Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-09-15

The tariff tax was 50, 423 ,421, with
out insurance, commission, freight
or interest, and the goods which cost
abroad $3.50, Sal cost when laid
down at New York $40, 704 1852.
Now, if the foreigner pays the tax as
Mr.. Mckinley asserts, we had in
this cas- s., 1905 worth of goods
given us, and the importer paid
$142 900 besides in money for the
privilege"
A SUMNER FoR PRoTECTIoNIsTs.
ut will be remembered that Mr..
Blaine denounced the Mckinley act
as not furnishing a market for an
other barrel of -four or pound of
pork to the American farmer. The
third section of the Mckinley act
invested the president with the ex-
traordinary power of declaring that
the tariff duties should not be i'm
posed upon certain imports from
South America and other countries
under certain contingencies. In
other words, the president was au-
thorizea to declare that the people
of the United States should pay
higher prices for sugar, coffee, tea
and hides, if the countries produe-
ing these articles did not admit
American goods at lower rates of
import duty than the goods of other
people. The official reports show
that under the arrangements with
Brazil the exports of farm products
from the United States have de-
creased, and that the only increased
exports have been in machinery and
engines, which are on the Brazilian
free list. The terms OF this arrange
ment show, AS submitted to congress,
that the highest advantage given by
Brazil to American imports as
against other countries, is 20 per
cent, and the question l now sub
NIT, and have submitted continuous
ly, is how the American manufac-
turer car pay freight from NewYork
to Rio, a distance of 5000 miles,
and take the Brazilian market from
the English manufacturers, with a
discriminating duty in favor of this
country of only 20 per cent, when
the Mckinley act gives the Ameri-
can AZ per cent. advantage yer the
same Englishman in order to drive
off competition here on the same
goods?
-Four months ago Jerry Rusk
wrote a letter to a friend in Wiscon-
sin in which he complained that
American manufacturers were send
ing reapers and mowers to Europe
and selling them for more than
one-third less than in this country,
and he said that it wouldn't do;
that the farmers of America would
| get on to it and that then there would
be trouble.
| "Having increased the expenses
, of the government to more than ST.
600 ,OO0, 900 and having exhausted
the surplus, Republicans now def
antly ask where money shall be
raised for the support of the gov
ernment If not by the tariff. III
! answer them for one. If I had my
way, I'd admit all raw materials
| free, decrease the duties on all arti-
| cles of necessity, retain the internal
revenue taxes ON whisky and tobac-
co, and then raise the remainder OF
the amount necessary to support the
government by a graduated tax on
incomes.
The fallacious statements Of pro.
tected manufacturers we're examined
and explained and the falsitv of the
theory that the tariff raises wages
was exploded. Senator Vest asked
"If the tariff increases wages why il
there such disparity in the cost d
labor between different sections o.
the UnitedStates and why are wages
higher in free trade England than
in Germany with its protective
tariff?
"If an English manufacture
should build a fence twelve fee
high around his factory and emplo,
300 armed ruffians to shoot dowr
his workmen it would, of course, b
the legitimate result of free trade
But when Mr.. Carnegie, from hi
castle in Scotland, telegraphs Presi
dent Harrison his congratulations OF
a denomination, and then telegraph
Mr.. Frick to buy more rifles and Il
, employ more Pinkerton detectives
the natural inquiry must arise
!, How can these things be in
country blessed with the McKinle,
act?"
Senator Vest spoke from 1:30 +
4:3O O'Clock. He covered the en-
tire ground and his address was lis
tened to with close attention by a
, least 5,0O0D Democrats from Audrail
and adjoining counties He refer
red to National, State and Congress
, sional contests and held his immens
, audience well from start to finish.
Mule Colts Wanted.
VIII be in Mexico next Saturday