Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-30

PiouuCo Ouly One-nalI OF the Wool We
consume, and the rest has to be inn
ported, either in the raw material or
manufactured. We do not grow
here the long fine quality of staple
needed and as we must have it, don't
you think it is mistaken idea to have it
taxed? Last year we had to import
on this we paid, the profit to the foreign
merchant, the freight on the wool, the
wages OF foreign weavers, and the pre-
MUM of insurance out of our own capital.
Ii we make wool free, what will be the re-
suit The American manufacturer will
go abroad and buy in other markets,
which will create for us our
own mercantile marine. We will
insure our goods in our own
institutions and finally We shall produce
fine cloths wrought out by the cunning
hands Of American labor. That is why
we want wool free, my friends, 90 that
our good hard dollars shall be kept at
home, and any man who wants things
this way will 60 to the polls in November
and vote for the election of Grover Cleve-
land.
Another item on the free list is salt.
There is point about that / wish to call
your attention to. Here is a Treasury
report issued during another Administra-
ton in which find long statement of
the amount of drawback paid on the salt
used by the New England fishermen in
curing their fish. This means that for
this fortunate class of men salt is now
and has been for some time perfectly
free; for the Government makes them an
allowance in the shape of drawback for
all they are taxed on salt. Now, isn't
this supposed to be government run ON
principles of equality? Jefferson, the
founder of the Democratic party, wrote
this legend over the door of the temple
Of American liberty: Equal rights for
all, special privileges for none' And
here We learn that 81 SOC, 900 have been
paid as rebate to fishermen that they
alone might have salt free. What Is
the cause of this discrimination in
their favor? In this State we are all
more or less interested in farming. Dur
ing the TINA covered by that report,
while the fishermen were enjoying all
this rebate, the farmers of California
paid into the San Francisco custom
house $7,000,0O0 for jute bags, but no
one ever suggested that they ought to
have this tax refunded. If favors are to
NO chOWA " DOuy. tA0 ldIluoTb C0I-
tainly ought to be allowed to come in for
his share. The Mills bill stands up for
the farmer. fCheers.l He is the great
creator of wealth; to him we owe a great
part of our prosperity. He stands
in peculiar position with re-
gard to this tariff tax. When the
manufacturer buys the raw material
which he uses he pays the tax, but he
gets it out of the jobber. The latter pro-
ceeds to take it out of the wholesale
dealer, and he, when he turns the goods
over to the retailer, takes it again from
him. Last of all comes the poor farmer
who buys the stuff and has no one on
whom he can unload the tax. He is the
last man in the row and has to dig the
money out of the earth with which he
settles the account. MIR. Blaine eaid the
other day that the savings banks of Mas
sachusetts had 1921 900 900 saved up for
the people Of that State. This is true;
but Illinois, much larger State, with
twice the population. has only 14,00O,-
600 of savings, This system has been
steadily drawing wealth from one part of
the country and dumping it down in
another. In the nine farming States of
the middle West there are 81 400 600, 200
of farm mortgages. Something is wrong,
and every man in that unfortunate sec
tion knows it,
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Another thing we propose to make
free is tin plate. We make no tin plate
in this country, but everything we use
made of tin bears the tax. Think of
this great Government taxing the child
in its cradle for its penny rattle. The
Mills bill makes lumber free. [Cheers.l
Well, thank Heaven there is some good
common sense left in the American
people. Why, l was talking with car
penter the other day who assured me he
proposed to vote the Republican ticket
because the Democrats wanted to make
lumber free and thus ruin his business.
pointed to lot which 1 owned
and told him that whenever
the lumber trust was broker I
thought l would put up some cottages
there. and 1 knew other men who were
only deferred from building by the high
price of lumber on this Coast. Cheaper
lumber will make more demand for
carpenter work and better pay for car
penters. But this is something no Re-
publican will ever mention. There is a
raisins. For my part wish they had
taken it all off. The tariff on raisins
does not affect their price one iota. Last
year we sent 100, 900 boxes to London. 1
recently saw a letter from a whole
sale Eastern merchant who said he
would want 100000 boxes this next year
for the crop of Southern Europe has
come to it's limit and is receding, while
the demand of the world steadily in
creases. Thanks to Providence which
has given us the needed soil and SUM-
light We shall yet be able without any
assistance from the Government to sup
ply the great markets of the world. A
little while ago it cost 5000 to send q car
load of raisins to the Eastern markets
and now it costs only $500. Yet
now they want you to go snivel-
ing to the Government and
beg that every half cent of
the tax be left unchanged. Is that the
kind of men they think our raisin grow
ers are? But they tell us that we must
keep up our high taxes or the American
workingman will fail to find market for
his labor. If we we're to believe what we
are told by the Republicans about the
| American workingman we should inn
agine that he had not sense enough to go
in when it raiped. / believe that our
prosperity is due to the skill, persever-
ance and high character of our workmen
and not to the so-called protecting