Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-08-16

which win weigh two pounds 10 the
yard, costs as folIows:-----
SPECIFIC duty at 20 cents per pound, two
pounds. ..ss-...r..-.s..s>, ....E..,... ~. %
Ad vAiOrsn duty on oOa price, ., atspT
cent. .-....-..4 -......,f. f.....-..-- e'
ny y L Il N-n@
Or Just one hundred and thirty-five
per cent. on the prime cost Of the goods
worn by the poor rnans Now look at
the bill of costs charged on yard Of
fipe hroadcloth worn by the Yealthierl
Glasses. This hnelight doth will weigh
scarcely one round 70 the yard, al
though its cost may possibly be s.. We
then have specific duty Of only fifty
cents a yard, which Is equivalent to
only FIVE per oept.~ its value and this
added to the thirty-Aye per cent lad
valorem duty charged on all woolen
goods imported, makes just -forty-fipe
per cent. paid on the rich mans broad
cloth, against one hundred and thirty
five per cent. for Just three times as
much in proportion) on the poor mans
s'e cl'sn' v. TSs<s aSs.
IT'S OBJECTS.
The objects of the tariff are two: J..
REVENUE; 2. PROTECTION. 1t Is here
where party lines are drawn and where
all the controversy on the tariff arises.
The right and justice of the govern
ment to collect the legitimate expenses
of administering and sustaining itself
by tariff tax has never been by any
party or faction disputed. For CEN
turiesit has been favored method with
A most Of the governments Of the civiliz-
ed world to raise their revenue ahd has
been used by the United States ever
since the adoption Of the constitution;
in fact, previous to the civil war the
tariff, and the proceeds of the sale, of
public lands, were about the only
means resorted to by this government
in raising the revenue necessary to its
support. sn.s y 4l.f.ati 9
REVENUE, as applied to the tariff or
to any form of taxation, means the
lmoney thus raised and collected by the
government and received into the
| treasury for public use, no government
having a rightto tax its subjects for any
other than a public purpose. The inn
mense expenditures of the government,
including the payment of interest and
gradual reduction Of the public debt
land the pension roll, are now met and a
large surplus retained in the treasury
from the revenue obtained from tariff
duties aud the moniesg derived from
stamps and the. liquor and tobacco
4 taxes, tthe proceeds from the sale OF
Epublic lands being comparatively trif-
Iangv and the postal service being not
! Quite selfsustaining. Z ! 3
\ PROTECTION, when applied to tariff,
is a duty assessed on an imported
article, not for the purpose of raising a
government revenue, but to prevent
| the foreign manufacturer or producer
from bringing his article of manufac-
ture or product into this country and
competing with the native snanu fac
turer or producer, and THUS protecting
the domestic by enabling him to'fix his
own price upon his commodity, the i'm
porter being unable, by reason of the
high tariff duty, to, import and place in
competition a foreign article AS an
illustration take pair Of woolen
blankets having a custom house import
value of -36.cents per pound, weighing
five pounds and an aggregate value Of
4 Isl. 80. Upon these Blankets there is
both o specif fic-and an.ad valorem, tariff,
\ aggregating 80 per cent. Were it not
for the tariff duty these blankets could
beimported and sold Tor $1.80, But the
importer must pay 90 per cent.'making
S1.62, and making the blankets cost
$3.42, so that the domestic manufac-
turer, although perhaps able to make
\ his blanket as cheap as the foreigner,
] prevents the competition. Of the i'm
porter, adds to his price the SLIGO and
makes his customer pay-being thus
| protected by the tariff and enriched at
the expense of the consumer
4 The specific from of the tariff is the
one contributing mostly to projection,
as the importation of any particulaE
article caflsbe entirely prohibited by
attaching to it a high tariff duty and
.tthus enable monopoly by the domestic
'9sn'''"''"'s'E nam "'' ''' VI ]. VIZ /. ii
ITS EFFECTS.
i Arvenue tariff, especially lin adva:
lorem form, is felt very little if any by
the masssQf the people and its chief III
not only effect is in supplying the gov
|ernment with the revenue necessary for
lits legitimate administration. gH3f5l
h A protective tariffs felt and has its
Feffect upon many Industries and upon
every citizen of the country by which
II it is adopted. y. No measure of govern
nlent can be more wide spread in its
effects las it comes to enrich or to pau
1perise. 1t has been truthfully remark.
ed that "revenve ceases where protec'
i ti0n begins;' and it certainly must be
aconceded that d protective tariff, tue
Hobjeet Of which is to prohibit imports.
tion, Will put an end to the revenue
derived from such importation. Its
greatest effects are felt by Agriculture
Commerce, Manufacture and Labor ol
these in order. My tiguresare taken
from the census of 1880.
H M AGRICULTURE. HfM /
If there isaany class of persons ih the
United States who, in any manner,
come in contact with the ypauper laboi
OF Europe, that class is the farmer. The
price ofwheat, for instance, is regulated
EbY the, e,ainount realized for the surplus
fover- the home consumption. The
entire amount of wheat raised in the
"a United States for the year 1880, was
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