Richland beacon., 1888-09-15

liN ouN VI til'ii Wv IL tpuiiti, out VI lHtlI
own pockets and burying it in the Gel
lar of the Treasury Department. or it is
between leaving the money where it be-
longs, in the pockets of the people, tc
be used by them as their wants require
and as their intelligence and honesty Iii
rect"
Here gentleman on the platform
rai'ed an umbrella to keep the sun from
the speakers face, but was unable to do
50. The Judge continued:
"Wcll, never mind, the sun never hurt
Iemocrat, anyway. daughter and
applausc.)
"Now, my friends, in the long politi-
cal life have led have heard u great
many false pretcnses preached to the
people, intended t. deceive and delude
them. but in all my life | have never
witnessed such audacity as have Noticed
this year on the part of the advocates o
IA high protective tariff. A singular iii {
regard of the truth, seems to have sud
denly afflicted them. do not intend
to call people hard names. I have all
my life cndeavorcd to keep civil tongue
in my head and | mean t. keep it as long
as live, but do say that some people
sometimes seem TO lose their seLseS, 20
that they cannot Sue the truth and often,
unfortunately, cannot speak 1t. Cap
plause.)
Now, Just think of it for one mo.
ment. We are told that high tariff
makes the Country richer, as If it were
possible to make a country rich by op-
pre>sivcly taxing its peopic, applause. }
Isn't that a new way to make man
rch, to run your hand into his pocket
and take OUT what you find there, and
that without any ,ust reason whatsoever
for dong so? Isn't that singular way
TO make anybody rich! (Appausc ;
And yet that is precisely the plan that
these people tell us is the plan to adopt
to enrich this country. his country,
they say, is to be made wealthy by means
andacity to say that this tariff tax is not
paid by the consumers of the article
which is taxed. Why, if the consumers
Of these taxed articles do not pay the
tax | would like to know who does. DO
these Protectionist orators pay it! Do
the manufacturers pay it Who pays it
if the people who consume the articles
that are taxed do not pay it: No man
can answer that question to the satisfac-
ton Here note was handed to the
spealer) Gentlemen, an afraid there
are some High PrOtectionists in this au-
dience, for a note is sent up FOR me to
read, as follows: "a lady has Just had
her pocket picked and she thinks it is
these high-tariif scoopcrs' | hope that
hight riff fellow who has taken the
lady's money will be caught and made to
refund before he leaves Port Huron.
Great laughter and cheering.)
WE PAY FIVE TINES MORE THAN Is
NEEDED.
"Now, my friends. if you will reflect
for moment you will see that it is nee
essarily the case that the tarill taxes are
paid by the consumers of the articles
which are taxed, and of all domestic ar
ticlcS of like Kind which are manufac-
!ured in the United States, for it is a
curious fact that one Of the worst
things about this tariff tax is that, while
the government gets 81 from the tax, the
domestic manufacturers gct 50, as it is
best estimated, that never goes into
the treasury at all. (Great chcering.)
"Well, how docs this happen! A
man called an importer brings goods into
the hited States TO be sold. lie can
not sell yard or a pound until he pays
this tariff tax. lie pays the tax, there.
fore, and then sells to the wholesale
merchant. OF course he must get this
tax back in the price for which he sells,
or he would lose money and his business
would break up at once, He therefore
adds the tax on to the original cost of
the goods, and, with that price added
and with the price of transportation and
his reasonable commercial profits, he SC Is
those goods to the wholosa C merchant.
The wholesale merchant sells to the re-
tai merchant, and of course this tax
which enters into the price cont nucs in
the prit ?, and to it is added the profit
Of the merchant. Then the retail mer-
chant sells to you, and of course he must
keep within this price. for otherwise he
would sell for less than he gave for the
goods, and no man Of sense would do
that. Therefore the tax is in when the
cloth is sold to you, and you, in the
price you pay this retail merchant for the
goods, pay the whole of the tariff tax,
the importers profit, the whole ale mer-
chants profit and the retail merchants
profit, besides interest on their money.
1t is as plain as that two and two make
four. If / were a schoOlmaster and
teaching boy ten years old, and he
could not understand that with ten min
utes, instruction would give him up a.
hope ess idiot. (;reat laughter aud
applause Well, that is the fact IL re-
spect to this.
THE TAX FOR THE MANUFACTURER.
snow, how much do they pay. Why,
the amount of goods imported into the
ni,ed Siatcs-of dutiablc gOods-in
the year 1887, the last year for which We
have any returns, was in value S4jo,-
80, 32a. Tn, tariff dut es collected
were :212, 0}2, ,42i. Taxes of S2l2, ,O32.-
~ were, therefore, levied in that single
year by the United States, by the opera
tion of this tariff law, ard all this went
into the Treasury of the United States.
But that, as haze told you, was
least part of the burden. The domestic
manu- actures Of the same kind Of COM
modit;es amounted that year to s., 3j",-
51?, igl-that is, in other words, to 3d.
3Gn, G0l, Oo0-and as the price of those
goods was raised by the tariff in nearly
equal proportions to the price of the
goods that were imported into the coun.
try, the amount which the people paid
in these high prices of what they had to
buy and had to use amosnted to about
81, O,0O", OOo, or 10 about five times as
much rs the tax received by the Govern.
m mt for the use OF the Government. In
other words, the whole country was
taxed about 81, 900. ouo, 900 for the bene.