Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-24
SOME TARIFF FACTS
HOW PROTECTION SHELTERS
GREAT MoNoPoLIEs.
n You Like Them Vote the Repub.
Ilcan, High Tariff, High Prices
Ticket, And get All You Want
Note the Figures Given.

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1898; price of tin plate advanced from
$3.50 per box in November, 1898, to
$4.S4 in December, $780, present price
at home $4.19; to foreigners, s3.19;
duty, $3.50 per box.
Steel and Wire Trust-Formed jan
uary, 1899; price of wire nails ad-
vanced from $1.37 per key in Deem
Der, 1898, to $3.50 in December, 1899;
present price at home $205; to for
eigners, $1.30; duty " cent or more
per pound. Price of barbed wire ad-
vanced from $1.S2 per 100 pounds in
December, 1898, to $4.13 in December,
1899; present price $3.50; export price
1925; duty, 1 800 cents per pound.
Window Glass Trust-Formed in Oc-
tober, 1899; price Of single firsts, 6xS
to 10x15 advanced from $1.40 per box
$50 SO. IT, in July, 1895, to $3.50 in
October, 1889, and to $3.50 in April,
1901; present price about $456; duty.
of 1% to 8 cents per pound averages
about 100 per cent.
Plate Glass Trust-Formed in 1882
and consolidated with jobbers in 1899
or 1900; prices on principal sizes ad-
vanced $50 per cent from April, 1898,
to August, 1900; price to 10 feet
April. 1898, "a cents per square foot;
August, 1900, 60 cents; duty on to
10 foot, 10 to 221k cents per square
foot.
Shovel Trust-Formed in August,
1901, but price-ixing agreements ex-
listed before; prices advanced on Ames
No. 2 from $745 per dozen in January,
1896, to $7.93 in July, 1896; to $3.50 in
July, 1882 to 1912 in January, 1900,
which is the present price; export
price about 80 per cent below the
present home price; duty, As per
cent.
Linseed Oil transformed in De-
cember, 1898; price of raw linseed oil
advanced from 20 cents per gallon in
July, 1897, to Al cents in January,
1898; to so cents in January, 1900; to
IS cents in July, 1900; to so cents in
July, 1901 declined to 67 cents in
July, 1902; duty 20 cents per gal
lon.
Salt Trust-Formed in March, 1899,
and became a world trust in 1901;
price of coarse salt at Buffalo ad-
vanced from $3.50 per ton in 1897 to
$A In 1899, to $3.50 in 1900 and to
$50 in 1901; fine salt advanced from
TN cents per barrel in 1897, to $1.56
in 1901; present prices but little low
err; duty to IL cents per 100 pounds.
Borax Trust-Formed in 1890 and
became world trust in 1899; price Of
borax 8% cents per pound in 1891;
reduced to cents in 1894; to 5A
cents in 1895; to cents in 1896; ad
vanced to 6 cents in October, 1897; to
Z cents in February, 1898; to IN
cents in 1899; to cents in 1900;
price since, TX to cents; duty, 5
cents per pound until 1894, then 2
cents until August, 1897; then 5 cents
again. Trust exports borax from this
country to England and other coun-
tries and sells it there for to 5 cents
per pound; present price in England,
21a cents.
Sugar Transformed in 1887 and
reformed in 1891; it has kept the
margin between raw and refined sugar
up to the tariff limit, and much great
er than before the trust was formed,
although the cost of refining has de-
clined; it has dictated or directed
tariff legislation whit plenty of "dif-
ferentia" or protection on refined SUI
gar; its profits are about $25 100000
year; the duty Of ~ cents per pound
(including the countervailing duty of
81 of a cent? increases the cost of
living to the average family $3.50 a
year; with no duty on it sugar would
sell for to IN cents per pound, the
canning and preserving industry would
become very profitable, millions of
bushels of fruit now wasted would
find profitable market, and jams, jel-
lies and marmelades would furnish
wholesome and cheap food for the
people.