South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-09-23

- ~, ICS@
from them--to the other nine, at
per cent interest, and takes mort
cages on their homes as security:
and, AZ the interest on these mort
cages comes regularly in, in addi-
ton to the tribute money of 90 a
week, he indu ges In self-compla-
cent eloquence on the striking ben
efits of the system which the fra
ternity have adopted, and tries to
convince the others that any aban-
donment of 1t, or even reduction
Of the weekly tribute from 81 to rs
cents, would curtail his income, de-
range his financial affairs, force him
to discharge one of his household
servants, and lower his style OF fiv-
ing, and bring dire disaster upon
the whole community. This is a
fair picture of protection.
Q. Then, in the same degree a
protective tariff enriches one man,
or one interest, or one section, it
! impoverishes others?
A. That is true, in q general
sense-and it cannot be otherwise.
@. And the policy is partial in
tho apportionment of its advan-
tages?
A. 1t is.
THE PRETENDED PROTEC-
TION OF FARM PRODUCE.
@. Is there any tariff on import
ed farm producep
A. There is, but it is pretence.
Q. Name some of these duties.
A. There is duty of 90 cents a
bushel on wheat; 10 cents bushel
on rye, corn, barley and oats; 10
cents bushel on corn meal; / cent
pound on beef and pork; 2 cents
q pound on bacon; cents a pound
on cheese and butter; 2 cents a
pound on lard; and 81 a ton on
hay.
| Q. Why do you say these duties
arc pretence? Do they not pro-
tect our farmers against foreign
competition?
A. No-and thoy were never in
tended to. We export these farm
products in large quantities, to be
sold for what they will bring In
free foreign markets in competi-
ton with similar crops from all
parts Of the world-Aand if our farm
produce must compete with the
farm produce of the world, in the
Liverpool market, after paying the
cost OF ocean carriage, it 'cln GER
tainly compete with it in our own
markets Besides, how can a pro-
tective duty of 20 cents on wheat,
and 10 cents bushel on corn, ben
eft KaDsas or Nebraska farmer,
when it costs him % cents bush
el to send his grain to New York?
O. Bot do not these duties in
some measure benefit the farmers
of New England and northern New
York, By protecting them against
Canadian competition?
A. Probably they do-and these
few Eastern farmers are the only
persons they were intended to ben
eft.
@. Are there duties on imported
sugar and rice?
A. Yes-l00 per cent on rice and
so per cent on sugar-and these
are severe tax upon the whole
people for the benefit Of few
planters in South Carolina and
Louisiana.
A BALE OF COTTON.
Q. Is there any protective duty
on cotton?
a. In the hands of the man who
raises it--no; In the hands of the
man who manufactures it-yes.
Q. l do not understand you.
A. There is no duty on raw cot
ton-Sud il there were, it would be
Ineffective, since we export the
larger part of our crop to Europe,
to be sold for what it will bring,
after paying 80 cents bale for the
baling cloth and ties that cover it.
The colored man in Mississippi who
raises bale Of cotton, does it with
out any help whatever, from the
government; but when Rhode Is
land manufacturer buys it and he's
1t made into shifting, or sheeting,
the government steps in to help
him with a protective duty Of 40
per cent-and it actually forces the
Mississippi colored man to pay q
tax on the cotton OF his own rais-
ing, by paying s1.40 for 81 worth
of sbirting.
q. Who gets the extra 40 cents?
a. The Rhode Island manufact-
urer.
q. Suppose the coiored mans
bale should be shipped to England,
with q lot Of others, and there be
made into C 10th and sent back to
this countrywide would the col
ored man who raised it have TO pay
for 81 worth Of shifting IN that
case?
A. He would pay $40.
O. How?
A. The government WoiIld not
allow 10 TO come into the country
i