58 FA RMERS' .UNION A ND FEDERA TION 



House or cabinet furniture 15% 



Cotton cloth ' ..: 10 to 30% 



Cotton clothing, ready made 30% 



Yarns 15% 



Cloths, chiefly of wool 35% 



Blankets and flannels 25% 



Leather, manufactures- of 30% 



Soap, toilet 30% 



Table and kitchen utensils, metal , 25% 



Dress goods, women's and children's 35% 



Clothing, ready-made 35% 



Carpets and rugs 50% 



These are a few of the things farmers buy when they have 

 the price on a monopolized market protected from foreign 

 competition, while the following products of foreigners are 

 allowed free importation : Bacon, beans, beef, broom corn, 

 cattle, corn, corn meal, cream, fowls, grains, hams, hides, 

 lamb, lard, meats, milk, mutton, pigs, potatoes, rye, sheep, 

 wool, and wheat. 



The manufacturing class unionized years ago to go into 

 politics to control the government in their interest. They 

 control the tariff policy of both parties. That policy is to 

 protect themselves from the competition of foreign-made 

 goods by a high tariff, while forcing the farmers to compete 

 in a free market with foreign farm products. They want 

 cheap food for themselves and employes, and cheap raw ma- 

 terial for their factories, but high prices from the farmers for 

 their goods. . 



The farmers should unionize and go into politics to pro- 

 tect their interests. Their tariff policy should be to force 

 the government to either take the tariff off all goods they 

 buy, or put a high tariff on all products they raise to sell. 

 If they must sell on a free world market, they should demand 

 the chance to buy their goods on a free world market also. 



But they could get no benefit from a tariff on their prod- 

 ucts without unionizing and adopting the minimum price 

 system. 



