The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27

raising revenue.
II 10 it's operations il should favor d
home production, it would be obnOxiou;
| to the principle upon which it was origin
ally levied, and must be repealed or mod
flied.
REVENUE TARIFF FAvoRs FOREIGN WORK.
| SHOPS.
| A revenue tariff, pure and simple, such
| as the Democratic party of Ohio advocates
can benefit and encourage, and build up
no domestic industry. IL does not en-
courage labor, save In foreign countries,
II does not move a single spindle save in
foreign countries. 1t increases the de.
mand for foreign goods, and diminishes
the use of domestic goods. It is for the
foreign shop and against the American
shop. II supplies work for foreign labor
and takes IL from our own labor. II would
not light single fire in an American fur
mace or mill, but would extinguish those
which now burn, unless our labor would
| work at the same wages as the labor OF
competing countries. In short IL is well
conceived to benefit every other nation
but our own.
ience been success even as an agency
for raising the money required for public
| PURPOSES. IL has more than once failed
| In our history to supply the revenue wants
| of the government II has found our
| country prosperous and our treasury well
supplied Wltn revenue, anu lew years
| under its operation has left the treasury
bankrupt and the business of the country
| in deplorable condition.
| HISTORY WOULD REPEAT ITSELF.
| And this is easily accounted for and en-
| tirely logical. Commencing with the
| country prosperous under protection, the
| Democrats have enacted a revenue tariff,
| and the people of the country, influenced
| by supposed and temporary profit, buy
| r. lie In otA nj HnnnaAtn
| They may be cheaper for the time. But
| this eyentuates in the destruction of our
| industries, for II increases the use Of for
| eign goods, and encourages the disuse of
| domestic goods, and with the disuse OF
| domestic goods comes diminished produc-
ton at home and less employment for
home labor, and finally no employ
ment at all, and with that comes poverty
to the people, which limits their capacity
to buy abroad, and following that, comes
diminished revenues, and then deficient
and defaulting treasury.
Aud then there inevitably follows direct
taxation, for IL the government cannot
secure needed revenue from tariffs to meet
the public expenses 1t must resort to in
ternal taxation. In the meantime, our in
dustries nre destroyed, and our laborers
dismissed from the factory and mine. and
forced TO the farm to become the farmers
competitors instead Of as before, his
customers and consumers, and then there
invariably follows rise in the price OF
foreign goods, to the American consumer.
PROTECTION 2sUzE AGENT.
As q means Of raising revenue revenue
tariff IL not as certain and reliable 10 q
protective tariff. The latter never failed
In time of peace no matter how great
were our expenditures, to supply the
revenue required, and has never failed
but three times, and then in war, TO- Pro-
vide the enormous revenue required FOR
the public service.
IA protee tive tariff has proven an unfail-I
rug agent in raising pubic revenues, and
while doing this IL has served that other
important Office of so adjusting the duties
upon foreign goods, as to give the largest
protection to our own industries, the
widest field of employment for our own
labor, and the most generous encourage.
ment to our own people. ~ serves the
treasury, and while doing so serves our
own people in their industries and en-
ployments. There ought not to be any
question, inasmuch as we have to secure
revenue from foreign imports, as to the
character Of the foreign goods upon which
the duties shall be imposed.
The principle OF n protect
i've tariff requires that articles \
not luxuries, which we cannot produce
in the United States should come IN free |
from tariff taxation, and imposes the 4
tariff upon such foreign products as come 4
in competition with the products Of cur \
own land and labor. Il does seem to me l
that there should be no difference of
opinion upon the subject among American
cltizens. AS we are compelled to tax some Il
product, every consideration, y think,
should require that the foreign Droduct
be taxed, the taxing OF which wouId bene-
fit our own producers and do no injury TO
our own consumers.
A protective tariff Is not only q surer
n mr. raj
IRriff, but IL builds up our own Industries /
md increases industrial activity in our
own midst. 1t furnishes employment for
labor and at better wages than can be Sc
cured anywhere else or under any other
system. A revenue tariff breaks down |
and destroys at home, and builds Up and
encourages abroad.
PRoTEoTIoN NOT a BURDEN.
Now, IL protection is burden upon
he people, we should find some mani
of il somewhere. We have been |
living under il for thirty years. Where |
loes the burden TestT The great mass |
)f the people Of our country were never
80 well OFT as they are today. They are
better oil than the rest OF mankind. |
There never were SO many men in this |
who owned their own homes az
there are today, There never were so
many workmen who had sccumulations
In the savings banks of the country as
there are today. There never we're so
many comforts, refinements and educated
homes as there are in this country today.
No nation of she world can present such |
d picture OF progress, prosperity and
plenty.
REDUCTION OF DEBTS.
Have protective tariffs piled up. the
debts of the United States? Let the re c.
ord answer. The monthly report of the
Secretary OF the Treasury discloses how
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