Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-15


this little further. Because we call 1t o
tariff, they FAY il is not tax, and pre-
sumo my distingui sted colleague will en-
: deavor to maintain that proposition baioie
/ you to-day. / observed in his spseeh ID
/ Congress that while not coming out exact
ly to that effect, he has certainly implied
it in his remarks. Fellow citizsns, there
; ig no way this government can raise money
except by selling its property and taxing
, it's people, and ths p-opsrty it owns ID the
property OF the people. Let Us see how
, the tariff operates; let us zee
HOW THIS wooLEN TARIFF OPERATES.
l went into store in the city Of Boston
some months ago, the store Of Parker q
MscCullar, and asked the proprietor ofthat
store to show me come of the woolen go7d'
which be imported. He threw down bolt
OF cloth, q god, common, comfortable
Scotch cheviot, such as we wear for busi-
ness suits, and such as some of us are per-
fsctlywilliug to wear for Sunday suits. He
looked upon the marx, snd said: II paid
81. 25 yard for tia. cloth aud the Govern
ment charged me 81 05 yard to bring it
through the Custom House, and / sell 1t
now for So so a yard" Whopsys the fax
upon it? The importer pays it in the first
instance, and when you buy the cloth to
make your suit of clothes, you pay 1t back
to him, and when you wear that cloth you
consume the tax. Now, fellow citizens, our
friends deny that it Is tax, and my friend,
General Goff, in his speech, attempts t.
contrast the conduct Of Grover Cleveland
with the conduct ofpreVious Presidents, and
| = A. L. I. rNalf hn IN.
ings of the fathers. / invite General Gof
to 90 back to the teachings Of the fathers !;
l invite him to 90 back to Alexander
Hamilton's report upon manufactures and
he said in that, as James Madison said, IN
the first tariff discussion in 1889, that the
tsriff was tax and tax that WAS paid by
the consumer Applause Why fellow
citizens, picked up day or two since
speech made by
THE GREAT AGANIEMSoN
of the Republican party, the grand shep-
herd of the people, as they call him up IN
Name, male in the city of Detroit, in
which he said: 81 said was opposed to
every tax, except the tariff tsX." Why
they had better take Mr.. Blaine in sDd
o,ch him little and teach him that the
tariff is rot tax, for Re is g wing the
W.T. ole thing away out in Michigan, where,
of al places in the world, he ought to be
caIefGl of what he says [Applause ]
Mr.. Blaine: ~ said was opposed to every
tox except the tariff tax; l make one fX.
ception; am in favor of the tax on whis-
Ky; think the tex tends to make it
little gber and fewer can get it to drink"
Applause. And for that reasan, fellow
ctzeas, / am opposed to these heavy
tax 8 on clothing, because they tend to
make tlotbing higher. and fewer can get it
to wear. [Applautc WHY my friends,
l can 90 throagh all the ancient authori.
ties upo1 this subject. General Gott, IL
he will take them up and present them TO
you, WILL fnd every one of them co lfirms
that view, and chsllergs him now 10 the
speech that hs is to make after me to fad
anything in Hamilton, to find anything in
Madisou, TO find anything in Jackson oc 10
any other Of ths fathers of this country
that tends to say that. Applause 1t
he finds one, lei him tIos him out before
us to-day. [Applause.
Let me read you one single sentence
from John Qaincy Adams, taken from hi
htptTI Ou DtduuldCbutt'. Oaiu uS' nc
doctrine that duties on imports cheapsn
the price or the articles upoa which they
are levied Ssems to conflict with th, G'"'
dictates of common sense" He was o1e
of your
OLD TINE PRoTECTIONISTS.
They didn't understand protection in those
dsys as oar friends. Mr.. & If and the Re
publican patty, understand It. Applaus
and laughter In fact, fellOw-c!t 2 ms,
the RepU blcaD party Of to-day did moi un-
derstand prot6 c.ion five years ago as they
understand it to-dSy. Applsuse There
never have been 80 many public men in
the history Of this country called upon to
swallow their words as have been called
upon by the Republican party when il
ad, pied its present platform. Applause.
Ii would like to march them OUT,
John SheTma,, Allis)n. Ingalls,,
and Plumb, all of item, even
Brother Blame. Applause OGe more
sentence from old John Quincy: "Hhe
duty constitutes part of the pice Of the
whole mass of the article in the market
II is substantially paid on the article of
domestic manufacture as well as that OF
foreign production; upon the one it is D
bounty; upon the other it is burden, and
| the repeal of the tax must operate as an
equivalent reduction in the price of the
article whsther foreign or domestic" But,
fellow citizens, think l may pass by any
such argument as that the tariff is not
tax, or that the consumer of the article
does not pay the tax that is wrapped up
| in il. What becomes Of it? Why Gen
N l,.h
TApolause understand that. 10 be the
position; understand from General G:ff
making his bow, that he assents to that
proposition that the foreigner pays the
tariff duty apd it does not come ont Of the
consumer. Laugo,e- and applause He
don't bow quite 50 emphstically uow as he
cid the first time. Applause. Let me
give you
ONE ILLUSTRATION,
nv fellow citizsns, of what these gentle
tlemen believe when they come actually
to deal with the ta'iff. Five years ago the
Reput licap,,party, when the tariff was only
SA2 on the hundred, instead of SAT on the
hundred, came to the conclusion thst taxes
ought to be reduced in this country, and
they passed what they call Tariff Com
mission Bill, and President Arthur put
upoa thst commission nine of the highest
pio.ectionists Of this country; he put men
who represented the wooden inter' SITS,
men who represented the iron interests
aud men who represented the sugar inter-
e,ts, the wool growing Interests and the
other Interests of this country. They made
a report IN which they said, early IN its
deliberations, the Commission becaGe con-
WINGED that substantial reduction of tar
if duties was demanded, not by mere in
discriminate popular clsmor, bat by the
best conservative opinion Of the country,
iocluding that which has b.en in former
times the most strenuous for the preeerya-
ton of our national industrial defsnces.
Such reduction of the existing tariff, the
Commis ion regards not only as due re-
coynition of public sentiment, bat as a
measure of justice to consumers" lAp-
plsuse 1-if tie consumer does not pay the
tax, how could reduction of it be a
measure of Justice to him? Applause
Now, (. low citizens, coms 10 what is
THE PRACTICAL QUESTION OF THIS
CAMPAIGN:
How shall we reduce this surplus? The
two parties come before the people with