Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-10-05
TINsLEY e. MORTON. Prcpristors.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT, 5. 1894.
THE TOOLS OF THE FARMERS
TRADE FREE.

THE TOOLS OF THE FARMERS
TRADE FREE.
When Senator Daniel in his speech here
said that the farmer owed the Democratic
party debt of gratitude for making the
tools Of his trade free, he called attention t6
a fact that no farmer should forget. Here
is the clause OF the Democratic tariff bill
on that subject:
Plows, tooth and disk harrows, haryesters
reapers, agricultural drills and planters
mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, thrashine
machines and cotton gins, shall be
free Provided that all articles men-
toned in this paragraph, it imported
from a country which lays an import
duty on like articles imported from the United
States, shall be subject to the duties existing
prior to the passage of this act.
This clause works with equal justice to
the manufacturer and the farmer. Ii a
foreign country taxes the agricultural i'm
Elements made by an American manufac-
turer, then the agricultural implements
from that country shall be taxed when
they are offered for entry into the United
States. It means that the American man
ufacturer shall have the market of the
world to compete in, and that the Amerl-
can farmer shal! have the market Of the
world to buy in. 1t has been favorite
theory OF the American advocates OF FRO
lection. that that economic system cheap
ems agricultural implements to that extent
that the American farmer is the greatest
beneficiary by it in the end. On the con-
trary it. strange to say, has kept the
lower price for the foreign farmer and the
higher price for the American farmer. The
IIan and Export, an organ OF American
manufacturing firms, published in the
United States, also publishes foreign
edition, chiefly, we believe, i'll the Spanish
language for circulation in South America.
A copy Of that foreign edition published
while the Mckinley bill was i'll force, con-
tanned the advertisement OF one hundred
and sixty-slX American manufacturing
firms whose goods were protected by that
bill. The following articles were advertis-
ed to be delivered on board ship at New
York, for export, at the prices named
below:
Advance pillow, foreign price, 50; home
price, SlS.
Hay tedder, foreign price, $50; home price,
S45
Mower foreign price. $40; home price, $50.
Horse rake, foreign price, S17; home price,
50.
Cumming feed cutter No. 5, foreign price,
$50; home price, 5000.
Ann Arbor cutter No. ., foreign price. S2s:
home price, $40.
Ann Arbor cutter No /, foreign price, SIG;
home price, SIS.
Clipper cutter, foreign price, $3.50; home
price, SIS
Lever cutter, foreign price. sl.25; home
price. 1925.
Cultivator. foreign price, s22; home price,
$50
Sweep, foreign price. $50; home price, 500.
A gentleman in possession of a copy of
the Engineering and Mining Journal.
published in 1880, aid writing Of tie con
tents OF its foreign edition, gives The fol
lowing about tie discounts offered to Tor
eign purchasers
Agricultural implements, S. l.. Allen d
Co., Planet Junior No. seed drill, 50. dis
count 30 per cent: CONT ined drill, cultivator,
rake, pillow, ETC., sI2. discount 80 per cent;
Fire-fy single wheel hoe, cultivator and
pillow, s.; FREELY hand pillow, So, discount 80
per cent, free on board at New York. Then
comes plows, rakes. grain scythes, anvils,
etc. Then follow pistols and rifles, manu-
featured by Colt, and by Smith & Wesson,
with discount to the foreigner Of 10 aud %
per cent. If space would allow could give
hundreds OF articles of like nature.
These statements are not new. they have
been made repeatedly with the authority
and the figures, and never been contradict
ed, nor any attempt, that we know of,
made to refute them. They slow that the
chief end of the Mckinley bill WAS not to
cheaper the output to the American farmer
OF the American consumer of any trade.
but to enrich the American manufacturer.
They show that where he met competition
largely reduce his price and yet make
money-so much mcney that lie eagerly
sought after the foreign trade. If foreign
competition made him reduce his prices liz
foreign lands under the Mckinley bill.
then the new Democratic tariff which III
agricultural implements puts the Ameri
can manufacturer Oh the same footing with
the foreign manufacturer, will force him to
U tho A n,o,can in at 1aact Nc low
prices as the foreign farmer enjoyed. The
man who undertakes to stand by the Nc
Kinley bill before an audience composed of
farmers. rs Mr.. Yost does, carries q heavy
burden-too heavy for him to win the race.
MIR. FUCKERS VOTE ON FREE IRON
ORE.
If our contemporary Yost's Weekly VIII
look lii the Co:tare ssiO:tM Record Of Tues
day, August 2lst. 1851, it will see that the
Speaker announced to the House that he
had received Il letter from Mr.. Tucker
then absent i'll Virginia, saying
that he WAS enormously recorded
three days before as not voting for taxed
iron ore; that he had voted for it. The
NINDICAToR doesn't agree with Mr..
Tucker III his vote, but that is, neverthe-
less, the way he voted. Yost's Wcek1y fell
into the same error the VINDICATOR did:
we saw him put down as not voting, and so
published it. and having no occasion to look
at subsequent Records did not see the cor
rection. To our view Mr.. Tucker would
have done much better to have voted for
free raw material all the way through
4 Lively OCTOBER FOR AUGUSTA
COUNTY,
The Democrats Of S,aunton and Angus
tn Will hive q lively time tilrniloh this