The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-03-20
yailD argus.
salt and Coal VS.. Yea and coffee .

The Federal Treasury cannot spare the
$23,000,000 which il received from the
duties on lea ami Coffee during tue fiscal
year 1870.
The Federal Treasury can spare the 81,
7l7,000 which it received from the ds,ies
on Salt and Coal uring the fiscal year 1870.
iSAlt 81, 1873, 900, sad Coal $5lS, 900
The people of the United States pay ont
of their pockets more money because OF the
Coal and Salt duties than they pay out OF
their pockets because of the Tea and Coffee
duties.
WhAs,hey pay out of their pockets because
of the Tea and Coffee daties goes every dol
lar of it just where it ought TO go-into the
Federal Treasury.
What they pay out of their pockets because
of she Salt and Coal duties goes thus: beg
carly $l,7l7,000 of it into the Federal
Treasury, and a monstrous $29,0U0,O0O of
it into the pockets of few hundred coal
mine owners and salt boilers.
No tea, no coffee being raised in the
United States, there is no increase Of price
on huge mass of domestic bales of coffee
and domestic boxes of tea, TO come out of
the pockets of the poor for the sake Of get
ting into the Federal cash box at Washing
ton the increase of price. or duty, on a ANAL
amount of foreign imported tea and coffee.
But of Salt we use 10000, 900 bushels
year, and the salt-boilers of Syracuse and
elsewhere. because of the duty on salt, can
and do put up the price, on an average, Is
cents bushel which is $4,000, 900 year
out OF the pockets of the people for the sake
of needless $4,000 also taken ont Of
their pockets to put into the Treasury.
Of cesl we use 20, 900. 900 tons, enhanced
IN prIce this year by causes which the
tariff swindle makes possible, 81, So, and
81 ton To say that $4,000, 900 is thus
taken out of the pockets of the people, plus
a needless $l.l99, 900 which goes from their
pockets to the Washington cashbox, is an
advertisement Of the facts.
The vote In congress on Monday meant
this exactly. The revenue reformers pro-
posed to make coal and salt free Of duty at
cost of bat SLIT, 900 to the Treasury, for
the sake OF letting 100000 of people
keep $30,O0O,OO0 of their own earnings
on. Of the pockets Of few rapacious mon
opolists.
The protectionists resented this act Of
Justice, and struck at the Treasury Of the
people by proposing to make tea and coffee
free of duty at cost to our revenue of
$4,000, 900, all of which goes from the
pockets of the people to the Treaury Of the
people, and none of it to the swindling
monopolists.
With the protectionists some democrats
voted who are honest and knew no better
like the democrats in Indiana who were
delnded last year by the specious palaver
alb out a free observation-disclosures if it were
not better to keep dollars in the purse from
the grasp of monopoly thieves than to pay
pennies to our government off the breakfast
cup. The noble Kerr, of Indiana, repsired
their blunder and voted, as he never fails to
do, for the interest of the people of Indiana
aud of every State, and against the thieves
of monopoly.
With the protectionists some Democrats
voted who knew better, but skulked to the
Tea and Coffee 'ayes" from cowardice, or
from local prejudice, or from personal in
terest. Gentlemen, we shall make that
place very hot for you, You will need pig
iron breechcs if you mean to stay there.
The Senate, by rejecting the Tea and
Coffee bill, which it will certainly do, aud
by passing the Coal and Salt bills, which we
hope rather than believe it will do. can take
but tri1e from our revenues while lifting
& $30000,000 annual burden from the
peoples backs.-N J. Horld. 18th.