The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-11-29

| Tax on tin basins. Observation-Disclosures. AZ
Tax on roofing shingles. 2s
Tax on pine boards ............... ~ 2r
Tax on pine boards planned. 81
Tax on latis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. q
Tax on molasses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. al
Tax on womens hats and bonnets ...... &c
lax on starch. -.-.-................ o.
Tax on wiadow glass. .................... 81
| Tax on steel rails sf
Tax on bar iron....... ................... 81
Let each one who hears me settle the
| Question for himself, and let him in his
own mind decide whether he buys OF
| sells theitems that have mentioned, upon
which the tariff tax falls They are but an
| average, and from them you can Judge of
the constant drain upon the agricultural
| interests of Georgia by reason of the pres.
ent system OF protective tariff. You can
not think over this partial tariff schedule
without seeing clearly that your pockets
| are being emptied to Eli those of somebody
else, and you must naturally desire to
know how much money is taken out OF
Georgia each year in this way.
TARIFF TRIBUTE
Senator Coke estimated, in an able
| speech, that il the manufactures were pro-
tected only % per cent. they received
Sl,2Oo.ooo,oOO from the people. BY these
nSnr's, Georgia's share of the tribute
would he S3S.0000O0
| Congressman Springer of Illinois, in an
eiabo ate contribution to the North Amer
lean 1sevicw, puts the amount received by
the favored interests, extorted from the
| con tuners through D protective tariff, at
S3Hi, ,G37 per annum. Tariff taxes are
'akrs on the consumption, and, as a general
rule, universally, so far as necessaries are
fha .~.s..a
ing ~ his means, but according to the num-
Der dependent upon him for shelter, food
AMI clothing SO that the proportionate
part of this tax which falls upon each state
can be approximated by dividing the bur-
den of the whole people according to the
population. Georgia has about one-thirty-
second OF the population of the union
within her borders. Tried by these figures
Georgia would pay SIT 900 900 per year as
tribute to favored industries.
TARIFF TAX.
The government as have before stated.
receives tax from the tariff of 1925 co.,
600 per year, our proportionate part of
which is something over 100000, esti-
mating. as before, that we pay according
to population, and therefore one thirty
second OF the amount. Add the two
amounts together and we have the
TARIFF TRIBUTE AND TAX
costing Georgfans $24 1000, 600 each year.
STEEL RAILS.
Nothing illustrates better the tribute
which we pay than the cost of steel rails. |
During the past two years, including side
tracks, there were laid in Georgia $50
miles of rails. Estimating the rails as
being GO pound rails, we would have about
100 tons TO the mile and therefore $1,000
tons. The duty is SIT per ton. Rails sold
at little less than their foreign price with
the tariff added. 1t therefore resulted
that only 1900 tons were imported while
over 2,2O0,0 600 were used, made in this coun-
try. The United States collected on the
1900 tons, seventeen dollars per ton
while Mr.. Carnegie and others engaged in
similar business collected almost as heavy
duty on 2,123,O00 tons. The cost of rails
In Georgia was increased by the tariff
nearly 81 ,445,0OO, the governments proper
ton OF which was about $4,000, while the
tostered monopolies received about 81 AGO.
Co., say fostered monopolies, for Mr. Car
negie's yearly income is over 81, 500, 900, and
itcan hardly be claimed that the farmers of
Georgia are so rich that they should be
taxed to contribute further to his support
can any one successfully argue that the
burden of this additional price of rails
falls on the railroads. The commission al
low them to charge a fair price, taking into
consideration the cost of their construction
and maintenance. So the man who rides
on the railroads and sends his property over
them really pays the increased cost of the
rails.
COTTON BAGCING AND TIES.
The burden which this protective tariff
places upon our farmers is also excellently
illustrated by its effect upon the cost of
COTTON BAGGING AND TIES.
The cotton crop of Georgia for 1887 is put
at $4,000 bales. Each bale requires six
yards of bagging weighing ten and half
pounds. The duty on bagging worth over
cents yard is 2 cents a pound or q |
cents bale, which amounts to S19l, 900 on |
Georgias crop of last year. This tariff tax
on bagging has amounted to prohibition
of the importation of bagging made
in India. The manufacturers of
that country being excluded with
their bagging from this country by reason
of the tariff they make no preparation to
furnish the United States with bagginr.
Late in the season, after the time had
passed Tor the manufacturers to prepare
bagging for our cotton market, the bagging
trust was formed in this country, and bag
ging has been advanced from 7b to 1877
cents yard. That is to say it has been
advanced cents yard by the trust, MAX
ing sc cents bale, and 1921, 200 on 10000
bales, the same being an estimate that the
cotton crop of this year will be of equal
size of the crop of last year.
Each bale of cotton is bound with five or
six ties; say five and half ties are an
average. Ties are worth about 81 80 a
bundle, and there are thirty ties to the
bundle, making each tie worth4 1-3 cents,
and an average of five and a half ties per
bale % $40 cents, and S2165So for a cotton
crop of 10000 bales. The duty on cotton
ties is 50 per cent, and as in this case the
price is certainly added to the duty. The
S216,5S0 is 30 per cent. of the price, which
makes the price 100000, less the duty.
The difference between the two sums,
S56,5S0 j" the tariff tax on cotton ties
which Georgia farmers pay. Add the bag
ging tax, the tie tax, and the extra price of
the bagging charged by the trust, and it is
seen that the Georgia farmers must pay on
the cotton crop alone, by reason IF the