The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-08-27
A TAXED SUPPER.

OOSSU ~ AbUktOD, q. ". July l1sn l0tZs
OTro PEeNILLEn, Chr'n.
=. u. U'DRrxN. Secy.
A TAXED SUPPER.
"8eef an Boston"
"Three up an draw one; have the
coffee in q she'll"
.Plate Of Boston straight an plate
OF slaw to come with it,
Thus the writer translated the orders
OF three young newspaper men who
were taking 2:25 q. m. supper IN d
Park-row restaurant, says the New York
Times. The next minute the food was
on the table-corned beef and Bost n
baked beans for one. three Jumps Of hot
dough and some coffee in thin cup fol
another, beans Of the Boston variety and
handful Of chopped cabbage for the
third.
The young men cleaned OF their
plates in an almost incredibly short
time, paid the cashier 10 cents each and
started for the Park Row station. By
walking rapidly they caught the 2:sd
train.
Say, Billy" spoke up one of the party,
about as soon as they were well seated,
what do you think Of this tariff busi-
nessY Is 1t any good for farmersY The
old gents farmer, you know, and he's
written down to get my opinion as to
whether the tariff isa beneficial thing
for men Of his kind? You're sort Of
tartn expert; give me your idea about
The matter"
1tt's not worth that to the farmer
enswsred Billy, swapping his fingers
There ts a lot in the tariff act that
hoks like protection to the farmer, but
it's oil "lOOks," and no substance. The
taff6 compels the farmer to pay big
prices for the manufactured goods Of
which he is great consumer, without
giving him any compensating benefit.
For example, you ate beans and beef
and had great big plateful, with bread
and butter beside, all for 10 cents. Now
II the farmer was getting protection out
Of the tariff, yon would have paid, per.
haps. % cents for what you had. The
beef and beans are down in
the etarif act, though. Beef is dutiable
at cents pound, believe, and the
beans are dutiable at the rate of 40 cents
bushel.
Same with chopped cabbage. If q
man imports cabbage, he must pay
Uncle Sam a tax of 3 cents. Same with
those sinkers that you ate, Charley.'
(Sinkers is the newspaper mans name
for the cakes which are sold in restaur-
ants to 60 along with coffee.)
why, Billy, there's no tariff on
sInksrsg.
"No, but there's tariff on wheat; 25
per cent ad valorem tariff. There's q
tariff tax on milk, too; tax Of 5 cents a
gallon.
.Imight go on and name article after
article on which . duty is levied profes-
sedly for the benefit Of the farmer; in
fact. may say that pretty much every
thing the farmer raises is protected
And what does he get out Of it? Moth.
ing,
"Whyp'
well. I should say that one all-sufi-
cient reason why American farmers fail
to get anything cut Of the tariff is be-
cause they haven't yet formed trusts
For example. take pumpkins, dutiable a,
2b per cent I'D valorem. That duty is
put on. the farmers are told, to protect
the Infant pumpkin industry, but il
doesn't do the farmers any good, and it'l
simply because the old fellows have
neglected to organize a pumpkin trust
Get up pumpkin tr:st, and the poo
granger will get something out Of the
tariff. As Is. every farmer hauls his
pumpkins to town and gets whatever
the store man is willing to give him-il
trade. too, not in money.
So far as l can see, the farmer il
governed absolutely in disposing Of his
products by the law of supply and de
msnd. And not only that, but he's undel
the thumb of the local buyers, the mer
chants and elevator men Of his owl
town.
"Say, Charley, write and ask the old
gent II he was ever able to make his own
prices tof what he had raised. He'll tell
you, guess, that rs rule he's had to
take what he could get for everything
It looks we'll to see these things, tn.
corr, oats, apples. squashes. cucumbere
and the Lord knows what not, all pu
down in the tariff act, but it's humbug
% faf as the farmer ia concerned.
-Tas tariff act is worth about as much
to your old gent. Charley. as it is to q
man in Mars"
The last issue OF the Aberdeen Monito
contains . very timely article from tn,
Inland Printer entitled, "Who Pied tn,
Pdnters' Cap Cass?' There seems to b,
. fad among the compilers of "styl,
books" In some Of the Offices Of the big
dailies to boycott the cap case SO far a,
possible. It began some wears ago b,
putting lower case ID" on democrat.