Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-09
NEW DEMOCRATIC TARIFF LAW.

Here is how the new tariff law effects
you, Mr.. Consumer.
First.-It won't reduce the cost OF
living perceptibly, at first. A good
many other things go to make up your
cost of living.
Second.-The new tariff does untax a
lot of things you use. A small fraction
of a cent was added by the old tariff
to nearly everything you eat, wear and
use. This new law takes off this small
fraction of q cent.
Third.-Iou share the benefit of this
fact: That eighty millions of dollars,
formerly paid by you and other consum.
ers, will be raised by a tax on incomes
of $4,000 and upwards.
Fourth.-Your principal necessities
have been put On the free list. They
are, therefore, exempt from any further
tariff tax. These articles are meat,
cattle, sheep, hogs, eggs, lard, white
-four, buckwheat, potatoes, shrlmps, lob,
sters, fish, lumber raw wool, tea, coal,
herbs for drugs, sole leather, all manu-,
features of leather, including boots and
shoes, harness and saddles, rough furs,
pig iron. typewrilers, cement, cocoa,
books, cheap engravings and cheap
pictures, cash registers, nails, print
paper, moving picture films, tanning
materials, barbed wire and all agricul-
tural implements.
FifJh.-For the benefit of the farmer
who loses high protection on wheat,
egges, -four, ETC., the new law removes
the duty On all articles used by him, in
Guiding wagons, plows. harrows, discs,
fencing, cotton bagging, etc. By max
ing farming less expensive food will, 1t
is hoped, eventually be made less costly.
Sixth.-Sugar will be on the free list
in three years. 1t pays the present
tariff duties until next March and then
it begins paying a cent a pound until
next March and then it begins paying a
cent e pound until 1916, when it be-
comes free of duty.
Seventh.-Other articles will have the
lux reduced on them nearly one.half.
AT present they are taxed on the basis
If twenty to fifty per cent of their valu-
alton at the customs houses. The pre-
sent bill reduces this to 26 per cent.
Eigh h,-For the benefit of mother
and the home the duty on hosiery has
been reduced to % per cent, blankets
should be somewhat cheaper. They
we're not put on the free list, but the
duty has been materially reduced on
them. A cut IN cotton goods amounts
to about 25 per cent. From the con.
sumer's point of view this will near
more importatlons from France, Austria
Germany and England of the higher
grade cotton materials used in making
children's clothes and stockings, cot ton
and wooden.
Nlnth.-The amount of revenue which
1T is estimated the new tariff bill will
produce is s247 100000. The income tax
provision is expected to add to this
$SO,O0O,OO0.
The reduction IN the cost of living re.
sulting from this tariff will be a tendency
rather than anything showing itself ir
Immediate change of prices. There
should be a marked downward tendency
of prices and a marked check on trus,
control of the necessities of life. But
before Mr.. Ultimate Consumer can be
relieved of his high cost of living pro
blem, there will have to be much Other
legislation, breaking big monopolies
eliminating the extortion OF the middle
man, reducing land rents and regulating
transportation charges and facilities.