St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-09

cratic applause.1 Now who pays the
tax. The major says this tax is not
paid by the consumer. Now, the su-
preme court Of the United States, the
authority in the land, has said who paid
the tax. In the case of Brown against
the state of Maryland. they unani-
mously announced that duty on i'm
ports is tax that is
Paid by the Consumers,
Democratic applausel. In 1870 Will
lam Richardson, once a member of the
court OF claims and eX-aSsistant Secre-
tary of the treasury, in reply to the in
duiry OF Senator Sherman, said that the
importer adds the duty to the cost of
the goods, and the consumer pays it.
Gov. Campbell here caused a board to
be hoisted from the stage on which he
demonstrated, by methods of bookkeep-
ing, the alleged injustice of high tariff.
A man goes to England and purchases
goods to the amount of $1,000, the aver
age duty on these goods would be
S., 900, making $4,000. the total sum paid
by the importer. Here another board
was hoisted on which this $1,000 was
charged up to profit and loss.' indi-
eating that II the importers did not
charge the duty to the consumer he
would lose the 5000 paid in duties. Thus,
the foreigner had not paid that tax. An
other board was hoiSted on which it was
shown that if the foreigner paid the tax
the cost price of the goods when offered
to the American consumer would be
$4,000 instead Of SS.000 which would be
absolute free trade. Now. when genu-
Inc reciprocity comes in, we will have
not little one-sided reciprocity with
the little countries of South America,
but substantial free trade with Eng
land, France and the world Tapplausel.
The duty OH plate glass is 140 per cent,
and last year we imported $1,000 worth
of plate glass. That was the value of
the goods in England, yet upon that
glass there was 1928, 600 duties, or $685.
600 more than the cost of the glass in
England. Who paid that tax? Did the
English manufacturer give us the
glass and pay $4,000 besides to get us
to take it? Vociferous applause and
laughter. A Chicago paper says that
last week a Chicago firm received
81, 400 worth of pearl buttons from
Austria, and the duty on those buttons
was just $4,000, or trifie over 200 per
cent.
who Paid That Dutya
Laughter. Did the foreign manu-
facturer pay nearly $1,000 for the priv
ilege of sending the pearl buttons to
US? Laughter and applausel. The
Mckinley bill provides that 81 per cent
of the duties on some articles shall be
refunded provided these articles are ex-
ported. Last year the Standard Oil
company imported tin to this country
upon which they paid more than mil,
lion and a quarter tax or duty. If
they did not, if the for
eigner instead paid that duty. then
the United States has put its hand in
our pockets and presented the Standard
Oil company with million and quar-
ter of our money; for this amount was
refunded TO the Standard Oil company.
There was manufactured in this country
last year 81, 500, 900, COCO worth of goods.
If the tariff on dutiable goods is go per
cent 1t is fair to presume, taking pro-
tected and unprotected industries to-
gether, that at least one-third of that
sum is paid in lieu Of duties to the manu-
facturerS at home upon the American
product. 1t is said ali this is done for
the upbuilding and maintenance of
manufacturers. How long, oh Lord,
how long, shall this upbuilding aud
maintenance go on?
A Voice-For all time. Applause
Then it will not stop with eternity.
Applause. L will read you a letter
written by a man named James G.
Blaine Republican applause] ,on the 10th
of June, 1884. He wrote: 'Neverthe-
less facts are stubborn things, aud the
hard figures of arithmetic cannot be
satisfactorily answered by airy figures
of speech. The truth remains that the
cearser descriptions of cOttons and cot
ton prints, boots and shoes, ordinary
household furniture, harness for draft
animals, agricultural implements of all
kinds, doors, sash and blinds, locks,
bolts and hinges, sllverware, plated
ware, woodenware, ordinary paper and
paper hangings, common vehicles,
ordinary window glass and glassware,
rubber goods. coal, kerosene,
white lead. lead pipe and articles
in which lead is the chief exponent, can
be ana are produced as cheaply in the
United States as In any part of the
word. lApplause]. / will call your at
tention to the length of time and the
amount of protection many of these
Infant Industries
have had and are now having. Glass
ware of the common kind has been
taxed since 1889. laughter. The d uty
under the tariff of 1883 was 40 per cent.
Maj. Mckinley raised it to so per cent.
although Mr.. Blaine said seven years
ago that 1t could be produced as cheaply
in this country as anywhere IN the
world. [Applause]. The fact is this
kind of ware is made cheaper here than
anywhere else, and is shipped all over
the world. Yet so per cent of
the former rate was added to
protect it against competition
that does not exist. Laughter Glass
chimneys. from As per cent under the
tariff Of 1883. the major raised to 60 per
cent. Penknlves were raised from so to
II to 1873 per cent by Mckinley, so that
now the penknife men meet every
month or two to organize and raise
prices. We have been taxed 10C years
on cotton cloth, which Mr. Blaine says
can be made here as cheaply as any
where else. Why not, since we grow
the cotton? Yet, under the Mckinley
bill, the tax was raised from IS to 62 per
cent. Grain bags, protected since 1924,
paid 40 per cent under the tax of 1888,
but were raised to so per cent; oil cloth,
which has been taxed since 1924, was
raised from 40 to 80 per cent; edg-
ing embroideries, Russians, and all
those things that the women
like and which used to be taxed from
30 to So and 40 per cent are now all put
up to 60 per cent. The wooden manu-
facturers have been taxed since 1876,
and the duty on the lowest grade of
blankets was 70 per cent in 1888, yet it
is increased now to 81 per cent. The
duty on highest grade was raised, how
ever, from 50 to only II, an increase of
but 2 per cent. Before the Mckinley
bill five-pound blanket cost to make
$3.50. The labor cost was 35 cents, and
the blanket is now protected under the
Mckinley bill to the amount of 22S,
and that they would say is to equaIize
the cost of labor hetyyenn thic couDtrx
and England. Laughter. Expensive
carpets are put up from 40 to Is. and
cheaper ones from 40 to 50 ana IS per
cent, and yet
Carpets Have Been Taxed
since 1916. save and except the fifteen
years of Democratic low tariff between
1916 and 1861, when they were not taxed
at all. Something has happened in this
country as result of the increase of
taxation. At the close of the war,
when we had taxed everything that