The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-08-10
" AGES ON THE FREE LIST.
THE LABDRING MAN MUST FIGHT
HIS ON y BATTLES.
Another nansWerable Argument Show
ing that Protection Does Not Protect
the " orkingmen.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE

The bill OF the Committee on WayS and
Means of the present Congress known
euerally aS the Mills bill because Mr.
Mills, Of Texas is chairman, as il passed
the House, reduced The rare Of taxation on
Imported goods a little less than ) per
cent. The average rate under the exist
ing law, as has been said heretofore, Is
about AZ per cent As the Mills bill goes
10 the Senate it is q reduction only to ~
per cent. And yet the ProtectioniSts or
high tayationists have filled the ar With
the ciamor that this small iininution of
the burdens of the people will end in ruin
TO the poor laborer-that is, the owners
of the mills, forges and other industries
which get the benefit of the existing exac-
tons. The same cry was raised a few
years ago, when a bill was pending to
place Quinine on the free list. Powers &
Welghtman and Rosengarten Il Son We're
hanging around The corridors of the capi-
tai, button hOlIng members, and making
plteous appeals in behalf of the LARoRERs
who We're employed in the manufacture of
that drug. They said nothing about them
selves. They alleged by their own mouths
and through their organs in Congress.
Messrs. Kelley, Randall, Mckinley and
others, thar il the tax was removed their
factories would be obliged to close and
the poor LARORERs would be thrown out of
" ~ '
t,',,I-1 no ,-js th'' 49,. -
proclaimed that the tax had an influence
on the price. Their allegation was that
the enormous market value of qunine was
not due to the tariff at all. but 10 the
-, ,.t - 80
oti, s,e7tIar,a1} ,nd ,ha h;1I ,,.S Ydssa4
For So,,a ,,o,,th. tbo,,nb ,,i.,;,,o it;u 10
+.;Iod 81 e M -, - .,,I+T ,ror,,
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,rl - : - ''i - =,
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4 ai,ri1,aI u hra.'i. hafa,.l, n,b;Ia /,
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+ 4p' piT"A- Id' y 4uIh!He worth no"
80 'Ie is'e ito -" I0i nc ooll
Sl'll one - mem iif'9 "eeil eLi'L Se,4
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al - - q''1-.llI ~ "
1 pIH5l' pilti u. Iefil =
Oppeio (s, iot' - 'iiiee 'p.iaiS. =
- Iui oiiiiii iei Ia tol'el places 'ne
Meallll oi OF oi lneSt lIiliS ~ otel " iliil-
I
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rs o',ti - - Do.S -, 49, 20 oiol
f"S g " ~, '.'i'i 't'o' 'ieii
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$50 d;l3 - +hli r.'+;tD5
! Can.ai,i, - -, IN Tt ,+li
Cor,,S f r.'''-I
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~. olo iii''lo Nv, I1'o .'-''n w I''
ol GrelS 9 pt9'eGteu tt ounte Ilc'i 'Les soiu,
.''1,' a-''N .lS II-; ~ t,G.N' -
49, ~ .lio ~ '>''l
rePeal - q 70" "hleh Sa'1 Hc '"'o -
famous u, az 'n'''sG o'ei 'het' Ielio" ilio"-
lhey' Ike an tne olher Fiotecllohl7!''
want MY -hNe hlilolis Oh people tdAeo lot
I,le oeuelit % le9s tnali i've niliiiohe, @
ti1lo oG Gui"tl', az iio'i''' N0iii'Ai' "'i ''it
| -.
~ tne ldA u fuIlliiie le'sc 10 'o>'
70 the consumer! NO man can uels -
II 1t was 50 III regard 70 quinine II Is 80 /"
regard TO All othel artlciea' "lich are III
troduced iof consumption anu nave tdA
upon mem. /" heh liat laA Is 80 nlgn ~
70 prevent lair coihpe,itIoL ny eAciuoils
"hoiiy y Pdi Iiaii. az ~ a. NY
taA' iio otoau VI SoitiS inoo INC
where IL ll5"tAuiiy oeioiiS'' Soe' iii'o ,nc
purse OF lhe doheStlc proaucer- but d
small part OF IL, as the statistlcs Sno"
ever mas us way INTO lhe poche,s Oh the
laborers. LABOR Is hot protected Dy al!
tarlIl Whlch mas ever existed ne lapoftrs
are hot tne men VINO perch IKE piiuo VI
III omen dpout tne cdpltdi III w WafhihS
ton ASKING thaI lheir tne"a anu Sihe" ;
shall nave Cnihese wall Oh Protectlol
thrown around lhefn-out the people VINO
90 50 are the representatives OF cohceh-
trated wealth, VINO WISH sucn leglaiatloil
as Will add sun more TO 'he Slgah'ic l'iies
OF gold which they nave Wrehched from
the labor OF the millions by an lntoie'aole
system OF taxation
Any rejecting man ought TO be aole 10
see mat II the theories OF the frotec'lon I
lst are carried out 70 lheir ieS, !iiid'e Gnu
the government VIII De ooiiged TO resort 10
direct taxation 1of the purpose OF iiiih5 us
golfers suppose the Tax on ali SoouS was
such as 1t is on blankets -partially pro-
hItl41 raw