The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-09-13
The Tariff n Tax.

Some few tariff monopoly organettes,
profess to believe that the recent Dem
ocrasic Conyention. was not very ex-
plicit on the tariff question, while the
tariff monopoly organs, with editors
who at least have sufficient wit TO write,
and not clip their tariff articles, de-
nounce the platform as being a free
trade utterance unequiyocal and def
ant"
Leaving ths organs and organettes to
fight their own battles, concerning the
Democratic platform, we are free to say,
that the tariff plank is in line with the
growing sentiment of the people, that
''tbe tariff is q tdr.'' The platform ex-
prtssly declares it to be "tsx," and
this of itself, is a move in the right di-
rection, which leads To freedom OF ade.
One year ago this little word tax
grated harsnly upon the ears of the
tariff boodlers, and they were many pro
fessed Democrats who hardly knew
whether TO admit IN one word that a
nice sounding phrase like tariff duty
on imports" was, after all, but another
name for the more vulgar and oppro-
brius word tax.
Now all nice distinctions have been
brushed aside, and the party has but TO
show who pays this tax which done.
the battle for revenue reform will have
been won. They who have profited by
the system of tariff f-for-robbery-ouly
have dishonesty lapored to instil into
the minds of their blind dupes that this
tax is paid by the foreign importers, and
not by the American people. Perhaps
some OF them believed il, for where
there is chronic dishonesty there will
exist more or less ignorance, and gener-
ally more than less.
Every farmer and every woIkiugman
and every other kind of man who read
Republican party tariff literature, will
remember that they were asked to be-
lieve that the foreign importer paid al.
the duties collected at the custom
houses. Now, IL is but fair 10 presume,
that the only motive which prompted
the tariff boOdlers in their fraudulent at
tempt TO deceive ;he people on this
QUESTION was that of fear.
II the protective tariff duties ltaxes)
are necessary to the building up and
maintsinance of American Industries -
the supplying of a better home market
for farmers, and 1.-THE steady EMPLOY
ment of American workingman at high
wsges"-why deliberately lie 70 the
people. IN order to obtain their votes in
favor of continuance of that which all
men would, IL il were true, unhesitai-
ingly vote TO sustain ? Why, if the
tar Il tax IS such a benefcent plan for
insuring prosperity to the industrious,
was IL necessary 10 tell the supposed
ben fciaries that this tax was not paid
by them, but by the hated foreigner who
was trying TO flood the country with
the products OF pauper Isoor''? This
IS a question the tariff boodleIs must
answer. and We have no hesitancy in
saying that in this lies the rock which
will wreck their tariff ship. crew, cargo
and all.
We have not lost fair b In the integri-
ty, patriotism, and business '.hoss
of the people, and because of
this we feel assured, that when their
eyes will have been opened to the cruel
lmposItioDs under which they have been
placed by false economists, and trick
ster politicians, they will rise in power
and majesty of their offended citizen
ship, ana crush out forever, a tariff tax
lnG system which has been upheld by
falsehood, bribery, intimidation and
cant.
Now that the issue is fairly Joined.
will the gentleman of the protected
tariff school of political economy please
tell the people VITO pays the tax p
Harrisburg Patriot.