Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — Tariff Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Pictures.

§4The Golden Rod brand of skirting cotton cloth is used for making many workingmen’s shirts. The McKinley bill raised the duty on it from 4 cents a yard to 4J cents. But the price of it, which was 7J cents a yard six months before the new tariff, is now 6^ cents a yard’ Workingman, did that tariff tax you by encouraging the production of that goods at home? New York Press. Did you notice in yesterday’s “Press” a cable dispatch from Berlin saying, on the authority of the “Weiser Zeitung,” that an able bodied weaver m Saxony is unable to earn more than niiHaaaMi a week? Well there are very few weavers in American mills, even boys or girls, who earn less than per week. New York Press. We had a revenue tariff equivalent to 22.4 per cent ad valorem in 1860. In 1887 the duty was 40.9 per cent In the former year machinist’s wages averaged $1.65 a day; in the latter year they averaged a day. It is the old story of low tariff, low wages; high tariff; high wages. Our population in 1890 was . 62,625,250, a nd that of Great Britain and Ire-

land 37,740,283. Yet we had in the census year only * 97,265 panpers, while there were in Great Britain and Ireland 990,155 New York Press.