The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02

the enule int rial revenue tax. What
does that mean? The Secretary of the
Treasury reports the financial condition
for the current fiscal year as follows;
Total receipts, actual and esti
mated. ...... ..........,.. SSio, wv uUO
Total expenditures, actual and
estimated .................. 25S, 600 600
Surplus Observation-Disclosures. $50, 600 600
Estimated amount due Sinking
Fund. ...,,....,,....'.,. 4o,slo,'4l
Leaving balance of............ $99, 1888 2!5S
The estimated receipts and expenditures
for the fiscal year 1885 are thus stated by
Secretary Folger
Total estimated receipts ........ s34S, 100000
Total estimated expenditures, ia
Guiding Sinking Fund. ..... 2S3, l25 304
Estimated surplus ......,,.....,.$ 59,S14, 695
In the estimate for the current fiscal
year and for the fiscal year 1885 the re
ceip,s from internal revenue are put down
at $4,000. 900
And here is just where the cloven foot
Of the protectionlsts sticks out. Abolish
the internal revenue and there will be a
deficit of SCI, 0O0O0 to make up. How g?
Why, of course, say the protec,ionlsts, by
putting or more tariff, meaning more
monopoly breeding protection.
The Democrats say no. The bulk Of
the internal revenue ~ collected on to-
bacco ana whisky, luxurles tina. people
can do without, or not as they please
while the tariff taxes are levied on articles
of every day want and COS. the poor ten
tunes more IN proportion to their ability
to pay than the rich.
Meantime, instead of IDjuring our IN
dustrial and manufacturing industries by
such tariff reduction they can be greatly
benefited by making the reduction TO con
sist of an entire removal Of the tariff up
on raw materials. This is the policy pur.
sueu by such high protection countries as
Germany, France and the Netherlands, ID
none of which single article of what can
be called raw material, such as cotton,
wool, hemp, dye stuff, pig iron, coal, &c
&c, is taxed, and this Is the effect. The
exports from the countries named are as
follows;
Total Pr Nd
Germany ............f 1884, O0O,060 1851
France. ...,.,...... l75,6O0,0O0 All
........ 492OO,O0O 1890
While from the United States the ex-
ports Of manufactured goods for the same
year were $44 800 900. or So cents per
head
1t is true, mos, OF tie manufacturing
lords, such as the cotton wooden, iron, salt
glass and wood pulp monopolls,s, Will
say, we care nothing about this tax on raw
so long as sufficient protection is
granted US TO enable US TO pay these taxes.
But II must be borne in mind that of the
2j3, $50 manufacturing establishments IN
this country, according to the last census,
employing 2,556,974 hands, 204,92l, en-
ploying 1897 100 hands, are of the wholly
non protected class, such as the manufac-
turers of agricultural implements, brick
and nle, brooms and brushes, carriages
and wagons, Touring and grist mills,
printers and Publishers, &c, &c, ye, near
ly all the more essential IA. material
used by these manufacturers is heavily
taxed Is this right? Our manufacturers
of agricultural implements must not only
compete with the untaXed British manu-
tacturer q, home, bu, must compete with
him in Mexico, South America, Australia,
&c, while. If our iron, lumber, nails,
screws, &c, &c, were Hntaxed we could
compete with the Englishman, German or
Frenchmsn IN any market in the world
Thus to help the few hundred iron estab-
lishments III this country and the 100000
men they employ, the business o. 100000
AMI their million and "A
halt of employees is crippled Is this jls,:
Is this credltable as policy to the
\ ankee nation, reputed The. "culest" in The
world?
Democratic tariff reform thus means the
wisest and most etficien, protection and
assistance that can be given 20 our manu-
featuring Industries, while Republican
protection" means crushing them under
heels of few syhdicates OF gian. mono