THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE NEW TARIFF BILL. 
Within the last dozen or more years no 
subject affecting the national welfare has 
been more widely, energetically, skimming- 
ly and profoundly discussed than the tar¬ 
iff. The National and State legislatures as 
well as the political rostrums and lecture 
platforms have constantly resounded with 
eloquent as well as maundering harangues 
and appeals in favor of a strong as well as 
a moderate protective tariff, a protective 
tariff for “ infant industries,” a tariff for 
revenue only, and free trade in all imports 
except a few articles of luxury; while the lit¬ 
erature of the matter, in the form of news¬ 
paper and magazine articles, pamphlets and 
printed speeches has been wearisomely prod¬ 
igal. After a full discussion of every phase 
of the question from every standpoint, the 
public have a right to expect the embodi¬ 
ment of a great deal of wisdom and states¬ 
manship in the new tariff bill just proposed 
by the Ways and Means Committee of the 
House of Representatives. 
As the Republican party is in power, it 
is, of course, a Republican measure, and 
that party will be benefited or injured by 
it according to the opinion the majority of 
the people may form of it. The last tariff 
bill passed by Congress—in 1883—was also 
a Republican measure, but was so faulty 
that efforts have ever since been persistent¬ 
ly made by members of both parties to 
amend it. Of these the most notable took 
the shape of the Mills House Bill, which 
passed through the Democratic House and 
was defeated in the Republican Senate to¬ 
wards the close of the Cleveland Adminis¬ 
tration, and the Allison Republican Senate 
Bill which passed through the Senate but 
vyas defeated in the House just before the 
last Presidential election. The new Repub¬ 
lican tariff bill is based on the Allison bill; 
but though Allison himself, fresh from his 
close contest for re-election to the U. S. 
Senate in Iowa, favors a greater reduction 
in the tariff than was provided for in his 
bill over a year ago, no such reduction 
is made in the new bill. The measure will, 
of course, be subject to considerable mod¬ 
ifications and amendments during its pas¬ 
sage before both Houses of Congress. It 
will be reported to the House probably 
next week, and there it will be so exhaus¬ 
tively discussed that it can hardly pass 
that body before the first of June ; then it 
will be discussed by the Senate for about 
six weeks, and conference committees of 
both Houses are likely to occupy a week or 
two in satisfactorily adjusting provisions 
with regard to which the two bodies are 
pretty certain to disagree, so that it is 
scarcely likely to receive the President’s 
signature before the first of next August. 
In framing the bill a good deal of atten¬ 
tion has evidently been paid to the wide¬ 
spread agitation of the tariff question 
among farmers of late. In the unprecedented 
distress which the agricultural community 
is now undergoing in various parts of the 
country, farmers have demanded relief by 
amendments of the tariff in two directions— 
by lowering the duties on goods they have 
to buy, and raising the duties on goods they 
have to sell, and their growing influence 
can be plainly seen in the concessions that 
have been made to both these demands, but 
especially to the latter. Never have home- 
raised farm products been so well “ pro¬ 
tected ” from competition with foreign ri¬ 
vals as they will be by the new tariff. The 
chief provisions of this that affect agricul¬ 
ture most closely are briefly as follows : 
The duty on barley is raised from 10 to 30 
cents per bushel, on hops from eight to 15 
cents per pound and on buckwheat from 10 
to 15 cents per bushel. The duty on oats, 
rye and corn remains at 10 cents per bushel, 
but there is little fear of foreign competi¬ 
tion in any of these. The duty on wheat 
also remains unchanged at 20 cents per bush¬ 
el, and that on wheat flour at 20 cents per 
hundredweight. The duty on butter and 
cheese is raised to six cents per pound, and 
that on milk to five cents. The existing duty 
on milk is 20 per cent, ad valorem and on but¬ 
ter and cheese, four cents per pound. Cider 
is to pay five cents per gallon instead of 20 
per cent, ad valorem, and cabbages three 
cents each instead of 10 percent, ad valorem. 
The duty on potatoes is rtiised from 15 to 
25 cents per bushel; while the American 
hen is protected by a duty of five cents per 
dozen on eggs, formerly on the free list. 
