The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-10-11
Republican Leaders on Tariff.

Warner Miller. The sooner We
have that tariff revision. the better it
will be for the industries.
William Mckinley. The free list
might be enlarged without affecting
injuriously single American inter
est. 1892
Senator Morrill,. 1t Is mistake of
the friends Of sound tariff to insist
on the extreme rates imposed during
| the war-1S70.
William d. kelley.-Let the raw
material (wooD come in. Let us
make blankets that will drive out
English Blankets. July %. 1886.
Henry /. Dawes. The duties must
be levied on the raw material or the
manufactured article. If you levy it
OH the raw material, you discriminate
against American labor.
Eugene Hale.-Salt- believe this
article should 60 on the free list; that
the monopoly which has obtained
heretofore for the Ononadaga Salt
| Works. : ought to cease
Oliver p Morton country ex-
poets large reduction, and the dom
inant party here is responsible TO the
country for this reduction, and will
be held responsible if it is not made.
Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the
Treasury. upon spirits and to-
bacco. being upon things not needful.
should be retained rather than those
upon the common necessaries Of life
Annual Report 1888.
William b. Allison will say with
regard to the duty on wool and wool
els, that | regard it. not as an inten-
tional fraud, but as operating rs
though it were Il fraud upon the
great body Of people of the L. S.
March "a. 1870.
Gen. John 4. Logan-When n gen
tleman stands upon this floor and
tells me that this high. this extraor-
binary high tariff, is for the protec-
ton of the laboring men, tell him
that do not understand how he can
possibly sllbstantiate such a theory
| April 18th. 1870.
Hugh McCulloch. Secretary Of the
Treasury under Presidents Lincoln
and Arthur. The existing duties up
on raw material which are to be used
in manufacture should be removed. =
Annual Report 1884. Mr.. Cleveland
has marked out Il course which can
be safely followed. Dee. 1887.
President Grant. Many duties now
collected might be RENTED -
I would not mention these articles
which enter into manufactures of all
sorts. These duties not only come
from the consumers at home. but act
as a protection to foreign nanufact-
urers. Annual Message, Dec, 1875.
| Levi p. Morton Mr.. Morton's rec
ord as a free trader offsets his cable
gram as protectionist.- Albany
Evening Journal Republican, Jan.
9th, 1885. When Mr.. Townsend, of
Illinois, moved to pass the bill 10
place salt and other articles on the
free list. April 5. 1880. Mr.. Levi T.. Nor
ton voted aye.
! John Sherllan-Such excessive
protection not only ceases to diversi-
fy protection, but forces labor into
protected enlployments.- 1879. The
tariff ought to be carefully revised
with view to correct any capabilities
or congrnitles that have grown out of
the changes of values since the pas
sage of the act Of 1889. january,
1883.
Justice Miller, of the United States
Suprems Court. lay with one
hand the power Of the Government
OH the property of the citizens. and
with the other to bestow it upon ia
! vored individuals to aid private en-
| terprises and build up private for
tunes. it is none the less arobbery be-
cause it is done under the forms Of law
and il called taxation.
John. J. Ingalls-We are OH the
verge Of an impending revolution.
On one side il capital, enriched by
domestic levy and foreign commerce.
On the other is labor. asking for EN-
ployment, striving to develop domes-
tic industries, battling with the forces
OF nature, resolutely determined to
overthrow a system under which the
rich are growing richer and ths poor
are growing poorer.
james A. Garfield am for pro-
lection which leads to ultimate free
trade. April !. 1870. For nearly two
years the wholesale price OF Ameri-
can salt i'm Toronto. Canada, was a
dollar lower per barrel than the same
salt was selling for on the New York
side Of the lake. Certainly.
gentle,nen will not want u duty con-
tinued that enabis. that thing to be
done. May IS. 1872.
President Arthur-A total abolition
Of excise tax would almost inevitably
prove Il serious, II not an insurmount-
able obstacle to thorough revision
of the tariff and to any considerable
reduction of the tariff and TO any
considerable reduction in import du-
ties. The present tariff system il, in
many respects. unjust. 1t makes un-
equal distributions both of it, bur-
JeGs and beneiits.-Annual Message.
1882.
James q. Blaine-l,uring the en-
tire war. when we were seeking ev
erything on earth, out of which tax
alton could be wrung, it never enter
ell the conception Of Congress to tax
breadstuffs-n never Neither
breadstuffs nor lumber ever became
subject to one penny Of taxation. -
1868. Undoubtedly the inequalities
in the WayeS of English and Ameri- |