Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-20

are said 70 be interested In n protective
tarln OF tallors and talloresses there
are i3s, 1855, and half Of these are affected
/ by the tariff Painters and varnishers,
1 i25,T56 These certainly are not inter-
ested IN maintaining protective tariff
| Nothing Is imported from Europe 10 COM
! pete with them. Iron and steel works
and shop operatives, ll4,59s. Masons,
brick and stone, 1862, 47S. These are not
interested in protective tariff. Machln-
lists, l0l ,I30. These are claimed TO be in
terested In the tariff. Woolen-mill opera
tives, 5000, and from q Republican
standpoint these also are Interested. OF
engineers and fremen there are 1908.
| Now. my fellow-citizens, have read over
7 TO you all the various subdivisions con-
! s'ituting the manufacturing, mechanical
aud mining Classes, numbered at 1887,
ll2, and when TO these YOU add the rails
ers OF sheep and wool, / figure IL up that
out Of nearly ls,000,000 OF people in the
United States In 1850 who were pursuing
gsiniul occupations, there are, upon the
theory OF the Republicans, themselves,
only abont 100000 OF people
interested In the tariff which
scourges the whole people with
tax Of from i55 to 471 per cent.
upon every article OF consumption. Tha
Is protective tariff. Quoting again
from my speech In the senate OF the
United States lib 1882, desire to continue
this subject still q little further have
said that under protective tariff every
manufacturer IS a taX-gatherer, and that
Is unquestionably true. When foreign
lgoods are brought to this country they
are entered at the custonl-house Of the
port where they arrive, and the Import
duties or tariff tax is paid. That tax
goes into the treasury AZ national reve-
nue., but ITS effect is 10 give the manHfac-
turers OF the United States the benefit OF
the duties thus paid, for TO the cost OF
production is added this duty on the for
elm article SO that the consumer pays
not only the duty on the imported article,
but on the domestic product as well.
During the fiscal year Just closed, the
value of merchandise imported into this
country from abroad was S4is ,06l, 5S7 .05s
and on this merchandise there was col
lected at the custom-houses Sl9S, 500, S97,
being an average Of 43 l-3 per cent. This
Is the entire revenue Of the government
derived from the tariff for the last fiscal
year. Now, what amount do the manu-
facturers receive from the tariff By the
census OF 20 dor this speech was made
In 1882, before the census reports OF $50
were published) 1t was estimated that
$4,000, 100000 worth OF manuiac-
tured articles were consumed
in the United States annually.
The figures for $50 are not yet published
SO as to be accessible, but following the
ratio of increase In population, they must
now amount TO at least So, 900, 900, 900
each year, and that was the exact amount
reported when the census Of 1880 was
published, after the delivery of the
speech from which l quote. |
was guessing at 1t, aud guessed exact.
ly right. All these manufactures were in
creased in coat to the consumer by the
amount of the tariff duty, averaging As
per cent, which goes 10 the manufac-
turer, and II is easy TO see on that basis
what the share OF the manufacturer
would be. But l will discount that per
centage so as to cover oil contingencies
and all drawbacks and will say that they
receive under the tariff only 20 per cent.
on the sum total of manufactured articles
consumed in the United States, and II
amounts to thelenormous sum OF 81 $780,
100000 annually, which Is increasing each
year with the population of the country.
So that for the year 1881 the results OF
tariff taxation and the distribution of Its
proceeds may be tabulated thus; revenue
received by the government, Sl93, $780,
s97; bounty received by the manutactur-
ers, 81 $50, 200, 900, aud thus for every
dollar paid into the national treasury as
import duties under the existing system,
at least Sc 80 goes into the peck
cts OF the manufacturers. Now, my
fellow.citizens, that is the tariff.
That is IT'S operation. That tariff
is maintained by the Republican party in
It's state and national platforms and by its
represe natives in congress, while 1t has
estly, continually, constantly and persis-
tently, eversince the Democratic party has
existed Before the war, when the country
was under Democratic domination, the
average tariff was 20 per cent, and the
country never was so prosperous before,
while the revenues were so great that this
tariff, passed in 1916, had to be reduced
in 1867 because IL produced a surplus
That was under Democratic rule. Now,
, with tariff of As per cent, there was
! paid into the treasury last year $751;, oo0,-
, 600, and suppose the manufacturers of
/ the country receive by 1t not less than
i 81 500, 000,0 1t produces S93, 900, 900
I In excess OF the requirements Of the gov
! eminent, and although the country
, demands that the tariff be reduced,
the Republican party stands like lion in
the path aud says 1t shall not be reduced;
that they want that tariff for the protec-
ton of American labor, but | have shown
4 you, fellow-citizens, that there are less
than 200, 900 Americanilaborers, accord
, to their own showing, interested In 1t,
/ and that with tariff Of 10 per cent. the
I difference between the cost OF labor
I abroad and at home would be more than
4 made up to the manufacturers Of this
, country Fifteen per cent. would be
4 highly protective, and yet, with a tariff Of
\ 4T3 per cent, producing q surplus OF $685.
! 900, 900 annually, tariff reform Is voted
a down. IL Is true that each time about
!. forty Democrats, under the leadership of
Samuel j. Randall, voted against Nor
rison's tariff bill, put--those forty recall
ciuant Democrats constituted only about
o one-hfth or one-slxth OF the Democrats OF
9 the house, and cannot give character to
the Democratic party, The Democrats
$ who voted with Morrison 70 reduce the
j tsrin stood by the constitution and by
/ Democratic traditions and principles, and
T among them was every single
! man from Texas holding com
Q mission from the people to represent them
e In the national legislature, Applause. I
q There may be some need OF an indepen-
4 dent Democratic party TO be organized at
/ the homes of these forty Democrats,
! who refuse 20 relieve the American peo-
g pie from tariff which is such stupen-