St. Landry democrat., 1888-09-08
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN.
The First Gun Fired by the Old
Roman at Port Huron. Mich.
The sophistrIes of Protected Manufacture
ers and Their Republican Allies
Swept Away Why Laborinn
Men Should Be Democrats.

:
echoing the policies of the tickets from a
authoritative source, was sounded at Por
huron, Mich, on August %, by the Demo
cratic candidate fer the Vice Presidency
Ex-senator Allen G. Thurman. The "Ol,
Roman" said:
lde1y any man who has any regard for tn
truth to say that Grover Cleveland has No
made good President of the Unite,
States. Cheers.l brave, intelligent
leVel-headed, noble man, he has hat
clean, an upright and successful
Administration. Loud cheers.1 Fou,
years ago he was elected. In the canvass
mat preceded his election his opponents
predicted all manner of evils in case he
should succeed. He did succeed, and pray
what has become Of their predictions
| Laughter and applause Where is the ruin
mat was to follow the election of Grover
Cleveland? Where is the disgrace that
was to follow his electiona On the con-
| trary, the country has been more ouiet
| more peaceable, more prosperous than 1t
mas been for many years that have gone bv.
NOW, know the man, know him well. and
tell you, my fellow citizens, that more
upright and wise man | do not believe
oWells within the limits of the United
etates-lloud cheers land he has a noble
BAND OF councillors around him, and not
the least among them is the DISTINGUISHED
citizen Of your own State, Mr. Dickinson.
tApplause.] Cleveland knows not onlv
how to govern himself in the limits of the
constitution, but he knows full well how to
choose good constitutional advisors,
[Cheers.l Having said this much about the
Administration, let me proceed to that
question to which I alluded in opening
which is commonly called the tariff DUES.
ton.
We have, according to the last advices
l nave seen, about s115,0OO, 900 in the
NationalTreasury, called surplus revenue
that is, taxes collected from the people he
yond the necessities of the Government
Those S115, 900 are lying partly idle in
the vaults Of the Treasury of the United
States, of no service to any human being.
drawing no interest, earning TO profit but
taken from the pockets of the people,
where they properly belong and where, if
they were now found, thousands and ten
OF thousands and hundreds of thousands of
the people of the United States would
put them to good use and improve their
condition and prosperity. Applause. The |
Democratic party says that this is a |
wrong condition of affairs-that that money
ought not to be, like the talent of the men we
are told of in the Scripture, buried in the |
ground; that that is very poor use to |
make Of the money of the people: and,
therefore, the Democratic party say that
this surplus revenue, which is produced in
the main by this tariff tax, ought to be re-
1uced, that the tax should be reduced an
that the surplus will not continue to accu-
mulate. Our opponents, on the other
hand, say it is better to let the surplus ac
it is better to take the money
from the pockets of our people, it is better
to pile it up in the vaults of the
Treasury Department, although it does
no good whatever, but rather does
great harmi it is better to do
hat than to touch the tariff laws OF the
country. We say, On the contrssy, that the
way to relieve the overturned s,eopIe is to
'educe the tag, that the way to treat q
people honestly, fairly and wisely is to
axe no more taxes out of their pockets
han the Government actually needs for
expenditure. [Cries Of ''Good," That's
light" and applause.l The icsue, then,
clearly made up between u.s. 1t is be-
Ween high taxation on the one hand and
easonable taxation on the other. 1t is be- !,
Ween taking the MONEY! OF inc people of t
helr own control, out Of their own pock- I
Is, anu Durying it in the cellars of the | +
reasury department., or leaving it where T
belongs-in the pockets of the people, to
% USED as their wants, their require @
lents, their intelligence and interest d. =
ect. g
1t is curious fact, and one OF the a
'orst things about this tariff tag, that t
mile the Government gets St resulting t
rom the tax, domestic manufacturers get a
}, as 1t is best estimated, that never goes t
ITO the treasury at all. How does this t.
appens A man called ali importer brings Il
DOGS INTO inc United States to be sold. o
o can not sell yard or pound until he
avs THIS tariff tax. He pays it, therefore, il
ld then sells it to the merchant. OF 4
'urse ne must get this tax back in the ls
nee for which he sells or he would lose A
oney. His business would break nm Mt r,
ice. Therefore, he puts the tax on the II
'iginal cost of goods, and with that prize n,
tded with the cost Of Transportation and f,
8 reasonable commercial profit hg selis in
g goods to the merchant. The merchant f.
us to the retail merchant, and, of course. r
Is tax Which entered into the price con- se
1ues in the price and to it is added the w
ohts OF the. merchant. Then the retail q
erchant sells to you and of course he w
lsb get IN this price, for otherwise ii:
would sell for less than he gave 10
the goods, and no man would CON ar
Mt to do that. Therefore, the tax is on ca
aen the cloth, for instance, is sold to Won o
q IN the price you pay this retail mer- me-
ant you also pay the whole of the tariff tr
the Importers profits, the wholesale so
nants profits, and the retail mer- ri
Us profits, besides the interest ON lie
money. 1t is as plain as that two dn
Two make four. IL vas school ne
Ter and boy of ten years could not tn
erstahd that after ten minutes teach tn
would give him up as hopeless tn
lLaughter.] That is the fact in re- th
to this branch of subject Now, how TIL
90 you 2ays The amount of duti- he
goods imported into the United States ma
81 was in value $50, 600, 900 in round ca
lers. The duties collected on these Br
-the tariff tax-was S212, 00O 0GO and lar
etion. Therefore, in that single year on,
was levied on the people of the ma
sc States by the operation of this tariff av,
&of s2lS,OO0, 600 and q fraction, which tbs
INTO the Federal Treasury But that, the
ave told you, was the least of the mn
Zen. The domestic manufactures of En-
ame kind of commodities amounted per
year to S. 800, o00,OOo, and as the price dor
hose goods was raised byehe tariff in as
Fly or equal proportions to be price of Ger
ds that were imported, the amount his
Oh the people paid by reason of these sur
4 prices of what they had to buy or had VIII
use amounted to 81, 100000, 600. That If il
bout five times as much as the tex re- tina
ed by the Government for the useAS mo,
Government. In other words, the t