The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-10-27
rErEcrS OF THE TARIFF.

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The National Negro Tariff Reform
association that has been in session
recently at indianapolis, Ind, b
/ issued an address to their race on the
subject of tariff reform. The address
particularly remarks that the negro
il excluded from even work in manu-
factories and their youth are declared
the privilege of learning trade with
every factory bolted and barred
again. It him, and he does not partici-
pate in sharing the benefits OF pro-
tected industries, but as a race they
are consumers and their interest is In
the repeal of the burden of taxation.
1t the negro voter would only lay
aside his prejudices for the Republi-
can party in the supposition
that he is under obligations
to that party and count the
costs to him individually OF pro-
tective tariff that goes to fill the
pockets of the manufacturer OF shoddy
goods, be would change his vote, for
he as a consumer helps to pay this tax
under the tariff system upheld by the
Republican party.
There is not a thing the negro buys
for the use of himself and family that
he does not pay upon an average of
one-fourth the price to the manufact.
urer.
Ifhe buys suit of clothes that COST
him SIS he pays at least $4 of that
amount into the pockets of the manu-.
facturers in order that he may COM
pete with the foreign manufacturers.
He pays it upon everything he
touches from the time he kicks the
blanket off of him Of frosty morning
he pays it on the blanket, he pays it
on the stove he cooks his break
fast on, he pays it on the
calico dress his wife wears, on
the table he breakfasts on, on his
plate, cup and saucer, knife and fork,
on his carpet, his bedstead and bed
ding, his pillow and harness, his
wagon, on everything he sees, touches
and handles, on everything he eats
and drinks, If he does not raise 1t
himself, on the reaper that cuts, on
the thrasher that thrashes out his
wheat, on the gin that gins his cotton,
on the compress and on every piece
of timber in his barn and he then
ships his produce on steel rails taxed
$1,000 mile.
One-third or one.fourth of all this
expense would be saved by the con-
sumner if the Democratic party gets
into power. Is it not then the inter-
est of every colored man to vote the
Democratic ticket?
You have paid your debt to the Re-
publican party if you owed them even
more than paid it for they
are now specializing on your votes by
selling out the government to the
The politicians and
divide the profit and
leave you out in the cold. |
II there was D manufacturer of
in town under the present
5ariff system, it is just as if, when you
wanted to buy a suit of clothes the
aw compelled you to 60 to his office
md pay him four dollars for the
of buying from some one
who kept ready-made clothing, and it
8 just that way about everything else
you buy, and if the workingmen of
he country were compelled to pay
he cash directly in this way to the
there would be revolu-
ion in ten days; he would not submit
o it, but they know this and make
you pay by putting the price up on
he goods at the custom house so that
he merchant is compelled to sell the
imported goods one-fourth or one
bird higher in order that the home
may be able to compete !
With the foreign and if you buy either
imported or homemade goods you
Jay the additional price to the home
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