The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-04
-. -. COX A. A TARIFF q f.
FOR MER.

How can you go out and answer tn
questions pertinent to this campaign with
out entangling alliances and confused
ideas?
Some taxpayer, tired of your protect
i've exactions, asks:
"Why should only 2,73a,s9 people
the pets of protection, be favored at The
expense of over 20 per cent. of their 60,
100000 fellow citizens? ~
What for? The voice from the still
warm with the tears of widows and or
phans-huskily answers For free whis
kyw
Why should we not cheaper clothes
blankets and carpets by admitting wool
free, since the woollen mills have a capaci-
ty for 900, 100000 pounds, and only
100000 pounds are raised at home 81
The answer comes like the bleat Of a
thousand hocks: Before clothes, or
blankets, or carpets, take free whisky 7"
But says an honorable recusant Repub
lican from Minnesota
"W orthier, better and juster, it seems
to my mind would it be to give our peo-
pie, the toiling masses, cheaper food,
cheaper fuel, cheaper clothing and cheaper
shelter, cheaper because released from the
heavy and unnecessary burden of high
tariff taxes"
"Pshaw" says the hde-oound protec-
tlonist. these articles must remain taxed
to vindicate the American system" That
system has as its genius free whisky.
A taxpayer inquiries of you:
''Have not the American people paid
In sixty years over $4,000, 900, 900 in the
hope OF getting goods cheaper by and by,
after the infants have attained their ma
turlty? What, my Republican brother,
will you now do ?''
The brother answers, "Free whisky"
HAS invention done nothing for US 2"
asks the impoverished mechanic "What
do You show us as the result of our
American genius for. century in me-
cbanics %
The answer comes: I'VE tender you
the worm in the still, the finest invention
OF the devil. 1t may take away your
brains and impoverish your families but
protection must stand We offer you.
untaxed, cheap, free whiskey :"
Another inquirer asks: "Why do YOU
not take the tax off my coat of reversible
nap?"
The answer comes: "Protection first,
but always free whiskey"
An old lady of West Virginia asks,
with anxiety: "Why must pay 60
cents in addition to every dollar for the
crockery from which l drink my sassa-
frss tea?"
"Ah ~ says the protectionist, els not
whs&ev better than tea 90
A series of questions and answers
"'sAf tyf fHg g}Jl6sg' 20 kao~ 't6atHreda7ction
proposed by the Mills bill from Al per
cent. duty to 40 on carpets?"
No, but we will repeal the tax on
cigarettes for your young boys, and add
free whisky"
Won't you support that reduction of
10 per cent. on cotton goods -
"No, but | would love to lower the
whisky tax"
Won't you reduce the tax on castor
oil below 1874 per cent.-its present
rate p
"No; l won't condescend to help any
body but those who want the cost of
whiskey reduced"
"Please help US reduce the tax on
cheap woollen cloth from SO per cent to
40 per cent, as Mills proposes-will you
not ~
No; do not want to engage in any
thing else till have taken the tax of 90
cents a gallon from whiskey"
"We are making last effort to reduce
the duty on wool hats from "a per cent.
Cheap hats. Won't you help us ?"
"No, sir the Republican platform
doesn't say anything about cheap hats.
1t does advocate taking tax from whis-
key, and | stand by the platform"
1.-The worsted goods for my family are
taxed 90 per cent. Help me pull that
down to 40 per cent, will you not %
"No, sir; let your worsted goods go
to grass. Whiskey is more than dolla r
gallon. want to take the 9O-cent gal
Ion tax off of it,
Now, my friend, the Mills bill pro-
poses to take eleven and one-half millions
tax off of sugar; won't you help us to pass
it 2"
"No, for it don't propose to cheaper
whiskey one cent"
1t makes salt free. Won't you favor
that ?"
Is salt whiskey? Salt amt in our
platform"
I" 1t makes the tin, of which our tin
stove vessels and cans and roofs are made
free; won't you give us that?"
'Tin is not in the platform, whisky is"
1t makes lumber for our homes to
keep us warm free. Won't you favor
that ~
"No | want to legislate to warm the
inner man, not the outer one. Give us
| free whiskey"
When these questions are answered,
let me read as summing up to the gen.
tleman what was said bv an old farmer
! friend of mine in Iowa. He had evidently
been perusing Sidney Smith on taxation
81 never wore any clothes that were
not increased in price by this policy of
making an almshouse of every possible
factory. | used to rise on Sunday morn
ing from my humble cot in a log farm
house, throwing off the bed clothes taxed
40 to 100 per cent, and donning my
clothing taxed 35 to 100 per cent, eat my
taxed breakfast from dishes taxed As per
cent, on table cloth taxed 40 per cent,
and when the Sabbath bell taxed 35 per
cent, sounded its inviting notes, / took
my Bible taxed 25 per cent. and went to
the church built of lumber taxed 20 per
cent, and there in Sunday-school song
book taxed 25 per cent. land all these
taxes paid to the objects of my charity
not to the Government), read:
| Far out upon the prairie
| How many children dwell
Who never read the kible
Nor hear the sabbath belL'