St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
REDUCE THE TAXES.
Endorsements OF the Reform Posi-
ton of the Democracy.

which this needless surplus is taken
from the people and put into the public
treasury, consists of tariff or duty
levied upon importations from abroad,
and internal revenue taxes levied upon
the consumption of tobacco and spiritu-
Gus and malt liquors. 1t must be con-
ceded that none of the things subjected
to internal revenue taxation are, strictly
speaking. neceSSarjeS; there appears to
be no Just complaint of this taxation by
the consumers of these articles, and
there seems to be nothing so we'll able
to bear the burden without hardship to
any portion of the people.
But our present tariff laws, the Vi
cious, inequitable and illogical source
of unnecessary taxation, ought to be at
once revised and amended.
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Under our present laws more than
4,O00 articles are subject to duty. Many
of these do not in any way compete
with our manufactures, and many are
hardly worth attention as subjects OF
revenue. A considerable reduction can
be made in the aggregate by adding
them to the free list The taxation Of
luXuries presents no features of hard
ship: but the neceSsarieS OF life, used
and consumed by all the people, the
duty upon which adds to the cost of liv-
ing in every home, should be greatly
cheapened.
Republican Platform 1888.
We favor the entire repeal of internal
taxes Ton beer, whisky and tobacco
rather than the surrender of any part
of our protective system.
Benjamin Harrison, July 4, 1888.
baUn road the nlatfOrm with some
care, and its expressions are i'll harmony
with my views.
Democratic Platform 1888.
All unnecessary taxation is an unjust
taxation.
1t is repugnant TO the creed of Dem
Ocracy, that by such taxation the cost
of the necesSaries Of life should be uu-
Justly increased to all our people.
Judged by Democratic principles, the
interests Of the people are betrayed,
when. by unnecessary taxation, trusts
and combinations are permitted and
fostered, which, while unduly enrich
ing the few that combine, rob the body
of our citizens by depriving them of the
benefits of natural competition.
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James G. Blaine, June 10. 1868.
Now. as TO the article of lumber,
again remind the house that there has
never been tax upon this article. 1
say that, whenever the Western 'front.'
iersman undertakes to make for himself
a home, to till the soil, to carry on the
business of life, he needs lumber for
his cabin, he needs lumber for his
fence, he needs lumber for his wagon
or cart. he needs lumber for his plough,
he needs lumber for almost every pur-
pose in his daily life.
Gen. John A. Logan, April 1S, 1870.
And when a gentleman stands upon
this floor and tells me that this high,
this extraordinary high tariff is for the
protection of the laboring men l tell
him that do not understand how he
can possibly substantiate such theory.
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Hon. Knute Nelson, NJ. c., Republican, of
Minnesota March 90 1888.
In the face of the fact that so many
of the bareSt neceSSarieS of life are load
ed down with the highest kind of tariff
taxes, it makes me sick at heart to think
that there are leading men on this side
of the chamber who can find at this
juncture. and under these circum-
stances, no other field for tax reduction
than the internal revenue taxes on spir-
its and tobacco. Surely these things
boring man keeps his family.
Worther. better, and juSter, it seems
to nv mind, would it be to give our
people-the toiling masses - cheaper
food cheaper fuel, cheaper clothing
and cheaper shelter-cheaper because
releaved from the heavy and unneceS-
sary bondage Of high tariff taxes. 1
will put free sugar, free coal. free salt,
and free lumber against free whisky
and free tobacco under all circum-
stances, and so will the great mass of
the American people.
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New York Tribune, March 8. 1888.
The pine lumber pool has succeeded
during the past year in advancing the
prices of lumber S12 10 SIS per thousand,
on the ground of higr shipping rates
and increased wages. The grounds for
the advance are trivial, as the wages OF
the men are only So more per month and
the running expenses of the vessels are
no greater. The pool, which has adopted
all the methods of newly-invented
trusts, has simply made the people of
California pay about one and half
millions into its pocket. 1t controls
ships and mills, and regulates the prices
of pine lumber to suit itself.
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Congressman Tarsney, Democrat, June 3,
1888:
We employ thousands of men in our
lumber industry, but how are they pro-
teeted? Within few miles of the Can
adian line we have found, year after
year, that our lumbermen, instead of
protecting the American laborer, would
90 into the province of Ontario and
bring over cheap Canadian labor, bring
them across the river and through the
lines, and greet them with good morn
| ing as they passed out of the custom
house and came into competition with
American labor whom you pretend to
protect. That is the way you protect
American labor.
Congressman Bynum, Democrat, June 5,
1855:
The manufacturers of Michigan, Min
nesota and Wisconsin produce about
| 5000, coo, 600 feet per annum. The 81
duty per thousand which they have
placed upon the value of their lumber in
| the tree amounts to Sl6,000,O 900 annually.
Who pays this bonus? The farmers of
| the West, the wage-wOrkerS of our
| cities who are struggling by the aid of
| building and loan associations to get a
| little home of their own from which
| their families cannot be driven when
they are out of employment.
| New York Evening Post
During the fifty years since the adj
vent of free trade in England there has
been a general increase in wages, rang
| ing from 20 to $50 per cent. The small
| est increase in any occupation Is in that
| of mule-spinnerS, whose wages have in