Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-15

| 1870 Sales other than those of
| spirits, tobacco, wines,
,ooo :, etc. ,,.................' s.s37, ,395 90
| i6oo passports .............. 81, 90
| 1S66TaX On manufactured
| which was not paid by
| capital .....,.......... 64,s27, 1855 20
Total. ............... 1905 4s6, 1865
| 1t was very kind of these Republicans to
take the tax of $205 ,436, 900 of incomes,
railroads, insurance companies, banks :,
bankers, articles OF luxury (gold and sill
yer plate, diamonds, etc., stamps on
bank checks, etc. They abolished taxes
on incomes, and made it up by taxing
sugar, rice and salt an average of 100
per cent. They swept away the taxes on
banks, insurance and express companies,
and replaced the deficiency thus created
by levying tax of from 70 to 200 per
cent. on every dress and coat
and blanket which shielded the
poor man's.family fromthe cold OF winter.
They repealed the tax on bankers and
bank deposits and imposed an equal
amount on farming and mechanical i'm
plements. They took the tax from
legacies and SUGGESTIONS and in place
thereof, taxed every coffin and shroud.
They repealed the laws which taxed
articles OF luxury and stamp duties and
filled the gap thus occasioned by collect
ing taxes on every article which is found
in the cottages and tenements of the
people who work.
This is the party which denounces
Democrats because they seek to relieve
the actual laboring people for portion
OF the burden imposed by harsh and un-
equal legislation, for which the Republi-
can party alone is responsible.
John s. Kirschner, ex-vice president
of the International Cigar-makers
Union, writes this about the tariff in the
last number of The Cigar-makers' Official
Journal x
Protection forsooth! Did it ever oc-
cur to the workers while they marched
under the blare of the ward leaders torch
to pause and analyze this much vaunted
cry of protection. Well, let us see; we
are cigar makers working in many parts
of this great realm, all OF which is pro-
tected. In some parts we have an eight
hour day at comparatively high wages,
no child labor, etc. In other parts we
have the reverse. Look at New York
City, with it's pestilential tenement-house
cigar factories, then cast your vision over
on Binghampton, with its machines,
both human and inhuman, animate and
inanimate, little children of tender age
etc., and then try to unravel the enig-
matte problem of protectien. No, the
tariff is not protection. ."-[New York
News.
A study of the figures of our export
and import trade with Canada throws a
good deal of light on the right and wrong
of the tariff question.
In spite of two tariff walls-the tariff
wall which we set up to prevent our
people from buying things that they
want from Canada, and the tariff wall
that the Dominion Government has set
up to prevent Canadians from buying
things we want to sell them-the two
countries exchanged commodities at a
lively rate last year. For the year end
in Canada for Gn round numbers)
our manufactures, in spite of the fact
that the importers over the border had
to pay over seven millions of dollars, or
about an average of over twenty-three
per cent. on the dutiable articles at Cam
adian Customhouses. We bought from
the Canadians in that year thirty-seven
million dollars worth of goods, upon
which our importers had to pay on the
dutiable portion over five million dollars
of duties, which, of course, were ulti-
mately paid by those of us who had to
use the things imported from Canada.
Fourteen million dollars worth of our
goods were admitted to Canada free,
while we admitted over eleven million
dollars worth of Canadian goods free.
By far the worst feature of the tariff
that aims at preventing our people from
trading with Canada is the lumber tax.
The rich forests OF Quebec. Manitoba
and the Northwest territory teem with
the material that American genius and
enterprise and skill can transform into
finished wood products of thousand
kinds. The American sources of supply,
experience has shown, are neither suffi-
cient in quantity, quality nor accessible
ty for our needs-needs that would grow
hundred fold and immensely increase
the demand for capital and labor, were
the ruinous restrictions that now hamper
our industries removed.
That we must have Canadian lumber,
tariff or no tariff, is shown by the re-
markable fact that of the twenty-six mil
lion dollars Ground numbers) worth of
imports from Canada which we taxed
last year eight million dollars worth was
wood, on which the American consumer
paid price enchanced by the tariff to
one dollar and eighteen cents for each
one dollars worth. OF this immense i'm
port of wood over 81 per cent. was un-
manufactured lumber, boards, planks,
deals, shingles, etc. = practically raw
material to great section of our people,
the building trades, furniture makers
and woodward workers especially.
Now can't you see the injury this tariff
on Canadian lumber does to YOU and
every other man who is not rich enough
to live without work? 1t not only tends
to restrict house-building work and work
in every other industry in which wood is
employed, but it increases the cost of
living of every man who has a roof over
his head.
| Our total exports of wood and it's
manufactures to all foreign countries for
the first three months of this year were
worth six million of dollars. Who doubts
that with untaxed materials in these in
dustries alone, American goods would
: find q ready market in any section of the
world production would be thereby inn
mensely increased, with work plentiful
and wages good for many thousands ot
our citizens who are living now on small
wages or no wages at all.--lN. Y. News.