Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-06


the free lists Because it was argued
that where man owned mine
of iron and where there was a ledge of
coal cropping out of the ground, too, that,
having the fuel and the material, he GER
tainly could manufacture so great and
bulky an article as a trace-chain without
fear of competition of labor three or four
thousand miles away, and hence this prop
ositiOn-to place the trace-chains on the
free list. The vote was taken. Let me
show you how it stood. read from the
official report. The resolution was, that
the duty on trace-chains be hereby abol-
ished, and from and af
ter the passage of this act
no duty shall be collected on the importa-
ton of trace chains, and that they shall be
placed on the free list. The ayes were 70
and the nays were 100. The yeas were all
Democrats with one exception and the
nays were all Republican with three Or
four exceptions, and among the nays ap-
pear the names of Messrs. Strait and
Washburn of this state.
Now, my friends, in whose interests
were these men working? In whose in
terests were they working? Why! not i'll
the interests of agriculture or the lumber
ing or manufacturing men of Minnesota.
No. They were voting in the interests
of these iron men, and the manufacturers
who make these trace chains.
Then a proposition was made-my
friend has shown you the injustice of that
tax..on salt. There is now duty on salt
of some 10 to 80 per cent. That is the
protection now on salt. Down in Saginaw
and Syracuse, when they bore hole in the
ground the salt water spouts out. Take
and spread that salt water out and the
suns rays would dry it up and
manufacture salt out of it. Now
the Lord God has done the
greater part of the business.
He had put the salt in the water. He had
put the water there. He had furnished
the sun to dry it and he didn't ask any pro
lection from the pauper labor Of Europe.
Sensation. Why is it that you must
have tariff almost equal to the intrinsic
value of the article? 1t is an article that
is used very greatly among our people.
Out here where the farmers raise
pork and cattle to sell, the cost of sailing
is great and is taken into consideration by
those who buy, and the difference between
the price they pay and the price they
would have to pay if this protection was
taken off comes
OUT OF THE FARMERS: POCKETS.
There was a resolution made to place it
upon the free list. It did not reach vote
in the house, but in the senate, and in that
vote the ayes were twenty-one and the
nays were twenty-six, and among the nays
appear the names of Messrs. Mcmillan
and Window. Now, who were they voting
for, my friends? We're they not voting
for an unnecessary tariff for the benefit of
the salt manufacturers of Michigan and
New York? and to take their profit out of
the pockets of their own constituents?
Then there was another test vote,
that the duty on all wool shall not exceed
% per cent. ad valorum, and the duty upon
all manufactures of wool, or IF which wool
shall be the component material of chief
value, shall not exceed SO per cent. ad
valorum. But gentlemen, SO per cent. is a
big protection.
We think that if we can sell our wheat
for dollar bushel we are doing we'll.
Suppose matters would be so arranged
that we could get $3.50 per bushel, our
profits would be immense.
Well, that proposition, too, was voted
down, and among the nays again appear
appear those political Siamese twins,
great laughter, Mcmillan and Win
dom.
Senator West offered the following:
"That from and after the passage of this
act the duty on tiannels and blankets shall
not exceed fifty per cent. ad valorum, and
all laws imposing any other duty on said
articles are hereby repealed. And again
this was voted down, and again among the
nays appear the names of the Siamese
twins, Messrs. Mcmillan and Window.
Ny friends, will again ask DR.. Ames to
read for me piece which clearly states
the condition of the taxes we have to pay
at present. Here is statement showing
few of the burdens of the farmer:
Under this tariff he rises in the morning,
puts on his common flannel shirt, tax IS per
cent; his coat, ta1 81 per cent: shoes, tax IS
per cent; and hat, tax 90 per cent; takes the
water from bucket, tax IS per cent, and
washes his face and hands in tin bowl, tax IS
per cent: dries them on a cheap cotton towel, tax
As per cent; he sits down to his humble meal
and eats from plate, tax so per cent, with a
knife and fork, tax 35 per cent; drinks his cof-
food with salt, tax SO per cent, pepper.
tax I'll per cent. He looks
around on his wife and children
all taxed in the same way: Takes chew of
tobacco, tax 183 per cent, or lights cigar, tax
lis per cent; and, sir, the sunlight from
heaven that pours into his humble dwelling must
come through the window glass, tax SO per cent;
and yet he thinks he lives in the freest govern
mert under heaven. Then he starts to work,
puts bride, tax 35 per cent, on his horse, and
takes his horse, that has been shOd, nails used
in shoeing being taxed SO per cent, driven by
hammer. tax 20 per cent, and bitches him to
a pillow, tax Is per cent, with chains, taxed
So per cent, and after the days work is closed,
and his family is all gathered around, he reads
a chapter from his Bible, tax Is
per cent, and kneels to God on his
humble carpet, ta1 81 per cent, and then rests
his wearied limbs on a sheet taxed As per cent,
and covers himself with blanket that has paid
104 per cent. Nor do these grasping manufactur-
ers stop here, but even the broom with which his
good wife sweeps the floor is taxed 35 per cent,
and the cooking vessels used in preparing her
husbands frugal meal are taxed AZ per cent,
and the soda used to tighten his bread is taxed SO
per cent. She sits down to her sewing with
needle taxed 25 per cent, and spool of thread,
taxed "a per cent, to make a calico dress, taxed
So per cent; or if she wishes to knit warm socks
to protect her husband and children from the
bitter cold she uses warn taxed 120 per cent"
And, my friends,in the presence of these
terrible facts they have the audacity to tell
the people who pay thase taxes-the Amer
lean laborers who pay it-that all this is
done for their protection. Their protec-
%;onv Insf think IF ift T fell Won Uant1o