Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — For the Farmers to Consider. [ARTICLE]

For the Farmers to Consider.

In its issue for Oct. 16 the American Economist, the organ of the Protective Tariff League, publishes a, chart showing the price of wheat and flour under the low tariffs, from 1850 to 1860, and under the high tariff since 1860 i which It points to as showing the triumphs of high tariffs. It shows that wheat went ud in price from 2.6 c per pound in 1850 to 3c per pound in iB6O, ot over 15 >4 per cent. Under the high tariffs it fell to 2.3 c per pound in 1887, or a fall of over 23 per cent This fall in price of over 23 per cent is ascribed by the Economist to the high tariff. The back from Europe, over which the Republicans are cackling so, is brought back by Western farm products dug out of the ground by unprotected Western work and sold under free trade The products of the highly protected machines of the McKinley corporations are not bringing It back. Tne Plutocratic machine-owners do not trouble themselves to go abroad after gold They content themselves with taklDg it after it gets here, If the farmer, whose products brought it. demands his share, they call him a “crank” and a “calamity shrieker. * The water of the central basin of the Mediterranean has been found to he wanner, denser and richer in dissolved salts than the western. While a white was only visible at forty-three meters, photographic plates were affected at 500 meters.