The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-22
FARMERS BEAR BIG LOAD.
They Pay More for the Materials They
Need Than Their Competitors
in Foreign Lands.

The maj who owns a farm should
consider very carefully before voting
next November which of the two CHIEF
candidates for the Office of presiden,
will, according to his announced pol
Icy, best serve his interests. Tho
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 q
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
1t 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
IL per cent.
Sledges, which cost the American
farmer at the rate Of Is cents per
pound. a 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 a cent a pound, another diff
ference of IL per cent.
ShOyelS, which here cost $S.25 per
dozen, a be purchased in South AZ
RIGA for $7.42, again a difference of IL
per cent.
The steel beam pillow for which TIE
American farmer is asked $11.50, can
be purchased in South Africa for
$10.35, again a difference of IL per
cent.
The churn which the farmer uses,
manufactured in Boston, costs hiln
$2.47. In South Africa he could buy it
for 50, % per cent. less than is asked
him in this country.
A corn shelter, for which he pays
1920, can be bought at Cape Town for
$3.50. a difference of 90 per cent.
His grain mill, which costs him
in Boston, where it is manufac-
tured, a be purchased on the other
side of the world for $500, a differ
ence of IL 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.S so, |
sold to the farmers of South Africa
Tor $3.50, a difference of 81 per cent.
C%ultivators, for which the New York
state farmer pays $3.50, bring only
S4.20 in South Africa, II per cent. I'M
Ter the price obtained here.
Horse shoes, for which the American
'armer is charged six dollars, go to
he South African farmer at $4.95, a
Inference of 81 per cent.
A two-horse pillow, for which in this
the farmer is asked $5.25, can
,e obtained by the farmer down in
cape Colony at $4.15, a difference Of
s per cent.
The farmer who has what Bill Nya
lsed to call one of these upright
arms, and wants a side-hill plow.
'ays $6.77 for it. His brother farmer
n South Africa who has an upright
arm, gets a side-hill pillow fol S5.S1.
difference of Is per cent.
Is there road work to be done, the
armer needs a heavy road pillow. He
for it 5000. Roads in South Al
are made with the same plow, for
vhich the owner pays $3.50, a differ
nee of 20 per cent.
The New England chilled tw0-hor5e
low, for which the American farmer
avs $40, is sold to the farmer IN