Adequate $250 for a Mount Desert family in a year
The article cites President Eliot stating a family of seven or eight can live wholesomely on about $250 annually in Mount Desert if they own a house garden and pasture. It details frugal life: home production clothes from old garments, cheap durable shoes, and outdoor work like fishing clamming and farming to supplement earnings.
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Tariff totals cited show massive duties and farm strain
The report lists tariff receipts by commodity in 1888 1889 and earlier figures and cites aggregate tariff and internal revenue taxes The text argues tariff policy burdens American farmers raising costs mortgaged farms and edging profits citing Ohio farm mortgage totals and interest costs as evidence of Republican taxation harms.
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