The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-15


than the disease as they are endeavoring
to restrict it, so l leave the party to take
care of its own bastard, That man of
your temperance professions should advo-
cate the extinction of so powerful an ally
of the temperance cause as the revenue
tax on liquor seems very strange, Why
only the other day Mr., Blaine stated the
use of whiskey had very greatly decreas-
ed, Did you mean to deceive your read
ers by misrepresenting Ezra's PROPOSE
ton or to place me in false position by
insinuating that | reject a proposition l
have in no way alluded to and only exists
by your exaggeration, There is some diff
ference between using the surplus and
lending it only using the interest to i'm
prove highways.
Many thanks for informing me that to
reduce the revenue the tariff must be in
creased. In my ignorance l supposed
the tariff might be reduced to an extent
that would not afford sufficient revenue
even if the whole amount consumed was
imported Hold on, Jacob, that would
be free trade, and yon said you were not a
free trader. We took you at your word
and agued accordingly. Ed. ], as well
as raised to the point of prescription,
yielding no revenue, but would breed and
foster multiplication of the monopolies
which you justly condemn, but which on
ly exist where the nature of the case or
the tariff prevents foreign competition
If there was no duty on coal we might be
trading some of our cheap produce for
coal and avert the present coal famine,
and bring Messrs. Gould and Corbin to
terms on freight charges. If the Cana
dams had a competing railroad to Boston
Vermonters would get reasonable freight
rates and prevent the diabolical extortions
of the wiley old Governor. The SITTER
gives the reason for not raising all the
taxes by duties, now l will give mine:
with tax on the grand list rich men pay
| from ten to one hundred times as much
as the poor man, while of the duties on
necessities the poor man pays as much or
more Reducing taxation with the sur
plus benefits the rich much more than the
poor man who has paid as much to pro-
duce it. AS contribution, being partly
good democratic docerine, partly lawyer
like attempt to 'hedge" on the way he eX-
poets to vote-you don't need to, James
G. and Lew are more outspoken and less
hypocritical than some of their republican
rivals-then comes poking around our
burial ground after an old bone from
which the meat all fell off fifty years ago.
1t would require no further notice if he
had told what part of the duty on all raw
materials is and kinds of wool raised in
this country, thus showing how small the
loss would be to The Delanos, Hammonds,
Campbells &C., while others would gain
$4,000, 900. Take the matter just as A
fixes it, as the removal of duties from
manufactured goods can lower the price
only so much as their retention adds, the
abolition of duties on both raw material
and manufactures would lesson the cost
$40, 900, 900 and the selling price SS,000,-
000 net profit to the manufacturers OF
50 ,OO0, 900 and to the consumer SS,0O0,OOC
If it pays to raise cattle for beef with
mutton 20 per cent higher and the wool
besides, it seems to me sheep ought to
pay for raisiug without tribute from con.
the same million farmers that produce
sugar there would be no dispute as to
which duty should be reduced and which
, should be retained, as the a1valorem is
nearly the same and just as the last re.
publican Congress averaged it, Only
weakness and dependence requires or can
receive protection. otherwise, increasing
prices by duties is tribute extortion. A
comparison of factory Wrappers and wea-
ver's wages with those of farmers maids,
of manufacturers grand lists and the
houses they build with the farmers will
show who are the weaklings. As Ezra
knows oh leg the boot Is on and kick
ed with the right foot though not in the
right direction, l am almost persuaded
that farmer carries around more sense
than an editor and lawyer combined
Manufacturing was placed beside farm.
ing so years ago and there has been con
slant drain from the farmers side evel
since The more some men have the more
they want, so give us little free trade
: till the farmer gets out of his bad fix anG
manufacturers are willing to accept the
protection afforded by tariff for revenue
the cost of transporting goods from for
eign countries, and the cost of insurine
cargoes and importers profits as they were
in Jeffersons day, meanwhile letting to
bacco and rum pay the taxes. Monopo
lies, strikes, failures, and paupers have
increased under high tariff. While onl,
9 one branch of industry has held its owl
in this vicinity several having died out
, and as you have proved free tIade to b.
= the best kind of protection now plain
!, ly see l ought to become free trade pro
) tectionist. Truly as A says, all republi
cans are not protectionists. Their bes
: National platform and many of thei
prominent men and newspapers favo
tariff reduction, while the OPPOSITION come
: from the dog in the manager class VIII
:. must have a dividing issue and can fin
q, no other, the present administration hav
ground. JACOB.
. An Ugly Elephant.