Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-08

Presidential Election, 1883.
For President:
GROVER CLEVELAND,
New York.
For Vice-President:
ALLEN G. THURMAN,
Ohio.
For Congress-1st District:
GILMOR S. KEND ALL,
Northampton.

That "NOble Old Roman" Alien
g. Thurman has been out to mlchi
gan and made a great speech al
Port Huron in that State. Mr..
Humans journey was like s
triumphal progress all along the
line and he was forced to make
many short speeches to the gleat
crowds thatassembled atvariouspla
-ces as he passed along. His speech
es were confined mainly to a dis
cussion of the tariff, and his state
meuts are so plain and his illus
tratlcnS so forcible, lone of them
being almost identical with one We
used in recent editorial in this
paper. that we reproduce the fol.
lowing brief extracts from his short
speech at Toledo:
GA tariff,w said Mr.. Thurman.
is nothing in this world but tax
levied by the General Government
upon importations brought into
the United States for sale, the eff.
feet Of which is to raise the price
of every commodity thus imported.
and also the price Of all domestic
commodities of the same nature
made within the United States.-
This tax is paid by the consumer
Of the article. When your State
tax is levied it is levied on prop.
erty; it is paid by property. The
man oi much property pays much
more than the man Of little proper
ty, and the man of no property
PAYS none at all. Bnt q tariff is a
tax that is paid by the consumerof
the so called protected articles. lie
pays II. rot to the tax-gatherer,not
to any officer of the Government.
but lie pays it in the price which
he g., es for every protected article
that e buys. Let me suppose, for
instance, by way of illustration,
that All importer purchases in Eng
land, thousand dollars worth
no, won't take so much as hat,
I will sly enough cloth to make II
suit of clothes FOR man. he pays
for it. then, say ten dollars. He
brings 1T to the United States.
Before he can even get it out Of
the custom house at the place
where, he lands, he must pay OF
that tax called a tariff, and the
probability is, amcng the enor
nous rates in the schedule on
WOODEN goods, that he will pay
tax Of not less than sixty cents on
the dollar. That is, he will pay
Sc tax Oh the 80 worth of cloth
that he has bought. Then it has
COST SIC, that has,
Now. if the man that imports
that cloth sells 1t to a wholesale
merchant, he must of course put
the tax that he pays on it in the
price, otherwise he would lose
money by the operation, and so.
when this importer sells to the
wholesale mel chant, he charges
him SIC for the cloth which cost
him originally but $40; nay, more.
he charges him SIG and his mer
cantiie profit on the Sc tax as well
as On the $40. the original COST OF
the goods. The wholesale mer-
chant sells it to the retail merchant
and the retail merchant sells it to
his customer. OF course this price,
with each merchants profit con-
tinues, ard is in the goods when
they are sold to the consumer. So
that by the time one OF you buys
that Cloth yon find you have topay
for it, from SIC to $50, perhaps not
less than $50 for that which orisi-
nally. cost $40. So here has been
tax imposed on the consumer
which amounts in effect to nearly
or twice as much as the
original cost Of the goods. Now,
my friends. this is so true that
there is scarcely thing that you
wear, lie price Of which is not in
f.rp..aI nv this tarifi toSD