The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-20
SEATTLE. sxrrsDAr. JAN 20.


now WILL THE FARMERS LIKE III
Congressman Wilson in his speech in
support Of hts tariff bill insisted that IL
would prove blessed boon to the farm
ers. This statement will not bear examin-
siion or analysis for q moment. The
Mckinley bill increased the duties On
many agricultural as well as m manufactured
products. The difference between the Re
publican and Democratic tariff legislation
in behalf Of the farmer Is susceptible Of
easy proof.
The Wilson bill. now before congress,
places number Of farm IS well as manu-
teriaIiy lowers the duties on nearly ell
that are now on that list. The Mckinley
act raised the duty on wheat from % cents
q bushel TO Is cents The Wilson bill
changes the - cents . bushel to 20 per
cent. ad valorcm. The Mckinley tariff
OF Is cents q bushei protected the
American farmers against imports from
Canada and other countries. The Wilson
% per cent. nd vaIorem amounts to about
I2is cents in Chicago, or about II cents In
New York, reduction of one-haIf. or III
To i2IS cents q bushcl. How can the
American farmer be benefited by allowing
the Canadian and other farmers to send
their wheat into our markets and get 10 to
i25s cents more bushei than they have
been getting?
The Mckinley act places duty of 30
cents bushel on barley: the Wilson bill
makes the duty % per cent Of its own
value. Assuming that barley cells at the
ordinary price OF 10 cents . bushel, the
Wilson bill would mean tarif reduction
of 10 cents bushel. How will this BEN
cit the American farmerf The Wilson
bill will not add TO the value of the barley
the American farmer raises, but IL would
surely allow the Canadian farmer TO get
lecents bushel moro than before. or en-
able him to lower the price OF barley in
our markets, so that the American farmer
must take less for his barley than he las
been getting under the Mckinley tariff.
The Mckinley tariff places duty of $50
per head on horses worth less than $3.50
worth more than $3.50. Under the present
tariff a Canadian horse worth 800 pays
duty of $50 10 get TO our market, and a
horse worth 5000 pays duty OF s00 while
under the Wilson bill the former would
pay only so and the latter $40 This vir-
and of $50 In the other TO the Canadian
breeder. and at the same time enables him
20 supply the demand for q horse which,
with the Mckinley tariff. might have been
supplied by an American breeder.
Under the Mckinley tariff the duty on
cattle more than year old is $40 per head !;
on those less than 1 year old s. per head.
Under the Wilson bill the duty Is 20 per
cent. of their value. On heifer or steer
more than year old, worth. say. $50 In
our markets. the foreign cattle raiser
would pay duty OF $40 under the Nc
kinney tariff and 81 under the Wilson.
The foreign cattle raiser. not tho Ameri-
can farmer. gets the benefit of this 81
reduction on the price of cattle in our
markets.
The duty on wool under the Mckinley
act was fram IL TO y cents per pound on
acme grades. and fron 50 10 81 per cent
on certain other grades. Under the VIII
son hill all grades of wool are on the free
list.
How is the American farmer 20 be in
any way benefited by free wooly Further
more, the Wilson bill. In order TO com
pletely ruin the sheep breeding Industry Of
this country, also lowers the duties on inn
ported sheep from $50 per head, as Gxed
By the Mckinley hill. TO 20 Per cent. al
vaiorem; So that 81 sheep only has a
duty Of 80 cents. sna g. sheep g. cents,
Ia place of Si.a0 each.
This Wilson tariff bill, not content with
making wool growing protitiess. entirely
removes the duty of cent. a pound on
mutton. So that foreign mutton has a.
free an entrance into the American market
as that produced by American farmers.
Can any farmer tell how he will Re
helped by legislation that not only Kills
the wool growing industry bat Kills the
business Of raising sheep for mutton.
Among other changes in the Mckinley
tAENH &baAe ~ tac " kesea taffN htA that
sarsly can not bs expected 90 enrich the
American farmer in New England. New
York and the other frontier states e the
North are she following, On batter from
Teenss 10 eents per pound: cheese from
eeats PER pound to = per cent milk
from cents per gaIgoa 10 free mix; broom
corn from s. per too 30 the frye list; cab
eages from cents apiece. eggs from 5
cents rer dozen and straw from - per
esn.- 90 the free list Hay from 81 20 s.
fex ten: potatoes from IS ecats TO 10 cents
per hasael; apples from - eerss peF hg.hes
60 tho free list; bscoa ana ham from 5
eeats per poSnd SO the free last; meats Of
al kinds prepared OF preserved. aes other
wise provided for. frons - PER cent. to free.
and lard and tsi}os are also maize free.
Tie Wiisoa ssrsa bal strtps al farm
rrodaets ~ almost every vexllre II PRO
lection, taGs sacrificing the interests Of
American farmers aad eearsng q boaaty
20 foreign eoty pesi:oss, S nas enly -.
moves eT reduces shs dntses on What the
farmer raises, bat ~ cutting down the
duties o. manufactured products, sAss