Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — Tariff Stultification. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Stultification.

[Buffalo Courier,) A correspondent of the Rochester Union, noticing the statement of Representative Bayne, of Pennsylvania, adopted as its own by the Rochester Democrat and Chroni-. cle, that if canned-goods manufacturers will submit to the proposed new tariff of 216 cents a pound on tin plate for a few years they “will get cheaper tin than ever before,” is cruel enough to aok if it is expected that the proposed new duties on farm products will work the same way? The McKinley bill proposes to increase these duties to the following rates: On barley, 30 cents a bushel; corn, 10 cents; oats, 10 cents; rye, 10 cent.-!; wheat, 10 cents; wheat flour, 20 percent.; butter and cheese, 6 cents per pound; eggs, 5 cents a dozen; cabbages, 3 cents apiece; onions, 40 cents a bushel; hay, $4 a ton; vegetable m their natural state, 25 per cent.; hops, 15 cents peJ pound. Will the effect of these duties be that;'in a few years we shall get farm products cheaper than ever before? If not, why not 9 Will a high duty make one product cheap and make another dear? And if low orices are the end aimed a* by high duties, what sort of comfort can the farmers get from Major McKinley’s new tariff?

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