The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-05-16

the people. In the first place, he pre-
vents the Government from receiv-
ing any revenue from The article
which otherwise would be imported,
and in the second place he compels
the American farmer and other con.
sumers TO pay him from twenty-five
10 forty per cent. more than II is real
ly worth, Its real value being what II
would sell tor in open market in
competition with like products from
every other place. #
To illustrate the operation fthis
rnle, we may take the article Of salt.
The very highest article of salt i'm
ported into this country during the
last fiscal year cost on average At the
place Of productionthree mills per
pound, or about sixteen and one-half
centa per bushel. while all the o,her
qualities Of salt imported during the
same time cost one mill per pound,
or about five and one-half cents per
bnshel. Now the duty on the quail
| ity of salt first mentioned Ia thirty
nine per cert. ad yalorcn, while the
duty on the lower grade Of salt,
mostly used by farmers in curing
meats and for ordinary domestic pur-
pose, Is sixty-nine per cent. ad. valo-
rem.
o There was manufactured In this
country during the wear 1880 salt 10
the value of $4.Sl7 G36. aud tho con-
sumers of salt throughout the coun-
Try have been compelled 10 pay TO
salt manufactures here al home from
twenty 10 forty per cent on this SUN
OF $4.Sl7,G38 more than they would
have been required TO pay if ealt had
been FREQ Oi duty, for the reason that
two-thirds Of the duty Is always add.
ed to the price of the domestic pro-
duct. SO that II will be seen that
this enormous bonus or bounty is
payable to the salt manufacturer, and
the Government gets not ono dollar
oft. aa lai .a4n .fia
The produ,: of our domestic man
ufactures OF wooden goods, such as
blankets, 1annelR, cloths, cashimera,
etc, articles of absolute necessity in
this climate. amounted during the
year 1880 to $266, ,99S, ,454. The aver
age rate OF duty Oh such goods is
over sixty per cent. Now, il forty
per cent. or two thirds OF the duty
was added 10 the price of the domes-
tic articles, then the people paid as
bounty to the manufactures OF these
goods during that year over $S0,000,-
600; in other words, II tlIis class Of
woolcn goods could have been sd-
mitte) free of duty, the customers Of
such goods could have procured pre-.
ciscly the same quality and same
quantity for more thnn $S0, ,000 900 lcrs
than they we're actually compelled to
pay.
| Now, Mr.. Chalrmsn, while this war
tariff, with its burdens on the poor,
remains substantially the same--and
| defy any body to contradict me--the
income tax, the stamp tax on docu
nents, the license taxes and every
tax upon the surplus wealth ot the
country have long aince been re-
pealed. The special license tax upon
lawyers (and more Than two-thirds
Of the members ofthis House are
lawyers has been repealed. The
burden has been taken off OF you.
gentlemen. and of Of your proies
sion but | ask you whether the great
burdens of this tariff system do moi
bear with equal hardship to-day
upon the great producing interests OF
the country as they did when this
tariff was enacted as war measure,
aud the people were assured that, as
the original act embraced tax on
bank checks, tax on profession, n
tax on incomes, the wealth OF the
country was to be made to bear its
corrclativc proportion OF the great
burden Of supporting that civil con-
fict, thereby Quieting the murmur-
ings of tho farmer, the artisan and
the mechanic. ask you, gentlemen,
J Today whether every burden upon
tho lawyer, the doctor, the banker,
tho broker, every tax upon the In.
: come OF the rich has not been re.
pealed, whilc these burdens upon the
poor remains substantially the came ?
lnow come TO a beautiful piece OF
literature which / hare collated with
great pains. do we not all remem-
Der that since this session began the
gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Has
kell), whom do not now see in his
seat. acknowledged the infamy and
the outrage of this tariff system, and
the Committee OH Ways and Means
concurred IN tho acknowledgement
Did lie moi report here from he Com
inittee OH Ways and Means, by unan-
imous consent. a bill to enable some
benevolent people in England to send
: here the half-worn clothes OF The
effete nobility over there TO cloihe
: the shnpcly limbs Of the half.nakcd
negro children Of Kansas who LETT
comfortable homes In Kentucky and
elsewhere 10 90 after the ignis Jafuns
! OF personal liberty, which in negro'i
i mind means absolute exemption from
labor, which they hoped TO find ii
/. Kansas. Did we not all vote fol
:. ihat measured Aud do not gentlemen
(. remember the question which / pu
/, to the gentleman from Kansas as I
humanitarian; for Iknow he 10 no
r only a man OF largo ability bnt a maj
, OF strong humanitarian impulses
y and sympathized with him III hi
1 efforts to cloihe those half NAKED
n negroes. said to him: "Sir, VIII,
: not make this measure applicable Il
4 the whole body of the American peo
!. ple?p Is not white man as good a
n negro II ho behaves himself.
4 Laughter.[
Q Is ittosgo forth to. tho American
J. people that the poor, half.clad, half
|. starved operatives Of our manufact
y uring industries, the poorly-clsd an,
poorly-paid employees Of our agri
cultural industries, are TO suffer, will
no Congressional enactment TO cna
bio them to he clothed without th
payment OF the duty on wool and It
manufactured products? Arc we will
: ling to 60 upon our record as assert
ing that this Isl benign and God
: like principle applied tos half-nake,
negro, but that the old system ough
10 be kept in force ss applied to
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