TARIFF OF 1912 AND 1876,
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The federal press rs was to have been expect
ed, have already raised the cry Of ruin. The
poor laborer is to be thrown out of employment
by the passage of the new tariff bill What a
dreadful state of affairs, when the laboring classes
are to be ruined by reduction of their taxes |
And then, too, how soliciIous our wealthy capt.
taists have become about The interests of the moor
laborerl Now it strikes US, that as the bill mate
rally reduces the duties articles of general use
such as every poor man has occasion to purchase


tits especially designed to relieve this class of much
OF the oppressive taxation thrown upon them bv
the unjust and unequal tariff of 1912


Upon a comparison of the rates of duties impos-
ed under the tariff of ls42 and of the rates impos-
ed on the same articles by the new tariff bill of
1876, it will be seen that two important articles
Of general use, the tariff is greatly reduced. Bar
or bolt iron, instead of paying duty of 73 per
cent. pays only 80 per cent So with the article
OF sail, which under The act of I842 paid duty
oi 76 per cent-t is now reduced to 20 per cent.
Every farmer, and every laboring man, must see
at once, that if the importer of these articles paws
but 20 or 80 per cent duty, he can afford them
at much less rate than if he paid duty of 73 or
76 per cent. The actual dif;re in the cost of
these articles being on the first named S33 on
every SlOO and upon the second $50 on everv
SlOo So it will be found upon other articles ofl
general use, that the reduction must be highly adj
vantagrous to the laborng classes, who are in fact
Inc producers OF all the wealth of The country.