The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-30

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microscopes microtomes. and alcohol-taxed TO suf-
focationand read in the paperso the United States
Treasury filed TO suifocation. we reflect that our
scientific work takes much time, brings no money
RETURN increases our outgoes and has not even the
encouragement of the Government nor laity.
Respectfully yours,
DR.. WIN. PERRY NoRrHRUP
Is it unfair to ask for these people
little consideration? Grant that we are to
have protective tariff; must We have this
particular one forever?
The gentleman from Indiana Mr.
Brown, whose argument against this bill
has interested me greatly, said the other
day, "Human wisdom has never devised
statutes of taxation or methods of indus
trial development which are not subject to
just criticism" l can not put in any
better words my conviction that this tariff
is fair subject of discussion. We had
lately Republican President, under whose
able and skillful management the Republi-
can party was an important factor in polit-
cal affairs in New York city, and who
gained for us the last victory which our
party has had in the city of New York
Few men knew the people of that city of
all classes as well as he did chad been
collector at the port of New York, and
knew well the practical effect Of the tariff,
and he said in his message:
recommend an enlargement of the free-list so as
to include within 1t the numerous articles which
yield nconsiderable revenue simplifcation of the
complex and inconsistent schedule of duties upon
iron and steel, and substantial reduction of the
duties upon those articles, and upon sugar, mo-
lasses, wool and woolen goods.
On such Republican doctrines as that l
am satisfied to rest. On such Republican
doctrines as that we can ask for votes in
the city of New York from the classes [
have spoken of, and We will not then be
forced to stand and defend, before people
whose monthly wages hardly suffice for
their necessary expenses, a tariff which i'm
poses 25 per cent. on India-rubber boots
and shoes and 10 per cent. on precious
stones. [Applause.]
The commerce of New York, where most
of the customs duties are collected, while it
asks in vain for the money which is neces-
sary to improve the water ways where
STAT 10000 of our revenue is collected
every year, pays cheerfully taxes which are
used to keep up custom houses where
nothing is ever collected, and to carry the
mails on routes which use up the great
profits of the city offices, to build harbors
in Texas, where sailor who happened to
be stranded would be lost and lonesome, to
improve rapids in Tennessee which no one
but the lumberman ever sees, and to dredge
out creeks in Georgia which the Govern
ment engineers who are given charge of
the work spend month in trying to find.
Just so the people Of the city of New York,
sooner than object in any way to the pro-
tective tariff, which they believe to be, if
properly laid and fairly administered, for
the good of the whole country, have paid
without objection and cheerfully, on every
thing they use or touch or handle, from
the beginning, these customs duties for the
benefit of the manufacturer and his en-
ploye and the long-sufering farmer. The
time has now come when revision of the
tariff has been promised by both parties,
and when the present duties yield so large
a revenue that its further accumulation has
become admittedly dangerous, Is it
strange that at this time and under these
circumstances they ask that readjustment
partially at least, in their interest, may
take place? And is it unreasonable to ask
that tariff which puts jewelry at % per
cent. and oilcloth for tenement house floors
at 40 per cent. ad volorem; which brings
in silver-plated harness at 35 per cent, and
children's cotton stockings at 30 per cent;
under which India shawls of the finest
quality pay 40 per cent, and common
woolen shawlE Sc per cent, should be mod
ifedS On the theory of protecting or
pleasing the manufacturing laborer and the
farmer the mass of people in my district in
the city of New York have paid for many
years, each of them, out Of money which
they can i'll spare. more for their meals,
their shelter, their clothes, and their med
icines, than these things ought to cost them.
The appreciation and kindly feelings
which exist towards us in return from the
most highly protected manufacturers is
shown by the remark in this debate of the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr.. O'Neill,
speaking in opposition to this bill, that
"New York is in large measure foreign
city 1t is true, of course, that New
York has many foreigp.bOrn citizens, and
among them are large number who bear
the name of the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania. Laughter and applause, All of
us in this country are foreign-born or are
the descendants Of European immigrants
Whoever speaks deprecatingly of the patri-
otism of the citizens who came to this
country by choice and not by accident
throws thereby doubt on the integrity Of
that ancestor of his who Grst took the oath
of allegiance to the United States.
l have little regard for the man who
contrasts his own patriotism with that of
his grandfather, to the disadvantage of
the latter. It is true, too, that visitor
from Philadelphia, when he first steps into
the busy streets of New York and sees the
movement of the commerce Of continent,
when he enters first into the life end
amusement of city as interesting as Lon
don and as charming as Paris, may easily
feel that he has passed boundary line,
and is in another country than his own.
Laughter But if the gentleman meant,
as he probably did, that New York was a
foreign city in the sense of being ua-Amer-
lean, he was simply as much mistaken as
he would have been If he had said that
William Pena was native American, or
that the German settlers in Pennsylvania,
and their children, were not as good and
patriotic citizens of this country as we are.
Now when we ask of the manufacturers
who are represented by cur kindly critic,
Mr.. O'Neill, fulilment of the Repub-
lican promise to remedy the admitted
irregularities of the tariff, they say that if
we touch one article in the present dutia-
bic list, if we add one article to the present
free-list the whole protection scheme is in
danger. Let me answer them by a quota
ton again from General Garfield, in the
debate on the duty on coal, on March 10,
1871 in this House;
| was SURPRISED at q remark of the distinguished
gentleman IRON Michigan, He asserted that there
IS no item in the whole tariff that stand alone
on its own merits, but that all must be taken in a
lump in order TO stand, That coal must take salt by
| the hand, and they, too must take something else
by the hand and thus all interests unite with all