Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-12-03
A FARMERS EXPERIENCE.
New Jersey Farmer Saves rs Per Cent
BY Buying His Plows in England.

A New Jersey Farmer Saves 2B Per Cent.
BY Buying His Plows in England.
Every day brings fresh proof to the
farmer of the fact that the trainers of
the Mckinley tariff had much in their
minds while they were piling up the
taxes on everything from A to o. He
must be about ready to make up his
mind that nothing under the sun which
he has use for and must buy has been
sighted in the new customs law.
Now comes New Jersey farmer
back from visit to his old home in En-
gland announcing that he has bought
for the use of himself and friends
quantity of farm machinery of Amer
lean marlborough it abroad because
he could get it abroad for about half
what he would have paid in this coun-
try for the same goods.
The mans name 10 e. w. Stout. and
his farm is situated q few miles out of
Trenton. Speaking to Times reporter,
Mr.. Stout said:
II have always taken home paper
ever since came to this country and
have read 1t, of course. Well, a couple
of months ago made up my mind to
take run home to see my father just
before started l happened to see in
my paper the advertisement Of farm
machinery house that quoted prices.
talked with some OF my neighbors about
it, and we agreed that If found on get
ting on the other side that could buy
some plows and other things and get
them out to Trenton SO that we could
save 10 per cent should do it.
"Well, I've done 1t, and in the course
of few days the things will arrive,
and reckon that shall save consider
ably more than 10 per cent On the
plows the saving will be fully 25 per
cent, think, for the prices, for Ameri-
can-made plows on the other side are
just about half the prices charged for
the same things in this country. !
bought hay rakes, cnltivators, feed cut
ters and plows, and everything will
come back to this country in the same
packing that was on it when it was
shipped from the factory.
whether 1t will have been improved
by It's sea voyages is more than !
know" continued Mr.. Stout, 'winking
his other eye .'Sea trips do wines and
brandies good. but don't know how it
is with farm machinery. But however
that may be, consider that I've done a
good thing for myself and friends, and
now I'm going home to vote the demo-
cratic ticket and see II can't help put
an end to such state of affairs as this,
in which foreigners can buy American
goods good deal cheaper than we can
get them in this country.
Protection the republicans call it
Robbery Is my name for it. It's moth
ing short OF robbery when taxes make
me pay $40 for piece of farm machin-
cry that the manufacturer sends abroad
for sale at about half that sum, in spite
of the extra expenses of packing and
freightage. I'd have staid on the other
side anotheE fortnight II ! hadn't
thought it my duty to come home and
vote for tariff reform and get my neigh
bors to do the same. IN. Y Times,
The farmer has learned that he is
taxed on everything he must buy and
protected in nothing that he produces;
and he knows that the first and most
important industry Of the nation is not
prosperous, because he must now sell
his wheat for less than II costs 10 pro-
duco IL even under the most fruga'
management, and because he know
that during the last twenty years OF
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