The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-05-02
From the Winona Democrat
The Radical Tariff Robbery.

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During the late political canvass in this
county and throughout the State, Demo
cratic presses and speakers told the pco.
pie that since the Radical party came in.
to power they had raised the Tariff half
dozen or more times, until they had got
it so oppressively high that they dared
not add another ounce to the camePs back
for fcar of breaking it. The minor
journal" in Winona and Radical papers
and speakers elsewhere denied the charge,
and brazenly attempted to convince the
people that Radical Congresses had lev
led high Tariffs on lururics alone, used
by the rich, while on articles generally
consumed by the poor the advance in the
Tariff had been very slight. Now, see
how one of their own papers, the leading
Radical organ Of the West, exposes their
bare.faced lying professions of favor to
the poor and laboring classes. The Chi
cago Tribune of the 18th has the follow
ing:
"Wc want work that we may buy
bread y is the cry now far too frequent
ly heard in the manufacturing districts
Of the East. Give US work or we
staryew
ave have had within little more than
six years eleven changes of the Tariff,
each one increasing the duties on imports,
and each one justified on the ground that
it was needed by the working men Of the
country as a method Of defence against
the pauper labor of the Old World
The duties now average more than go
per cent in gold, or about S5 per cent. 10
currency. Under the operations of these
various tariff acts, the work of mutual
robbery has gone on between class and
clnss to an extent that has no present par
allel in the whole civilized world; and
now the resuslt is, that every form of
Eastern industry, except agriculture, be-
ing plundered by every other form, is SO
hampercd and embarrassed that, though
prices of all we eat, drink and wear are
high, the arrangement Of business is so
scrio US that little profit is realized there
from hence employers are scarce, and
operatives are appalled, by a prospective
want of bread. Mutual robbery has done
it's le ultimate work. The iron men have
plupa Tered all who use their products the
wooldn men have done the same; the
cotton men are no better-all protected,
and oil striving to see who should get the
most for the least-they have now reach
ed phase in the system which places ir-
ritatihg and disturbing statutes above the
laws bf trade that they little expected TO
see. In the meantime, the men who toll
either in the workshop or in the field have
suffer ed most. When their muscles,
which arc their capital and their machine
ry, stop work the bread stops as WE'LL
They cannot shut down the gate or turn
of tho steam and wait better times. The
earnings fto-day are consumed to morrow,
and vi hen tolls ceases want steps in"
And yet the Tribune continues to iden-
tify il , influence with the Radical party,
whose whole system of legislation has
been 10 rob the people by accursed pro-
tectivd Tariffs, Southern "Reconstruc-
ton" chemes, National Banks, non-taxed
Bonds and every other species of robbery
that W puld tend to continue the Radical
party in power, through the monied
monop plies of the East and black.and-tan
ignora pee and white rascality in the
South.