The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-08-10

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farmer paid the miner for his labor,
as well as the TX, (75o per toni
the freight aud tie operators profit,
Allow me to sly in addition that
the farmer pays bsolutely all taxes
laid under the Mckinley law, as
well as the operating expense, and
prudts OF all the manufactures of
this country, (unless perchance
the product should be sold to a
foreign country
To illustrate, we will take tbs
coal operator, as your readers are
more familiar with this product
than any other | shall especially
allude to the miners wages, but my
readers, do not forget that the tax
is the Item of expense objected too.
! who pays the miner for his IA
Dor? Who the operator? This la
Dor as well as the tax is part OF
the cost of this coal, and governs
in most cases the price. This coal
is sold, say to the Illinois Stee, Co.
Then the Illinois Steel Co. pays
back or rather pays the miners
wages, as ii is a part of the cost OF
coal. This steel company uses
coal in the manufacture of steel
billets, which are sold to nail
mill. The cost of the coal is calcu-
lated in the cost and price of the
steel, Therefore the miners wages
are paid by the nail company. The
cost of the steel is estimated in
tie cost Of the nails, which is sold
to the wholesale merchant, who
pays the eeal digger's, wages. The
ESountry merchant sells to the farm
or, whothe and there pays not or
lythe miner for his labor, but the
full expense ofthis coal, as wei! as
the other multiplied taxes under
the Mckinley law. Don't get lost
in the delusion that the man who
uses these nails does not pay the
tax. Not bit of it. Suppose
some lGborer who is working in the
manufacture of an entirely different
product buys Jew kegs of these
nails. He pays for these nails out
of his wages that goes to make up
the cost of the product he is labor
ing to produce, aid works its way
through to the farmer just the
same as the nails have done. And
this my friends holds good on any
article,it matters not what. If you
will take little pains TO figure out
you will find that the farmer pays
all the expense OF our National
Government. All the labor is paid
by the farmer. In fact the farm.
ers pays for everything fiom the
news boy to the Union Pacific Rail-
road But az a farmer | am not
objectlng to having TO pay these la
Dor bills, for here is the line OF ex-
change. But the injustice comes
in the extraordinary tribute we arc
forced under law to pay for this
privilege, made so by the McKir-
ley tax law. Besides, every item Of
expense is figured in the cost of a
manufactured article, and thusa
placed on the market. While the
the value Of the product of the
farm is fixed without reference to
cost Ct the product. We are often
asked why we do not keep an ex-
pense account upon our farms.
Why my friend what would prove
the use, as we have not a
word 10 say in fixing the
price of our products. Bot the ia
vored class fix the value Of their
products and ours too. The men
who have in past years succeeded
in getting Congress to lay an exor-
bitant lax upon the farmers of the
country for their benefit, say to
Us farmers, well now we want your
wheat and will pay YOU for it just
what you can get in London less
the freight. London merchants
will pay you same price they can
buy wheat in India for, a country
that can raise wheat without tie
curses of a Mckinley tax law. So
you can see my friends where the
value of our products is made. SO
we are cursed as were the Jews who
at one time were all farmers. They
were by the same process driven
from farming as will the American
farmer under tie present system be
driven to tenants and iaborers.
We are forced under pretext of
law to pay tribute to a certain class
and then have our products valued
by the product of county not SO
taxed Coal BLAST.
This communication was some
how delayed.-ED.
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