Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-08-04


h t0riit What is tariff A du
" levied upon foreign goods that q
@ imported INTO the Unl'ed States. r
We have always had a tarlif in tn
= country ever since the GoYernmel
e was formed 1t began with the az
: nnnistratlon Of George Washinl
.. ton, and before the Union VIZ
formed the several States had the
respective tariffs. We have aIwal
raised revenue by a tariff and "
= always shall It has been done ~
f der every administration. Now
when the war came on we could nc
raise sufficient revenue by the tai
ill., We had to raise it by direC
t'XatioA in p'rt. We have resent
abolished nearly all of those intern
al taxes, but we still have to rails
at least Sl55, 100000 or Sl6O,O0O,
600 by the tariff You have got t,
have the revenue to carry on tn
Government Now if YOU abolisl
| the tariff, how are YOU going to ge
1T? Why, you must raise it by di
rect taxation. Is the Democratic
party Of Indiana in favor Of direc
taxation to raise this money? No
body is in favor of it, Then We
have got to have tariff for the
purpose of having revenue, and il
is all idle to talk about repeating
the tariff. You can not repeal il
without you find out some way by
which you can carry on the Gov
eminent without money. M. Voor-
hees has discovered how he can pay
the national debt without costing
anybody anything. II he could
now devise some plan by which the
| Government could be carried on in
other respects without money, then
the work of financial reform wonld
be complete
We have oot to have tho monev
and wc bave oot to raise at least
| 1875 or 100 millions bv a tariff =
Thcn INV friends frns trodn is ont
of the oilestion When 4 man talks
to Won about free trade ho talks
about a thinq that IS impossible I
do not care how Won law that tariff
how yon adjust it, il will afford
some protection to our mapufae-
tnres. Therefore, free trade is out
of the question as lono as we have
to levy a tariff for revenue
We'll. there are several kinds of
tariff. There is what is called a
prohibitory tariff. That NAV be re-
garded as an obsolete idea. / know
Of nobody that is in favor of that
in this country. Then there is a
tariff merely for protection. Well
that is very little different from a
prohibitory tariff in principle. That
is not the kind cf a tariff we want.
But as VIC have to have a tariff for
revenue, we propose that the pro
lection that results from the adjust
mcnt Of that tariff, shall result in
favor of home producers insteae of
IN ioYor OF the foreign producers.
Now, there are two OF three ways
OF leVyIng tarllt FIRST, there is
the way advocated by MIR,
Kerr, a Democratic Congress
man from indiana tic says ne
wants 1T put highest upon articles
that we do not produce at all Tor
example, tea and collee' we 90
not produce them' therefore tine
tariff highest on such articles. Ot
course then itmnst come lowest up
on articles that we do produce IN
competition with foreign countries.
Put the highest upon articles we
don't produce, or where we have
nothing to encourage or build up,
and we put the lowest upon things
that we do produce in competition
with foreign countries, as to afford
them the least possible protection
and encouragement.
Well, there is another plan that's
called the "horizontal" tariff, to
levy an equal per cent. upon all arti.
cles without regard to whether they
are necessities or luxuries. 1t has
been sometimes said that tariff was
one OF strict neutrality between the
home producer and the foreign pro
ducer Now, II you think that our
Government ought to MAINTAIN a
position OF rlctneutrallty between
the home producers and the foreign
producers, just as we shall nam
tain a position OF strlct neutrality
between France ana Frussla IN TINS
great war that is beginning then
you Will be IN lAVor OF that tarlH'-
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