Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — Tariff Pins for Farmers to Consider. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Pins for Farmers to Consider.

A bushel of wtoeat in 1855 -would buy 21;% yards of heavy "brown sheeting and shirting. To-day It will (buy 12% yards of the same quality <of doth. Has the farmer profited by Thirty-one years ago the farmer exchanged his wool for doth, and 'had a home factory. To-day .he exchanges more wool for the same .quantity of cloth—but how about the cloth? In 1855 a bushel <of wheat would buy 18% yards of good .calico. To day it will buy 15% yards off calico of the same grade. How much ha? ithe .farmer profited by “protection?” Thirty-five years .ago a bushel of wheat would pay taxes on S2OO. In 1891 it takes 3% bushels .of .wheat to pay taxes on S2OO. Then one bushel paid taxes on ten acres of average land; now -one bushel pays on but little over two .acres. What does the farmer .think of this method of “progressing?”—Rockville (Ind.) Tribune.