The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
The Tariff Is A Tax.

uutiee iaiu anu cDiteclEu On foreign
goods at The custom houses, and
paid into the United State Treasury
as the increased prices put on their
goods by American manufacturers,
by reason of the tariff, so laid on
foreign goods and put into the peck
cts of the American manufacturers
and kept there until every four years
when President is to be elected,
the republican leaders fry some of
this i'll gotten fat out of their gorged
pockets to lhelp elect another Presi-
dent to put more riches into their
pockets until the time of the next
fry.
All persons of any intelligence or
candor admit that the tariff is tax
and increases the cost of nearly
everything we buy or consume, and
that some one has to pay this in
creased price or tariff, but it would
seem that every body does not agree
as to who pays it.
All democrats who profess to
know ANYTHING about it agree that
the last purchaser aud consumer of
the article. pays it and the greater
part of intelligent and candid repub
licans agree with us. President
Grant said so, and so did Presidents
Garfield and Arthur, while some
other republican speakers who are a
little less intelligent and a little
more cross eyed, say that in some
cases the consumers do pay this
tariff, but that in other cases the
foreign manufacturer or importer
pays it. But they do not attempt to
offer any proof for this or in any
way to explain how they do it,
Other would be republican speakers,
devoid of a modicum of intelligence
or candor boldly assert with unblush-
ing effrontery that the consumer does
not pay any part Of this tariff or in
creased cost, but that the foreign
manufactures or importer pays it all.
Now these several propositions
fairly stated, must answer them
selves, without further argument to
all fair minded and candid persons
who have studied the subject. But
inasmuch as all may not have care
fully studied the subject we beg
leave to try and throw some light on
the subject, that all can see and see
clearly if they will.
Now that the last purchaser and
consumer of the article on which the
tariff or increased price is laid, pays
it all, is as certain as two and two
make four, unless he never paws for
the goods, but if he paid for the
goods, and wore them out or other
wise used and consumed them, then
he must have paid his retail mer-
chant all that sucn goods cost him
including tariff, cost of manufactur-
ing them and carriage. Good read
er tell US how the consumer gets
back the money he paid for these
goods. He only got it in the wear
or use of the goods so far as it was
worth what he paid for them.
All previous purchasers of these
fairfield goods, it is true, paid the
tariff when they bought the goods,
but when they sold them again they
got it all back, but not so with the
poor consumer.
Now, many of these republican
orators seem-we say seem-to have
a wrong idea or impression as to how
goods manufactured abroad, get
here; for they argue as though they
think that foreign made goods are
sent over here by the makers or the
merchants to whom they sold them
there, and are hswked about or sold
hereby the foreigner and if this were
true then the foreigner would indeed
be compelled to go into the custom
house and pay the tariff. But sup,
pose it might be true in some in
stances, is it reasonable to suppose
that the foreigner on coming here
to sell his goods after paying this Is
or 100 per cent of tariff would sell
his goods without getting back from
the American purchaser the tariff
he had actually paid in gold at the
custom house2 Hardly so, we think,
and so in that case also the last
purchaser and consumer would in
the end pay the tariff as well as the
actual cost of making and would
never get it back.
But the way foreign made goods
usually get here is that the Ameri-
can merchant waiting the foreign
goods either goes himself with his
produce or gold or foreign bill of ex-
change to the foreign manufacturer
in Europe, or elsewhere or sends
them and orders the goods he wants,
and has them shipped to his port of
entry in this country in his name, or
consigned to some other person and
on the good arriving here the custom
house officers take charge of them
and assess the tariff on them re-
CURED by the Mckinley bill, and the
person shipping them to this country
or his consignee pays the tariff so
assessed and takes charge of them
He then ascertains the cost of his
goods in his store in New York, if
landed there, including first cost
abroad, and cost of transportation
over the sea and the tariff he paid on
the goods; and all these items make
the cost of his goods, and to this the
Wholesale merchant adds his per
cent of profit, and then sells these
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