The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-10-26

The land. When tsxes are collected for
your county OF Allen. or for your mu-
Of Fort Wsyne, II IL levied
upon your property. You know exactly
what you have TO list aud give 10 the as
sessor aud exactly tne a,nount OF taxes
you have 10 pay; but when the tax
comes IN this insidious shape OF tariff.
how do you pay III No man comes 10
you clothed il authority from the United
States asking for tax list or demanding
50 much money. Not one Of you has q.
tax receipt from collector Of customs
unless he happens TO have imported
goods into the United States. You do
not pay Il that way. You pay II in the
price that you give for every
thing that has paid . duty, and for 81
multitude Of other things that have not
paid duty, hut the price Of which has
been raised BY the domestic producer, as
be has been enabled 20 do IL by reason
OF the duty paid upon the imported
article. tApplsuse:
The importer brings HE goods here
for sale at the custom-h0use. The gov
ernmeut says: 'Sir. you must pay 81
tax Of 20 or 20, or il may be 100 peri
cent. on the goods before you can sell
them here" He pays the tax. He sells
to the merchant, aud. Of course, puts on
the tax In the price be charges the
merchant. for Otherwise he could not
carry on business % an importer single
day. Tbe merchant At New York sells
II 10 the retail dealer ia Fort Wayne and
the price Il stili IN il, and the duty and
The profit Of tine importer aud OF the
v hoiesale merchant ia New York and
Of the retail dealer here 10 in il. There
is the original price, the tax and the three
profits in Il before il gets upon your
back. [Applause.
You don't see il. my friends. but you
feel II. There cannot be $500. .O00, 900 or
$500, 900 ,O0O Of tax taken from the peo-
Die OF the United States in that way, and
three or four times that much taken
from them for the benefit Of the protect
ed manufacturers. without their feeling
Il Il is just as certain - death. Il is
not tax on property, but II is tax up
on consumption. therefore II is that q
poor man may chance 10 pay for more
than the richest man In the land. Jap
plause.l
You take good, honest democrat who
has fulfilled the command Of the scrip
ture aud taken unto him good wife and
has . family OF children. and il compell-
led to purchase for them commodities
that they must have ia order to live. the
tax that be pays may be four times as
|much as that Of crusty, rich old bache-
|Ior who is worth millions Of dollars an.i
|is Of no use TO society or any body.
|[Gsesi applause
Such system ss this cannot possibly
|prevail unless there II soma humbugging
|of the people. The republican speakers
seem 10 me this year to be more anda-
|cious aud daring in their representations
than ever before, although had thought
that they had gone heretofore just a. FAR
|as human audncity could GO. tLaughter
and applause They cay we are free
traders. What do they mean by free
trade? There is such . thing as free
trade in this country.
We have thirty-eight states. nine ter
|rit0ries aud the District Of Columbia.
snd betw them there u absolute free
trade. can recoIlect when all my
shoes were made by the village cobbIer
when all the hOrscshOes that were used
were msdc BY the village blacksmith.
II IL not 90 now. You get your shoes.
IN pst Of thesD. from Lynn. In the state OF
Massachusetts; they come 70 Fort Wayne
and they pay no tax You get your
and horseshoe nails from some
great factory Ia the East and they pay
no tax 10 the state Of Indiana That il
absolute free trade. We never have
proposed Il, and don't propose it now !;
and yet with the Mills bill, the average
duties levied by Il are over ~ per cent.
and In manv respects are %. "A and l5
per cent. They cay We are free traders.
aud the country IL going TO be ruined
BY free trade. Il IL very much like
Bret Harse's story Of the heathen Chiuee
when Bill Nye says We are ruined BY
Chinese cheap labor, because he caught
: Chinese cheating at little game Of
cards. daughter and applause.) That
Il simply IN absurdity, but Il is not any
more absnrd than some OF their PROPOSE
ti0ns. They cay that this country is|
made rich BY these high protective
duties, q II it were possible 70 make a]
people rich,by taking out Of their pock-
etc more money than the government has
any use for. They say Il is for the bene-
dt Of laboring men, g II : labcring mans
could be benefited by taxing
him on everything he wears. (Applause.)
They cay We are the enemies Of labor
ing men. Henry Clay was called the
father Of the American tariff system. Hel
did not make such arguments as that
lie said protection was to encourage thel
infant industries OF the country. Well,
Clay lived long enough to see that infant
had grown TO be . man and II Was time
70 stop feeding him with bottle.
| Laughter and applause.1 II has been
forty odd years since that infant becamel
Of age, and | think myself Il Il time forl
him to shufle for himself [Applausc.1 II
They say we are the enemies OF manu-
facturers. No man ever In this world
advocated American msnufacturerel
more earnestly than did Thomas Jefer-I
son. Why, We ere just o much inter-
ested In the manufacturers as they are.
This beautiful city OF Fort Wayne II 81
Oraaf mann facturin0 citv and 1 admire