The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-10-22
are displacing American citizens.


cause of the people. [Applause1 We
are rapidly reaching the condition
which was predicted by Abraham Lin
coin when he uttered these words: "As
the result OF the war corporrtion have
been enthroncd, an era of high prices
will follow, tho money power will en-
deavor to prOlOng its reign until all the
wealth is aggregated in the hands Of the
few, and the Republic is lost" [Ap-
plauSe.
10 conyince you that Lincolns pre-.
dictiOn is being realized | cite to you
the utterancts of u Republican Con-
gresham UButterworth) from Ohio,
who said in Congress that he could up
on the ten fingers of his hands count
the men who had added more to their
wealth in the last ten years than had
been added to tho wealth Of all the
agriculturistsi in any State in the Union
| democratic applause. The American
| Economist says that tho number OF
people in the United States who own
their own homes has in twenty-five
years fallen from iiYc-cightS To three,
elghthS. How many years will il take
them to fall to One-eighth? The Pro.
greSs says that when Egypt went down
z per cent of her people owned 81 per
cent Of her wealth; people were starved
TO death; that when Persia went down
per cent of her population owned all
the land; that when Rome went down
| 800 men owned all the known world
In 1880 in this country capitalists owned
}Hl, per cent OF her wealth. Yet he
VINO gees before the people, and without
comment, without temper. points to
these facts that are statistical, is Snepred
a. as "ca!amity crOakcr."
| BrldStTcCt, an authority in this cOuu-
try, says that the total number of mer-
camille failures in the UnitrG States for
the nine months for 1881 was $3.50, us
compared with 1923 in a like period of
1890, an increase Of II per cent. This
is un0cr the Mckinley bill. Applause
Vet IN 1890, when Mckinley accepted
the nomination for Congress, he said
that If his bill passed the Senate this
country would win Il boom more mar
vrllon# than it had ever known. Laugh
teri Where is that boom? Demo
cratic applause. Free sugar." Free
sugar, from the Republicans. Were
1T not for the present abundant crops,
| the best in ten years, these failures
| Woald be great deal worse than they
are. One OF the greatest causes Of the
| depression and failures Of the present
season is that we arc paying too much
taxes. Mckinley, on May >, 1888, at
| l'hlladelphia, sad that tariff was Il tax.
IlDemocratic applause. Now, who
pays that tax? The Major says that
this tax is not paid by the consumer
| Now, the supreme Court of tho United
States, the highest authority in the land
has said who paid the tax. In the case
OF Brown VS. the State Of Maryland
they unanimously announced that "a
duty on imports is Il tax that is paid by
consumers. Democratic applause
In 1870 William Richardson, once a
member Of the Court OF Claims and OK
assistant Secretary Of the Treasury, in
reply to IN inquiry by Senator Sherman
said that the importer adds the duty to
the cost Of the goods and the consumers
pay it.
Governor Campbell here caused a
hoard to be hoisted upon the stage on
which he demonstrated by methods OF
bookkeeping the injustice of Il high
tariff. y man goes TO England and
; purchases goods to the amount of 50 900:
the average duty on these goods WOuid
be $1,000, making $4,000, total sum paid
by importer. Here another board was
hoiSted on which this $1,000 was charged
up to "prolit and loss" indicating that
lIf the importer did not charge the duty
to the consumers he would lose $1,000
| paid in duties. Thus the foreigner did
not pay that tax. Another board was
| hoiSlrd. II WAS shown that if the for
| rigner paid the tax the cost price OF the
! goods offered TO the American conSum-
or would be $1,000 instead of $1,000,
which would be absolute free trade.
| Now, when genuine reciprocity comes
| IN, we would have not little Onc.Sided
reciprocity with the little countries of
south America, but substantial! re-
( Il " a l. 'n H. ~.
world. Applause. The duty on plate
glass is IlU per cent. Last year we i'm.
ported $l6O,COO worth Of plate glass.
That was the value of the goods in
England; yet upon that glass there was
PAID SS223,0cO duties. or $4,000 more
than the cost OF the glass in England.
Who paid that tax? Did English man
ufacturerS give uS glass and pay $63, 600
besides to get rs to take it? IApplause
and Laughter. A Chicago paper says
that last week Chicago firm received
81 400 worth Of pearl buttons from
Australia and the duty on these buttons
was lust $4,000, o. trillc over POO per
cent. Vino paid that duty? Laugh
tel. Did the foreign manufacturer
pay nearly 5000 for the privilege of
sending pearl buttons to us? Laugh
ter and applause. The Mckinley bill
provides that 80 per cent of the duties
on some articles shall be refunded, pro
vided these articles are exported. Last
year the Standard Oil Company i'm.
ported TIN to this country upon which
they paid mere than a million and
quarter tax or duty. If they did not, if
9he foreigner instead paid that duty,
then the United States has put its hand
in our pockets and presented the Stand
ard Oh Company with a million and a
quarter of our money, for this amount
was refunded to the Standard Oil Com
pany. There were manufactured in
this country last year $5,500OOO,COO
worth of goods.
If the taril on dutiablc goods is TO
per cent it is fair to presume, taking
protected and unprotected industries
together, that at least one third of that
sum paid in lieu of duties to manu-
facturers at home upon the American
product. 1t is SAID all this is done for
the upbuildlng of and maintenance of
manufacturers. "llow long, Lord, how
long, shall this upbuilding and mainte.
nance go on a voice: "For all time."l
Then will it not stop with eternity"