Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — HOW WE ARE TAXED. [ARTICLE]

HOW WE ARE TAXED.

i .‘it.,it ' a ■ i t, t : u r ,v the Chicago Herald.] *’ ,f The p¥oseut tafiff on’ imported farin' to'iiten moretan the country.. can consume, and‘who (must look abroad,for that market which, rite protectionists,promised thenj et home. Last year ,we .sent',abroad $«,(K)(l,000 *iv6rth of wheat j $45,1)06,00(1 worthof wheat fldu i) S3S?OW,OOO' Wth 'dr corn, • $17,- ■ VOO.OOO Wtfrth<oY wattle, mord- fhiri $2, r - J 5l)0,00(1 worth of butter, and Sd.OOO.OOO'worth*<Sf cheese. The fanner is)to be protected by the McKinley bill from conw petition with similar foreign products. Having supplied his own market, protacition haviiig iaited fo'gnd* ous d^ffffnd~wftjclu it* ’ biha’, hb n^^Sf¥ r *\aftbKß. and yet; Mr. baA..iait i h..eno.agb-ih. Abe fanper’i ignocance do .leu. him (hat,ha. miist -have anora r piotaction,.. that he-is suffering.#rom fm‘ei?n competition in the visionary horn* market: i -> , S We imported last year less than one--thirlidtb atnnany catllo 'as we • •dess ihap. $4,000 flrqjjth; of .wheat, ‘"51,200 worth of corn, less .than , $6,000 ;.worth‘bf ; wh't«t ouly WOrih 4of butter,- less thaa.'tfcbetptthiaa mucß “scheese as we exportfid,| As, to potatoes, exported about ns much as we imported. in other' ail' dhr agricul-' tural importations are in inconsiderable f*®unntiti®<r along our- bor(fers ; - dud cdiiß »ititntft-p,-. smaller tra.de -tbarl »migbt ha ye. bec-n expectoa to go on between neighboring farmers.

ic The attempt to delude the farmer is Jlikoly to be as useless as it is dishonest. [,jjt is a desperate effort to mend the chains of a slavery which were first voluntarily [jammed r*»>4vf V *lrfnft f ilrt-'V *<%'<«* ».r«. m r: «om® febat, protected manufacturers are seffing tneir tetf iome is found in a pamphlet issued by £tb|6 New York Reform Club. There are two journals in New York devoted to the .export trade in American manufactures, the and hi i o dit i e h othW •tivato* r a)«|flgßp plow Suit iu ttogj home fnanPrlyr sll usts tonly «iich imold for at Heme gHNHKbroad Riled *1.85; anjeount ifflbsV'Jtefbg cent. Thus a plofr' tTfffit*' , ”4iome is sol^ .8 hovels- the 4iffeEene®.«M«gveat®Yy.Jk shovels that - ' are•soid ot'hmaerfo?*st)j2o' are sojd. at. of about 15 ,Vi5 : V V There wa'- many-” ether * artkileVwjMci l . are sold for w u±port muvh-chwapef than' Spr stll'6 ifo homer J ’A’ »oi>3ts S6O tofcß^tnMppea"abroad:' TToTtomuT-* tiply individual instances farther, it may .be fromlO to 3(Aper %ent. v cheaper ibr export than /or pale at home.

I«,ppder tp Tin Plate ,Absociaftforr, the money -of which, distributed by Johßj defeated Wifliam R. Morm6n,the pilose j average increase of over' 120 per cent, on aUforms of tinned plate. The“inci©aiSe" on rooting plate is over R)0 per cent.; on the plate used in the wopkiagiaan’s dinner pail and other runs from 100 to of Je male United fusion spake the r f\‘'an:Jnake more on it "than they can on tbpse articles on which thev have monopoly under the tariff. In to them to make it this bill pro proses to prohibit : ‘th#l putktbase «# i‘ fan©igti «Jtinned and thus give them such a monopoly as Mill enable kthtup to fix'. s44W V*i c 44M f they plaice in the entire American market. •Every aimer ipaid, vdvVfyi tin pan, every packa-< e of eanued wffer the passage of this bill will pay this tax —not to the Treasure,fort-ft tathe/rtEranV . lion tnal tffe Ghveriiaent sljall kht have djtarthe Laj. The tmrokiSiMlf Jhjflhey jpems elves a Wmo[ fiyi!Baff!ft»a,,.tp siLott every bQx as tinned shgfri , in order *thaPj is ad^HHS but the dinner-i>ail tax .is a the poems of the present Pope or some rfßfiiHfrrl.foflqt laiy . , * ‘p’teftSrtjc "Who'i is t - , very‘ r fDAia* b<-*4nß* haat ito.diffiiciiUy*ini , i , t*ti**ti , fv-fv