The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-08-25
"OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS"

Republican NatiOnalP latform, 1S6S:-
1t is due to the labor of the nation that
taxation should be equalized and re-
duced as rapidly as the national
faith will permit.
Republican decentralization, 1851
The republican party pledges itself to
correct the inequalities of the tariff and
to reduce the surplus.
James G.. Blaine, June 10, 1S6S:-
During the entire war, when we were
seeking everything OH the earth, and
in the skies, and in the waters under
the earth, out of which taxation could
be wrung, il never entered into the
conception OF congress to tax bread
stuffs-never. During the most press
ing exigencies Of the terrible contest
in which we were engaged, neither
breadstuffs nor lumber ever became the
subject of one penny OF taxation. " =
Now, as to the article OF lumber, L
again remind the house that there has
never been a tax upon this article. Il
say that wherever the western from
tiersman undertakes to make for him
self a home, TO till the soil, to carry on
the business of life, he needs lumber for
his cabin, he needs lumber for his fence, |
he needs lumber for his wagon or cart,
he needs lumber for his plow, lie needs
lumber for almost every purpose in his
daily life.
President Grant, Annual Message,
December, 1874.-Those articles which
enter into our manufactures, and are
not produced at home, it seems to me,
should be entered FREE Those articles
OF manufacture which We produce u
constituent part of, but do not produce
the whole, that part which we do not
produce should be entered free also. L
will instance fine WOODS, dyes, etc.
These articles must be imported to form
a part of the manufacture of the higher
grades of wooden goods. Chemicals
used as dyes, compounded in medicines
and used in various ways in mauuiac-
lures come under this class. The in
PRODUCTION, free of duty, of such woods
as we do not produce would stimulate
the manufacture of goods requiring the
use Of those WI do produce, and there
fore would be a benefit to home pro-
ducti0n. There are many articles ell
tering into "hOme manufactures" which
we do not produce ourselves the tariff
upon which increases the cost of pro
ducing the manufactured article. All
the corrections in this regard are in the
direction of bringing labor and capital
in harmony with each other, and of
supplying one of tho elements of pros
perity 80 much needed.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, March "a,
lS79:-The agricultural interest, il will
be seen, is much the largest interest in
its aggregate product are well as in the
number of persons employed. | believe
no one will claim that this large inter
est is directly protected. 1t is true
that under customs laws there is Il
small duty upon wheat, barley oats and
other agricultural products, but il does
not afford any protection to the great
wheat and grain producing regions of
the country.
What is true of wheat is equally true
of other grains. Therefore the farmer
l has practically no protection at all, and
whatever benefit he derives is from
what the home market furnishes for
I home products. Unfortunately for the
farmer, the market price of wheat is
i fixed by the price which the surplus
A will bring abroad, Or the price of wheat
in London or Liverpool. At that
market, where the surplus is sold, and
+ which fixes the value of the whole crop,
he M IN competition NTH the grain
produced in the Crimea, i'm Hungary and
/ in the region OF the Baltic, from fields
cultivated by what is known, in com
parison with our own, as paUpcr labor.
But | am told we must SO legislate as
. to furnish a home market for all ON
l. agricultural products, and this can only
be done by high tariff. Amy II ex-
= amiuing the subject will see that GU,
agricultural products increase more
z rapidly than our population, SO that i
3 we do not export these products il
their natural condition we must do sc
O by converting them into manufa cturet
articles and export these articles. Bn
n this cannot be done under a high tariff
% for all nations will buy manufactured
products where they are the cheapest
: and the nation selling the cheapest wal
control the market. This rule exclude:
our highly taxed manufactures mad,
If from highly taxed materials from TIT
markets of the world, although w
have natural advantages possessed b,
If no other nation.
,f James A. Garfield, April l, 1870
v Duties should be so high that our man
IT ufacturers can fairly compete with tn,
foreign product, but not 80 high as Il
G enable them to drive out the foreign
article, enjoy a monopoly of the trade
N and regulate the prices as they please
Of This is my doctrine of protection. |
d congress pursues this line of polio,
Is steadily we shall year by year, approach
1T more nearly to the basis of free trade
Of because we shall be more nearly abb
10 to compete with other nations on equu
terms. l am for a protection whicl
w laaHa IN Intimate free trQHa-
= Hon. Knutc Nelson, M g., republi
1t can, Of Minnesota, March 20, 1S8S:-I
or the face of these platform pledges !; i
ut the face of these admissions from un
I'd willing witnesses; in tho face of tn
Id large, ever-grOwing and threatenin
IL surplus, taken from the people by tai
>b alton and used by certain banks will
@. out any consideration therefor; and i
ed the face of the fact that SO many of I'll
he barest necessaries of life are loadc
down withthe highest kind of tarilltaXt
nd it makes Inc sick st heart to think til:
IL there are leading men on this side
c. tho chamber who can find at tins jun
1t, ture, and under these circumstances, i
er other field for tax reduction than Il
lc- internal revenue taxes on spirits al
Ier tobacco. Surely these things arc II
ct the diet on which the poor laborii
IL man keeps his family.
Ill Worthier, better and %juster, it scer
to my mind, would it be to give o
W peOple-the toiling masses-cheap
l.s. food, cheaper fuel, cheaper clothing al
,h' cheaper shelter-cheaper because r
III: leased from the heavy and unnecessa
vi bondage of high tariff taxes. ~tH I
III u free sugar. free co"i, free s"H anil n
~ lumber agdinSt free aohiShg 0nd n
W. t0baccO Hnder all circumstances, and
M wW The great mass Of Tie Amcrtt
- people.
m A young Baptist minister in Was
rho ington is responsible Tor h statemt
that poker playing is indulged IN
20; such M alarming extent among
c'" better class of womcn ut the seas
ecn resorts that several young ladies' IN
ed, lost their entire suInmcr wardr'
and through an unlucky turn III that l
dcd cinating game