The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22

| against II. THINK LlaL Is true
Now this tax of "a per cent has brough
into the treasury more than the govern
ment needed. 1t has caused a surplus Z
accumulate there. more than was needed
to pay the interest and the sinking funC
taxes, and the current expenses or the gov
ernment. When Cleveland was president
you know we had 500, 000, 900 surplus
do not know but what it has disappears
now. will leave my Republican friends
to find OUT where it has gone. But an
not PARTISAN. | take that all back. Ina
is just thrown in in going along. OF COURSE
you all feel as good natured tonight as DO
Everybody said that we must reduce the
surplus. You know that at our conven-
tiOns at the last presidential election, both
parties said, we will reduce the surplus
and with that in their platforms they
went before the people. The election came
OF, and Brother Harrison was elected, not
by a majority of the vote of the people, bu1
| by a majority of the electoral Vate, which
| was all right and square.
Now then, the people began TO watch
when that surplus would be reduced. We
waited one whole year, and waited good
! while in the next year, and after time q
bill was endorsed for the purpose of reduc-
| ing the surplus. We began 10 look into
| the bill to see how il was going
| to be done We all supposed that
the surplus would be reduced by reducing
| the taxation. l do not suppose
| that there was a single man or woman in
this audience. or in the United States that
| supposed that the surplus in the treasury
would be reduced by reducing the taxa
ton of the people But what did we find'
| We found when we came TO examine the
1 Mckinley bill that they proposed TO re
| duce the surplus by increasing the taxa
| tion of the people. An unheard of thing.
! In time of profound peace when we had
/ tad han Z ha
| object of the bill was TO reduce the
amount in the treasury, they increased
the taxation of the people.
| You say that cannot be true. We won't
/ believe any such statement as that be-
cause no man on earth would be guilty OF
such an outrage. l want to just read a
word from Mr.. Mckinley's speech on that
| subject He is one that endorsed the bill.
He says: 1.-The instant duties are in
creased TO a fair protective point that
| Instant the importations Will diminish. No
one could dispute that proposition. If the
bill should become law the revenues OF
the government would be diminished from
$50 900, 600 to so, 90, 600. This by prohibit
ing importation How? BY lowering the
taxes? Mo: that would increase impOrta-
ton. But by raising the taxes When the
taxes would be worth 100 per cent, or 81,
on the blanket worth 81. it would be i'm
ported and a dollar would 90 INTO the
treasury. Increase the taxation To 200 per
cent, or 81 and it would not be called I'M
portation. That would be prohibition. 1t
would be raised so high that they would
not bring them in. Our people could man
ufacture then all the blankets and the 81
would not go into the treasury, neither the
81 would 90 into the treasury, because IT
would not be imported. That IS what II
means by having the tariff so high as TO
prohibit importation.
You say that does not show we are pay
ing any more taxes, because we do not pay
any taxes when it is not imported. But
our manufacturers are very smart people
and know how to do business. They know
that il the imported blanket cannot come
in here for less thar SO, they can put their
blankets up and make the people pay -
for them instead of s., as before. This Is
what protection means.
Take all the goods manufactured in
this country and increase the duty OH
them to such an extent as TO prohibit i'm
portation, and then no money goes
into the treasury That is the way the
Mckinley bill has increased the surplus
by increasing the surplus of manufactures
| [Applausel. They have raised the duty
from AZ per cent, on an average, 20 6o per
cent.
The Chicago Tribune says, THAT while
| they have reduced the amount that goes
! into the treasury few million, they have
! increased the taxation Of the people 237
million-not for the benefit of the treasury,
| but for the manufacturers of this coun-
| try" What is the result? We are told
! then that putting on tariff does not make
us pay any more for goods, that it will
often reduce the price of goods to con
sumers. At the same time when they put
it on farm products it increases the price.
You understand how tn : thin ble-rigging
goes on. III il put on goods manufactured
they say it reduces the price; If put on
wheat or corn, why this increases the
prices.
But we have some object lessons: was
at Garden City the other day, riding about
the town with some other gentlemen. One
of them, merchant, made this remark:
eff the people only knew what we dealers
know, there would be row over this Nc
Kinley bill" / asked him what they
knew. Why" said he, Il sent for bin
of goods such as had bought a short time
before, and they wrote back saying that
they would have to charge me 10 per cent
more on account of the expected passage of
the Mckinley bill. l have been selling
shoes that get in Chicago for 50 cents per
pair; they wrote me, when they found
this bill was about to pass, and stated
that if | would send back those shoes
they would pay me 81 per pair and all ex-
pense of getting them back to Chicago.
What does that shows II shows that
whoever buys these goods will pay IS and
probably % per cent more for the shoes.
Here is a circular from a musical in
strument dealer in Chicago, showing that
the price of the instrument named there
has increased from 40 to 100 per cent: that
they have had meeting Of the dealers in
these instruments from New York, Chi
cago, Boston, Philadelphia, etc, and they
have decided that they will raise the price
traf- OF RI 4
with that duty. Your dealers all have
similar circulars no doubt.
Here Is an advertisement taken from the
Kansas City Times, dated October .. It
says that on account of the Mckinley bill
which goes into effect that day, the price
on linens will be raised IS TO 30 per cent:
certain classes of cloth that sold for s. -
they would be Obliged TO sell FOR s.. 20;
other cloths that cost s. s. they would
have TO sell for S907 cloths that sold for
S26. 20 they would have to sell for 1913. I
call your attention TO this. not that 10 Is
new to You, but TO demonstrate the fact
that the Mckinley bill has raised the price
Of the accessories Of life, of almost all the
goods that the common people wear and
use. 1t is the rule that IL is higher on that
class of goods than on the goods that the
rich use.
Well. when they taxed the people and
got them all poor; when the farmer got so
poor that he could not get along and has
to borrow money; then they send their
agent out here and he goes to the poor
farmer that is about 10 abandon his place,
and says l can help you out He says, /
am the agent Of some men in the east who
have more money than they know what 70
do with, and / will loan you a thousand
dollars. The poor man looks over his
premises, sees the comforts he has pro
cured, the labor Of his life. he looks into
the door yard and sees a little mound
where some Of his children have been