The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
What is Wanted.

The New York free trade club has
just issued the first number of a bull
letin, "in the hOpe," as the publishers
say, that 1t may set in motion wave
of public sentiment that shall sweep
away the present vicious system Of
taxing the many for the benefit of the
few" What this club meaps by free
trade, and what its members want to
accomplish, we can heartily endorse,
as follows:
We do not expect or intend the i'm
mediate abolition of our custom -hOus-
es or custom duties. Some of us think
that will become desirable, others
among us do not. But we are all
agreed that a thorough revision of
arifl is called for by every considera-
ton of justice, and by every motive of
public interest.
We want a law that will benefit all
both consumers and manufacturers
by admitting raw materials sub
stantially free of duty, and by making
a corresponding reduction in the du-
ties on articles manufactured from
these raw materials.
We want tariff which shall no
longer tax all the people in America
who work in brass or copper, and the
ducts of their work, to enlarge the
gains of few rich men who own the
copper mines of Michigan. We would
admit copper ore free of duty.
We want tariff which shall not
tax every carpenter and builder III
America, and consequently every man
who lives in a house, for the benefit of
the owners of the forests which cover
the hills of Maine, Vermont, MiclIi-
gan and Northern Wisconsin. We
would admit timber free of duty.
We want a tariff which shall not
tax every man who has a child's car
riage or plated spoon, or a bicycle,
for the benefit of the owners of one or
two njckle mines. We would admit
nickle free of duty.
We want tariff which shall not
tax every man who lives in house, or
builds one, for the benefit of mOnopO-
lists who make American screws and
realize enormous profits hy the exclU-
sion of foreign screws. We would re-
ducc the duty.
We want a tariff which shall not
tax every man who rides on a rail
road, for the benefit of few who mo-
nOpoliZe the manufacture of rails in
this country. We would reduce the
duty.
We want tariff which shall not
tax every man whose child goes to
school and writes on slate, for the
benefit of few owners of the slate
quarrics of Vermont. We would re-
peal the duty on manufactured
slate.
We want a tariff which shall not
tax every man who reads a newspa-
per, or book, or writes a letter, for
the bcaefit of those who monopolize
the manufacture of wood pulp. We
would admit rags, papcr-stock, bicro-
mate of potash, free of duty.
The list is endless. The present tar
IF is a bundle of jobs, conceived in sin
and brought forth in iniquity. To re-
wise it, to simplify it, TO make it fair
and just is what, here and now, we
mean by Free Trade.
Our cause is the cause Of the people
against monopoly-the only monOpO-
ly which, in America, is created and
sanctioned by law.
We do not war against domestic in.
dustry; we do not propose violently
to sweep away vested rights. We dc
propose to break the bonds which
shacllle our industry and prevent il
from competing fairly in the market:
of the world.
We have no wealthy corporations
no enormous fortunes gained by un
just and partial taxation, behind Us
We rely for success on the Justice O.
our cause, the intelligence of the
American people, and that which tht
great ruler of nations never fails t,
bestow on a sincere and earnest en-
dpayOr TO do right