Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-07-28
HOW 1T PROTECTS THE FARMER.

IOCGlOn elNCu Aol LASA W OAO s>haS
ley tariff. Senator Allen OF Nebraska
in his closing speech on the confer
ence report cited the following in
stances of its kindly regard for the
farmers pocket:
@Mr. President, let US consider for
a moment the dress of the farmers
daughter. Let us take an article at
Is cents yard, the very cheapest
among fabrics containing any guam
THY of cheap wool. Say that she will
use 20 wards to the dress--l am not
informed to the number OF yards
necessary, but assume that that is
about night. On this there is levied
a specific duty of Z cents yard, al
most one half of If, almost 81 per
cent, or 81 o.. making the cost Of tho
dress and the tax S405. Let there be
added to this 50 per cent adj valorem.
to which we must add the profit OF
the manufacturer, the jobber and re-
taller, ami the dress will cost the
wearer not less than So.
The total tax on that cheap fabric,
according to this bill, to say nothing
of the profits of the man ufacturer,
jobber, or retailer, is 1885 cents on
dress that was originally worth only
50. 1t takes to pay the tax ON this
dress 251a bushels Of the farmers
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bushels and fraction of his wheat,
or over 10 bushels-almost IL
bushels-of his oats.
aThere is the blanket under which
the farmer and his family are COM
PEELED to sleep taxed almost 100 per
cont. Here is the cheap dress of his
wife and adult daughter taxed over
200 per cent, according to the terms
of this bill, and all that enormous
taxation must be met by corn ut 10
cents bushel, wheat at so cents
bushel, and sometimes less, and oats
at about ID or Is cents bushel. Yet,
Sir, it will be claimed, doubtless, that
this is one of the most beneticent tax
ing measures the Congress of the
United States was ever called on to
enact into law.
snow, let US take the farmers
cheap coat, for he cannot welr any.
thing else. At the time Of importa-
ton it is worth So. There is a speci-
tic tax Of Al cents per yard and an ad
valorem tax Of SIS per cent. The
specific tax is 80 %, the ad valorem
tax is S2.75, or total tax of 81 95.
Add the profits Of the manufacturer,
the jobber and the retailer. and the
coat costs the consumer $3.50. 1t
takes 4.95 bushels of wheat. or nearly
50 bushels Of corn, or 33 bushels of
oats to pay the tax; or, IL Other words
it takes l acre of corn or oats, or
one fourth acre of wheat to pay the
tax on the coat.
X X II
"Mr. President, 1 turn again to
lumber for moment. The tax on
10000 feet Of lumber necessary to
construct an ordinary fram dwelling
would be $50. Add 50 per thousand
feet. 1t would take 40 bushels Of
wheat, or 200 bushels of corn, or
1881 bushels of oats, or the product
Of about acres Of wheat or 7 acres
of corn OF 8 acres of oats to pay the
tax. To this should be added, of
course, the enormous profits of the
iobber and retailer. Sir that is what
it costs to pay the tax on the lumber
that enters the house alone, to say
nothing Of the enormous tax placed
on the hardware and glassware and
her articles used III the construc.
ton OF an ordinary farm dwelling.
Suppose 1000 farmhouses are to be
built in Nebraska this year. which
will be far below the actual number
and 10000 feet ot lumber will be re-
4uired to each house. This would
require 100000 feet of lumber q,