The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-01-25
lie BEAuTIEs o. PRoTEcTIoN.
How Major MeKinly Pulverizsd West
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charitable wheat in bags the past
season. This wheat I tried to dispose
of in WaAa Walla, Wash. The best
bid could get was Is cents per bushel;
this price was below the cost OF pro-
duction, therefore I concluded to ship
10000 of the 10000 bushels to Portland,
Ore, which cost me Is cents per bushel
for transportation and warehouse
charges. After a canvass of the wheat
traders I found that / could have done
as we'll in Walla Walla after paying
transportation charges.
Being chagrined at this venture and
believing that there was some combina-
ton of middle-men who was skinning
me, I resolved to send this wheat to
Liverpool, England.
The transportation charges per ton
were 80 shillings besides insurance and
wharfage.
In due time my 10000 bushels Of
wheat arrived in Liverpool all 0. k. I
found the demand in the wheat market
poor. There were ship loads of wheat
there awaiting sale from Russia, India,
Argentine, and, in fact, from all parts
Of the world.
Walla Walla wheat was selling at four
shiIlings three pence per 100 pounds,
which when put into United States
money left me % cents per bushel after
paying charges from Walla Walla,
Washington, viz: Walla Walla to Port
land, Ore, 10 cents; Portland, Ore, to
Liverpool, "A cents; insurance and
wharfage, cent. All that I have gain
ed in my shipping adventures thus far
was experience, as my net proceeds was
but . cents per bushel.
I was now in possession of $500, and
with the coin in hand | interviewed va
rious wholesale establishments in
Liverpool, and was surprised to find
that I could buy straight WOODEN fab
RIGS there for less than one-haif the
amount such goods would cost me in
Portland In fact I could purchase
more and better wooden goods Of the
kind that we require to ward off pneu-
monia, and other maladies that we con
tract for want Of proper clothing, with
my % cent wheat than I formerly pur-
chased with 60 cent wheat, so I thought
here was "surething" for doubling
my % cent wheat and I invested my
last dollar in WOODEN fabrics of the
quality that is always in demand in
Walla Walla in the winter season.
had no difficulty in finding ship
whose destination was Portland, Ore,
for load of wheat. The freight charges
on my goods were very low as the vessel
cargo to keep her in proper
trim.
In three months my goods we're in
and 7 was making prepare
tions to transport them to Walla Walla
when I was informed by an officer at
the custom house that there is a tariff
duty on all wooden goods of from rs to
125 per cent. After calculating the
first cost of my fabrics it was found
that So per cent of that cost would be
required to get my goods out of the
bonded warehouse. Twas non-plussed;
had no money to get my fabrics out
of Limbo. I had paid no one tariff
to land my wheat in Liverpool, why
should l be thus used by my own
people?
The officials informed me that a
Major Mckinley, of Ohio, had put those
burdens on commerce and trade; that
the eastern manufacturers were all
pleased, and that they we're but execut-
ing the tariff laws of the United States.
This put me to thinking how l was to
get money with which to pay the Gus
tom duties; was I now to lose my 10,
GOO bushels of wheat because I had
changed them into the WOODEN fabrics
that we require in our cold and buster
ing climate? Without money and with
a mortgage on my farm my credit was
not frstcIass, and I had learned by sad
experience that it takes money to raise
wheat.
was fortunate in having left one
half Of my wheat at home, I autographed
to Walla Walla and had $500 bushels,
all had left after my summeF-fallow
land, sent to Portland. When it arrived
the market was stin down and . cents
per bushel, clear of charges, vas all I
realized for the $500 bushels. the net
proceeds being s2,125, every cent Of
which went to pay the tariff duty Of 81
Per cent on the whole goods which
Major Mckinley put on for the benefit
of the farmer. 7 had to borrow So
more with which to pay the bonded
warehouse charges
We thus see that Mckinley and his
manufacturing clan robbed me out Of
s, 800 hundred bushels Of wheat, Or to
pat It in other words I would have
gotten as much for 10000 bushels Of
wheat under tree trade as I did get Un-l
der the Mckinley tariff Tor 1850
bushels Of wheat
gha wilson tah takes onix % per
esas Of the farmer wheat 10 pay Tariff
duties oa4t sas5els Of wheat iesssad
bushels OF ahess IS snaer tbs