The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-02


raised on goods aud merchandise inn
ported into this country; and more
money would go out Of the pockets of
the masses into the packets OF the
manufacturers Is this So? | chal-
leDge the advocates of protective
tariff to disprove it? And is this
government fostering and cherishing
by this protective policy, monopoly
whose hopes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
perpetuation lead them to favor large
disbursements and heavy drafts from
the treasury of the people, though
even the moneyed life of The nation
be imperilled thereby? The past iu-
debtedness of our government has
been harvast of untold wealth to
the man ufacturers. The fact is this
protective monster of oppression has
become so powerful, so untold its re-
sources, so numerous its emissaries,
that nothing less than the uprising of
the whole people from Maine to Louis.
lana, will ever put down this political
dragon of the nineteenth century.
If the tariff system is a good thing,
why would it not he good thing for
states, counties and farmers? Let us
bring home this tariff subject which
has been so long mystifed and cover
ed over by the rubbish of TECHNICAL.
ties. Suppose, my reader, you are a
farmer having laborers ON your farm,
and you are protected by tariff Of
20, rs, or 80 per cent. on the corn,
meat or -four your neighbor sells to
your laborers, your neighbor having
to pay tariff of 20, % or 80 per
cent. adds this 20, 25, or 80 per cent.
to the price (that he would otherwise
have sold aD and sells to your labor
err. Your being protected adds the
20, rs, or 30 per cent. to the price
(you would have sold at had you not
been protected) and sell to your labor
er, making the price at which you
sell to your laborer same at which
your neighbor sold to your laborer,
you being the protected man, make
net profit of 20, %, or 80 per cent.
more than you would have made had
there been no tariff, the laborer, the
consumer, paid the tariff. You see
here how millions flow out of the
pockets of the laboring masses, con-
sumers, into the pockets of protected
manufacturers. Tell me why manu-.
factuiers should be protected And
let the interrogatory go ringing down
the years, all along the line.
Does any man know what he pays
to support the government? How
long would it take him to find out?
We know how much we pay to sup
port our county and state govern
ments. The advocates of tariff say
they do not want to disturb the peo-
pie about these things, that they want
the people to pay to support the gov
erument so easy that they will hardly
know or feel it. 1t Is true that the
people hardly feel what they pay to
support the government. But there
is one thing that they DO and have
felt very sensibly for, 10 these many
years; and that is the untold millions
that they have paid into the Golfers of
the pampered few, under the name of
revenue. And to-day a voice comes
up from their midst. trumpet.ton>
gued and with no uncertain sound,
calling aloud for relief. And what
does that voice seem to say and de-
mand? 1t demands, down with class
legislation = down with long;fatted
monopolies; up with equal rights and
equal protection to all-up with free
trade, universal-up with direct tax.
alton to support the government.
The more direct anything is, the
farther removed it is from this incl
dental feature. the plainer il ia mn.