Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-29
Champions ONLY Of the Rich. .

The Republican tariff "blll for bun
combe protection" has been made public
at last. 1t is bill designed to increase
nearly all the taxes imposed upon the
poor and those of modest means, and to
relieve from taxes those articles which
all right thinking men and women be-
lieve should be taxed.
A cold winter is doubtless before us.
The kind of woolen goods generally worn
by men and boys in this country is the
kind rated as worth between forty and
eighty cents pound. The present tariff
law taxes these goods at thirty-five cents
a pound, and at forty cents on the dol.
lars worth besides. The Mills bill took
off the tax of thirty-tive cents pound :,
leaving the tax at forty cents on the dol
lars worth. AS if intentionally to strike
at poorer persons who must wear these
clothes, the Senators have increased the
tax on the cheaper kinds. worth from
forty to sixty cents pound, and forty
cents besides on the dollar, or thirty-five
cents more than the Mills bill.
To Offset this, to pretend to reduce
taxes, the Republican Senators propose
to reduce the tax on imported Havana
cigars, Cuban, Spanish, Turkish and
Egyptian cigarettes from $3.50 thou
sand, and this, they say, is "for the bene-
fit of labor"
The tariff tax on the medium grades of
woolen cloth, shawls, ETC.. for women is
now 35 cents pound and Is cents on the
dollars worth. The Republican Sena
tors propose to increase the tax to 35
cents pound and 40 cents on the dol
lars worth, or 35 cents more than the
Mills bill.
Then the Republican Senators turn to
the workingwomen of the land and re-
duce the tax on imported cologne water
and other foreign perfumeries and ex-
tracts from fifty cents on the dollars
lars worth (each with twenty-five cents
specific. They reduce the tax on i'm
ported foreign candy, chocolate creams.
ETC., from ten cents and twelve cents a
pound, and on French mixed candies
from twenty-five cents pound, all to five
cents pound. And they declare this is
to ''protect the wages of American
labor"
They increase the tax on printing pa
per for newspapers, etc., from twenty
cents on the dollar to twenty-five cents,
and reduce the tax on Chinese firecrack-
ers to eight cents pound; and on chic
roform from fifty cents on the dollar to
thirty cents on the dollar.
The Republican Senators propose to
keep up the present taxes on lumber and
salt and tin, which every man in the
country uses, and abolish the tax of ten
dollars pound on opium used for smok-
ing-a vice brought into this country
by the Chinese. They reduce the
internal taxes on cigarettes from three
dollars a thousand to one dollar and a
half. Boys smoke them now because
they are cheap. More boys still would
smoke them if they were cheaper. They
call this protection !" Protection" to
whom Certainly not to men who work
for living.
The bill fills columns of the news
papers, and the provisions referred to
are but few out OF many to which there
| will be occasion to refer. If this bill
''for buncombe' could be put side by
side with the Mills bill, there is not, we
| believe, a man who works for wages who
would not stamp the Republican "bill
for protection" fraud upon himself and
upon every other man who worked to
sustain his family Albany Argus.
There was no bluster in his message.
He appealed to no prejudice. He in.
dulged in no fustian. In a grave and
dignified manner he pointed out the only
remedy left to the government, and
asked for authority to apply it, upon
occasion, in a manner that would be
efficacious. By so doing he left the
political fishermen" of the Senate with
out wind for their sails or bait for their
hooks. 1t is no wonder that they are
angry. Their jig is up.-[New York
World (Dem.).
| Since Esop's dog crossing the brool
let go his bone to catch its shadow, there
has been nothing quite equal to the spec
tacle of Levi P. Morton resigning thu
dictatorship Of British subsidized rail
way to take the Republican nomination
for the Vice-Presidency of the Unite'