The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-10-15

raised 10 Ol l-Zt. Inc lowest point
reached since was in '6l, is l-2gs.
Since '6l tho rates have found 81
changes up to the DINGHY bill, the
exact q cannot as YET, be given. /
should give the exact date and rate
Of each change but fear 1 shall i'm
pose a burden upon the good peO-
pie OF the brightest weekly in tie
state.
Now my kind readers, as i can
not give you the rate OF the Ding
ley bill, will name the tax on a
few OF the indispensable articles
among our class.
II you noed little sal soda for
the kitchen, you will, by this bill,
have TO pay 40T more than it is
worth; on sulphur, 40; plaster Of
paris, As; bottles, 1l5; window
glass from So for the plate 10 l74%
for the common; buttons,35 TO 6O7 /;
stove pipe iron, 50 IL; rod iron,55&
stove plates, %.
Common furniture, 80; sugar. SO I;
flanneIs, lO2; thread So: blankets,
I54; common shawls, 1856; cloth
ing, 200 on the cheap and Is on the
fine; underwear 1855; wool hats,
236; carpets, IS; coal, "a. / could
give you many more but these are
sufiicsent.
Now, who gets the benegt Of all
these enormous taxes? Not the U.
S. government, for the rates are
SO high that that importation will
cease and the thus protected will fall
into the pockets ofthe manufactu-
rers and trusts. Why would 1t not
have been wisdom and good man.
agement to have reduced expenses
instead OF forcing the farmer or any
one else, II you please, TO pay this
o1tlandish tax.
Now, who pays this tax? | want
to show you, and 1 believe that
can, that the farmer pays every
cent OF it, and to BE- brief, ! will II.
lustrate. Mr.. Thompson is a farm
err; Mr.. Holt is laborer working
in shoe factory. They each hav'
money and want to build them
house; they go to the factory anC
buy twenty dollars worth OF nails
Here you will note that the tai
paid on these nails comes unde
the pet Republican idea OF protec
tion and goes into the treasury o
1.-THE nail mill. Now. labor is par
OF the cost Of the shoes he mad
and therefore be got the money h
paid for the nails, out OF the shoe
he made. Then does not the tai
he paid on the nails, land in the
shoes? While Mr.. Thompson ha
made his money and the tax tina
he pays is forever settled, a
there is no one behind him and |
ends there. II is now getting coli
and Mr.. Gambill and Mr.. johnson
want to shoe their families; and 3
they go and buy the identical shoe
that Mr.. Holt made. Mr.. johnson
is working in a factory making al
article OF commerce. The tax tina
he pays on the shoes lands direct
ly on the article he makes AM
, must be settled by some one VIII
! buys the article, while the tax tina
farmer Gambill pays is settled
and thus 1t Is that the farmer pay
J the indirect or tariff tax. Thus
is that the farmers are forced eacl
! year by this Republican high Ia
pol icy, topay millions upon mil
: ions into the pockets Of the manu-
facturers, combines, and trusts, AN
: then condemn us as p0pulists, SC
clalists, anarchists and regulators
Thomas jefferson said OF the fal
I mers; "They are the most valui
BILE citizens. They are the most Wis
orous, the most influential, the MOI
virtuous, and they are tied to thol
country and welded 10 its llDert,
and interest by the most lastln
bonds.n
This class that was once respect
cd aud called ~country gentlemen
has by the Republican party, Doe
forced 10 q condition not sough
!, both In tho soclal and ilnancll
. world. Cotlonni clothes and sol
gAeu0|0|' % good AZ