The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-09-26

Increase - 5i.i
These figures are calculated from
official statistics at the the British
Board of Trade in lh" Eleventh Alb
strnrt of Labor Statistics and from
figure, in the Sovonty-frst Bulletin
of the United states Bureau Of La.
,bor.
The year lSgG, which was the year
preceding tn" enforcement of tn"
/ highly protective Dinglcy tariff, is
taken as the standard year, the cost
Of food in each country being taken
as 100 The meaning of the table j.
that food which cost 81 in Great
Britain in lsH could not be dupli.
Gated for less than Sl.011 in 1906,
and that food for which the Ameri.
can consumer paid 81 in 1896 cost
S.343 in 1906.
A Striking Comparison.
Coming nearer home, the differ
ence in the cost of living In Detroit
and just across hcriver in Windsor,
Canada, supplies us with striking
definition of the real meaning of cX-
cessivc tariff rates Prices of food.
StuiTs, wearing apparel, and rents
avrrag" from ~ to - per cent m"r"
in Detroit than in Windsor. And
between the two cities there are but
> ,jGl feet Of watcr-and the AldriCh.
Payne tariff bill:
Tie Detroit man Is protected -
and the Windsor man is not.
BY not being protected" tho
Windsor man pays SO for suit Of
clothes that the Detroit man will
find il difficult to duplicate in quality
for ~. What the Windsor man is
escaping in this instance is the Aid
rich-PayHc tax Of II cents n pound
on good all-woOl clothes, aud the adj
ditional tax of 60 per cent of the
value Of the goods.
wool Iarlti HOBS women
Whrna woman purchases so worth
of WOODEN dress goods, -. ST Of that
$40 represents the actual value Of
the goods aud the remaining Sob of
the ~lO the amount of the tariff In
other words. should the same pur-
chase he made in England, where
there is uo tariff on woolrns, the
woman would receive tn" same
amount and quality Of dress goods
tor ,i.S1 that she pays $40 for ia this
country.
Germans Admit Tariff increases prices
when the German Government in
PRODUCED its tariff law Of 1902, 1t
published with it, a. j. IN" custom
in Germany. II printed explanation
of the reasons tor its introduction.
This official document, which square
~ declares that import duties raise
the cost of living, reads, in part, as
follows:
Finland prices are raised, 50 lar
as IA consideration of the circun-
stances of the last 10 years will al
low Us to judge, in proportion t" the
duties"
In precisely this way the tariff in
crea>rs the cost Of the neccssaries
of life in the United States.
Tariff Tax Always Added to Cost OF
Articles
In France, Italy, and some other
European counties part of the
municipal revenue is raised by du-
ties on goods entering the towns. At
the gates of such towns there is an
official who collects this tax, and 1t
is found that the difference IN prices
of articles purchased outside of the
towns and within the towns is in
nearly every instance exactly the
amount of the duty. The same hap
pens In trade between nations.
Some Testimony From Abroad.
In Holland there are no import
duties on food or raw materials, the
sole protective element being IA tax
of per cent on imported manufac-
tured goods. In Germany there is
high duty on food and All excess
sive tariff on all the necessaries Of
life. A household of six persons
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