The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-13
TWO KINDS OF TARIFF.

AeKinlsy's Clear Distinction Between .
tectton,-Which Taxes the Consumer
Which Destroys . Nations Industries:-
Which Makes High Wages and Low
Prices:jWhAs b . Revenue Tariff:
Why, as the very term implies. it is a
tariff for revenue As it is put in the
platforms of parties it is a tariff for
revenue only. tariff exclusively for
revenue a tariff imposed upon foreign
products which has no other object in
view. no other purpose to subserve. ex-
cept the raising of money for public ex-
pense- tariff which dismisses every
other consideration but revenue. and
which has no regard for the enterprises
or occupation of our own people. Now
a protective tariff looks not only to the
question of raising revenue. but has in
view al the same time the industries
and the occupations OF our own people.
ann the development of our own re-
sources and our own institutions
Let me illustrate it for a moment:
Take that glass taking tumbler from
ahe table,. the duty on that is sixty per
cent. Every dollars worth of that kind
of ware which comes into the United
States from Europe pays sixty cents
into the treasury.
Now. that is = protective tariff. That
is put there. not alone for revenue. but
it was put there for the purpose of en-
couraging the American people to en-
gage in the business of making glass
ware In the United States rather than
import it for their use from abroad
lt has had that effect. and the result
Of that tariff has been to build up the
country that can be found anywhere in
the world
Now. suppose it is the revenue tariff
that you intend to levy upon this kind
of glassware. 80 per cent. is too high; 90
per cent discOurages foreign importa-
ton: 90 per cent encourages domestic
production. So it is too high. if it is
revenue you are after: for lying at the
very foundation of revenue for the gov
eminent from tariff are importationS
You cannot have revenue if you 10
not have importation. and the larger
your importations, the larger wiz be
your revenue. and. therefore, if u is a
revenue tariff you want to put upon this
sort of ware. yoa would make a duty.
say, of Is or 20 per cent. instead of 90
per cent, which is the present law. and
which is protective duty.
Now. surprising you put Il or 20 per
cent. tariff upon this kind Of ware. what
will be the effect?-increased importa-
ton from abroad, multiplied and multi.
piled over, for a tariff of Is or 90 per
cent would encourage the American
| people to go abroad and buy the foreign
products, rather than buy the domestic
products.
You can readily see that if you made
tariff OF Is per cent, instead of 90 per
cent, you world have to import four
times the quantity of that kind of ware
to get the same revenue as you would
/ import to get like revenue from a
tariff Of so per cent.
| But YOU would do it 1T the expense OF
your own industries and your own la
Dor. for every additional cargo of this
kind of ware which would be brought
into the United States under the stimu-
lus of a low tariff of Is per cent. would
take the place of just that quantity of
ware that ought to be made in the
| United States. by our own workingmen.
in our own shops.
| You put more money into the federal
treasury, but you Will at the same time
put out of employment and on to the
streets thousands and tens of thousands
of workingmen who are now proftably
employed in that great industry.
There is one thing to be said about a
revenue tariff. 1t is always paid by
the consumer, and that cannot be said
| always of a protective tariff. You put
a tariff upon non-competing foreign
product like tea or coffee or sugar or
drugs. Who pays the duty?
Why, the consumer pays every dollar
OF it, and why? Because we have not in
this country any of those products in
sufficient quantities to in any way
regulate or control or influence the
price, and, therefore. if you should put
tariff upon tea and < tariff upon
sumner would be the price in London
and Liverpool. with the American tariff
added, and the reason for that is because
we cannot produce either tea or coffee
in the United States.
We are at the mercy of the foreign
producer. We have got no competing
product to meet the foreign product,
and. in sense. to influence the price.
and we pay the foreign price with an
American tariff added. And So. when
you make dutS low enough upon a
competing foreign product. so as to d.
minish the domestic production. so as
to destroy the American industry. that
very instant you put the American con-
sumner at the mercy of the foreign pro-
Queer. and he at once pays the American
tariff. whether it is high or whether it
is low.
Why. they say that protective tariffs
are always paid by the American con-
sumner. They forget that, in no in
stance. is revenue tariff ever paid by
anybody but the consumer.
Protective tariffs are. for time,