 2 cents; imports, none reported:
exports, Al, 200, 900 pounds.
The above figures cover the principal
articles of farm production. In only
three commodities-barley, hay and po-
tatoes-do our imports exceed our ex-
ports. 1t will be seen that Mckinley
raised the duties on nearly all the above
articles, and now the protectionist paper
above referred to undertakes the very
easy task of showing that McKinley's
Farmers Tariff" has not raised prices
This paper is the New York Press, for.
merly edited by that rabid protection
list, Robert p. Porter, and its columns
are seen mainly by city people, who are
interested in having farm produce cheap
hence the Press exposure of tie worth
lessness OF MeKinley's duties ~ farm
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