It must be remembered that in making tobacco a factor in its customs income Great Britain prohibits its cultivation for commercial purposes in the kingdom, utterly ignoring all pretense of "free trade." It must also be remembered that on the Democratic plan of computing the tariff percentages, namely, on the volume of taxable imports, the British tariff is higher than the McKinley tariff or any other American tariff ever was, amounting to 67 per cent. That is, it collects 67 cents on every dollar's worth of dutiable imports. It must also be remembered that the total taxation per capita in Great Britain is about twice as great as in the United States. Thus: Great Britai -income $475,017,016; population 38,100,000; per capita $12.50. United States-income $461,716,561; population 67,400,000; per capita $6.85. The population is given from the last report of the Treasury Department. In addition to England's $475,000,000 of revenue tax collected from the people, England, Scotland, and Ireland have each a local tax account, which for the year ending March 31, 1893, is as follows: ENGLAND OR GREAT BRITAIN-Continued. Articles upon which duty is collected, showing the amount for The income tax of England as collected from the following classes for the year ending March 31, 1893: A. (Lands, tenements, &c.)... B. (Occupation of land, &c.).. C. (Annuities, dividends, &c.). D. (Trades, professions, &c.). $20,041,444 1,074,854 4,673,134 35,150,622 4,463,641 $65,403,696 ENGLAND'S EXPENDITURES-Continued. The permanent debt of Great Britain March 31, 1893, was as EXPORTS--Comparison of Exports under McKinley and Wilson Acts for One Year Each. We start first with the proposition that each farmer must pay his share of the national expenses in some kind of taxes. Take a family with an annual income ranging from three to four hundred dollars per annum. By comparison of one hundred and ninety-five occupations, the annual wages in England as compared with the United States are found to be $309 in England and in the United States $597, showing a difference in favor of American labor of $288 annually. The average daily wages of ordinary labor in the FARMERS-How Benefited, etc.-Continued. United States is $1.32 per day against an average in England of only 60 cents per day. An American family spends annually for clothing, $56.50; for food, $182.36; for sundries and all other articles outside of rent, light, and fuel, $73.08. Upon these articles the duty levied according to the Democratic theory is on clothing, 66 per cent., equal to $22.49; for food, 23 per cent., equal to $34.10; for sundries, 27 per cent., equal to $15.54, or a total tax of $72.13. It is reasonable to suppose that the farmer cannot expend anything like the same amount the mechanic expends for the maintenance of his family. In all articles except that of clothing it would not equal half. Therefore it is reasonable to say that the farmer's outlay annually as a tax, according to the Democratic theory, would not exceed $50, all of which we deny as being true either in theory or practice, but give these figures for the sake of the argument. Now, to offset this tariff tax of $72.13 of the mechanic, or the probable reduced amount of the farmer of $50, we have accumulated profits or benefits upon the agricultural products which the farmer produces. The average farmer in Northern New York is benefited as follows: Wheat, 29 bushels to the farm, 1893: Rate of duty 25 cents per bushel present law, increased value by reason of tariff ..... $7.25 Oats, 125 bushels to the farm, 1893: Rate of duty 15 cents 18.75 9.45 ....... Rye, 14 bushels to the farm, 193: Rate of duty 10 cents per bushel present law, increased value by reason of tariff Barley, 23 bushels to the farm, 1893: Rate of duty 30 cents per bushel present law, increased value by reason of tariff 1.43 6.40 Hay, 30 tons to the farm, 1893: Rate of duty $4 per ton present law, increased value by reason of tariff.......... 120.00 Potatoes, 107 bushels to the farm, 1893: Rate of duty 25 cents per bushel present law, increased value by reason of tariff 20.75 FARMERS-How Benefited, etc.-Continued. Buckwheat, 17 bushels to the farm, 1893: Rate of duty 15 cents per bushel present law, increased value by reason of tariff Eggs, 207 dozen to the farm, 1893: Rate of auty 5 cents per dozen present law, increased value by reason of tariff.... Total $2.55 10.35 202.93 The foregoing result shows the advantage of the McKinley tariff as affected by nine articles of the product of the farm. We leave out all live stock, fruit, garden farming, poultry, butter, and dairy products, which if thrown into the calculation, would at least double the benefit which this tariff law guarantees to the agricultural classes. The result as shown by comparing the cost in taxes, which is $50, with the benefits in tariff, $202.93, leaves a balance in favor of the farmer of $152.93. The Wilson tariff is sweeping away this $152.93, leaving each farmer to bear his share of the national burden for the support of the Government. No. 145. FARMERS IN 1873. So much has been said by free-silver orators to mislead farmers into the idea that everything was prosperous with them before 1873 and nothing has been since. This is from an address in 1873: "The condition of the laboring man and farmer is far from what is desirable. They have worked, watched, and waited for an adequate reward until weariness has well nigh turned to hopelessness. Farming has been a financial failure for the past three years. Hard toil has opened up fine farms and brought to the bins the products of unexampled harvests, but the sales have hardly paid expenses and bought cheap clothing until the coming harvest. There is no surplus to improve buildings, purchase thoroughbred stock, and furnish the home with any of the luxuries of art and literature." This was before silver was assaulted in 1873, |