Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-09

ZenI Tell me why the foreign producer
should have the same privilege to enter this
market with his competing products as the
American citizen has TO dispose of his in his
own market? The foreign producer contrib
municipal improvements. He is beyond our
jurisdiction. You cannot reach him; you
cannot compel him to pay / cent Of tax.
The Federal arm is not long enough to reach
him, the Federal tax gatherer cannot touch
him.
The Splendid Home Market.
You have built up this splendid market,
you built your schoolhouses and your
churches, You improved your great high
ways, you have built your canals, and you
maintain your State institutions of every
character, and You have done it by taxing
yourselves. The foreign producer has not
contribted one dollar. Why should he De
permitted to come here and enjoy equally
with you this matchless market that you
have made yourselves? [Applause,l
Here the Federal arm can get into your
household and take the flower OF your hock
and put them into the army to defend the
flag of the country and save his Govern
ment. ] can demand of him the best LIES
blood. Ycu cannot reach the foreigner for
any such purpose. He is beyond our Jur1s-
diction: he owes no allegiance to our nag;
and why should he upon any consideration
divide this market with the American peo-
Pile? And the only way we can touch him
is when he brings his products to our
shores.
why, the Governor saws we pay the tax.
If we do, in Gods name what is England
making such a fuss about? [Applause.I
Why is Germany crying out against the
new tariff law if we pay all the tariff?
The Only Way to Do 1t.
But as was saying, the only way we can
touch the foreigner-and the fathers had
that idea-when he brings his products to
our shores and seeks to enter our markets
and compete with us is to tell him to halt
and say to him that before you can land on
our shores you must pay so much for the
privilege of doing it, and that will go into
the Treasury of the United States to help
share the burdens of the American people.
[Applause.l 1fyou want to know who pays
the tax go ask the Canadian farmer who
brings his wheat to Erie county, n. Y, to
the city of Buffalo. and tho Erie county
farmer brings his. They meet ut the same
market place. The Erie county farmer
takes 90 cents home with him, the Canadian
takes 90 cents less 25 cents, the American
tariff. TApplause.l
Now, my fellow citizens. they say a tariff
is a tax, aud the Governor cites number of
things to indicate we pay tax, and he has
his chart. Great God, If you have to have a
chart to tell a man what he pays! Laugh
teri A chart TO point out your poverty In
the midst of plenty! Who pays the tax?
The duty on salt is % 4-l0 cents a barrel, or
u cents per hundred pounds in bags. Salt
can be purchased at go cents n bushel where
it is manufactured, and so cents barrel, in
cluding the barrel, which costs 20 cents,
which makes the cost of the salt, if the Gov
ernor is right, cents.
A Practical Tariff Illustration.
That is to say we get cents above the
duty and but for the duty we should buy at
less than ents a barrel, barrel and all, and
the barrel cost 20 cents, and so it is as cheap
at it is in England. and cheaper if transpor-
tation from Liverpool to New York be
added.
Here are nails. The old duty was cents
a pound, that was reduced to and "a cents.
These nails can be bought where they are
made at two and two-tenths cents pound
and the tariff is two and half. Who pays
the tax?
Steel rails can be bought for $50 a ton, Sc
above the average price in Liverpool and
the tariff is Sl3 Al n ton. The duty is 25 per
cent on boots and shoes. The old duty was
80. 1 want to tell the Governor that when
binders twine equal to IL cents pound and
we only make it four-tentns of a cent pound
in our Chinese bill. And this is true of cot
ton goods and wooden goods.
Facts for the Farmers.
The duty on linseed oil is 80 cents gallon
and on the farmers fax it is 20 cents. In
London it is 80 cents a gallon: if the tax is
added then oil should sell here for IS cents a
gallon, but it don't; it only sells for SO cents
a gallon. Who pays the tax? [Applause.J
But l must hurry on. The Governor COM
plains that in this iniduitious tariff law of
1890 we gave rebate of 80 per cent on i'm
ported "a W material which WAS worked into
the finished product and then entered for
the export trade. l want to say to this
audience that that rebate principle has been
in every tariff law since the second admins
tration of George Washington. 1t was in
the Mills bill which the gentleman himself
voted for. 1t is true that the rebate was
only 90 per cent in the Mills bill, but it is 80
fhn TNnRHr fn riff Ia
Now, let me give You good authority for
this 99 per cent on a rebate, and beg to call
the Governors attention to it. 1 hold in my
hand report of January 20, 1885, from tine
Mr.. Morrison was Chairman; Abraham S.
Hewitt, member: Roger Q. Mills, member
all of them uniting in this report. What
is it? Let me read it. 1.-THE Committee on
Ways and Means report bill H. r. 1851, en-
titled a bill to amend section 30l9 of the Re-
vised Statutes. relating to drawbac on
factured and exported with the recommen-
dation that the same be enacted into a law.
As the law stands, 90 per cent of the
duty that has been collected on foreign
used in manufactured and eX-
ported in man nufactured form is refunded to
the manufacturer: in the case of sugar, 80
per cent is so refunded. The theory of the
law was to retain sufficient amount of
duty to cover the cost of keeping accounts,
but in practice it has been found that only
about one-tenth of l per cent is necessary
for the purpose. Inasmuch as 1t is desirable
to remove all possible obstacles to the
growth of our export trades, the committee
are of opinion. which is concurred in by the
Secretary OF the Treasury, that it is no
longer wise to retain any portion of the
duties which have been collected on mate
Tials thus exported. The general idea is to
all unnecessary obstacles to the
growth of our domestic industry, and its
in the open markets OF the
world with the products of other countries.
Practical Bonus to Other Nations.
"a tax upon the raw material which en-
ters into our exports is to that extent q
practical bonus to other nations who do not
pay such taxes 1t is undoubtedly q wise
policy to give as much employment as pos
sible to our own people, and this object is
attained when VIC prepBre the commodities
ready for use, instead of shipping
them in crude form to be manufactured
elsewhere. No domestic interest Will be in
ured by the return of the duty on materials
thus exported, but many branches of do
nestle industry will be greatly benefited and
enlarged. Your committee, therefore,
the passage of the bill"
And the very provision recommended by
the Democratic Committee on Ways and
Means in the Forty.sIxth Congress was
adopted in the new tariff law of $780, which
Campbell complains of to-day, be-
cause it gives to the Standard Oil Company
\ rebate of SO per cent. tApplause.l Why, |
let me remind the Governor that the Mills |
bill, which he voted for gave to the Standard
Oil Company free tin absolutely. L have
talked to you on the subject of the principal
lf Il revenue tariff and protective tariff. |
Now 1 want to give you experience, for that
is better teacher than chart. |
There is nothing in history in our
own experience to justify the revival.
Of our protective system or change our pro-
tective laws.
A Low Tariff Increases Importations.
A low tariff has always increased the i'm |
portation of foreign goods, multiplied our |
foreign obligations, produced a balance OF |
the trade against the country, supplanted |