TO AGRICULTURE


BY THE TARIFF.
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BY THE TARIFF.


The following will show the protection
afforded by the Whig Tariff of 1912, to the
enumerated agricultural articles, which are
all moderate, except perhaps to the articles
of Cotton and Sugar. and considering the
importance of their culture, the protection TO
them could not be less, to afford that protec-
ton due from the country to the planting In
terest


Cotton, duty cts per pound.


Sugar. i-2 cts per pound.


Wool 50 per ct and 3 cts per h.


Beef 2 cts per pound.


Pork cts per pound.


Ham and Bacon cts per pound.


Cheese cts per 10.


Butter cts per ID.


Potatoes 10 cts per bushel-


Flour 81 25 cts per barrel


Wheat 25 cts per pushel-


Hemp % per hundred.


Oats 10 cts per bushel.


We have deemed it proper to sketch the
above items of protection afforded the agrl-
cuturalist by the tariff, because, from the
manner in which The Loco Focos speak OF
the Whig Tariff, one, who may never have
read it, would infer that no other interest ex'
cept that OF the manufacturers were protect
ed by il. And we will sieze this occasion
to say to farmers, :hat if they study their
own interests they will stick by the tariff,
and support HENRY CLAY and the wings
as both he and they cling to the principles