Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-13
SOME FACTS FOR FARMERS
They Pay More for the Materials They
Need Than Their Competitors
in Foreign Lands.

The man who owns a farm should
consider very carefully before voting
next November which of the two chief
candidates for the Office of president
will, according to his announced pol
icy, best serve his interests. The
platforms of the two parties afford a
fair chance to choose between Parker
and Roosevelt. The policies have been
clearly defined, and when it is once
determined on which side a mans in
terests lie, the choice should not be a
difficult one. The democratic party is
pledged to a revision of the tariff with
a view to restricting the rapacity Of
the trusts.
The trusts lave grown to such pro-
portions under the favors conferred by
the high protective tariff, that it is
costing more to-day in this country
to live on American-made goods than
it costs on the other side of the world.
Let us quote a few figures to show the
farmer how he is paying more for ma
terials he needs on his farm than is
paid by his competitor abroad.
American-made axes and hatchets,
which are sold in this country for
$3.50 per dozen, can be purchased in
South Africa for $6.75, a difference of
II per cent.
Sledges, which cost the American
farmer at the rate of IS cents per
pound, can be bought in Ladysmitn
for Is cents, again a difference of II
per cent.
Crowbars, which sell here at the
rate of six cents per pound, are sold
in South Africa for five and four
tenths of a cent a pound, another diff
ference of II per cent.
Shovels, which here cost $S.25 per
dozen, can be purchased in South At
RIGA for $7.42, again a difference of II
per cent.
The steel beam plow for which the
American farmer is asked $11.50, can
be purchased in South Africa for
$10.35, again a difference of II per
cent.
The churn which the farmer uses,
manufactured in Boston, costs hi,n
$2.47. In South Africa he could buy it
for So, 23 per cent. less than is asked
MIN i'll this country.
A orr shelter, for which he pays
s4.20, car be bought at Cape Town for
$3.50, a difference of 20 per cent.
His grain mill, which costs him
$14.66 in Boston, where it is manufac-
tured, al be purchased on the Other
side of the world for $500, a differ
ence of II per cent.
The Boston corn planter, which sells
here for SIS, is sold to the South At
rican farmer for $13, a difference of
Is per cent.
A fan mill, for which he pays $21.SO,
is sold to the farmers of South Africa
for SIT. 60, a difference of q per cent
C~ultivators, for which the New York
state farmer pays $3.50, bring only
$4.20 in South Africa, II per cent. I'M
der the price obtained here.
Horse shoes, for which the American
farmer is charged six. dollars, go to
Y the South African farmer at $4.95, a
difference of 81 per cent.
A two-horse plow, for which in this
country the farmer is asked $5.25, can
be obtained by the farmer down IN
Cape Colony at SAILS, a difference of
rs per cent.
The farmer who has what Bill Nye
used to call one of these upright
farms, and wants a side-hill pillow,
pays $6.77 for it. His brother farmer
in South Africa who has an upright
farm, gets a side-hill pillow for $5.S1.
a difference of Is per cent.
Is there road work to be done, the
farmer needs a heavy road pillow. He
pays for it 5000. Roads in South AT
RIGA are made with the same pillow, for
which the owner pays $3.50, a differ
ence of 20 per cent.
The New England chilled two-horse
pillow, for which the American farmer
pays S8.40, Is sold to the farmer IL
COulu AlTlcd LUZ 9i'GV, q uihOi0HSo W
II per cent.
Rope, for which the farmer has
much use, is sold at II cents per
pound in South Africa, while 10 cents
per pound is charged for 1t in New
York state, where it is manufactured
The difference is % per cent.
Is it worth while, says the Utica
Observer, to maintain a tariff which
robs the w%orkingman, the farmer, the
artisan, the housekeeper, to the eX-
elusive benefit of the manufacturer?
| Why should it be possible for Amer
lean goods to be sold more cheap!y
abroad than they are here? Is it not
q rank injustice to the consumers in
this country to be obliged to pay high
Err prices for Americanfmade goods
than does the foreign consumer? Can
the republican party deny the charge
that 1t is the operation of the tariff
that enables the protected manufac-
turers to send their goods half around
the world and sell them at a profit for
lower prices than they are enabled to
| demand in this country, even In the
very state in which the goods are
manufactured?
Mr.. Fairbanks says Mr.. Roosevelt
is sure to be elected. but the democrats