New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-20

This new Allah and its prophet for him shall open the
shining gates of the heaven Of foreign missions and
TO tho true believers the inspired wisdom of the mes
sage IS an Ola qTo dd Pa m re%6 msn a times
and oft But IT IS of the essence Of the doctrines
which oppose protection II is the warp and wool OF
tle whole discussion, which must be my excuse for
again inhlctlng II on weary world. These laws
he rs and ne Is eng Of q a%S and sSbee f
to duty by precisely he sum paid for such aa,ies "
tremendous significance. But the corollary which he
draws from the whole sentence Is Of still more ire
cselya the duty In excess Of the price of tho imported
article. then the President Is also right when he SAYS
that all domestic protected articles the consumer
pays nearly guile the same enhanced price,
That is the whole counsel of the Lord the subject
the result OF war tariff or peace tariff the consumer
not only pays the duty on imported articles to the
Government, but also all domestic productions It's
equivalent to the greedy manufacturer
BALEFUL CALCULATIONS DRAWN FROM THE
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
At last, then, we have mathematical basis ON
which to calculate the damage inflicted this country
by the system established by the who framed the
Constitution. by tariff taxes, whether great or small,
whereby manufactures encouraged, every dollar
raised by the Government takes of tie pockets Of
the people other dollars and puts them into the peck
OTIS of capitalists All these dollars are not merely
changed from the pockets 'of the poor the pockets
Of the richhdr value IS lost TO the Nation; for by
just so much has the Nations labor beer unproltaby
Since. then. we pay to protected industries the
equivalent OF the duty which is imposed imported
articles We have only to calculate the of this
payment thus lost to the country to find Just what we
have been doing and Just VIE we are. Our manu-
featured products in 1880 1870 100000 If you
add less than onc-hrd for increase you will
the year 1887 the figures given by the report of the
Committee Ways and Means 81 Q00, 900 900 If you
take only Onchaf OF his beifg under protection
and calculate the duty. you will ind that the sum
useessly paid Is more than one thousand million dol
lars.
Since 1880 more than six thousand SIX hundred
millions OF dollars have been wrested from the people,
and six thousand six hundred millions would have
bought every o. farming land I'm the United States
~ INC outbreak OF the wanl YOU carry back the bale
charge OF the country you will find II the President
the lard we lived IN and instead Of turning to
Civil Service Reform country worth S44 COO 600 900
we turned oyer rackrented farm mortgaged far be-
ruler be true every factory Is tho abode Of robbcr
baron, moro fell and sure than ever swooped down a
European hillside to harry a cavalcadc of honest
merchants.
=, In every nine mouth Turks, more dreadful giant
but "ha 90 tho friends Of virtue propose 10 do with
Wh the Sa6d Of he oS ont tho Of cionso
S em h be dG d 70 asfS hesc creatures and ange
from Arkansas mean that from their dead bodies The
handle of his bowie knife shall rrotrlldei Al. MOI
have only the delightful punishment Of being turned
oyer to the melting eloSence the soothing rhetoric
while he explains his theory Of fair plunder Of honest
vii be satfactory TO tRosS GOOD yG s,c1 as
have been admitted to private interviews by the back
stairs
The castles OF these marsudcrs are st to smoke upon
the ht0ps, and the tal chnncys are stu 10 lfeak
be allowed to rob within per cent of What 'f fbe ~
rob now, and as compensation they are 10 be let
loose upon the markets of the world where according
TO The learned chairman. they are to reap larger
wealth and pile up stateller millions. DO you think
that tho calculations have made but ridiculous
maginings Of sconer: are but toying with the deep
The belief that what ! have figured out IS absolute
ruin perVsdes. lhe Democfatc mlnd from one ex-
is s to the other from the very head to the very
The Hon. John Randolph Tucker, then a member
able IN the service Of his county in the year Of
pandeTed from tie peOre eight hundred millions FOR
Of April in speech delivered that day. on page SIX
thereof, the chairman Of the Committee on Military
SsSnns o fact e hs during the last mesn yea he
these ,angoay aaRSfaetursrs had swndled thc people
culaton Is specific and precise. The exact sum was
Sl5o63, 754,645.
FOOLISH THEORIES AND ABSURD LOGIC.
Great heavens These amazing plundercrs had in
their pockets fifteen thousa millions in 1882 have
had eight hundred millions year snce-ln all, nine
teen thousand eight hundred millions, three thousand
millions moro than this whole country is listed for tax
alton, and the Mills bill, the representative of the
centrated and concaenatcd wisdom of the Democracy
proposes to give them Gentlemen Of the other
side heroes OF the crusade for reform and
Civ service reform, IL you believe what you say, Is
II not ample Time that this ribnte ccasef What ex-
cnse have you for continuing ri IL the President
be right, and you don't dare TO doubt him, an annual
tribute is paid protected manufacturers out Of the
pockets of tho people impovcrlshing than ever
was cXacted by Oriental pot. In the face of
plain duty 10 nee the people from this IRON YOKE
you stand hgglng about the amount of the tribute.
Instead of 7 for every hundred you propose 10 give
$40 OF the peoples money and throw into inc TRADE
the markets OF the world! -.
II Il be a tribute be bold and sweep II away. Why
do you hesitate7 Is II because you dare not DO
caught lowering the wages of the laborins men who
have votes Have the courage Of your leaders con
viciions-for has not the gentleman from Texas god
father of this BILL who has Promised TO bring II up
I'm the nurture and admonion of the Lord, loudly
proclaimed 10 tho open day that tariffs have nothing
TO do with wages Is It out Of mercy to the capitalist
that you falferl
Why do men with such beliefs, plain, and 50 ais
tnct, hesitate do their duty? IL Is because every
wind that blows every sight that strikes their eyes.
every sound that Ics0unds In their cars, shows the
folly OF their theories, the absurdity OF their l0ge
What use is II tell tho people OF this empire that
they have been robbed and pundercd thousand
millions Of dollars every year. during the very tmo