Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-22
a Volume OF Unspeakabis Rob
bertes.

a Volume OF Indispensable Rob-
berries.
Under the eleak- of the -exigent
demeld to save the union OF these
States thaR Republican party, which
siasthat great Aehisxsmsstr.wes.ss .ss-
sisted by Northern Dsmocratic|
vaIor, has been alto 3ed to Dammit
unspsakARle, epornities. q Promi.
nent amongst these have been the
sboltstiohs Psrpstrated under the
guise Of the tariff, Thefact is that
the process which attracted DIR.
Samuel Johnston's Indignation in
the Bllliagsgste fish market, of an
eel being Skinned alive. and cursed
for wrigglipg during. the crucial
operation, has been the real expe-
risnce cf the people Of the United
States under the regime Of Repub-
Hean tariffs. The common run of
the leaders Of that Equalization
axs4n truth permeated by but, one
impulse. and thatis.t enable good
and sanity Republicans to build
palaces and ITO convert the
modest h0mes Of the. srespactable
poor into hovels., When the men
who ptofesssd devotion to Jeffer-
scalsn principles got into power
thsycwsre swift TO- show that they
we're really disciples OF Alexander
Hamiltnnl L ziSol that q privileged
class might riot in wealth they
cared nothing for the agenies Of the
poor. boiaParhsps theimoss scanda-
lousaof all the tariff outrages per: :.
petrated during the Republican
sscendancy was that OF the Oman
dsgo Ssit eManufa curing Com
pAny. of New York, which was
wont to declare dividends of sixty
and-ossyenty per cent. year on. a
purely fictitious capital. These
harpy, >pfeteeted Republicans,
found thRttheir market for salt in
the .United. States was not equal, to
their production; and, in conss-
qushce, they exported prodigious
quantities Of this salt into Canada
and sold it for one third of the SUM
they exactsd from the hard -bested
people ofthe United States. One
ofthe faverite tricks of the "God
and Morality hypocrfticsl Repub.
licans who served the country (?)
In the national legislature was to
buy UP great quantities Of some
staple in universal demand, and
then clap q duty upon its importa.
tion from abroad. These phases of
this pseudo patriotic and hypocrit-
icai programme are 80 numerous
that it would be simply fatiguing
to reproduce tithe of them.
Senator Vance, of, North Caro-
lima, has signalized himself by q
mastery exposition of Republican
aud dprotectionist false preten css
and iniquity. 1t is truly wonder
full thsswsy a set of-robbers have
been permitted for long years to
tweak the nose Of the people. After
statesmanlike and judicial argu-
ment as to the legal robbery in-
VOWED in q conscienceless tariff,
Ia which he sustained himself by
the decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States In the case of
the "Loan Association VS.. the City
of Topeks,2n In : which that
body ruled that ''to lay with
zone hand the power of the gov
''ernment on the property of the
"citizen, and, with the other, be-
s'stow it upon favored Individuals,
''to aid private enterprises and
"bnild up private fortunes, is none
"ths'isss robbery because It done
under the fermof law, and is cal led
"taxation. u Senator Vance got
dewn to the practical argument,
which tho case 40 abundantly ad-
mita of, with great felicity and
force. He attacks the protection
lists in one of thsir-favorite strong.
holds, viz: that q protective tariff
protects the American laborer. He
admits that protection enables the
manufacturer to- pay his laborers
apparently higher wages in dollars
and centA than he, could do under
tariff fer revenne only, but, asks
does he do It? The census of 1860,
when there was no protective tariff
In effect IN the country, and when
ths4avsrage tariff duty was 10 per
cent, showed that the ratio of the
cost of labor to the Cost of produc-
ton WAS 20 per cent. In 1870, un-
der a high protectiye tsriff, and
when the average tariff. duty was
over 4S per cent. the proportion
paid to labor was only 1871 per cent. |;
while, at the PRESENT time, a tabu.
lated statement as to wooIens and
cottons for 1880 shows that labor in
cotton is only about % to % per
cent. of the cost of production,
against 1S 2-S in 1850, and in wool
not 80 much, while in iron it is less
than 10 per cent. under an average
tariff on iron articles of 70 per cent.
There Is, as the Senator we'll says,