The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-01

greenbacks to get the tariff OF 1906
through, and ever since then we have
had to shell out bushels OF currency to
induce the laboring men of the country
to elect Republican Presidents and Con-
gressmen." With this explanation Mr..
Granger returns home seriously meditat-
ing whether he ought not to cut himself
loose from party and vote for Tilden and
Hendricks.
On page 46 of this document, l find
that tax of fifty cents per pound and
40 per cent. ad palrens is put on cloth
ing; on page 80, fifty cents per pound
and 35 per cent. ad uaLorens on woolen
cloths; on page SO, twenty cents per
pound and 35 per cent. on woolen blank
cts, flanneIs, &C.; on page 92, fifty cents
per pound and 35 per cent. on woolen
sbawls. In the winter season the farm
ers and poor laborers of the country who
consume the coarser. and therefore the
heavier articles, are, by this new avoirdu'
pois standard Of taxation invented by
Hayes and the Republican party, COM
PEELED to pay much greater tax than
the bondholders, bankers and money
lenders, who wear the finer, and there
fore lighter, articles Of wooden msnufac-
ture.
On page IS l see that Governor Hayes
has put a tax of only ten per cent. on
diamonds, and on page IS duty of only
ten per cent. on pearls. don't observe
a pearl adorning a single person IN this
whole audience. They are seldom used
by the laboring and producing classes
only by persons of wealth. The Demo
cratic rule in raising revenue was always
to put the high tax on the luxuries
of the rich and the low duties on the ne
cessities of the poor l now demonstrate
to you that Hayes when in Congress and
his Republican party, have reversed
that rule and put low taxes on luxuries
and high taxes on the necessities, thus
TAXING THE POOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THERICH.
To make the proof Of this proposition
more clear, pardon me for few more
illustrations of the infamies of this Re-
publican system:
On page 81. the avoirdupois standard
is abandoned and another adopted. On
womens and children's dress goods tax
of six cents square yard and thirty-fve
per cent. is assessed. Every man and
everv woman knows that in woolen and
silk dress goods the heavier articles are
consumed by the richer, and the lighter,
cheaper and more fimsy by the poorer
class of society. Hence, if the per pound
tax wero applied to these goods the
greater tax would come off the wealthier
classes By the squsre-yard system the
heavy tax is still kept on the laboring
men and women, while the people of the
bond holding and money-lending frater-
nifty and sisterhood are relieved.
We have all heard much lately of one
BLUE-JEANS WILLIAMS,
a Democrat who has Just been elected
fApplause. have point on this
tariff tax question that puzzles me, and,
therefore, after he shall have been inau-
gurated, ! want him to raise commits
sion to enlighten me. 1t is on the sub
iect of jeans, that he ought to under
stand fully. [Applause.] Gov. Hayes,
in legislating, in 1866 on the great ma.
tional question of blue jeans [laughter1,
grappled with it in the spirit of most
comprehensive and wonderful statesman
ship. He discovered that neither the
avoirdupois nor the square yard system
of taxation would meet the eXigences of
the occasion.
On page 80 of this tariff document
Jeans not over 100 threads per square
inch shall paw specified duty; jeans
over 100 and not over 140 threads per
square inch shall pay another duty;
Jeans over 140 and not over 200 threads
per square inch shall pay still another,
and Jeans over 200 threads per square
inch still another duty. / can conceive
of no purpose for which such new
tangled system as this was invented by
Governor Hayes and his friends, unless
for the purpose OF having vast increase
of custom-house officers, who might be
bled BY Zach Chandler, Secretary OF the
Interior and Chairman OF the National
Republican Committee, in raising money
to corrupt the bsl!ot-box and carry Ohio
for sHayes and Wheeler in the Pres
idential election of 1876. Whist lu-
dicrous spectacle would be presented if
we coald congregate in one body so that
we could look down on them, the ten
thousand new custom officers created by
this Hayes tariff of 1861 We should
see one class with scales weighing the
packages of woClen goods, another with
yard sticks measuring the square yards
Of women's and childrcn's dress goods;
and third. lot of hearty men with
dlvlders, squattIng over lot Of blue
jeans, carefully counting the threads to
ascertain whether the goods had l39 or
14l threads per square inch. Laughter
and applause.