Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-01


out taxes. And any form of taxation must
in some degree, be inconvonient to the peo
Pile and the only question for us to deter
mine as sovcreigns in n free country is,
which system, while raising all needed rev
enue will bear the most lightly upon tho
shoulders Of the American people and
which, while raising the needed rev.
enue, shall stimulate and epcour
age American production and promote
and foster the great occupations and EN-
ployments of the people. Now there are two
kinds OF tariff in this country. One Is the
British tariff, which is advocated by the
democratic party, and the other Is the
American tariff, advocated by the rcpubi
can party. One is tariff for revenue only,
the other is tariff for revenue, raising all
the revenue required for public purposes,
and while doing it, serving the treasury OF
the United States, aud promoting the great
industries of our own people. The tariff
for revenue only Is exactly what the term
implies-it is u tariff for no other purpose
but to raise revenue for the pubic treasury.
1t has no other object; it has no other mis-
sion; it proposes to do nothing but to put
revenue into tie public treasury. 1t is
unmndful of the occupations of the
people, it takes no heed of their
Industries, it never takes into ccr-
sideration the skill, genius, effort
and endeavor of the American people, does
nothing to encourage them, but cooly leyes
its tariff upon foreign products coming into
the United States, which will produc2 the
largest amount OF revenue with the smallest
rate OF tariff. The protective tariff do9s all
the revenue tariff can do and does more.
The protective tariff raises all the revenue
required for public purposes. 1t never has
failed but three times i'll our history and
then it was in time Of great national
emergency like war, when We were com
pelled to restore the other system OF taxa
tion-iutornal taEation, nuu raise the re
qured revenue for public purposes. So
repeat. that protective tariff SO far as tbs
revenue is concerned, does every thing that
revenue tariff can do or proposes
TO DO and does it with the same certainty
that u revenue tariff has boon able to do in
our own country. The protective tariff
does mere than that, it not only puts into
the federal treasury all the money required
for public services, but while doing it, SO
imposes its duties upon foreign products as
to discriminate in favor of our own against
competing foreign products.
Now tie principle upon which revenue
tariff is levied is to put a duty upon for
r.
home product and you will readily $50
that a tariff of that sort put upon non-com-
peting foreign products will produce the
very largest possible Revenue for the public
| treasury. You put tariff upon tea upon
coffee, upon many drugs which we do not
and cannot produce III this country, or put
tariff upon suger-we had tariff
| upon sugar for nearly hundred
years OF our national life, when
We were not abe to produce all the sugar
we copsumed-and you can readily $50 the
| enormous revenues that would come into
| the public treasury from tariff upon those
stuiYs, because the very necessities of the
American people compel them 10 go abroad
and buy those products, because they ere
not produced at home and the amount of
revenue would only he limited to the want
of tho people of the United States, apd their
ability to 60 abroad and buy. Vow The
protective tariff is ievlel upon the exact
opposite principle. Every thing which we
cannot produce in this country, save AMI
except Iuxurles, are permitted 10 come in
free and go directly to tho people, and a
tariff is imposed under the protective prin-
cipc upon those foreign products whct
compete with tie products OF our own soil,
our own shops, and enterprises Of our own
people. That is, We say 80 long as we have
| to lave tariff, and all parties conCele We
must havo a tariff, that that must lie tn,
chief source of revenue TO the government t,
so long as we have to have IA tariff the
republican party says put that tariff upon
the foreign product TINT competcs with tne
American prOSuCt. Put the burden upon
the foreign product, the like of which you
produce at home and make it little harder
for the competing foreign product to CONF
in when the place belongs to the former, Sc
tnat the American purchaser and the Amer
lean producers can fairly have the Amor
can market to which they are fairly ant
Justly entitled. That is the purpose Of III,
protective tariff. Every thing that yol
can't produce in thi, country, except lux
uries, we say, let come to the people with
out custom house restriction and custom
house taxation.
The revenue tariff, tho democratic party
advocates, is always paid by III,
consumer. That is cne thing
don't want the pcpolo OF Vernon
to forget; that a democratic revenue tarlf
IS always paid by the consumer. Why
You put tariff upon q foreign produc
thot has no competition i'll the Unite,
States; who iiXes the price 10 the American
consumer Mhy, the foreign producer
Why Because there is no competition
here. He fixes the price to the American
consumer and that price is the foreign pric
with the American tariff added that is al
ways paid by the American consumer
When they tell you that the tariff is a tax
answer them that that is true as to demo
cratic tariff, 1t is q tax that is Away
paid by the consuming country, but no
, 80 with protective tariff, The protectv
tariff may for n timo be paid by the con
, sumer, it doubtless Is for time paid by til
consumer; but when our industries ar
completed, when we are able to succcssfull,
manufacture for ourselves then competition
, at home among ourselves fixes and regulate
the price to the American consumer an
the American consumer does not pay tn
tariff There is not a man in this grea
audience VINO, if lie will let his mind swee
back for thirty years, thlrty-two years,
you please, when you were under demo
o cratic revenue tariff, let his mind go bacl, I
q the old hard ware stores OF those days; the oil
/ hardware store, 30 years ago, had upon il
shelves % per cent of foreign cutlery an
5 foreign goods and less than 5 per cent va
American. You can 90 into hnrdwar
store to-dny-we have boen 30 years unde