Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1894-08-03
And on page 125 you will find the
following:

Clothes, wOOlen or worsted, valued at not
above 50 cents per pound weight. Advalorem
rate of duty s7.s7 per cent, same as old law.
Clothes valued above sc cents per pound.
Advalorem duty 69.13 per cent, also same ~ old
law.
Clothes valued at not more than 50 cents per
pound weight. Average advalorcm rate Of duty
1850.
This is the Mckinley law of 1891, and
the dearer the goods the lower the
tariff. Now will H. tell US which of
these grades the poor man buys, 80
cents for pound in weight, being the
cheapest invoice pricecfor mems wear
ing apparel given in the tariff laws of
1890 to 1898. This is no extract from
some unreliable paper, but the govern.
ment laws, which will produce upon
application, and challenge H. to coh.
tradict one figure of the above, and if
he can do so successfully and honestly,
although poor, l will try and run my
face far enough to buy him Il plug hat
that may give more expansion to the
top of his pate. And now turn to page
1913 and find knit fabrics valued at not
more than 30 cents per pound in weight
advalorem rate of duty 3a3 50 per cent"
This Is the Mckinley law in force after
October the 5th, 1890. H. again says,
''Undoubtedly our skull is also thick,
but Wisconsin merchants told us that
the Beaver Dam Mills turned out wool.
ems that would wear with any imported
goods, etc." Well, undoubtedly your
skull is too thick. or there is too little
under it, or you would not go too Wis
consin merchants, who may have
selfish interests, or be as ignorant as
you have proven yourself on this ques-
ton, but of course Wisconsin Manufac
turers and Wall street furnish
the BRAINS, and you do the
cuckoo act, attempt to palm off on us
such evasion and deception, for reply
to the article in.questisn. II. again says
''This grade of sugar must pay 80 pei
cent; this is probably grade of sugar
that we are not acquainted with, ..at any
rate rs we write We have before us an
extract from the Mckinley bill, which
says that the dnty OH sugaris six tenth.
OF cent pound, equal to .6 percent
advalorem. H. no doubt would have
done better with a copy of Ayres Alma
nae, or pack of cards, before him as hi
wrote, he no doubt would have under
stood them better, for had he got some
one to read the article for him, hi
would have discovered that it was
based on the tariff laws existing in 1885,
or 8, the laws governing for 80 years
and not upon the uncertainties of the
past three or four years; and again
refer H. to tariff laws in 1887, page 80
he will there find, "Sugar, Dutch stan
dard in color, No. 13 and under, mol
above 81 degrees, advolorem rate ol
duty sS.72 per cent, and above No. 1;
and not above 16, rate of duty s6.97 pei
cent, and above 16 and not above 20
rate S0.43." He will also find that t.,e
bulk of our importation were of the
grade paying "a per cent duty, and
| what spectacle for gods and men te
behold, high tariff advocates taking the
greatest credit to themselves for what
was put on the free list in the McKlnley
bill. H. says. "Where with limited
capital, we can in few years time be-
come the owner Of $40 acres of fine
farming land, stock our barns will
graded cattle and horses, dot our hills
with as fine sheep as there are in the
country. build a better house thar
many a protected monorolist live in
and enable our child to fill it with rare
and choice plants that can be obtained
when we can do this without doing 2
months solid work in the field in the
course of year, etc." As H. started
out to criticise said article on the tariff
prove its falsity and d.inslnuate the bene.
fits of his protective tariff to the farmer,
why didnt he tell us what the tariff
had to do with farming the soil here,
and how it affected its qualities. His
insinuations are that it had something
to do with it and does everything good
We are an inquisitlve people, and want
to know how and why. We live in an
age, where we should find cut where
we are at and how we got there. And
what had the tariff to do with filling
my barns with graded cattle and horses:
Why did not H. tell us this, instead of
wandering off after false gods. If /
have improved my farm, raised some
cattle and horses, it is certainly not on
account of high taxation, direct or in.
direct, but in spite of it. Burglars have
entered private dwellings, and stolen
two to ten thousand dollars from some
men. They did not lay down and die.
Having energy and pluck they have
survived to build up a business, own
houses and lands, not because they
were burglarized, as the drift Of HIS
argument. Oh, no, but IN spite of the
robbery. I have some sheep. but H.
fails IN toll ,,s vhot th., <o -; Ar ho1 - L.