The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-07
Tax on Man when /. ais Clo,ses.

go per cent; alpaca lining for brim, 30
cents pound, and 35 per cent; leather,
inside, S5 per cent; muslin lining Z ]
cents a square yard; glue, 20 per cent.
Coat-Cloth, So cents.a pound, and 81
! per cent ad ualorem; silk lining so pei
cent; alpaea used therein, 30 cents a
pound and 50 per cent ad ualorem; but,
tons, if worsted, 20 cents a pound, and
35 per cent ad ratorem;; worsted braids,
so cents . pound, and 81 per cent ad "a,
loren; velvet, for collar, 60 per cent; red
worstcd pad'ling, 80 cents a pound, and
80 per cent ad calorem; hemp padding,
40 per cent
Pants-Cassimere, so cents pound,
and 35 per cent ad ralorem; cotton used
therein. 5 cents square yard; hemp
cloth for facing, 40 per cent; metal but
tons, 3o.per cent.
Vest-Silk or satin, 60 per cent; linen
lining, 35 per cent; silk buttons, so pei
cent.
Braces-35 per cent.
Undershirt- If silk. 60 per cent; il
worsted, SO cents pound, and 35 pei
cent ad cdlorem; if cotton, 35 per cent
Drawers the same.
Shirt-Cotton, cents square yard
linen for the front, 35 per cent.
Buttons, 35 per cent.
Boots-Raw hides,10 per cent; tanned
leather, calfskin, 80 per cent; if patent
leather, S5 per cent; soles 35 per cent.
Neck k-handkerchief-If silk, go pei
cent.
Pocket handkerchief silk, 60 per
cent; if linen, 80 per cent; if cotton 80
|per cent.
Gloves-Kid gloves, so per cent
Pocket-knife, 35 per cent.
Watch, % per cent.
Silk watch chain, 60 per cent
My own conviction is, that if the peo.
pie of this country knew the enormous
taxation which is levied upon them, di.
rectly and indirectly, by these high tariff
rates that have been imposed during the
convulsion of the civil war, when they
were thinking of other .hings, they would
hardly be restrained from revolution
Thunders OF remonstrance and protest,
at least, would pour in upon this House
from the South and the West, from the
mountains and the prairies, and from the
far-distant Pacific; ana the $4,000. .000
consumers at lInlne would raise such an
outery as to scare from the !obbies OF
The Capitol the representatives Of the
1000, 900 of manufacturers hesa
There will be no inality until justice
is done to the great body of the people.
There will be no iinality until monopoly
| is brought down and equality is brought
up. There will be no tinality as long as
Legislation is so welded as to make the
rich richer, and thepoor poorer. There
will be no finality so long as immense
fortunes, with the sluice-way of Mag
ara, are pouring into the Golfers Of few
men to the impdverishment of the great
masses Of the people. / offer this bill,
therefore, as an installment only, and if
lit is not accepted, shall join with 9th.
ers-with any Others from any political
party-in an appeal from this House to
the thousands and hundreds of thou
sands outside Of it.; and il nobody else
will do it, in the course of time. I will
take these articles holding up samples
of woolcns1 on which there is this high
tariff, and, mounting peddleG's wagon,
go through the agricultural districts, ex-
Elhbiting with them a hoe, plow, an ak,
a shovel a trace chain, a knife and fork,
with other articles, and demonstrate to
the eyes of the people the unjust, the
enormous, the wicked taxation that is
imposed upon them by the existing tar
iffs-Hon. James Brooks Speech,
March 3, 1870 as