The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-10

1entS and products of American mani &C
ure are sold at much lower rate TO for
lgners outside of the United States than
o citizens in it." Continuing, McMlllin
eclared another most serious objection TO
Ugh rates of duty is the
INFLUENCE IT HAS on OUR
COMMERCE.
nd added, ''Many friends of high protec-
ion pretend TO believe, and have busted
themselves to show the duty collected Is
lot tax upon the people. They claim tits
premium, or tax paid by foreigners whose
are sold ia this country for
he privilege of selling them here. Those
folding to this view insist the tariff is not
tax. When an American citizen buys
lere an article manufactured abroad he
Iays for not only the original cost abroad,
)uJ the cost of transportation TO this coun-
ry and the duty collected at the port of
entry and when he uses and consumes an
article he pays the tax imposed by the gov
srnmenJ upon it. IL makes no difference
whether he or some prior deeler handed
he money to the customs officer
WHO COLLECTED IT FOR DUTY.
"Not only this. but when an American
citizen buys goods manufactured here
which are sold in daily competition with
goods of like character that have similar
use imported from abroad, he uaS to pay
4 addition the cost of production here In
many instances, an amount equal or
nearly equal to the rate OF duty
fixed on foreign goods so competing.
Ii the foreigner and net our citizens
pay the duty. why did we relieve him from
paying millions of tax for US on sugar:
Why not let him continue to pay this nifty
odd mlilionss If no other good resulted
ho hToI- 10, o;n 2 hn 4
lean people
THE TARIFF IS TAX,
and tax upon the people who consume
the article upon which it Is levied. The
day the tax was removed from sugar the
price went down in all American markets
an amount about equal to the duty removed.
On the other hand, when an additional tax of
IL cents pound was imposed on tinplate,
tinplate went up in price all over the
So on pearl buttons, upon which
tue duly was vastly increased; so on linen
goods. Whatever may have been the situa-
ticn before, the American people have come
to know that the tariff is a tax and have
dealt with those who increased the tax in
the last Congress accordingly by adminiE-
terlng to the authors of the high rates we
now have to pay
THE GREATEST REBUKE
that ever was administered to any party
in this country, turning the Republican
majority into Democratic majority of al
most three fourths.
There is another provision of the present
law that should be amended, one allowing
those who are opulent enough and have
leisure to go abroad to bring in free Of
duty quantities of clothes as wearing ap
parel In closing the speaker said the peo-
IL H.,
resolution good, that they will have a re
duction in the rate of taxation or a still
further reduction of those in Congress
who favor higher taxation.
THIS BATTLE IS ON,
and is on to the finish. On one side are ar
rayed the Democratic party in favor of Just
taxation, on the other side it's opponents
clamoring for excessive and unjust taxa
ton.
In the course of his speech McMillin wa,
interrupted by Raines, OF New York, will
the suggestion the New the York state cleo
tions had not been of a character to en-
courage the Democratic party.
McMillin retorted that the eX-speaker or
Monday referred to the "triumphan
march of truth" that march was EN-
phasised by the fact that the gentleman
from Maine (Itcsd) 70 longer occupied tn
chair, but was relegatet u the floor, wher
he could do nothing but curse and cry
Loud applause. The city of the gentle
man from Maine had gone Democratic tn
other day. Applause.
Reed, who was in the cloak room whel
his name was mentioned, strolled down tn
aisle, making an apology because he ha
not been present because he knew tn
gentleman from Tennessee was speaking
Laughter.
McMillin replied he didn't care what tn
gentleman's reasons were for his absence
| McMillin spoke for an hour and hall
then Dingley, OF Maine, took the floor t
reply on behalf of the minority of the way
and means committee. Dingley ridicule
the Democrats for their failure to do NOR
than attack three little items of the McKlr
| ley tariff out of 2, 800 After their threat
and promises to sweep every line an
word of this ''unholy tariff from tn
statute books aud substitute measure {
tariff REFORM" from which shall be elm
mated "all class legislation" "ail robbery,
'all protection" "These three little bills,
said Dingley, "embrace all the tariff reforl
the Democratic majority of 40 has otfere
in the redemption of its pledges and
PROMISES MADE BEFORE THE LAST ELECTIo!
Voters who have been cheated once wou
like to know; they have the right to be Il
formed now and here by the 40 Demt
cratic majority of this House exactly VIII
kind or a tariff bill the Democrats won
substitute for the existing Mckinley tart
The people demand this Democratic Hou
shall present such a measure as they pr
fess to be ready to substitute for the M
kinley tariff. Before election, not afte
They ask that they may have full inform
ton OF exactly what is proposed while TIT
! have a chance to express an opinion on
and not after 1t is too late. The fact tn
the Democratic leaders have not and w
not present such complete tariff meas u
is practically a confession they dare not
: the people see what they propose to 60.
t Dingley defended the Mckinley G
( eloquently, and at length argued that t
5 three bills proposed by the Democrat
majority of the ways and means commit
l could result in nothing but injury to I
3 farmer.
: THE FREE WOOL BILL,
he said, proposed free trade for the MT
l universal product of the farm and CO
tiuued protection for the manufacturers
: wool. ut would certainly reduce I
l Every evil prediction relsting to the NJ
u Kinley tariff" said Dingley, II
7. been disproved by the march of even
l Every prediction of it's benefits has be
d made good Protection is more than iu:
q fed. The policy which has done so mu
: to make the country the largest agric
) tural, manufacturing, mining and N
. prosperous country on the earth is here
. stay" Great applause.
D Before the conclusion of Dingley's spe,
the committee rose and the House
> journed. The debate will be resumed
morrow.
II Cherokee Land Company
. KNOXVILLE, Tenn, March 9.-The Che
= kee Land company has gone into the ha
e of receiver with assets of 5000, coo
IS liabilities less than $4,000. The assets
y so much in excess of the liabilities that