The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-13
as it were, for the elections, for


Congress re-meets in December):
On sugar 80 ros per head, 49, fs, 4c...... 81 36
On tea. l n per head, rs, c........-... on
On coffee, bs per head, 20 lbs, 2c.-.....
Total reduction 81
Now, the above named family will ad-
nit that it buys one pair OF blankets
every two years-or say one half pslr a
year-for which it pays 81 90 per pair
and surely they are not the best for that
price. These blankets, weighing four
and one half pounds pair. if they could
be imported, cost in England one shilling
and six pence per pound, or, In our
| money, exactly 81 81 gold, per pair.
| Under revenue tariff Of % rer cent
| they could be brought to New York by
the cor sumner for SO so currency, which
clearly proves that if such tariff were
| adopted, the consumer would save 81 20
on each pair of blankets. snd the above
named family would save So cents on the
| half pair of blankets it consumes yearly.
The aforesaid family of six will not deny
| that they use annually six spools of cotton
| thread, on which there is pow duty of
| SO per cent. Now, the best six corded
| thread, which any housewife knows is the
| cheauest, for strength and every purpose.
costs the housewife in some places 10 cents
| per spool OF 200 yards. and in the lsrgest
cities cents per SPOOL At a duty of %
per cent on spool thread, every house
wife could buy the above spool of thread
for Az cents, currency, spool This
certainly proves that had such
tariff been adopted, the above fam
lily, numbering six, would have saved
on the six spools, even if they only pay s
cents piece for them now, 81 cents per
| spool, or 81 cents. We further must as
sumo that family Of six. using $50 pounds
of sugar, Sc pounds of coffee, and 6pounds
of tea annually, will certainly buy -
yards Of alpaca, Orleans cloth, or wooden
dress goods-supp0se we say common al
paca, for which it has to pay so cents q
yard, or Sc for dress of 10 yards. Now,
we have the custom house authority, the
merchants authorities, and the authority
of experts, that yard Of alpaca selling
in New York for so cents, costs, in Eng
land, 8 pence sterling, or 1S cents, gold
1t now pays duty OF from So to IS per
cent. Under s. revenue of 25 per cent it
could be bought by the consumer for 33 to
80 cents-say the latter. The above fam
lily would, therefore, save on the twelve
yards of alpaca, had such q tariff been
adopted, Is cents per yard, or 81 60 A
family six in number, ct the lowest calcu-
latiOn, will consume sc worth of boots
and shoes annually. We have it on the
highest authorities-of the Eastern shoe
manufacturers, made TO the late Special
Commissioner Wells-that if leather
was free, and trimmings subject to
a revenue tariff of % per cent,
boots and oes would immediately
become 10 p cent. cheaper, which would
give the abol : family saving of 60 GEMS
annually on the Sc worth OF boots and
shoes consumed. A family using $50
pounds sugar, Sc pounds coffee, and 8
pounds tea, annually, will certainly use
so cents worth OF salt annually. Now,
we may sffirm that if the present duty of
10S per cent. on salt were repealed "a
duty which has enriched the great salt
monopolies in millions yearly, there
would be clear saving of 90 cents annu-
ally or the now 30 cents worth of salt
they use. Lat US now compare the say
| ings of the above five articles on which
Congress did lot reduce the duties, solely
because members did not dare to offend
monopolists, with the psraded savings on
tea, coffee and sugar:
Saving on half pair blankets annually. $500. S.
| Saving on spOOls of cotton. .............. 81
| Saving on - yards of alpaca. 81 81
| Saving on So worth of boots and shoes. gu
/
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s. sc
Against the saving of $267, on sugar,
coffee and tea.
If l were to go on and thus analyze the
whole tariff, could show that while
Congress reduced the duties on tea and
coffee (Which we do not raise, and there
fore only pay one price tor), or on sugar
raised partly in Louisiana and Vermont
(maple sugar., 1t kept up or increased
the duties on all, or almost all the articles
manufactured in Massachusetts or made
by Massachusetts capital, on such articles
too, as, under the tariff bounty system OF
, taxation, we now pay two, or three, or
four prices for; on iron, say cast OF
wrought, in pig, blooms or bars, down to
the wire in crinoline or corset-nay, even
down to nets for flies and mosquitoes
Congress annually gives thousands and
hundreds of thousands to the carpet
manufacturer of the East-tens of thou
sands to one wire mandatory IL Wor
cester, Mass, and to one hairclOth manu-
factory In Pawt9cket, r. both in
creased in July by Congress in
J which MIR. Wilson is member, and by hi;
vote, too. Every spoon and fork farmer
, uses, beyond a wooden and iron one, is go
} Ing to cost more soon after January next
, because some tens of thousands of dollars
were voted into the pockets Of Mr.. Joseph
Wharton, of Philadelphia, by voting hin
30 cents per pound bounty on his nickel
Every painter, glazier, and Vanished
leather user will have to pay more for biz
llnseed oil after Jan. 1, the duty having
been raised from 90 cents to 30 cents pei
gallon solely for the benefit of the few
crushers of hnseed somewhere l would
| go on to show to Mr.. Wilson, if it did MOI
so much lengthen this reply, that tint
manufacturers and mohopolists and job
beers last July secured all the revenue re
ductiOns Of which be boasts, while the re
duction of tea, coffee, and sugar was only
THROWN III, the better to give To three gen
) tlemen lone now amember of Congress
and the other fresh ex member, who
have the paten. monopoly of making Bes
semer steel rail, a bounty of 1923 per ton OF
all the rails they make-a bounty worth
millions 10 them as long as their patel
rights last, heavy tax, though, upor
every barrel of flour or pork transported
from the West to the East; bounty, too
In the nature of a mortgage of all the'rea
estate of the simple men of the West u
these three wise men of the East Blu
? you have enough, Mr.. Randall, in the ex
positions have here made. My only re
D greet is that | nave not strength or tim,
enough to mount the peddler's wagon
! spoke OF in the House last March, so q
to snow up all these bounties to the eve
of the people of the South and West
for, wherever and whenever this is done
there will be no more monopoly member
of Congress reelected from Pittsburgh
in the East, to Puget sound, West, or t.
the Rio Grande, South.
Truly, yolrs,
JAMES BROOKS.
The Democratic Gains in Maine.
From the PhiIadelDhia