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A Farmer's View of Tariffs in a Village Meeting
A sixty-year-old farmer describes his hard life on 160 acres in Ohio and contrasts it with neighbors who prosper after selling to Dutch buyers. He argues protectionist tariffs raise prices, shrink farm profits, and push farmers toward debt, mortgages, and emigration while industry and labor benefit, calling tariff policy a vampiric tax on farmers. The piece ends with a vivid account of a local political meeting and a riot sparked by protectionist rhetoric.
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Belford’s Magazine
Ohio
Morton
Tom Shiply
Middleburg
Lycurgus Leatherings
Congress
Cleveland
Europe
Baltic
India
Egypt
Carnegie
Hin
Van
Derbilt
Jay Gould
Hon
Leatheriugs
Scotland
Sam
Blaine
Tam
Hocking Valley
Tecan
United States
Russia
Protectionists
Tsuy
House
Ways and Means
Tfe
Bin
Washington
Noudlewory
Henry Clay
Sona
Lycurgus Leatherlungs
Esq. Jones
Lycurgus
Republican Party
Liepe
Bearshington Township
Elwa
Nestor
M. C
Hocking
Cobden Club
Needletaory Town Hall
Ton. B