The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-09-07

moetic articles OF like kind which are
in the United States.
For it is a curious fact, and Que of the
worst things about this tariff tax, that,
while the government gets 81 resulting
from the tax, the domestic manufact-
urers get IS, as 1t is best estimated,
that never get into the Treasury at all.
Great oheering.)
FACTS AND FIGURERs.
"The amount of goods imported in
to the United States--of dutiable
goods--in the year 1887, the last year
Of which we haye any returns, were in
value S45O,325,322. The tariff duties
collected were $2l2,032,424. There
were, therefore, in that single year
taxes levied in the United States by
the operation of the tariff law of
$212,032, ,424, which went into the
Treasury of the United States. But
that, as 1 have told you, was the least
part of the burden. The domestic
manufactures of the same kind of CON-
modities amounted to $6,369, 100000,
and as the price of those goods was
raised by the tariff in nearly equal pro-
portions to the price of the goods that
were imported into the country, the
amount which the people paid in these
high prices of what they had to buy
and had to use, amounted 10 about ST.
O0O, ,O0O,0 900, or to about FIVE times as
much as the tax received by the gov
ernment for the use of the government.
In other words, the whole country was
taxed about one thousand million dol.
lars for the benefit of comparatively
small portion of the country. And
that is said to be justice, that is said
to be fair play, that is said to be for
the benefit of the American people.
Why don't they carry it outf Why
don't they, when they find in Port
Huron lawyer-1 think l may name
them because am lawyer myself
when they find one, the proceeds of
whose profession don't afford him and
his family a comfortable support-why
don't they tax You all for his benefit,
80 as to protect himf Or when they
| find doctor whose income is not suffi-
cient to support him and his family,
why don't they tax all the people of
Port Huron in order to add to the
wealth of that doctori And so on
with everything else. Why don't they
do 1T And they do tax man, or did
tax him and do yet pretty highly
sometimes on the medicine that he is
obliged to take. remember one OF
the most satisfactory votes that cast
when in tile Senate of the United
States was to abolish the tsx on qui-
nine, 80 that man with the fever and
sgue could have his quinine without
being robbed of his means Of subsis
tence. (Applause.)
81 know there are few cases, but
they are very few and exceptional and
not of sufficient Importance to make il
necessary for me to speak of them to
day in the limited time have to speak
in which the duty of tariff tax is moi
all paid by the consumer, but they arr
SO trifing in amount and insignificant
that it is not necessary that should
occupy your time with them. The
principal, the general fact is that thi'
tax"
CHEERS FOR THE JUDGES BANDANA.
The speaker was interrupted at thi
point by cheering and applause, whicl
followed his producing bandans
handkerchief. He turned the occasion
to profit by saying: "Well. gentle
men, this is good, honest handker
chief, and I could have bought it
good deal cheaper if it had not beeI
for the tariff tax. (Great laughter ant
cheering.)
Now there are men who say the con
sumner don't pay the tax. / have said
that that is most audacious assertion
and I have tried to show you that ht
must necessarily pay the tax. But il
they want authority on that subject le
me refer to some men who have spoker
upon it and whose word will hardly b.
gainsaid.'
Judge Thurman then proceeded tt
quote in favor of his position from the
record of John Quincy Adams as chair
man of the House Committee on
Manufactures in 1882; from President
Arthur's annual message to the Con-
gress of 1882 S3, in which he recon-.
mended an enlargement of the free
list. He continued:
"President Garfield said in the
House of Representatives on March
10, 1871: 4 was surprised at a remark
of the distinguished gentleman from
Michigan. q do not know who that
distinguished gentleman was, but he
was Michigander.) He asserted that
there is no item in the whole tariff
that can stand alone on its merits, bu,
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 by the hand, and thus al
interests unite with all forces befor,
they can make a stand before th'
count try. If this remark be true i
strikes blow at the whole tariff sys
tenn, blow l am not willing to strike
I am unwilling to admit that bad taxe
must be tied to good ones and thus b.
kept afoat. I think it is unwise t.
continue this duty on GOAL and I an
therefore in favor of its repeal"
TARIFF MoREAsEs, BUT NOT WAGES.
"The tariff has been raised agail
and again and again. II was immense
ly raised by the tariff of 1861 or g.
=, forget which of these years it was
1t was raised in a few years again, snt