Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-09-27
THE FOUNDATION FOR TARIFF
ILLUSIONS.


made often enough many will come to
believe it, no matter how absurd the
statement may be. 1t Is surprising
when we consider the mass of popular
belief, how much Of it has no founda-
ton other than iteration and reitera-
ton.
We are all creatures of habit more
or less and it requires a severe men
tai Jolt to break a habit once formed
More than this, we believe what we see
in print with less hesitency than the
same thing will be received from word
of mouth Let us hear statement
made which we have somewhere read
and we have gone long ways in be-
lleving it to be the truth.
This habit of believing what has
been dinned into our ears and Is not
permitted TO be out of sight OF our
eyes, Is the foundation and Is the only
foundation upon which the American
farmer rests his belief that a tariff tax
on what he raises protects" him.
AS ! slid to the ground from a
straw-pile that had just run through
the machine u few years ago, said to
the farmer republican who owned IL,
''That Is fine lot Of straw you have
there, how many tons do you think
there Is in that stack" Cum, fifteen
tons or 80 ! guess, why, what do you
want TO know how many tons there
are?n
"Oh, nothing, ! was just thinking.
You'll make fstfull OF money on
that straw this year"
"Well, | don't know about that.
What makes you think SOP"
"Why OF course you will. You
know very we'll you will, You'll make
more money out OF your straw this
year than you did last year. You'll
get at least dollar and half II ton
more
"Who's going TO pay 1t to me?"
81 don't know who will pay it TO
| YOU, Dhb 1 w hhoW uiiho loh p'ilSNS "
tariff tax "protects" you farmers"
"Yes sir, do, | believe n tariff tax
does that, voted for H."
"Well, | don't know who will bring
you the money, buC do know that the
Dingley Tariff Law gives You $l.50 n
ton on straw and that fifteen ton stack
OF straw is protected" $3.50 worth.
You'll get IL all right because | was
reading In the Inter Ocean, your
family paper, today, how much richer
the farmers would be now that what
they raise Is protected. "
"But you Amt told me who will pay
IL to me yet"
~ know have not told you who
will pay you the $l.50 ton on your
straw, nor the four dollars n ton on
your hay, nor the dollar and N half
apiece on your hogs, six cents n pound
on your butter, five cents u dozen on
your eggs, fifteen cents bushel on
your corn, the same on your oats, %
cents bushel on your wheat but
know you will get it alright, | heard
John G. Spooner speak the other night
and he was tickled all over to think
how wise you farmers were to vote for
" party that gives you 80 much more
than you have been getting for your
crops"
Let's see, you have about fifty tons
of hay?n Eyes, about that" "Well,
you see at four dollars II ton tariff
tax you'n get $4,000 moro on that.
On your fifty hogs you'lI get S76,0 90 be-
cause of the Diugley Law. Youth
have fifteen hundred bushels of corn
this year, fifteen cents n bushel i'm
crease through tariff, gives you 1926 90
more; you'll have n thousand bushels
of oats, the tariff tax gives you $3.50 90
more on that; the five cents " dozen
tariff on your eggs and the six cents II
pound tax on your butter will bring 1t
up to about seven hundred dollars
that you will get this year more than
you would have got without the tariff
tax. "
ayes, that's all right, but who will
pay 1t to me and when will get it? If
| had it | would buy some lumber and
nails aud some fence wire" ~ know
you would, but to tell you the truth
can't think OF the post Office address
of the man who pays you farmers
your share of the tariff-taxes. Sup
pose you drop n line to the INTER
OCEAN, II Is II strong protective tar
iG paper, it knows all about it. You
might make out your bill and send 1t
to John c. Spooner."
"Well, I'm think about it,"
! want to ask the Editor of the Dem
oerat rs we'll as every one who reads
this, this question, what sort OF a
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