Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-27

for which we have any returns, were in value
$3.50, 325. .322, The tariff duties collected were
S2t2,0: IA. There were, therefore in that sim
gle year taxes levied on on the United 9 States a. by
which went into the treasury of the United
States. But that, as have told you, was the
factures of the same kind of commodities
amounted that year to s5,369, 519,191 That is,
and sixtynine million dollars, and cs
the price of these goods was raised by the
tariff in nearly equal proportions to the price
. OF the goods that were imported into the COUP
try, the amount which the people paid in these
high prices Of what they had to buy and had to
use, amounted to about
One Thousand Millions of Dollars
Or to about five times as much as the tax re
ceved by the government for the use of the
government, In other words, the whole coun-
of a comparatively small portion of the country.
And that is said to be justice; that is said to be
the American people Why don't m s they eaTry It
out? Why don't they, when they find In Port
Huron lawyer q think l may name them be
one the proceeds of whose profession don't
afford him and his family comfortable sup
SO to protect him? Or when they find a
doctor, whose Income is not sufficient to sup
port him or his family, why don't they tax all
the people of Port Huron in order to add to the
wealth of that doctor? And so on with every
thing else. Why don't they do it? And yet,
pretty highly, sometimes, on the medicine he is
obliged to take; l remember one OF the most
satisfactory votes that cast when in the senate
of the United States was to
Abolish the Tax on Quinine,
So that man with the fever and ague could
have his quinine without being robbed of his
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very few and exceptional, and not Of sufficient
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to speak, in which the duty on tariff tax is not
all paid by the consumer, but they are so trifing
in amount and SO Insignificant that it is not
necessary that should occupy your time with
them. The principle, the general fact is that
by the cheering and applause which followed
the speaker producing bandana handker-
Judge Thurman (continuing)-well, gentle
men, this is good, honest handkerchief; and
could could. have bought it good deal cheaper Il it
and prolonged cheering.]
Now, there are men who say the consumer
don't pay the tax. | have said that that Is a
most audacious assertion, and have tried to
show you that he must necessarily pay the tax.
But II they want authority upon that subject let
and whose words viii hardly be gainsaid. First,
john Quincy Adams,
And dare say that there are plenty Of repubn
cans and some abolitionists In the crowd who
have great veneration for that mans memory.
knew him well; served in the house of rep
gent he was, and know how frank and out
spoken he was. In the year 1882 he was chair
said:
cheaper the price Of the articles on which they
are levied seems to confictwith the first dictates
Of common sense. The duty constitutes part
Substantially paid upon the article Of domestic
manufacture, as well as upon that of foreign
other burden, and the repeal Of tie ar tax must
operate as an equivalent reduction of the price
o. Of the article, whether the foreign or domestic
the duty must be paid by the purchaser of the
article. The general and permanent ef-
article to the eItsns Of aditEonal Of duty tns
and It is then paid by the consumer. II it were
not so. Il the general @ effect Of adding to the
which it is levied, the converse of the PROPOSE
tion would also be true and the operation for
would be to repeal the duty on the same article
imported, an experiment which the friends of
our internal a. industry l will not be desirous Of
the doctrine that the duties of imports, protec-
tive of our own manufacturers. are paid by the
foreign merchant or manufacturer"
But John Quincy Adams knew better, and
he was too honest man to make such a false
We'll, what said President Arthur? He was a
congress in 1883, President Arthur said:
~ recommend an enlargement OF the free list
(that is, Of goods that pay no duty) so as to in
elude within 1t the numerous articles which
Hon of the complex and inconsistent schedule
of duties upon certain manufactures, particu-
larly those of cotton, iron and steel, and a sub
stantial reduction of the duties upon those
wooden goods"
striving to do. That is precisely what the Mills
BILL 1t is called, attempts to do; and yet these
BENEFITS of protection and the ruin that the
democrats are bringing on the country tell you
that this thing which President Arthur recon-,
but free trade. They are more afraid of free
trade than they are of rattlesnakes. Laughter
they I should be bitten by free trade TRenewed
laughter and cheering.] Well, now. so far from
this being free frade S ne, me most st6ag thing
Moderate Reduction of Tariff Duties
that has ever been attempted in this country.
The average duty levied under the present tar
an MaS e ua peF Soud be on
duction Of only seven per cent upon all COM
modities taken together. OF course there are
more For instance the duty is taken off a
number of articles called raw material, which
used the BY re- their n Pe Pfo
ducts. And as they receive this great benefit
Of having Their aW sa b Tee sav OK WITH nr
yides that the articles manufactured by them
when brought into the country shall pay lower
rate of duty than they did before. But that is
nothing more than q ompensation for taking
of the duty from the raw material.
President Garfield
Said in the house of representatives on March
tinsuished In gentleman from Michigan Il do not
know who that distinguished gentleman was
but he was a Michigander). He asserted that
stand alone on its merits, but that all must be
taken in q lump in order to stand That coal
tafe something else1by the hand; and thus all
interests unite with all forces before they can
make stand before the % county, III, Il this .l;T re-
Unwilling to admit that bad taxes must be tied
70 good ones and thus be kept anoat- think It
am therefore In favor of Its repeal.
The Michigander came from lumber coun-
try, expect and he was IN favor of log rolling
flaughterl; log rolling on the largest kind OF
scale. That the man who wanted protection on
one article should log roll with the man who
wanted protection on another, and thus by all
combining together and making one grand syn
dicate Or pool force t5eir measure Re-, through the
Garfield said: III this remark be true, it
Arikes
3 - Blow at the Whole Tariff System
And q blow am not willing to strike, am IN
willing to admit that bad taxes must be TIED TO
good ones and thus be kept af1oat."
Now, my friends, there is another thing to
which wish to call your attention. They say
all at once Il say all at once, for 1t is very late
doctrine) these advocates Of protection are all
IT once seized with wonderful solicitude for the
laboring man of the coutry, and they,Tant
high protective tariff, not to benefit the capital
ist: not to benefit the monopolist; not to benefit
the manufacturer, according to their statement,
but to benefit the laboring man. He is the man
they seek TO protect. And how are they going
TO protect hfmf Why, they say that high pro-
tectiye tariff will better his condition, give him
more wages higher wages i would like to
know how that can be. l would like to know
how taxing laboring man everything from
the crown of his head to the sole of his feet is
going to enrich him. Laughter and applause. j
Yet this is exactly what this tariff tax does 1t
taxes him on the hat that he wears; on that
cap that put on my head to keep it warm. Zap
slause and laughter] 1t takes him on his
shirt. on his necktie, on his undercloths, on his
coat, on his vest on his breeches, on his stock
fngs and on his boots; on everything. [Renewed
cheering.] 1t raises the price and taxes him
until the poor man can hardly make enough
money, even If he gets few cents more wages
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