The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-24
WHAT THE FARMERS BUY.

Some OF the tree-1raQS dema-
gogues who do not hesitate to pre-
varicate and deceive, in order to
prejudice the farmers, claim that
the Tariff does not prevent low
prices of what the farmer has to
sell, and at the same time adds to
the price of everything he buys.
Let us see about this. The first
thing farmer or prospective farm
err buys, is a farm. There is no
Tariff or import duty on farms.
The second thing he buys is a
house. There is no Tariff or import
duty on houses.
If he builds a house, the highest
item is labor. There is no Tariff
or import duty on labor, although
there is restrictive immigration.
The duty on wire nails is only four
tenths of cent pound. The en-
tire duty added to the amount of
nails used in a modest house would
not exceed eighty cents. The duty
on all the hardware in farm house
would not exceed dollar; while
the Underwood low Tariff imposed
duty of about fifty cents.
There is no duty on building
brick in the new Protective Tariff
of 1922; no duty on cement, stone,
shingles, pickets, palings, hoops,
logs and timber, sawed boards,
planks and other lumber used in an
ordinary house.
The duty on all the ordinary
| kitchen knives and table knives and
forks and spoons, used in farm
house, if imported, under the Tariff
of 1922, would not amount to more
than one dollar, and under the
Tariff of 1913 about 70 cents. But
ordinary American knives and cut
lery are just as cheap as foreign
knives and cutlery, of the same
quality.
The duty on cotton napkins anC
table cloths is 80 per cent in the
Fordney-McCumbe law and 80 pei
cent in the Underwood law Of 1913
Cotton wearing apparel in the act
of 1922, has duty of 35 per cent
in the Tariff law of 1913 a duty o.
80 per cent On the amount +;
farmers family would use, the diff
ference in the two duties would no
amount to fifty cents in a year.
The difference in the duty on al
the wooden garments one farmer
family would require in a year, be
tween the 1922 and The 191;
Tariffs, would not amount to tw,
dollars year.
However, a farmers family cal
buy cotton and wooden apparel O
American make, just as REASONABLE
as foreign make, if of the SAM
quality.
The farmer then buys agriculture
implements and parts. They ar
all on the Free List in the Tariff o
1922. Drills, cotton gins, cream
separators, cultivators, larrows
headers, horse rakes, mowers an,
plows, reapers, threshing machine
and wagons are on the Free List.
Binding Irvine is on the Free List
The farmer pays no duty on it.
When the farmer buys fertilizer
he learns that there is no duty OF
bones or bone dust, bone meal, bon
ash, guano, manures, or potash use,
as fertilizer All are on the Ere
List in the Tariff of 1922.
Gloves the farmer uses, made o
leather from hides of cattle, are fire.
of duty. Boots and shoes have n
duty on them, if made wholly O
leather. Only fancy harnesses val
ued at more than $40 have. a duty
Hides from which leather is made
are on the Free List. Whetstones
horsepads, barbed wire for fences
coal, all are on the Free List. Ger
tainly no increase in price can b.
charged to the Tariff.
1t is not true that the Tariff o
1922 Ga Protective Tariff) ha
caused an increase in price Of every
thing the farmer buys.