Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — HOW THE FARMER PAYS HIS SHARE OF TARIFF DUES. [ARTICLE]

HOW THE FARMER PAYS HIS SHARE OF TARIFF DUES.

In order to bring the tariff iu a practical manner before our readers here is an illustration, and we wilchoose a farmer or laboring man as a fit person to represent it: A farmer goes to market and buys cotton goods to the amount of sl3 50 He buys woolen goods to the amount of 17 00 He wants to mend his fence and buys a few nails, etc., for which he pays 14 00 His wife wants a few dishes and some earthen or stone milk pans for which he pays 755 Ho finds his bill am-unts to $52 25 This he pays and drives home, and in the evenirg he sits down and makes his calculations. He finds that ho hus paid an extra amount for his goods, on account of the nigh tariff as follows: On cotton goods, $ 3 50 On woolen goods, 7 00 On nai s, etc., 4 00 On his crockery ware, 2 75 <r~ '• —— To‘al, sl7 25 He then subtracts his sl7 2» from the $52 25 and finds that I e ought to have purchased the amount of goods for $35, or, in other words, ho has paid out of bis pocket to help enrich a few special favorites of the government sl7 25 that he .should in justice, ri lit and equity, have to buy necessaries for Ins family. He is irrasistabiy driven to the conclusion that this high tariff is an exceeding-, ly onerous and unnecessary tax. Of course the wealthy manufacturer favors this high tax, but he well k ows that when the workingmen and the great body of consumers properly understand this tax business bis easy method of growing rich by the bounty of the government will cease.- Ex.