Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-26
FARMERS BEAR BIG LOAD.
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
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 have 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 worlI.
Let us quote 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
IL per cent.
Sledges, which cost the American
farmer at the rate of 10 cents per
pound can be bought in Ladysmitn
for 16 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 cent pound, another dig
ference of IL per cent.
ShOvels, which here cost S6.25 per
dozen, can be purchased in South AZ
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 him
$2.47. In South Africa he could buy it
for 81, % per cent. less than is asked
MIN III This country.
A corn shelter, for which he pays
1920, can 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, can be purchased on the other
side of the world for 1920, differ
ence of II per cent.
Tho POctcyy, oory, o1onfor x,,b;oL eo1,o
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.S0,
is sold to the farmers of South Africa
for $17.60, difference Of 81 per cent.
Cultivators, for which the New York
state farmer pays $3.50, bring only
1920 in South Africa, II per cent. un-
der the price obtained here.
Horse shoes, for which the American
farmer is charged six dollars. go to
the South African farmer at $4.95, a
difference of 81 per cent.
A two-horse pillow, for which in this
country the farmer is asked $5.25, can
be obtained by the farmer down in
Cape Colony at $4.15. difference OF
25 per cent.
The farmer who has what Bill Nye
used to call one of these upright
farms, and wants a side-hill plow.
pays s6.77 for it. His brother farmer
in South Africa who has an upright
farm, gets a side-hill plow for s5S1.
a difference OF Is per cent.
Is there road work to be done, the
farmer needs heavy road pillow. He
pays for it 5000. Roads in South At
RIGA are made with the same plow, for
which the owner pays $3.50. differ
ence of 90 per cent.
The New England chilled two-horse
plow, for which the American farmer
pays $40, is sold to the farmer IL