The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-23

REPUBLICANS are priding themselves
/ that an examination of the books" has
not revealed one cent stolen by the re-
publicans while in Office. Money was
not taken directly from the treasury as
that would be impossible without detec-
ton. But how is it with the star route
frauds? How was it with the revenue
frauds in whiskey? How was it with the
sale of post traderships by Belknap?-
Were not these frauds against the people
though the "books" fail to show them?
And on the matter Of protection to
what extent have people been defrauded?
Let little examination of the subject
show the facts.
In the item of Bituminous coal the
following figures will show:
Domestic production, tons 76,643,671
Imported, 774,799
Duty on imported, 1851, 099
Duty paid domestic producer, S56,000,000
Total wages paid, $51, 249675
Thus it Will be seen that the domestic
producers of coal by adding the rate of
duty, collect from the consumer S56, SS2,-
754 beyond the actual value as fixed by
imported coal; while they pay out in
wages only S51,249675, or very nearly
S5000000 than the Doodle they get.
How would this look if placed on the
books?
Tabulating the ore industry in the
same manner we get the following:
Value of domestic ore, $20,470,756
Value of imported ore, S2,112,128
Duty on imported ore, 1856, 1896
Duty on domestic ore, SS,1SS302
Wages paid for mining, $10000,000
Here we find that mine owners collect
in the shape of duty from the people
over four-fifths of the wages paid. How
would this look if placed on the books?
Iron and steel manufactures furnish
the following:
Home production, $685. .445
Importations, S506IS 1856
Duty on imports, $50, 713, 233
Duty on home production, S134379, IT'S
Wages paid, S62. 71S.54S
The benefits accruing to the iron and
steel manufacturers through the duty
gives them an amount more than double
the wages they pay.
How would these figures look on the
books on which nothing wrong can be
found?
From the statistics of manufacturers
of wool the following figures are borrowed:
Manufactures, domestic, S350,00O,0OO
Importations, S4.235.34
Duty on imports, 500, T29. III
Duty on domestic m'nfg, S234, 100000
Wages, $50. O57. S15
from which it will be seen that the man
ufacturers get in duty nearly four times
what they pay for wages. In all these
tables, except the first the duty is on the
cost Of the domestic articles, which it is
admitted increases it somewhat. But to
this protectonists can make no objection
as they claim the domestic article is sold
as Nhcop uS Inc 1OItlssA StI tICIt.
A little reorganization may show in
more condensed form the condition in
which the republican party left the
books" if something more than the fnan-
cial transactions of the treasury were
entered:
Wages paid by the industries
above named, S1TS7S5490
Benefit enjoyed from protec-
ton by domestic manufac-
turers, S433 150.S;}4
L will be seen that in four industries
the present tariff enables manufacturers
to extort a price in excess of what foreign
competition would allow, sufficient to
pay all the labor they employ and leave
a balance of S254, 365,344 The final pur-
ehasers is this country of wooden goods,
bltuminous coal, iron ore and manufac-
lures of iron and steel, would save S254.-
3o5,344 by paying the laborers employed
IN these industries, permit them to re-
main idle. and purchasing these classes
of goods in foreign markets.
How would that look if placed upon
the books?