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

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is beyond our jurisdiction. You cannot
reach him. You can't compel him to
pay one cent tax. You have built
all your great highways and
canals; you have maintained your state
institutions of every character, and you
have done it by taxing yourselves. The
foreign producer owes no allegiance to
our flag. Why should he, upon any con-
sideratiOn of justice, equity or fair play,
be permitted to share this market with
the American people with his Compel
ing products without condition or re-
straint. The only way we can reach
him is when he brings his products to
our shores. The governor says we pay
the tax. If we do, why, l ask, is Eng
land making such fuss about our tar
IFS. Laughter and applause.
why Is Germany Crying
out against the new tariff law if we pay
all the tariff Applause. If you want TO
know who pays the tax ask the Cana
Erie county, Buffalo, n. Y. The Erie
county farmer takes his there, too. They
meet at the same market place. The
Erie county farmer takes 90 cents home
with him. The Canadian farmer takes
80 cents less 25 cents, the American tar
if. They say the tariff is tax and tn e
governor cites number of things to
show that we pay the tax. Great God,
if you have to have chartto tell a man,
chart to point out your poverty in
the midst of plenty and prosperity
Who pays the tax? The duty on
salt is % 40 cents barrel or II cents
n hr.A1 DO aara hn hos "A
for 80 cents a bushel where it is manu-
featured and 80 cents barrel in bar
rel, which costs 20 cents, which makes
the cost of the salt, if the governor be
right, cents. The duty on wire nails
was 81 cents pound. We reduced it
to 219 cents. They can be bought at the
place they are made for 2-10 cents a
pound. Who pays the tax? Cut nails
can be bought for 1-56 cents pound
Steel rails can be bought for $50
ton, So above the average price in
Liverpool. The tariff Is 1914
ton. The duty is 25 per
80 per cent. The governor seems to
think we didn't reduce any duties. l
want to say to him that when he voted
for the Mills bill he voted to make the
duty oil binding Irvine % per cent equal
to " cents, and we only made seven
tenths of cent. The duty on linseed
oil is 80 cents gallon, and on the
farmers flax seed % cents bushel.
The oil sells at 81 cents gallon. In
London it sells at SO cents a gallon, and
if the tax Is added, linseed oil should
sell here for 65 cents gallon. But it
does not. Who pays the tax? The
governor complains that in
This IniquitOns Law
Nf al,aN 0En n
on imported raw material made into a
finished product when entered for the
export trade. That rebate principle has
been In every tariff law since the second
administration of George Washington.
1t was in the Mills bill, which the
governor voted for. Let me remind the
governor, while on the subject of rebate,
that the committee ON ways and means,
over which Mr.. Morrison presided, pre-
sented report which was written by
that able Democrat, Mr.. Abram S.
Hewitt, of New York, recommended
that rebate of SO per cent. be given on
imported ray material entered
after finished for the export
trade. He recommended it as
In the interest Of labor. stating 1t fur
nished just SO much labor to America
which would be employed abroad, and
the very proposition he suggested and
which every Democratic member of the
ways and means committee voted for, is
In the new tariff law and is the provi-
sion made which Gov. Campbell clamors
so loudly. Now | want to give you some
experience, for that Is better teacher
than chart. There is nothing in his
tory or our own experience to Justify a
reversal of our protective system or
change our protective laws. A low
tariff has alvyaVQ iuorQacpd tho i'm
ton of foreign goods, multiplied
our foreign obligations, produced
balance of trade against US, supplant-
ed the Democratic producer and man
ufactuTer, undermined domestic pros
perity and robbed labor of its just re-
wards. Let me call first Thomas Ew-
ing, once an eminent United States SEN
ator from Ohio. Here Maj. Mckinley
read as showing the condition of agri-
culture under the revenue tariff policy
prior to 1924. l beg to read you an ex-
tract from a speech made by Thomas
Ewing, a senator from Ohio, in defense
farmer in Ohio long knew and felt the
pressure con sequent on this state of
thing. Year after year their stacks of
Wheat stood Unthreshed
scarcely worth the manual labor of sep
arating the grain from the straw. So
low was it reduced in comparison with
manufactured articles that | have
known forty bushels of wheat given for
pair of boots. Such was the state of
things in the Western country prior and
at the time of the revision of the tariff
of 1924. Horace Greedy, the late dis
tinguished editor and founder
of the New York Tribune,
has summarized in the most
striking manner the effects to the coun-
try of the two tariff systems. In 1869 he
wrote: lone year OF signald isaster and
depression have been those in which our
ports were easily flooded with foreign
goods, those which interveRed betwixt
the recognition of our independence
and the enactment of the tariff of 1869;
those which followed the close of our
last war with Great Britain and were
signalized by immense importations
of fabrics; those of 1888 to 1912, when
the compromise of 1885 began to be Sc
riously felt in the reduction of duties on
imports, and those of 1854 to 1857, when
the Polk-Walker tariff of 1916 had time
to take full effect. No similarly sweep
ing reyulsions and prostrations ever
take place, / think none could take
place, under the sway of eff
Gent projections Mr.. CLAY, in 1882.