Whatever enhances the first cost of
goods also, in proprotion, enhances the
profit [here on. Thus for instance:
10 yard* dress goods, llr-dcost. ,®].so (
I'rotit thereon before it gels to consumer 20
per cent
Total, without duty s!.so
t hi t In* >t Imt Inuitl:
to yards dress goods, lirst cost "0
Only i.ofi
*2u per cent, profit on :,i
Total •.((’,
And ivi 1 lii ll l that on account of the
tariff t he cheap and almost indispens
able dress of the farmer’s and the
workingmen’s family is enhanced.
sl.2ti on an actual value, including
profits, of 81. SO. Now. when 1 show
up a tariff swindle and tariff robbery
of, for instance, 1 Hi per cent, on horse
shoe nails I am at once confronted h\
the feudal tariff Barons with the fact
that we, use comparatively little and
import only siooo worth a year the
latter owing, of course, to the fact
that we made importation prohibitory.
Rut here in this dress goods ease we
actually d*i import sonic $5,500.(100
worth annually, and we do most
shamefully tax the poorest and most
needy of the population with 82,-Tid,
INN) that goes into the Treasury, and
perhaps w ith B:I.(NNi.(NKt more that goes
into the pockets of the feudal tariff
Ra rons.
