Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-25

1 45A 9l 49, u onis tarin law OF $2I2 ,O32
United States. " en
But that, as have told you. was Az
least part Of the burden. The 5nn,ost; ~
manufacturers OF the same kind ~ cos, :,
| 957,9I1. W Sooo'
/ IN other words, the whole countrv \
Taxed about one thousand million dollar
Ior tne beneht OF "a comparatively sm al
portion oil the country. And that is sa ia :,
De justice, that is said to be fair plav. tba
SAID TO be Tor the benefit OF Americansi WI,
don't they carry it out, when they find i,
rort Huron a lawyer whose pl o lessior
oon't afford him comfortable support
why don't they
"TAx you ALL FOR HIS BENEFrr
so as to protect him?
II remember one OF the most satisfactor,
votes cast when in the Senate OF The
United States was to abolish the tag on
quinine, SO that man with fever and
agne could have his quinine without being
robbed OF the means Of sustenance.
II have said the consumer pays the tax.
you want authority, let me refer you to
men who have spoken on the subject.
First, win 60 back to
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IN 1882.
He was chairman OF the House committee
on manufacturing. In report made by
him he said: The doctrine that the duties
OF imports seem to cheaper the price OF the
articles on which they are levied seems to
CONNECT with the first dictates OF common
sense. duty constitutes part of the price
OF the whole mass OF articles in the market.
+ ri haf anfi ioll II
domestic manufacture as well as upon those
OF foreign production. We say that SO long
as the Importation continues, the duty
must be paid by the purchaser OF the arti-
Gle, and the effect must be to increase the
price OF the article to the extent of the adj
ditional duty. We cannot subscribe, there
fore, to the doctrine that the duties on inn
ports il protective OF our own manufac-
turers, unless they were paid b. foreign
merchants or manufacturers
"PREsIDENT ARTHUR,
in his annual message in 1882 said: 4
recommend an enlargement Of the free list;
that is, of goods that pay no duty, SO as
to include within it the numerous articles
which yield an inconsiderable revenue. a
Of the incomplete and incon-
sistent schedule OF duties upon certain
particularly those Of cotton,
iron and steel; and substantially reduc-
tion OF duties upon those articles and upon
sugar, molasses: wool and woolen goods
THAT is precisely what Mills attempts
to do; and yet these gentlemen who are
bowling around about the benefits of pro-
lection, tell you that this thing which
President Arthur recommended only 90
lately is only free trade. They are more
afraid OF free trade than they are OF rattle.
snakes. [Applause.]
"The Mills bill calls for the most
MODERATE REDUCTION OF THE TARIFF DU-
that has ever been attempted. The aver
age duty levied under the present tariff is
~ per cent, and under the Mills bill the
average would be only about 40 per cent. |
The duty is taken of number OF articles |
,alled raw material, which are used Hy |
products, and as they receive this great |
benefit OF having their raw material free
,r with comparatively small duty, the bill
wisely provides that articles manufactured
,y them when brought into this country
hall pay a lower rate OF duty than they
lid before. But that is nothing more than
compensation for taking off the duty on
aw materials.
"These advocates OF protection are all
It once seized with wonderful solicitude
Or the laboring man, and they want high
rc tective tarin-not to benefit the
apitalist; not to benefit the monopolist;
OF to benefit the manufacturers-accord
lg to their statement-but to benefit the
lboring man! He is the man they seek to
rotectl would like to know how taxing
laboring man on everything from the
rown of his head to the sole OF his feet is
ping to enrich him! Yet this is exactly
hat tariff tax does and they say that is
,r the be- elefit of the laboring man!
"How is the laborer to get high wages
ecause the capitalist, employer, will make
lore money and can pay higher wages?
id you ever know him to do it? II
THE tariff has been raised again and
gain, and l have never heard of an in
ease in price paid to the laborers. We
ave for 27 years had
THE HIGHEST TARIFF WE EVER KNEW OF,
I'd during that time has the laboring man
own rich? Every year we hear OF the C
iikes of laboring men because they cannot Il
re on the wages they receive, and every
ar we hear OF lockouts because employers
nnot afford to pay more wages. Why .
csc strikes and lockouts? Why such or
nizations as the Knights OF Labor and
Lrious other labor unions for the protec- +
IN OF laborers, il the tariff gives high
lges? Why, they say, the tariff does not
ise price. If that is a fact, why are the
auufacturers in favor OF it? Do they want q
nigh tariff ia erder to lower it? II it don't :,
crease the price, you may besure that the :
and capitalists would not
mt it.
'They are afraid OF your getting things G,
eaper in this country than they can be a
snufactured, they say, by reason OF the n
uper labor, as they call 1t, OF Europe.
sAs a laboring class, | want to call your d.
tention to the negroes. The result OF the
IT was to free about four million OF me- C,
pes, and am very glad they were freed c,
d they have increased now to about six -
lions. Now, how do these negroes make "
cir living? In this country the negro makes
,at he gets by cultivation OF the earth
rouehout the whole South. Whether he
ltiyates his own land or whether he rents N
the crops that he gets from it are the re- q
ineration that he receives for his toll. y
lat crop is mainly cotton. How can a
ID protective tariff benefit that negro Il
10 raises cotton2 There is ip
"No TARIFF AT ALL ON COTTON. eI
1T comes in free as the air. The price
cotton is not raised, as they say, or a
sened by this tariff tax, and yet here is q
the negro has for his labor. He can't
a cent for his cotton by reason OF any
ii protective tariff. He has to sell it at
D price made by a foreign market, but, ii
the other hand, everything he buys is Il
xed by q high protective tariff, and there ;.
d be no pretense whatever that the ).
riff is any thing but an unmitigated IN ~
Itice to hIrn. t'
Our Republican friends should take this er
4 under serious consideration. They er
' they freed the n-groes from slavery, but d.
rbaps two million Democratic soldiers W
the army would have something to say
out it. The Republican party, after
inning to have freed the negroes, would
Ike them slaves again by compelling n
,m to pay high taxes on everything they :, =
. which goes to benefit some one else. 3 5
IT it enough that they make him u
we by requiring him to vote for them =, .,
4 swear not to vote for the Democrat? .,
rR,cas AND EUROPEAN LABOR COMPARED. m
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while am on the subject OF labor, let Il
sneak ON the American iaborer com 81