Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
What Mckinley Costs the Far
nlers.

The steady decline of our our ex-
ports of farm products is telling the
story, month by month, of the Mc-
kinleY tariffs ruin of the American
farmer. Though wheat is lower than
ever before, foreigners CANNOT buy
it because they are not allowed to
send us the articles of universal nee
esslty that our people want, that the
people of Europe would be glad to
give in exchange for our wheat, corn,
beef, pork and cotton.
The latest figures from the Bu-
resu of Statistics at Washington
show that our exports of breadstuffs
last month were nearly $4,000, ,0oC
less than in March, 1892, and that
for the nine months ending ON March
there was a falling off of $50, ,l27,
600 in the value of hreadstuffs ex-
ported as compared with the cores
ponding period of the year before.
The hogs, beef and dairy products
exported last month brought S3, ,29S,-
600 less than in March, 1892, while
for the nine months the shrinkage
amounted to SO, ,6S3 900.
Thus, during the nine months end
ing with March /, American farmers
received from foreigners for bread.
stnffs, hogs, beef and dairy pro
ducts S5,s10,oo0 less than during
the nine months ending on March /,
| 1892. e.i's
For what they have sold at home
they have received nearly 20 per
cent less than during the previous
year, owing to the restricted mar
kets and the artiticially low prices
for farm products created by the
monopoly tariff.
Europeans and other foreigners
cannot take so much as they would
like to take of our bread, meat and
cotton, nor pay good prices for wIlat
they do take, because the customs
taxes levied for the enrichment ot
monopoly manufacturers restricts
the demand for their wares and re
duees their profits on what they dc
sell to us.
Who, then, pays the, Mckinley
tax? The foreigner undoubtedly
pays part OF it, for we cannot afford
4 to pay him full prices for his good;
with the tax added. He gets les.
for his wares than he would if the
import tax were lower, and the diff
ference is exactly the portion of the
tax that he pays.
But these figures from Washington
show conclusively that Mckinley
taxes are paid doubly and trebly by
\ the American farmer, whom it com
| pels not only to pay more for tn,
manufactured articles he uses, bu
also to take much less for the pro
\ duce that he makes for sale.
One hundred millions of dollars or
bread and meat and S100, 900, ,0Oi
more on cotton is about what tn
Mckinley tariff costs American far
mers on their foreign trade in min,
months.
4 Add what thev lose by low price!
on domestic sales of produce, ant
the agricultural producers of thi
country are out of pocket not ia
from $500, 600, 900 year by reason
| of the Republican conspiracy to rot
them.
i Charge it to Mckinley. Charge 1
to Ben Harrison. Charge it to tn,
Republican party, which mcrtgaget
the productive energies of the Uni
ted States to greedy ring of mon
I opolists to pay for one more shor
lease of power.
But the farmers are not going {,
snbnit to this robbery much longer
When Congress gets together agair
it will be the business of the Demo
cratic majorities therein TO tear vi
the whole monopoly protective tarif
| system by the roots. They can't af
ford to lose any time in doing it
either.-.St. Louis Republic.