Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-07-20
WHERE THE TARIFF TOUCHES
THE POOR MAN.


tax-gatherer ever comes to his house
with bill for tariff taxes and de-
mands II settlement. Nothing is
heard about it the year round. There
is nothing on the surface to Indicate
that tho day laborer, the clerk, the
mechanic, the car driver, the coach
man, tho cook, the nurse or the
newsboy ever contribute anything to-
ward the income of the government,
or to the extra profits of the manu-.
featuring capitalist. But they do,
nevertheless. For every 81 that goes
to tho government 50 goes to the
manufacturer rs bounty. The tax
was collected whom the persons
named bought what they have in
their houses or on their backs. On
the mans working suit OF clothes
costing ST the bounty to the manu-
facturer was 1927; ono good suit
costing $40, bounty S64S; overcoat
costing SO, bounty $4.S5; two nan-
mel shirts, $3.50, bounty 81 cents;
two flannel Growers, $3.50, bounty Ga
cents; Six wool sacks, 81, bounty Sc
cents; one wool hat, So, bounty
Sl.29; one wool cap, 50 cents, bounty
Id cents; one pair shoes, SO so, boun.
ty 10 cents; one pair wool gloves, so
cents, bounty FL cents, rubber coat,
Sd. 30, bounty 81 CENTS umbrella, 81,
bounty 81 cents, three linen hand
kerchiefs, 81, bounty 2G cents; one
silk tie, so cents, bounty II cents;
one pocket knife, S1.25, bounty 50
cents; razor, S1.25, bounty AZ cents;
shaving brush, 80 cents, bounty 8
cents; four cotton shirts, IS, bounty
10 cents; two pair cotton drawers,S1,
bounty 81 cents; one wool scarf, 30
cents, bounty 81 cents. ANY labor
ing man or other person having n
small incomeis able to Judge whether
he is i'll position to make present
to anybody of the bounty he pays Oh
each Of the articles here mentioned.
Ii he is single man perhaps he can
spare the sums named and is willinp
to do so. But if he has use for the
money, amounting On those articles
alone to S2227 n year. he has
right to vote at the polls to keep it
in his pocket. Put in life insurance.
or In tho savings bank, $22.27 may
provide very nicely for rainy day.
But II he IL q married man, with
family, he will find the tariff tax
taking The following sums also out of
his pocket to swell the surplus at
Washington, CT to add to the profits
OF the manufacturer Three calico
dresses for wife, cost 1925. bounty
so CENTS three aprons, 20 cents,
bounty 10 cents; two WOODEN dresses,
SIG, bounty $500, two balmoral
skirts, So, bounty S1.10; two cotton
skirts, $3.50, bounty 25 cents; two
suits hannels, So, bounty S1.20; two
suits cotton underwear, 81, bounty
SO cents, three pair cotton hose, 81,
bounty 20 cents; wooden cloak, S12,
bounty $3.50; shawl, sc, bounty
S2.79; hood, slips, bounty As cents;
straw bonnet, 81, bounty 20 cents,
two pair shoes. 81, bounty so cents;
rubbers, so cents, bounty 10 cents;
parasol, %, bounty 40 cents; veil, 70
cents, bounty 25 cents; five yards
ribbons, so cents, bounty II cents:
three linen eollors, SO cents, bounty
IL cents; three pairs linen cuffs, 60
cents, bounty IA cents; three hand.
kerchiefs, rs cents, bounty 20 cents,
tuck comb, 20 cents, bounty cents;
tooth brush,35 cents, bounty cents;
pair wool mits, 80 cents, bounty 81
cents; pair gloves, 9l.25, bounty At
cents. On an expenditure of S61.90
in settlement of the wife's store bill
the struggling citizen has thus paid
S21.7S in tariff taxes, about one fifth
OF which went into the government
treasury, and the other four-ffths to
some far-off manufacturing capital
ist. Part of this tax tho poor man
VIII be relieved froi,--a email part, it
is true, if the Mills bill becomes o
law, but much the larger part he will