Nevada County picayune., 1891-10-29
FARMING THE TAXES.

oU bTaue PTOIDlSeu Illat 'Jnc pTOtec- tive tariff should be reformed by it's friends. It is as a representative of the faliillment of this promise that MT. Mckinley is now before the peo. pie of Ohio.
 Ii was fulfilled by raising the av- craze tariff rate on all manufactured goods 10 per cent. and by voting a bounty of from Sl0, ,O00, GOO to S15,- 000,000 year to few hundred su- gar producers-the money to he raised by taxation on the people and paid out to men who have no more earned it than have the farmer, the lawyer, the doctor, the minister of the gospel, the hod-carricr, the thou sands who in every walk of life work hard for their living, receiving noth- ing from the high-tariff Government and paying heavy taxes to support it and it's favorites
 There is but the single item of free sugar to relieve this gross injustice, and here the effects of the removal of the tax work the condemnation of every other item in the bill. For though the Sugar Trust, which had pald into the Treasury the tax on raw sugar before charging it to the consumer. was left with a protective tax on table sugar, free trade in raw sugar at once added over 40 per cent to the sugar-buying power of every workman's dollars in the country l just as the 10 per cent. increase in tariff taxes on manufactured goods scaled down the buying power of the dollar in the case of thousands of articles of necessary use and scaled wages and salaries in proportion.
 When this tariff bill was being made MT. Mckinley held court in Washington and all his courtiers went there to meet him. And one of them said to him: Tax the peo- pie so much for me-" And another said: 'I have written here how they should be taxed for me-" And as they said, Mckinley dld it.
 This is the history of the bill throughout, as anyone may see who will take the trouble to turn to the printed report of the proceedings of the Mckinley committee. Mir. Me Kinley did not sit to reform the Pro- tective tariffs but to farm out higher taxes on the people to the friends of higher taxes. The whole bill was shaped to put the taxing power in the hands of few corporations, many of them already immensely wealthy. It's theory was that the Government received too large . percentage of the results of high tax ation and the corporations not enough. Therefore the scale was ar ranged to cut down the recelpts oi the Government and to increase the receipts of the corporations from the tariff, by making the taxes so high that they could not be paid into tho Treasury on imports at the ports and thus leaving the corporations tC collect them intead of the Govern. ment.
 This was more truly farming of taxes to these corporations than if as was formerly done, the privilege of collecting direct taxes had beer sold at public auction to the highes bidder. The corporations made tho schedules as Mir. Mckinley put then in the bill, which, by shutting ou manufactured imports deprives th' Government of the revenue it would receive from low taxes on imports and at the same time guarantees th' tariff corporations the control of tn, market and the privilege of charging whatever prices they can agree on il their combines and trusts.
 When all this is done Mir. McKin ley has the hardihood to go befor, the people and tell them that oul taxes are paid by foreigners and no by anyone at home that this miracle was wrought through the power O his genius which made it easy fo him, though to all others it may seen absurd and impossible. Who vii believe him, or fail to see behind him his masters, the corporations who made his bill, sncering at what they believed to be the folly of those from whose toil they enrich them selves through the Mckinley device, for keeping the revenues of taxation out of the Treasury and compelling the people to pay them into the