Nevada County picayune., 1891-08-06
HOW TAXES ARE HEATED UP-
 ON US.

The following from the New York Evening Post is fair sample of the way in which our tariff bills are made up by the representatives of the taxing interests: "Any member of that privileged class can come to Washington with his demand for taxes on the people, and, no matter how great the resulting burden on them, or the temporary privation, he is received with deference and his demand is granted with alacrity; in deed. like Mir. Joseph Wharton, in the case of the tariff on nlckel, he is often permitted to. write the very law by which he is billctted or the people. To gratify this single con stitucnt of Senator Aldrich, and to insure him profitable market for the corduroy he wants to manufac- ture, every wearer of corduroy in the country must give more moncy-that IS, more work and more tune out of his life. Truly, the framcrs of the Mckinley bill were brutally frank when they said they had concerned themselves so much about the cost of articles to the consumers as about making profitable markets to the consumers of corduroy are many thousands--gencrally people who work with their hands for living the producers or would-be producers of corduroy are q single firm of man. ufacturers who think they can make a profit, If the American people can be compelled to buy from them, in- stead of buying, as heretofore, from those who will sell to them cheaper and take their products in exchange. The interests of the single firm are alone considered, heavier fine is placed upon those who would com pete with them, and the workingman and the farmer are compelled to give more of their labor or of their pro- ducts, and take an inferior article of corduroy. And yet we are told on the Fourth of July and like patriotic occasions that we have privileged classes in thls country. The es- sence of privilege is not in titles nor in rank, but in the power to take the fruits of another's labor without compensation to him therefor.
 "The Mckinley duties were put on corduroys in order to oblige firm of manufacturers in Rhode Is- land who had never made any cordu- roy, but who were confident of their ability to do so if high enough duty were put upon the foreign pro- duct. Senator Aldrich had the du- ties increased to 80, and even S5 per cent. on the lower grades, which are used for clothing by poor people, raising the price from the 30 to 40 cents yard, while the price of the high grades, which are used only by well-to-,lo people, was advanced on ly about q cents a yard. The result has been to force the poor people who formerly bought these goods for their clething to either pay third more for it or buy some cheaper and less durable material. Like the tin iniquity, this duty was put upon an article not particle of which is man. ufactured in America, or can be man ufactured here without the importa- ton of foreign skilled labor. A re- porter tried to get from the agent of the Rhode Island firm, who had this tax put on to enable them to give birth to an infant industry, list of samples with prices, but he only suc- ceeded in getting sight of small piece of corduroy, inferior in weight and quality to the foreign product, This sample, like those of the vari. ous American tin works, was only for exhibition purposes. No goods are for sale, or likely to he for long time to come"
 Theft of a State.
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