Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-11

tA1AisldA St0CloIGNo VI IhN D-'N A
ot Trade in the Eleventh Abstract OF
Labor Statistics and from figures in
he Seventyafirst Bulletin of the
United States Bureau of Labor.
The year 1896, which was the year
preceding 6e enforcement of the
highly protective DINGHY tariff, is ia
ken as the standard year, the cost OF
Good in each country being taken as
100. The meaning of the table is
. that food, which cost 81 in Great Bn-
tain in 1896 could not be duplicated
. for lass than SLOT in'19O6, and that
. food for which the American con-
saner. paid ST in 1896 cost $1.S4S in
1906.
- A. Striking Comparison.
Coming nearer home, the differ
Jence in the cost of living in Detroit
and frst across the river in Wind
sor, Canada, supplies us with strik-
Ing definition. of the real meaning CT
excessive tariff rates. Prices Of
toodetmfs,' wearing apparel and rents
average from 20 to % per cent more
in Detroit than in Windsor. And be-
tween the two cities there. are but
1851 feet of water-and the Aldrich-
Payne tariff bill!
The Detroit man is protected"
and the Windsor man is not.
Byonot being protected" the Wind
90 sor man pays SIS for suit Of clothes
that the Detroit man will firh it diff
ficult to duplicate in quality for $25.
What the Windsor man is escaping
in this instance is the Aidrich-Payne
tax of Al cents a pound on good adj
> wool clothes, ard the additional tax
of 60 per cent. on the value of the
goods.
Wool Tariff Robs Women.
90 When a woman purchases SIC
worth of wooden dress goods, $4.SI
of that $lOrepresepts the actual val
ue of the goods and the remaining
Sab of the $40 the amount of thu
taraff.: In other words, should Tx
same purchase be made in England
where there is no tariff ON wooIens
the woman would receive the sam,
amount and quality of dress good
for s4.S7 that she pays $40 for in tht
o country.
This is because Of the PayUe-A
drich ad valorem tariff of. 1O5 pc
cent on this class of goods.
Ct. Germans Admit Tariff lncreasss tn
Sc . Prices.
When the German government il
D trOduOed it's tariff law of 1902, it pu
Ished with it, as is the custom i
Germany, "a printed explanation
the reasons for. its introduction. TIL
official document, which squarely d
elares that import duties raise IL
cost Of living, reads, in part, as fc
lows:
Inland prices are raised, so far ;
q consideration of the circumstanc,
= OF the last 10 yeanS will allow ms
judge, in proportion to the duties >
In precisely this way the tariff i
creases the. cost of the necessari
Of life in the United States.
IFariR Tax Always Added to Cost
Articles.
In France, Italy, and some 9th
european countries a part of hte n
nicipal resenue is raised by duties
goods entering the towns. AT I
gates OF such towns there is an Of
Ger who collects this. tax, and it
found that the difference in prit
VI articles purchased outside of
towns and within the towns is
nearly every instance exactly. 1
smount Of the duty. The same h
pens iR trade between nations,
Some Testimony from Abroad.
In Holland there are no. imp
: duties on food or raw materials
sole protective element being a
Of per cent on imported manu-
.ured goods. In Germany there i
high duty on food and an excess
tariff on all the necessaries of I
A household of SIX persons can
for 1904 in Gelderland Zone Of
eastern provinces Of Holland) the
cessaries Of life which in Germs
just across the frontier, would {
S67S, AS result village of 4
Inhabitants has grown up at GA
Drug. near the German frontier. II
German manufacturers have b