The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-31
WIT FATHERS WISDOM.
A Word Painting of Free Trade that Is
Cnrtnpn In and Of Itself.

Judge.
There are but two ways to procure the
revenues necessary for the maintenance
of the National Government. One is to
directly tax the farm land, personal
property, city and village lots, and the
little homesteads in tho same way that
State taxes arc levied. The other Is to
collect on foreign importations tariff,
or what may be characterized as o ped
dler's license" to be paid by the foreign
salesman before hawking his wares. The
latter IL, in fact, small cash compensa-
| ton for the opportunities OF the market
Partial free trade partially and absolute
free trade wholly give proportionate
advantage to the European producer.
The domestic manufacturer pays home
taxes on real estate, machinery and
stock. Pays to the town, pays to the
county, pays TO the State, pays Tor the
working OF the roads, the maintenance
OF schools, the support Of the courts OF
Justice, and all the machinery Of the
government OF the State, The free
trader proposes wholly to donate, with
out charge or cost, our market advant-
ages, not to a neighbor, whose prosperity
and gain become a common benefit, but
to q trader across the sea. he further
proposes to sustain, without ex-
pense, courts OF collection, and main
tain law and order among the
customers TO whom he sells his untaxed
goods. In this way free trade ia an In.
Mss;ce. It lifts every burden from the
profit taker and places it a.! on the back
OF the buyer. Every mill or factory
built here, every living house Tor the
employe, every railroad snort or long,
used to move the raw or made material,
every omen coal or iron mine, every iur-
mace for smelling ore or fusing glass be.
comes and is a financial honey cell hlled
by the workers for the suStenance OF
every member of the hive. Is there any
business, sense or reason for us TO give
our advantages for mere mess OF theo-
retical Golden Club pottageY 49,.
The necessities OF the federal govern
ment call annually for over $500, 000, 600
for the payment OF interest on. the
national debt, the payment OF pensions,
the maintenance OF the navy, the sup
port OF our frontier army police, 10 pay
the deficit OF the postal service, and the
vast vet necessary corps OF government
officials, and other incidental needs OF
care taking OF the interests OF 60, 900
OF people. Thirty-fve millions is about
the annual income from the sales OF
public lands. Tho remainder $500, 0OO,-
6OO) is gathered, $120, 900, 900 from inter
nal revenue tax on whisky, wines, beer
and tobacco, and the balance on Gus
toms duties on the importations oil for
eign goods. We buy annually $2ll ,0OO,-
900 worth OF foreign products that pay
no tariff tax or duty whatever. WehHy
SlB. 900. 900 OF taxiess tea, 0,000, 900 OF
taxless coffee, and SO, 900, 900 Of taxless
lumber in the log.
The Mills Tariff Reduction bill pro-
poses to take the tariff OF Canadian hay,
sawed lumber and Canadian wheat. 1t
proposes to make wool free, and with
ianiaronade OF Democratic love for the
workingman points, rs IN assurity OF its
care, to the cheaper coat and cheaper
carpet made OF foreign wool on foreign
looms. Yet OF the 54,0O0,000 worth OF
wooden goods imported, four.ffths are OF
kind that the laboring man seldom
buys. The Workingman averages, as his
share OF the federal tag, eight cents per
person q year; the balance, forty.seven
cents, is paid by the more dudish con-
sumner, per head.
The people of the United States pay
tariff annually OF $5O000,0O0 on sugar.
Sugar is not confined like expensive
woods and Silks to the using Of a limited
class. Every household Is, in proper
ton to its number, consumer. Due
and honest regard for the resources OF
the limited wage Garner would call for
the complete abolition OF this tax, tax
that averages eighty.slx oenta each Tor
every man, woman and child In the
country. Sugar, however, is a Southern
product and needs Democratic protec-
ton. Wool is Northern, and the farmer
| is again called, as in the days before the
war, to give way to the planter.
Democracy drcams Of foreign mar
ket, contested for inch byinch by the
cheap capital and cheaper labor OF
Europe. The policy Of the Republican
party proposes to make free only such
products us we cannot raise or make. 1t
proposes, before seeking foreign mar
ket, to care for the nearer and more Ger
tain one Mt home, TO keep active our own
capital, and supply employment to our
own labor.