The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-01
HAYES ON TAXATION
He Supports a System that
Makes the Rich Richer
and the Poor
Poorer.
A AScathing Review by Hon.
~ +, L. D. Campbell.
Extract from Speech delivered at.Colum.
bus October 26th.

Extract from a Speech delivered at.Colum.
bus, October 26th.
The tariff is generally regarded as a
dull and .uninteresting subject, but l
have always looked upon 1t as one OF the
most important questions in our national
politics and have given it no little study.
The speakers and the press seem to have
ignored it in this campaign. Although
it is full of complications l mean to show
you that as a member of Congress
HAYES SUPPORTED THE MOST UNJUST
SYSTEM OF TAXATION
that has ever been imposed upon the la
borers and producing classes of people
IN this or any other country. When L
had the honor of being Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, pre-
pared and reported tariff bill that be-
came law March 3, 1857. 1t simply
transferred to the free list various artl
c.es of necessity that were produced in
this country, and scaled down all duty
paving articles under the revenue tariff
of 1876, passed by the Democratic party,
twenty per cent. The high taxes were
then put on luxuries. This tariff of 1857
put an average tax on the consumer Of
only about fourteen per cent on
all imported articles. The Hayes tariff
of 1866 raised these duties to
about fifty per cent. MIR. David
A. Wells, who is among the most lntelll-
gent men on this subject in the country,
when addressing the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce two or three years since,
said that under the operations of this very
low tariff of 1857, the people otthe United
States enjoyed greater degree Of gen
eral prosperity In every department of
industry, agriculture, commerce and me-
chanical arts than at any other period.
But the greedy manufacturers OF New
England clamored for its repeal, and the
lobbies of Congress swarmed with their
agents, who brought with them barrels
of money. l need scarcely say that un-
der such influences and the pressure Of
he pure Grant Administration, the low
..riti was repealed in 1860, and New
england was made happy. In 1866
Governor Hayes ana the Republican
party IN Congress, aided by the said New
England lobby, invented and adopted an
entirely new plan OF
TAXATION To MAKE THE RICH RICHER
AND THE POOR POORER.
will trespass on your time long
enough only to give YOU few specimen
bricks of the magnificent system Of
plunder adopted by Governor Hayes and
his party then in Congress. l quote from
an authentic copy OF the tariff laws, pub
lished by Congress.
On page 81 we find that the duty on
hides, produced by the farmer, is ten per
cent; on page 81 duty on leather thirty
five per cent. AS there is not in Ohio
more than one tanner to every fifteen
thousand consumers Of leather the justice
OF this tax will be apparent And why
did Governor Hayes not give the same
advantage to the many farmers that he
did to the few tanners2. 1t takes the
farmer three or four years to
raise bullock, and the tanner
only a few months to tan his hide.
Suppose a farmer in the Scioto Valley
kills a bullock and sells his hide to the
tanner Just before an election. In pay
ing him the tanner says: "Look here;
YOU see now, under our Republican tariff
that Hayes supported as u member OF
Congress, am compelled to pay you II
tax of ten cents on every dollar, because
if il were not for that law | could buy
NV hides from Mexico and South Amer
len where they raise cattle in herds of
ten thousand, and often slaughter them
for the hides merely, because, IN those
climates, they grow up Without iced or
shelter" The farmer sees 1t clearly,
chuckles. and leaves with "hurrah tor
Hayes" and the tanner pitches the hide
into his vat. A few months at.erward
the same farmer needs side OF sole-leath-
er to mend the boots and shoes OF himself
and family. He goes to the tanner and gets
half the identical hide he had sold, now
manufactured into leather. In paying
for i, he growIs little at the price. Here
again the Republican tanner explains:
by the Hayes tariff, page 81, you will
see that you have to pay 80 per cent. to
protect me in tanning the hide, and don't
YOU remember i had to pay you III per
cent. TO protect you as farmer against
the South American and Mexican2 True
there is in Ohio only about one tanner
for every Is, 900 consumers OF leather, but
we tanners are u idvorite class with Hayes
and the Republican party The farmer
begins to see it, pitches his side oil sole
leather into his wagon, starts oil whaling
his horses, cursing the Republican party
and muttcring that he was great fool
tor voting for Hayes.
On page rs of the document we find
flax seed has protection OF about SIX
teen per cent, and on page y that flax
seed oil gets about seventy per cent.
There are very few oil mills IN ONO,
and vast number of farmers who toll
and sweat, plow, sow, harrow, harvest
and winnow flax seed. The farmer takes
his crop to the oil mill, and with it an
empty keg to get few gallons of oil to
paint up his dingy old farmhouse, pur-
suant to a promise made to the old wo-
man. The crop is lefr with tie oil man
ufscturer; also the empty keg to be filled
with linseed oil The crop is emptied In.
to the hopper and crushed, the oil ex-
pressed ana the keg nlled Win part vi
1.-THE whole process taking but
little time. In few hours, on
his return home, the farmer calls
on the manufacturer for his
keg. and the latter learnedly explains to
the Granger the beauties OF this Hayes
tariff of 1866, thus: BY this act am
compelled to pay you about sixteen cents
on every dollars worth OF seed you
brought me, to protect you as farmer
against the fsx-seed brought from CAL
cItta and other foreign ciimes. where fax
grows spontaneously and without culti-
Vation." In high glee, the farmer shouts,
"Hurrsh for Haycs!' The bill for the
oil is then made up, and the Granger
complains that the price charged Is rath'
=, s.aan The oilv manufacturer ex.