The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-21
Every Word of This is True.

The Democratic News, Xenia, has the
following pertinent article:
We have said that the tin plate tariff |
of LIS cents was suspended from Oc- |
tober 6, 1890 to July 1, 1891, when it |
went into effect for some purpose. The |
inference is pretty clear that it was
corrupt one. Whether that is so or not
there has been no reason yet assigned
for the act, 1t is also clear that it en-
ables 21 iron-tin manufacturers to inn
port S29, 600, 600 worth of tin at cent a
pound with the dead certainty that
there would be net gain, by the in
creased tax, of six or seven millions of
dollars by waiting a few months In
other words it was gift (robbery) of
the peoples money to enrich the inn
porters of the tin. Now for what pur-
pose? that is the question. Gov. Camp
bell says that it was expected that these
benef1ciaries would contribute literally
to keep their party in power Senator
Mills says it was not to aid American
workmen. 'sFor what purpose do not
know, but it operated so as to put
large amount of money into the pockets
of the men who imported it at one cent
duty, and held it till the new duty went
into effect, and raised the price 12 cents
pound, and poeketed the profits so ex-
tracted from the people,
On the absence of any other reason,
is it strange that tie people should sus-
pect it was for corrupt purpose?
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Some republican organs and Maj.
Mckinley himself have been recently
forced to admit that tariff duties from
which revenue is derived by the govern
ment are taxes and paid by the consum-
ers. But, say Mckinley and his organs,
tariff duties which are made so high as
to prohibit importations, are not taxes.
And herein is the deception as well as
the outrageous iniquity of the high pro-
lection or prohibitory tariff system.
The high or prohibitory tariff is put
upon an article, and then the manufac-
turers of that article combine, or form
trusts, and put up the price so that the
consumer pays the whole of the exorbi-
l.tant duty to the manufacturers This
is the most outrageous and iniquitous
kind of tax. It is not tax to support
the government, but tax that goes into
the pockets of private individuals, who
are made thereby a favored class. This
is the manner in which the great mass
of the people are robbed and become inn
poverished, while the favored class are
enriched and become millionaires. The
people would pay revenue taxes, thatgo
into the national treasury, without COM
plant. But protective or prohibitory
taxes they pay to the protected monopo-
lists, and they have most sacred right
to protest The result of such a system
is clearly show in the effect it has had
upon the country's wealth. The larger
proportion of that total wealth has de-
parted from the people and gone into
the possession of the favored, or mill
ionaire class. With the farming class
of the country the impoverishment has
been of a two fold nature. Not only
have farmers been compelled to pay
exorbitant tariff taxes that went into
the pockets of the millionaires, but the
effect of the high tariff system has been
to depreciate the value of their proper
ty hundreds of millions of dollars
| Newark Advocate.