The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-01-05
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Efforts of High Tarln Organs to nambus
the Farmers.

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The high-tariff press Is stifl trying
to fool the farmer by telling him
that a reduction Of the high Mckinley
duties on certain farm products would
put him ia the p~oorhousc. A Vermont
paper says that ''all over the state live
stock may be bought at panic prices"
and hal good young horses trained TO
work are quoted In many localities at
$50 to $40 per head" Low prices for
other products are mentioned. and then
the farmers are asked ito figure out at
their leisure" how much more deplor-
able their condition viii be under the
tariff proposed by the Wilson commit
tee. We recently pointed out that
many Of the duties on agricultural
products. such as wheat and corn and
pork and lard. were shams from either
n protective or n revenue point OF vie w
and were known To be shams by the
tariff makers who imposed them. Let
US see what there is TO be said about
these good young horses" that are
quoted in Vermont at $50 TO $40 per
head
We suspect that our contemporary in
NCfAhoHl - not ldultlldT with Tic pro-
visions of the tariff concerning horses
The duty is $50 for a horse worth less
than $3.50 and 80 per cent. for a horse
worth that sum or more. How has it
come about that under the benign in
tiuence Of this high tariff the duty
was very largely increased by the Nc
kinley act the price of good young
horses has fallen in Vermont TO $50 or
$40? And if this very high duty did
not prevent the price from falling be-
low the price prevailing under the old
tariff In 1889 or 1890. how does u on
temporary know that the restoration of
the old duty OF 20 per cent, as provided
by the Wilson bill, would prevent the
price from rising to the old figures?
The official reports show how much
the horses imported from Canada are
worth. The average value was sl02 in
500; in 1891 it vas sl02; and in 1850. a
year before the duty was increased by
the Mckinley act, il was 800. 50 IL will
be seen that the change of duty has
had practically no effect upon the i'm
port trade in horses from Canada, SO
far as the value of the animals is con-
tcii'i- iHt ttudbl1n H'fSt bude was
brought into the country last year.
like the Canadian horse that was inn
ported four years age, is a horse worth
about 400. If good young horses"
can be bought in Vermont for $50 or
$40. why should anyone in that state
look forward with alarm to an impend-
ing flood" of Canadian horses worth
800 apiece before the duty is paid?
The duty at present would increase the
cost to $3.50, and the Wilson duty
would make it SEQ. Even if the price
Of the native good young horse"
should be increased from $50 or $40"
to 900, 1t would still be lower than the
cost of the imported Canadian horse.
The truth is that the high duty on
Canadian horses is a burdcnsome tax
upon farmers in many parts of New
England who have been accustomed to
buy horses from that country for use
in teamwork. Our contemporary in
Vermont also Processes to be depressed
by the probability that the enactment
of the Wilson bill will cause the New
England market TO be crowded with
Canadian grain" This il wholly in
sincere 1t is the grain from our own
western states with which the New
England farmer must compete, and nc.
the grain of Canada 1t is the western
corn that is selling now at Chicago for
81 cents a busheL-N y. Times