Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-07

the Mills bin went To h senate, and 10,
q transformation scene. Republicans
senators assembled in caucus at the ap.
propriate hour of dinner, when wine and
feasting bring them in sympathy with
the people, and we he'd their 9ivings ont
that, at last they would frame their
measure of long promised tariff reform.
Many weeks have since passed away.
More dinner caucuses have been
enjoyed, aud still the senate's tariff
bill fingers in CESSATION. Is there
any one who believes the scr:ois plr-
pose exists to give the people this louged
for redress? They purpose no substan-
tial measured; they intend no help to the
people; or If driven at last TO release
something from taxation, their relief will
go to the suffering whisky drinkers, not
to the laborer who wants clothes for his
family.
oh, can You not see, can any man be
so blind as not to see why it is that the
president makes this appeal to the peo-
pie. 1t is to you, my fellow citizens, it is
to your wisdom, to your fidelity, to your
selves and your country hat this great
appeal is made. Here is a thing which
the administration is powerless to do I'M
less the Ubiquitous provisions of law shall
be condemned by the people. The worst
of this evil is not in the present pecuni-
airy burden, great and wrong as it is,
1t is the indirect consequences and the
future peril. A great surplus in the
public treasury is a menace to security,
and constant over-taxation as fatal to
free institutions as poison on the tongI e
of a Is not your congress to.day
crowded with schemes of every sort to
reach the surplus in the treasury? What
is the Blair educational billl What the
bill to return the direct taxes to the
~states2 What much of the river and
harbor bill? You nave but one course,
fellow countrymen. You must reduce tax
alton and stop the needless ~ingathering
of money, And what is the objection to
it2 They call the tribute laid by tariff
laws protection" protection" to
American industry" Where is the FRO.
lection of the tariff? In what manner
does it protect, and whom does 1t pro-
tect? b tariff is simply a tax levied
upon articles brought into this ountr
from abroad FOR sale, use or consump-
ton. Now, it is obvious that the i'm
porter larst add to what he pays the
foceign merchant the amount of the tax,
because hat is a part of the cost
of the articles to him, and upon that
cost I've computes his profits, and in the
end the consumer pays the tax as well
as the foreign price, with the mer-
chants profit charged upon both. When
the duty is made high upon such articles
as are manufacturer in this country to
prevent the foreign merchant from COM
peting with domestic manufacture, then
the domestic manufacturer can sell the
article of his countrymen at any price he
chooses to fix below that at which
it can be imported with duty
added. If the tariff is only
such as to impose a tax with
out interfering with trade, there is no
protection; it is merely 8 tax. Then, where
in does protection lie? Simply in this:
1t er:-bles the manufacturer of such ar
ticles as the tariff prevents competition
on to exact from his fellow countrymen
a higher price than they would other
wise have to pay. Reason for a moment.
What is the sum in a year of 5 cents a
day on every man, woman and child in
the land. Roundly stated, a thousand
million of dollars. That is the process
by which the tribute of protection
is exacted. Nobody escapes this action.
1t is paid on the nursing bottle for the
baby first coming into the world, and on
the coffin when he is carried out of it.
NO laDorer derives O mill OF gain by
reason of this tribute. The manufao.
turer hires his labor and always will, a.
cheaply as he can, and the price does not
depend on the abundance of his means
but is governed by the law of supply and
demand. But suppose it were true that
sometimes something has been doled out
to the laborer from the increased profits
paid by the system to the producers of
| thrift D.OtecteH %articlea To that n o-stan,
to be permanently sustained by Ameri-
can freemen! Is it in accordance with
the spirit of American liberty to estab-
lish such q system of financial feudalism
in the land, to set up boards of wealth in
order to take care of them.
The remainder Of Mr.. Villas speeen
was devoted to an argument in support
IF the presidents tariff policy.