Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Tariff Shot. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Shot.

During the fourteen years from 1847 to 1861 we had revenua tariffs. This Is the period to which the high protectionists refer as our “free trade” period. From 1847 to 1861 the average net wholesale price of standard sheetings in the New York markets was 7.8 cents per yard, or

During the ten year's ending with 1888, after our twenty years of high and prohibitive protection, the same sheeting was sold for 7.71 cents per yard, or During the revenue period above referred to, wheat averaged 81.24 per bushel in New York, or During the ten years of high protection, ending in 1888, wheat averaged only 92 cents per bushel in New York, or Under revenue tariffs a busnel of wheat exchanged for 15.89 yards of standard sheeting, represented by But under the high protective tariff, from 1878 to 1888, a bushel of wheat would buy only 11.93 yards of sheeting, or this amount: In what has the system of high protection on manufactured products benefited the farmer?

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