Onions are charged 40 cents per bushel in¬ 
stead of 25 cents, and the duty.on other 
vegetables in their natural state is increas¬ 
ed from 10 to 25 per cent., and when pre¬ 
pared or preserved, from 30 to 45 per cent, 
on their value. The duty on agricultural 
seeds is increased. A tax of $1.00 a pound 
will be placed on raw silk, now free. Hides 
which are now on the free list are made 
dutiable at IX cent per pound. The duty 
on Sumatra tobacco is increased from $1.00 
to $2.75 per pound. There is a small in¬ 
crease in the duty upon fruits : Figs are 
increased from two to 2X cents. Oranges, 
lemons and limes are increased 100 per 
cent, by reducing by one-half the sizes of 
the packages on which the existing duties 
are charged, and raisins are advanced from 
two to 234 cents per pound. The duty on 
hay is increased from $2 00 to $4.00 per ton. 
H orses and mules are dutiable at $30 per 
head instead of 20 per cent, on their value, 
but when they are worth more than $150 
each they are to pay 30 instead of 20 per 
cent, ad valorem. Grown cattle pay $10 per 
head, hogs, $1.20 and sheep $1.20 instead of 
20 per cent, ad valorem for all. Wools of 
the first class known as clothing wools, pay 
11 cents a pound; wools of the second class 
known as combing wools, 12 cents; carpet 
wools valued at 12 cents or less, 3X cents a 
pound; valued at over 12 cents, eight cents 
a pound. This is a reduction of IX cent a 
pound from the Allison bill and an increase 
of IX cent from the present law. It is be¬ 
lieved, however, that the definitions and 
classifications and restrictions provided for 
will make this duty even more valuable to 
the wool-growers than the duty fixed by the 
Allison bill. In the Mills bill wool was put 
on the free list. 
Flax straw remains at $5 per ton. Flax 
not hackled or dressed is increased from $20 
per ton to IX cent per pound, and dressed 
lime, from $40 per ton to 4 cents per pound. 
The duties on cotton bagging are reduced. 
There is a cut in the duties upon sugar of 
from 50 to 60 per cent. No bounty is of¬ 
fered on home raised sugar. The Allison 
bill made a reduction of 50 per cent, and 
provided for a bounty of one cent per 
pound. There is a reduction in the duty 
on barbed wire fence. Molasses is made 
dutiable at 25 per cent, ad valorem, a con¬ 
siderable reduction demanded by Western 
farmers. There is a considerable reduction 
in the duty on binding twine. 
The following changes are made in Inter¬ 
nal Revenue taxation : The entire aboli¬ 
tion of all special taxes upon dealers 
of all kinds, commonly known as li¬ 
censes ; the taxes upon snuff will be 
repealed ; farmers and planters growing 
tobacco will have the liberty to sell to 
whomsoever they please, without restraint, 
in the same manner as any farmer can dis¬ 
pose of any other of the products of his 
land. The tax upon manufactured tobac¬ 
co will be reduced from 8 to 4 cents per 
pound; cigars, cheroots and cigaretts will 
carry the same tax as is imposed under the 
present law. 
The most notable feature of the bill is 
the imposition of duties on many agricul¬ 
tural products hitherto on the free list, 
and the increase of the duties hitherto levied 
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-PAST INVESTMENTS 
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No. 1 Custom House Street. Providence, R. I.; 
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ECLIPSE CORN PLANTER. 
Will plant Field and Ensilage Corn, Beans, Peas and 
Beet Seed in hills, drills and checks-in hills up 
to 45 inches; In checks from 38 inches uo to any dls 
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Address 
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FABQ7HA! 
York, Pa. 
SHERWOOD’S STEEL 
REDUCED TO 
on many others. This policy appears to 
have been honestly followed wherever the 
farmers’ interests would be advanced there¬ 
by. The framers of the billestin ate that it 
will reduce the revenue about $60,000,000. 
Of this reduction about $1S,000,000 will be 
secured by the internal revenue features of 
the bill and about $27,000,000 by the cut in 
sugar. The greatest sufferers by the meas¬ 
ure will be our Canadian friends, as the in¬ 
creased duty on hay. potatoes and various 
other farm products must greatly curtail 
the profits on their large importations of 
these articles into this country. Small 
wonder therefore that already the legisla¬ 
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Reduction in Prices Brings It In Reach of AL. 
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SHERWOOD HARNESS CO., 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
Warranted to be all we claim or money refunded 
THE COMING HOG. 
Not liable to Cholera. 
RAPID GROWTH. SPLENDID 
FOR EXHIBITION. MOST 
PORK FOR FOOD CONSUMED 
2 WEIGHED 2806 LBS 
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AGENTS WANTED FOR 
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i5lf»r 1 SHINGLES. 
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THE PURINTON STEAM GENERATOR 
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n a ,rormwa 80 n,j| 0 . Elkhart Carriage 
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I For 16 Years 
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