The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-17
FARNEks AND THE TARIFF,

There is an effort made by the Nc
Kinley management to secure the sill
yer republican vote among the farmers
by pushing the tariff issue TO the front.
The claim is made by them that the
democratic policy is and has been to
remove the tariff from all farm pro-
ducts. thus placing the American
farmer in direct competition with the
farmers of the ''pauper"> world, even
in competition with the ''pauper"
farmers of gold-standard Canada,
Germany, Italy and France. 1t is
further claimed, directly in the face OF
facts. that the present tariff law. which
was passed by a democratic congress,
has removed the duty from all farm
products. Before the republican,
farmer who honestly believes in the
free coinage of silver, allows himself
to be carried away by such misrepre-
sentations, he should investigate for
himself, and be convinced there is
but one farm product. wool, which is
placed on the free list by the Wilson
tariff law. That the farmers may con-
slider the. effect the present tariff law
has upon their industry and the
amount of protection that is extended
to their products, we make the follow
ing quotations from the 1894 tariff law,
showing the duty (protection) placed
on number of the leading products OF
the farm:
All live animals, not specially pro-
viGed for, 20 per cent and valorem.
.Buckwheat, corn or maize, cornineal,
oats, rye, rye -four, and wheat -four,
20 per cent and vulorem.
Wheat, % cents per bushel.
Barley and barley pearled, patent or
hulled, 80 per cent and valorem.
Butter and substitutes thereof,
cents per pound.
Cheese, cents per pound.
Milk, preserved or condensed, 2
cents per pound, sugar of milk, 5 cents
per pound.
Beans. twenty per cent and valorem.
Hay. 81 per ton.
Honey, 10 cents per gallon.
Hops, s cents per pound.
Onions, 20 cents per bushel.
Peas, dried, 20 cents per bushel; split
peas, 80 cents per bushel.
Potatoes, 10 cents per bushel.
Vegetables in their natural state.
not otherwise provided for, 10 per cent
ad valorem.
Apples. green or ripe, dried, des-
icated or prepared in any L.anner, 20
per cent ad valorem.
Straw, Is per cent ad valorem.
Grapes, 20 per cent ad valorem.
Oranges, lemons and lines, in pack
ages. at the rate of 8 cents per cubic
foot of capacity; in bulk, sl.5o per
thousand.
Plums, prunes, figs. raisens, and
o.her dried grapes, including Zante
currants, II cents per pound.
Fresh beef, mutton and pork, 20 per
cent al valorem.
Bacon and hams, 5 cents per pound.
Extracts of meats. 15 per cent ad va
loren.
Lard, cent per pound.
Poultry, live 8 cents per pound,
dressed 2 ceuts per pound.
Tallow, cent per pound.
1t will be noted that there is indeed
q high protective duty on nearly every
product of the farm and garden, in
many of the schedules the duty being
more than the market price of the ar
ticle. Take hops for instance. There
is protection of cents. while for the
past two years they have been sold
throughout this state at from to II
cents. And too, the assertion is fre-
questiy made that canadian competi-
tion is responsible for the low prevail
ing prices in farm produce, yet
facts are that there is at present high
Tariff on hay, grain, butter, and
live stock, in fact all farm projects ex-
cept wool. A perusal of the above
quotations from the tariff law as it ex-
lists today, will cause the farmer to re-
alize any increase in the tariff cannot
benefit him. but on the contrary, any
additional duty, except it be on wool,
will be to increase the profits of the
syndicates,