Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-09


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Mr.. Carlisle's Speech in the United
States Senate. .t-t.t
The speech of Senator Carlisle, de-
livered in the Senate of the United
States, last Friday, published in full
in the Courier-J Journal of Saturday is
the clearest, most unanswerable
argument on the tariff made during
the whole course of the discussion of
this great question. Any man who
has allowed the idea to get into his
head that the question of tariff is a
political blind, will find good food for
a disordered or uncultivated brain in
this great explanation and proof of
the tariff robbery. Mr.. Carlisle shows
that the cost Of living per annum in
the United States amounts to $10,-
DOC, 200, 900, and that the aggregate
increase for the period ending Octo-
Der LIST, 1891, amounted to 1926, 000,-
900, and this following Immediately
the passage of the Mckinley high
tariff act. He shows that the to
tai importations of modern manufac
lures, including yarns, which cost
about 1881 $50, cost to buy down
in New York 1877, 7S5,0S0, an in
crease in cost to the consumer, to say
nothing of costs of insurance, com
missions, freight or interest Of $lS,-
192,338. In this one item alone the
cost to the people of the United
States amounted to more than $3.50
per capita more than they should be
taxed for this one article of consump-
ton. Another item mentioned by
him, is dress goods, used principally
by the poorer people, worsted, COM
posed partly of wool. The total
value of this class of goods, import
cd after the passage of the Mckinley
act was $3.50, Sal; the tax on it was
$5,423, 422, making the cost to the
consumer here, not including other
charges, costs and profits added after
they were put down in New York
and on the counters of our merchants
$10,704 1854. "But," says Mr.. Car
Isle, "we are told by the author of
the (McKinley) act, that We ought
not to be disturbed about this, be-
cause the foreigner pays the tax. If
81, here is the most remarkable in
stance of disinterested beneVolence
ever witnessed in commercial
transaction between people of differ
ent countries, for the foreigner act
ually donated to the people of the
United States between October |,
1890, and June 80, 1891, So, $780, SAL
worth o. these goods (worsted) and
paid them more than $4,000 in
money to induce them to take them
Taking the item Of tin plate, he
shows that in Wales there are sos
mills engaged in the manufacture Of
this product, that the total value of
these mills are So, $50, 900, that during
the year 1891 the people fthe United
States paid direct to the Welsh
manufacturer 76 per cent. more for
their product than ever paid before,
and that in dollars and cents, during
the agitation of the Mckinley act,
and before il took effect, but after il
was an assured fact the people of the
United States paid for this one article
of consumption alone an increase OF
$4,629, $50, or more than fifty per cent.
of the whole capital invested by the
manufacturers in Wales, and this
in excess of their proper and rea-
sonable profits. Since the passage of
this act the prices have been
increased, because the heavy duty
imposed by that act has been
added to the cost Of this to the pur-
chaser and consumer in This country.
Prior to the taking effect of the act J.,
every dollar Of &, 1929, $50 was take n
out Of the pockets OF our people and
put into the pockets of the Welsh
manufacturer, and while now we
nav a part OF the cost of the article
into the hands of the tax gatherer of
the United States, we are paying also
TO the manufacturer of tin plate
nrofits as enormous as before the duty
was imposed, aud there is not enough
Of tin plate manufactured in this
country in a year TO make buttons
for an everyday pair Of corn field
trousers. This is what the Republic