St. Paul daily globe., 1886-08-24
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
LOvely-Limd Tariff Plank.

No convention in the United States has ever
adopted more purely and rabidly protective
tariff platform than those adopted by the Re-
publican conventions in the First and Second
congressional districts of Minnesota.
A tariff laid on imports, such are not
produced, and hence do not compete with any
thing i'll this country, is a purely revenue
tariff, and every dollar collected at the custom
house on such articles goes into the United
States treasury. On the other hand, a tariff
laid on articles which DO compete with other
like articles made in this country, has a ten
dency to, and usually does. allow the home
maker to charge for his goods an amount
nearly equal to the amount of the tariff in
excess OF what he otherwise could get. When
such tariff is not prohbitory, preventing all
importationS and thus cutting off all revenue
to the government, its effect is to require the
collection Of several dollars from the consum-
ers in order to put 81 in the United States
treasury, yielding several dollars to the man
ufacturing and mining corporations OF the
East for every dollar to the United States.
The platforms adopted in the First and Sec
Ond congressional districts declare that the
tariff should be removed entirely from all
articles OF common use, which do not COM
pete with things in this country This is.
they call for the striking out of nearly every
revenue feature i'll the present tariff, and
making 1t wholly protective. They demand
that the tariff should be so amended as to ex-
tort the most from the needy consumers of
articles OF common use for the benefit of
the private manufacturing and mining
corporations of the East, and produce the
least to the United States treasurer. This is
hardly the doctrine of revenue reformers,
who desire to have the tariff laid, so far as
possible. on articles which do not compete
with articles produced in this country so us
to produce the most to the United States
treasury. with the least bonus to the manu-
featuring corporations, and reduce to the
utmost the burden of tha tariff tO
sumer. The platforms adopted ale at least
fully up to the standard of the Pennsylvania
protectionist, even if they do not surpass
them Ill devising method for robbing the
farmers of the West, who are competing with
the loTeSt-priced labor in the world, the serfS
of Russia and the riots of India to enable
the manufacturing and mining corporations
of the East, who have displaced American
laborerS with the freshly-Imported paupers
and anarchists of Europe, to compete with
English labor, the higheSt-priced labor of the
old world. getting several times as much as
that with which the former compete. II
MessrS. Lind and Lovely truly believe that
any one ought to be compelled to pay po-
nus to any other person to aid him in compet-
ing with low-priced labor, they would GER
tainly find it far more consistent to argue to
their former constituents not that the man
who completes with the lowest priced labor
should pay q bonus to the man who competes
with the highest priced labor, but that the
system should be reversed, and the Eastern
manufacturing and mining companies be COM
pelled to pay an income tax to be divided pro-
portionately among the wheat growers, to
enable them TO compete with the lowest
priced labor i'll the world.
The leading Minnesota Republicans are evil
with the balance of their party, ana those who
do not wish to vote for protection must get
out of the Republican party. P IF
Mankato, Aug. 81 1885,