Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Tariff Shot. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Shot.

From 1847 to 1801, whon wo had a tariff for revenue, a period which the followers of McKinley’s high tariff policy describe as “our disastrous free trade period, ” wheat avoraged $1.24 per bmdiel In New York, represented by this lino, During the ten years ending In 1888 wheat averaged only 92 cents per bushel in New York, or this line, Under our revenue tariff the price of standard cotton drillings averagod 8 cents per yard, or For the ton years ending in 1888, after many improvements in the processes of production, cotton drillings averaged cents per yard, or Under revenue tariffs a bushel of wheat was exchanged for 10 yards of cotton drilling, or But under a high tariff on cotton manufacturcs a bushel of wheat would exchange for omy 12.0 yards of cotton drilling, or Under which period was the farmer better off?