Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Having disposed of my business in Fair Oats, I am desirous that all persons indebted to me will call at once and make settlement, by cash or note. T. J. Mallatt. Fair Oaks, Ind., Dec. 15, ’73.

William McKinley put a pro«> tective taritt of 25 ct nts a bushel on American wheat. For 1892 the importations of wheat was valued at $10,307; duty $2,575.75. [This wheatwas purchased for seed, and tne $2,576.75 was taken from the pockets of our farmers.] The exports of wheat to other counfries amounted to $161,399,132. We sell, but do not buy wheat, and and if there was no duty on wheat the importations would be no greater, while the export demand wo’d probab ybe much larger and the wheat growers would get better prices. The duty on wheat flour is 25 per cent, ad valorem; the imports were $3,793; the exports $75,362,283. Duty on corn is 15 c. nts per bushel. In 1892 our imports were $3,592; the exports $41,590; duty collected, $528.80. Cornmeal, duty 20 cents a bushel; imports $210; exports, $919,961; duty $42.

Rye—Duty 10 cents a bushel; imuorts SB4B, exports $11,432,160. Butter—Duty 6 cents a pound; imports $17,637, exports $11,432,160.

Oat meal—Duty 1 cent a pound; imports $27,946, exports $555,957. Bacon and Hams- Duty 5 cents a pound; imports $43,532, exp <rls $47,092,650.

Beef —Duty 2 cents a pound; imports $11,917, exports $30,610,539.

Lard—Dnty 2 cents a pound; imports $221, exports $33,291,621. Pork—Duty 2 cents a pound: imports $997, exports $4,822,295 Apples—Duty 25 cents a bushel; imports $13,876, exports $2,406,950.

And so on through the whole list. Of the articles enumerated above we import in a measure nothing, nor would we import any more u admitted free, foi the reason that this country is the great producer- and usually has a large surplus irom which to supply foreign markets. The only object McKinley had in imposing the tax was to hoodwink the farmeis.

When the McKinley Committee on Ways and Means in 1889 were adjusting the tariff schedules for the American wageworkers were importuned by the hop growrs.io increase the duty on hops, which was then 8 centsJa pound. Their argument was the usual one that they could not compete with the cheaper labor engaged in hop raising in other countries. This country would be flooded with the article and their 1 rge hop yards would become worthless. They succeeded in their object, and the duty was increased to 15 cents a pound. In the nine months end-> ing Oct. 1 of this year our hop growers exported to foreign countriis 7,867,222 pounds, valued at $1,781,423. The imports during the same period were 1,530,348 pounds,|of th 9 value of $631,613, The exports were five times the imports! It appears then, that the American producer could pay freight charges to fore’gn countries and undersell the product of pauver labor there. Can the Republican political economist explain this?

“All things considered,' says the Chicago Record, “the Wilson tariff bill will prove a satisfactory measure from the protective side to the masses of the citizens, to manufacturers, to consumers and to labor It miy result in a great increase in production, in higher wages, in larger extensions of American trade and J n greater prosperity.”

. Editobs are Barred.—An ex change says that an editor once applied at the door of hades for admission.. “Well,” replied his sabl s majesty, “we let one of your profession in here many years ago, and h* kept up a continual row with his former delinquent subscribers; and as we have more of that class of persons than any oth* er, we passed a law prohibiting the admission of editors.”