, 1875-01-26

The Secretary Of the Treasury recommend |
cd to Congress that tho duty ontea and cof-
fca be restored, and he gavo tho facts show
ing that the repeal of tho duties in 1872 Was |
no relief to the consumers, because tie prices
Mt the places of production Brazil,
aud Cuba-~were Immediately advanced to the
amount Of tho repealed duty. The result hns
been that consumers hive been paying Just
as much for thoir tea aud coffee aince tho re-
peal as they would have had to pny had the
duty not been removed The only effect OF
the repeal Of the tax has been loss Of sov-
cra1 millions Of dollars Of revenue, which las
been transferred to the foreign producers.
This matter is so plain that no thought
full person can fail to understand 1t.
Taxes on imports are Of two kinds: /.
Those which produce revenue. g. Those
which aro intended to DO partially prohibi-
tory, md which nre divided in the proportion,
say, Of one-fourth to tho Government and
three-fourths to the "psotected oiasses." Un-
der the first kind, tax Of ton millions Of dol
lars on imports is paid by the consumer, and
The whole is paid into the National Treasury.
Undor the second kind, tux Of ten millions
of dollara is paid by the consumer, md Of
this, two millions and half arc collected by
tho Treasury, and the other seven millions
and huff are divided IS bounties among the
protected classes. 4 tax on tea and coffee is
purely revenue tax it is all paid into the
Treasury, while tag on salt, lumber, iron,
cloth, etc., is protective ta1. Assuming
that tho domestic article consumed in tho
country ia three times rs great in quan-
tity rs tho imported article, q tax on salt
fills upon oil the salt consumed, but the
Treasury only receives that portion which is
collected from the imported salt, while the
| other three.fourths or nine-tenths of the tax
is collected by the manufacturers Of tho do
,ncstic salt. The tnx on sugar partakes of
tho character OF both revenue and protection,
| though the proportion Of imported sugar is
so much greater than the domestic product
that its inequality is not SO oppressive as in
sonne other articles. In order to produce
$40, ,0O0, 900 revenue, the Government hos
merely to levy tux Of that amount on tea
and coffee. In order to produce like sum
of revenue from cotton goods, or woolen
goods, on carpets, on iron and steel, or on
paints. oils, glass or china ware, the tax must
be at loast $40 900, 600 the Government re-
ceiying ono-fourth, and the other $50, ,000, 900
being distributed among the protected classes.
The difference, then, between tax for rev.
enuo and o tax for protection Is very evident,
and Is shown rs couspicuously in the repeal
Of taxes as in their levy. TAua, when the tax
OH teaand coffee yielded ten millions OF dollars
reyouue to the Government In 1912, its re.
peal was q reduction Of taxation to TINT
amount and no more. When the tar on iron,
or cotton goods, or woolon goods, yields tor
millions Of dollars revenue, q repeal Of thai
tax Is q reduction Of forty millions Of dollars
tax, and loss OF only ten millions OF revenue
This explains why the protecsionists in Con
gress throe years ago repealed the tax On tel
aud coffee, To make good tho loss of te.
millions Of dollars revenue from that sourc,
. required the retaining Of forty millions @
dollars taxation on other articles.
+ These gsabbers are now engaged Il
flooding the country with petition
to DO signed aud forwarded to Con
; gsess protesting against the restoration
Of tho tax Oh ten aud coffee. They do no
waut that tax restored. because all it pro
duces is revenue. There IL no partnership Il
) It; there il no division Of it in the proportion
l Of rs per cent to private corporations or ind
!, viduAls, aud 25 per cent to the Nations
0 Treasury. Among the impudent pretenaion
t OF these persons Is their profession that the
!. want to give the American people "tre
:, breakfast" Now, let us look at ths cha.a
i, ter Of this FREQ breakfast. Assuming thl
"a str. KELLEY was present at spch men
1t he would return thanks for frso breal
ID fast something after the following manne'
II 1--WE thank Thee, oh Divinity, for the priv
aa legs Of enjoying free breakfast-ths toa AZ
10 oo1ee wo drink are untaxed tho table q
u which this breakfast isssxyad IL taxed onN 1
10 per cont, The tablsaloth ~ per cant, u