The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-30

sumer. 1t is true they claim tba
competition between the protected.man
utacturers Tor the home market after
wards lowers the price.
Even il this be admitted every inteili.
gent man knows that under tariff pro-
lection the domestic manufacturers
form trusts and combines which fix
prices as between themselves and pre-
vent their falling. 1t would be simply
waste OF time to bring proof of what is
known to all or to enumerate the trusts
already in existence.
Mr.. Blaine has stated that trusts
exists also i'm Great Britain, but |
doubt the truth of this assertion. The
product of the whole world must be
controlled in order to make successful
trust rs TO any article IN Great
Britain, and besides this, have been
unable to find any proof of Mr.. Blainc's
statement.
In recent debate Hon. William l..
Wilson declared in the house of repre-
sentatives that he went personally I,
when in England lately, to Mr.. Thor
old Rogers, professor of political
economy in the university of Oxford
and member of parliament, and
asked him if there were such things rs
trusts in England, and he said there
were not. Mr.. Wilson supplements
this with the statement that some
months ago an attempt was made ia
England TO form a combination among
tho paper mills, but the consumers OF
paper informed them that ii any
attempt was made TO raise the Lrice OF
paper they wOnld buy abroad.
Or conrse, when an article eau be
found, from natural or other causes, in
one country only, II trust could be
formed without tariff protection, but
1t is evident that articles of general
production found in all or many
countries cannot be cOrnered or con-
trOlled unless the trust is protected in
its operations by an exclusive tariff
At any rate we know that these trusts
exist here and are I'm successful opera
ton and we also know that foreign
competition, but for the tariff, would
destroy them.
HIGHER TAXES.
The pending bill throws off all dis
guise and deties the tax payers Of the
United States to resist its unjust and
wicked exactions
/ wish to examine briefly some of It's
provisions.
QUEENswARE AND CRoCKERY.
1t is interesting to notice the gradual
increase of duties on crockeryware
since the beginning of tariff taxation.
When the manufacture was In its
Infancy the duty was 10 per cent. ad.
valorem; during the war it went
to 40 per cent, and it is now 55 per
cent. upon the common white granite
ware generally IN use, and 60 per cent.
! on the common printed ware.
The same duty ia also imposed on the
finest chinaware, and on ornaments,
! toys, charms, vases, statuettes, painted.
enamelled, gilded, or otherwise orna.
menled or decorated.
The common plates or dishes on the
table OF the laborer pay the same duty
with the Ornamented china OF the rich
covered with mandarins aud pagodas,
or the French shepherd and shepher-
dess in amorOus dalliance on the
mantel of the millionaire.
This is one of the mysteries of tariff
taxation In 1853 the duties on Lack-
ages and inland freights were removed
and the duty on crockerYware was
Increased in compensation to the mann.
facturers from As to So per cent. on
plain and from 10 to 60 per cent. on
the printed or painted ware. In the
administrative bill passed al this session
the duties are put back on packages
and inland freights, which amounts to
at least 20 per cent. added duty, bnt
the house bill retains the old duty OF
So and 60 per cent. while the senate
bill puts the duty at so and 90 per cent.
This is q decrease of 8 per cent.
from the duties under existing law but,
considering the increased duty by
reason of the administrative act, it is
an increase of 10 aud 20 per cent. over
present rates.
When the farmers reflec. that under
the census of 1880 the whole number
OF persons employed In this business in
the United States was less than 10 600
whose labor amounted TO $S,29, 1885
annually, and that the consumers o.
this country paid in 1858 $3, 1859, III IS
tariff taxes to enrich the manufac-
turers of Trenton, N. j land East Liver
pool %. in the district of Mr.. Mckinley
they can form some idea Of what /:
being done for them.
J 1t only remains to be added that the
, manufacturers of Trenton and Easl
Liverpool have an arrangement fixing
prices to the consumer and that the
East Liverpool owners recently sub
United to an English syndicate desiring
to purchase their property a statement
showing 20 per cent. profit Tor severa
years.
This is openly charged in the press
| hut hnt faIan Enn N
that the business needs no snch pro
lection as is given by the bill before us
and that every household In the land il
plundered by this legislation.
COTTON-TIES.
The negro seems to fare badly witt
his republican friends. have alread,
pointed out the discrimination against
him in the decrease OF duty on rice, and
. the decreased duty on sugar, In the
culture of which he is also the princI.
pal factor, points in the same direction
1t only remains to be seen whether
he has been spared as to the other grea
staple, cotton, with which he mus
always be thoroughly identified. Th,
system of cotton culture now prevailing
in the southern states makes the negr,
pay SO much of the cotton raised TO
supplies and use of the land, and IL fol
lows, therefore, that the expense O
baling, Transporting and selling tn
crops largely falls upon him.
The house and senate bills raise th
: duty on cotton ties FROM 35 to 1l5 pc
cent. ad valorem, making an incress
of duties Oh last years importation
from 1926, ,454 40 to $1.Ol3,595
AS have stated, this increased taxs
! ton will be most OpI ressive to th
; negro, for the southern planter VIII
owns the land will pay only a sma
l proportion. No age, sex. color, rae
or previous condition of servitude es
capes the omnivOrous rapacity Of th
! tariff plutOcracy.
! (I0 be cOntinued.)
BLAINE AS A DIsORaANIZER.