The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-09-08
W HITE PINE NEWS


Silver State by Nevada farmer we
extract the following. While not
vouching for the entire correctness OF
"Farmor s" figures, we take them to be
nearly so, and deserving the careful
perusal of our readers. Ii the asser-
tions made by the Nevada Granger
are untrue we will be pleased to have
any of our Republican friends correct
him through these columns:
High tariff means unfair taxes,
though each man should pay his share
of the expenses of the government ac-
cording to his prosperity. The man
with $4,000 should pay ten times as
much as the man with $1,000. Just
here the great struggle of the many
against the few begins. 1t is very
hard to make capitalist pay in pro-
portioh8 If we did we would have
better roads, lower taxes an easier life
and larger incomes. Every voter
knows that the tariff is tax levied on
certain goods and that the persons who
buy the goods pay the tax. Even a
high protectionist does not deny this.
The maintenance of needless taxes for
projections sake is not and never was
principle of true Republicanism. 1t
is the principle that has created and
sustained great horde OF manufac-
turers who control the Republican
party and never would have come to
the surface had it not been for the
exigencies of the war, which gave
them the opportunity of imposing the
greatest measure of taxation ever re-
corded in the history of any nation.
Behold the happy farmer, as he rises
in the morning and putteth on his
common flannel shirt, taxed 95 per
cent. It may be that the morning is
cold and he puts on a coat taxed 81
per cent. He cannot go out without
shoes taxed 30 per cent, and the hat
that he puts on is taxed 65 per cent.
He washes his face and hands in basin
taxed IS per cent, drying them on a
cheap cotton fowl, taxed As per cent.
But still the high tariff advocates have
placed more happiness in store FOR the
honest tiller of the soil. He sits down
to breakfast and eats from "a plate
taxed 30 per cent, with knife and
fork taxed 35 per cent; the sugar he
puts into his coffee is taxed 80 per
cent, and he seasons his food with
salt taxed 40 per cent. lie looks proud
ly at his wife and children, who share
protection with him, aud fills his pipe
with tobacco, taxed at 1872 per cent.
lights cigar, taxed llS
per cent, while the smiling sun
streams through the protected glass of
his window on tax of SO per cent.
The thrice happy farmer now takes
his horse out OF the stable, and puts on
a bride taxed 30 per cent. A neigh
borhood blacksmith shoes him, using
nails taxed 80 per cent, and drives
them with q hammer taxed 20 per
cent. He then bitches him to pillow
taxed 40 per cent, with chains taxed
SO per cent, and proceeds to his highly
protected labor. After his days
work is done, should he belong to any
religious nomination, he reads chap
ter from the bible, taxed % per cent,
and kneels to pray on a carpet taxed
81 per cent. At last he lays down to
rest and wraps his weary limbs in
sheet taxed 40 per cent, and goes to
sleep under blanket taxed 104 per
cent. Nor have his good Republican
protectors been so ungallant as to neg
lect his wife and children. The broom
with which she sweeps the floor is
taxed 35 per cent, and the cooking
utensils, which are secured after each
meal, are taxed on an average AZ per
cent. The soda which they use In
their daily bread is taxed
SO per cent. Thankful to their kind |
protectors they sit down in the even
ing to sew with needles taxed % per |
cent. and thread taxed IA per cent.
they make calico dress that is taxed |
IS per cent, and grandma joins in |
knitting u pair of socks with yarn
axed 100 per cent.
All, the happy farmer ! With the
oil of protection his cup runneth over.
That he has not been killed with kind
hess ere is due to the tender mercies
If the Democratic party, which have
lere and thsre diminished tax.
AS another illustration, we will take
Orexler of San Francisco, the manu-
acturer of barley sacks, who is pro-
ected in his monopoly by tariff of |
20 per cent, or to make the case plain