Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-29
THURMAN ON THE TARIFF.

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 Let me suppose, for instance. Una
 an importer purchased in Eaglane 1000 w0rth-no won't take <, much as that-I will say enough cloth to make suit of clothes for man. He pays for it then, say BIO He brings it to the United States. - Before he can even ger it out of tn, custom-housc at the place where h, lands, he must pay on that ta, called tariff, and the probability i. among the enormous rates in tn, schedule on woolen goods, that h, will pay tax of not less than sixt, cents on the dollar. That is. that ht will pay S6 tax on the S1O worth O. cloth that he has bought. Now, i the man who imports that cloth sell, 1t to a wholesale merchant he must of course, put the tax that he paiC on 1t to the price; otherwise ht would lose money by the operation and so when this Importer sells tc the wholesale merchant he charges him SIG for that cloth which cost him originally but SlO. Nay, more, he ! charges him SIG and his mercantile profit on the sl0, the original cost of the goods. The wholesale merchant sells it 10 the retail merchant, and the retail merchah& sells it to his cus- toner. Of coursA this price with each merchants pNft continues and it is in the goods wien they are sold to the consumer. So that by the time one of you buys that cloth you find you have to pay for it from SIG to s20; perhaps not less than S20, for that which originally cost slO.- So here has been a tax imposed on the consumer. which amounts in eff feet to nearly or quite as much as the original cost of the goods. Now my friends, this is so true that there is scarcely a thing that you wear the price of which is not increased by his tariff tax. There are men andacious enough to say, men who are advocating high protective duty or tariff is for the benefit of the labor ing man. Why, in the name of all that is commOnsense and reason how can lahoriug man be aided by d tax that begins with the crown of his head and extends to the soles o' his feet and taxes everything that is be- tween them applause and laughter that taxes him on his hat, taxes him on his shirt, taxes him on his coat taxes him on his vest. taxes him on his pants, taxes him on his under clothing. taxes him on his shoes, and even 10 the little neck-tie that IS around his neck, it levies a tax upon it, Now in the name of Heaven, how can it be that the laboring man ls benefited by such taxi
 No, my friends, Of all the humougs by which you were tempted to be de- ceiyed, this humbug of the laooring man being benefited by high pro- tectiye tariff is the greatest ever l heard of. An, but says some one, it enables the manufacturer in this country to pay higher wages to his laboring men, and therefore Is a benefit to them.
 Nv friends, did you ever know any manufacturer in this co0ntry who paid hs hands higher wages because an increase Of the tariff: If yon did you have met with something l have never seen. There is a man named Barnum in this country, great sbovman. 4 man who has gathered together in his show more curlositie' than perhaps can be found in an other single place on the face of the earth. but among all his curiositie he has never fosei such curiosity ,s the rnanufactVer who paid higher wages to his hands because of a rais' in the tariff, CApplanse.I Nay that IS not so at all. do not wan to speak harshly of manufacturers hat they are human beings. Cough ing See what cold 1 have caugh to-day. Never mind, if l caught that cold by making few Demo cratic speeches ] will get rid Of Il hefore I make any more. Laugh ter But must pass on Anoth pr one of the deceptiona of these tar if oratars, or high protection ora
 tors, is to say that the consumer doe
 no, pay the tax, have shown yo'
 how he did pay it in the price tha
 he gives for his articles but l wan
 to ask any man whe tells me or tell