The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-08-30
THE GRAND on MAN.


the treasury quoted the remark or
roaring Bill Allen, who said we
might as well tIY TO keep a powder
house in hell a 10 have an honest gov
cfnment with a surplus in the treas
ury." Discussing this subject the
"old Roman said:
"lfan these people admit aud com
mon seuse teaches IL that It j. necos-
sary 70 reduce the surplus, the qucs-
ton is, now can IL be reduced? Is
not il the plain answer, reduce tho
tayesf' If YOU reduce the taxes th,r
the government viii not collect mnit
money than it had any necessity for;
but if you keep up these high tax,s
then the government continues to
take money out Of your pocse. 'of
which it has no earthly use, and pile
il up IN the treasury or squander ii
away. Now, the issue is fairly made
mp. The Democrats say reduce the
taxes. They are too high. Thcs,
taxes tLat are paid, insidiously paid
insidiously drawn from the pockets of
the people by means ofhigh protective
tariff ought to be reduced. Isay insid-
iously because my friends, when the
tax gatherer Of Illinois comes around
and takes a let Of your propc. y and
puts down the amount of taxes that
you are to pay, you know exactly
what you have TO pay, aud upon what
YOU have pay IL. Not so with thcs,
tariff taxes. The man who imports
goods into the United States pays thc
tariff taxes before he can take D..
goods out Of the custom-hou~c. or
coarse he adds uhat tax TO what hc
paid for the goods, otherw i,e he wou'i
be a dead failure and he would break
mp "A week--ycs, in a day, ia ar
hour he therefore add, that tal
when ne sells to the wholesale mct-
chants the hole,ale merchant kcsr-
the tax added to the l5.ico sad a't l
his o., j profits when he sells 90 th,
retail merchant, and the re,ail mo
chant keeps the tax in the price Whoi
he sells % You. So that when yo.
buy a roll of cloth for suit of clothe.
sou pay in the price that you give fol
it the tax paid 10y the importer; that
same tax, with the merchants proft
paid by the wholesale merchant that
anne tax, with the retailers proii
paid by the retail merchaut-aud tac
whole thing. in the end, comes out oi
: your pocket, and il is a. plain a. two
, and two make four. | could quote
any amount Of authority for it, but
no sensible man needs any authority
} upon as plain and simple a proposi-
ton as that Then this tax, this tariff
tax, Is paid by the consumer, and the
poor man who has TO buy good for
himself and large family, although
he may be very poor, oiteutimes pays
: as much or perhaps more taxes than
q millionaire whose purchases are but
small Why, YOU take some old har'.-
elor who is worth Sl000,O00 and who
is ofno use TO himself OF anybody s.
else, laughterl who does not f'tH
the scriptures at all and take ta
p YOU take such an old fellow a. tuat
who does not buy in the whole course
E Of a year as much clothing as prur
? man not worlh $500 is compelled ir
p buy every year TO clotho himself li,
4 wife aud his little ones. and vet tha,
2 millionaire pays less taxes By iarth8p
that poor abofing man whose forum
i is hi, hands. Now my friends, tls4s
7 Is another thing about thi. iu-idio
u tax, and it bears very hard upou tft
lahoring man When The revenue 70.
4 the government s. raised by ta e
tax it falls. as / have shown YOU.
q upon the consumers % thc goods hs
g IL tis not simply upon the oood. ,r,
q ported i'm ihi. country. II ial, ufat
him when he purchases his dome-,
goods made in thi, country, or ~.
= same kind. and Fl has becu estimated
& that the domestic manufacturer raiq.-
"a the price Of his goods 20 au eAtea'
/. equal 10 that OF The impoi ed GOO
s.. and have not seen 10 coatroy
that the amount paid TO the domes
J. manufacturets is five times a. mu.b
9, as the amount which is paid p H,
q government and goes into the treasa-
# ry. Now, | say that CHS tmiH tax
z paid by the consumer and lhe mao.
IS however poor he j., has 20 pay % lar
p and often times the largest prop0r.ie
r Of it; but not so with the taxes W. ~
= You pay here 10 the State Of Ium
.t 20 ihe county Of Cook and 10 the O.. &,
b of CHICAGO They are pcid on propo
r ", and the more property a man has
I. the more taxes he pays and ofall ID,
i inventions that were ever dex ,sed g.
3 shift the burden OF taxation from 4
d rich mans Shoulders ou 70 the should
i ers Of poor na- thia tariff tax il