The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-01
SEMI-W EEKLY.

| io'i ~ men VINO are operating
f0undries, factories, mills, and TO me
chanics, nor when | am addressing
FARMERS, who find here at their very
door, by reason of these great Industries.
a greater market for all their products
than Is afforded at any of the CONNER
cial centers of the country"
DO You believe that the farmers of
Butler county have better market in
Hamilton than is afforded in Cincinnati.
Chicago, and New York? Don't you
know, f rmeTs of Miami county, that
the prize of the wheat, pork and other
products of the farm are measured by
the Liverpool pTicep Less the cost of
transportation, insurance and commits
5lOnsE Now we begin to find where the
Judge is getting his ideas of political
economy. He says that you know that
the duty Is never paid by the consumer.
Let me tell you what has been done
with regard to the wool trade since the
adjournment Of Congress. The duty on
wool under the present taTiff-the Re
publican tariff which is to be altered at
the first OppOrtunity-is ten cents peT
pound, and is twelve cents per Mound
when such value is greater at the port
OF export to this country than thirty
cents, merinOs being classed under
clothing WOOls Under the former tariff
the same specified duty was imposed
with the addition of 10 and Il per cent.
ad ValOrem duty. The reduction con
sisted in the abolition of this ad yalOrem
tax.
Last year the wool clips sold at the
farmers door in Ohio at from 80 to 80
cents per pound for classes X and XX;Or.
IL shipped by the farmer to market, at a
little less than Al cents per pound. the
difference being represented by the cost
OF transportation and handling. This
year the same qualities of clips are
bringing 81 to 80 cents per pound at the
farmers door, or a little less than 30
cents per 10. If shipped to market. / get
these figures from the very highest au-
thOrity in the State of Ohio on this sub
ject. Now tell me, when this tariff is
reduced who losses the difference but
the producer, and who gains what he
losses but the consumer? When the
tariff Is increased, which will be done at
the "hrst opportunity" if the Republi-
can party of Ohio keep their promises,
who will gain the difference in the in
crease of price but the producer, and
who will lose it but the cOnsumerP
But we are not left by Judge Foraker
to believe that he holds his peculiar posi-
tiOn alone, as he says: Nevertheless,
you will allow me to give one particular
fact as proof. know a gentleman in
Cincinnati who is engaged in the car
rlage business, and whose establishment
Is credit to the city, and who manufac-
lures more than 10000 vehicles annual
ly, and who sells them not only all over
this country, but all over the world. He
told me few days ago that within the
last month he had filled orders from
Japan, West Indies, Australia, and Liver
pool, and congratulated him on haV-
ing such business. His answer showed
that he knew something more than how
to make buggies, as he expressed the
fear that his business was far larger
than prudence justified in view of the
political situation. He went on to say
that, as he expressed il, he was taking
in sail and that he would continue
taking in sail until he saw the State of
Ohio go Republican next October, and
he was thus assured that there was no
need to fear the ascendancy of free trade
in 1884"
Now, this man is a Gamaliel, at whose
feet sits our candidate Paul" as a manu-
ficturer of cheap carriages in Cincin-
natl, and Of buggies. The duty on car
rihgeS and buggies is 30 per cent. ad
yalOrem, but none of them come into
this country from European ports, at
least In the tabulated statement | have
in my possession, of the imports of 1880
and 1881, in excess of 100000 for each
article. | find no carriages, carts, bug
gies, or parts of same, whereas, in 1880,
| find we exported 1888, 792 worth of car
riages, carts, and parts of same, and in
1881, $l,O12,44 worth; so that this gen
tleman, this Gamaliel, is actually en-
gagged in competing with the pauper
labor of Europe, selling their buggies
even in Liverpool, as he states to Judge
Foraker, submitting to the disadvan-
tages of transportation, insurance, com
missions, and the interest on the money,
and beating the English on English
soil. And yet he is taking in sail, afraid
that the presidential election of 1884
may ruin him by reducing the amount
of taxation.
Now, just think of it. Every axle that
he uses is taxed by the federal tariff 215
cents per pound; on the iron which goes
into the hubs and tires, on the hinges,
and on every article of iron or steel
there are heavy duties protective in
their character, amounting to a large
sum on each article which he turns out
from his shops. His lumber is taxed 81
or 81 per thousand; the leather he uses
il taxed-15 per cent. the raw leather,
30 per cent. on manufactured leather; he
pays 26 per cent. on his paints; % cents
per gallon on his oils; % cents per gal
lon on his tuTpentine; he pays a heavy
tariff duty on every article of wOOllen,
silk, OF lining clothes which he uses
about his buggy. The glass is taxed
"a
foot, according to its character; the
brass at l = cents per pound; the India
rubber, of which he constructs his apron
and his washers, at % per cent; the oil
cloth, if he uses one, 40 per cent; the
carpets and rugs 80 to 40 per sent. The
only article, my friends, which goes
free on this buggy or carriage is the
horse hair, if he uses it, to stuff the
cushions. And yet, with this enormous
burden of protective character paid to
the government if the article comes
from abroad, paid by way of subsidy in
the nature of protection to the domestic
manufacturer if the article is made at
home, this gentleman, this Gamaliel
was able to compete with the pauper
labor, not only of Europe, but of Asia,
selling his goods in Japan, the West In
dies, Australia, and Liverpool.
Now, perhaps this is all explained by
the next sentence of Judge FOraker's
speech: And that man was an Eng
lishman, born and bred in the heart of
London, brought up on free trade. He
was as firm believer in this doctrine
as Adam Smith himself, until he came
to this country and learned better by
practical experience"
| Ahal nv dear Judge we know now