Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-10

In regard 10 reciprocity the speak.
er said. "T am astounded that in a
ffee repulic, where the right Of tax
alton through chosen representatives
war bought with blood, such athing
is possible as the surrender of this
right to one man. The most sacred
right free man has is to determine
the extent and manner Of his taxa
tion. The speaker denounced the
rebate feature Of the Mckinley bill.
BY this means be declared very
many agricultural Implements and
the products Of American manu-
facture were sold at much lower
rate to foreigners out Of the United
States than to citizens In H."
Continuing, McMiIlin declared
another most serious objection to the
high rates Of duty is the destructive
influence IL has on our commerce,
and added, "many friends Of high
protection pretend to believe and
have busted themselves to show th,
duty collected Is mol a tax upon th'
people. They claim this is u
premium or tax paid by foreigners
whose manufactures are sold In this
country, for the privilege OF seilint
them here. Those nearing to this
view Insist the tariff is not a tax
when. American citizens buy here
an article manufactured abroad. He
pays for not only the original cosI
abroad, but the cost for transporta
tion TO this country and the duty
collected at the port ofentry, ana
when he uses and consumes he pays
the tax imposed by the government
on II, it makes no difference whether
he or some prior dealer handed the
money to the custom officer for duty.
Not only this, when the American
citizen buys goods manufactured
here, which are sold in daily com
petition with goods Of like character
that have similar use imported
from abroad. he has to pay the cost
of production here, and ia many In
stances an amout equal, to the rate
OF duty fixed on foreign goods 81
competing. IL the foreigner, and
not our citizens, pay the duty, why
did we relieve him from paying
millions of tax for us on sugar?
Why not continue to pay this nifty
odd millions?
"Ifno other good resulted from the
Mckinley bill, it has taught the
American people the tariff is a tax
and q law upon the people who con-
sume the articles upon which 1t is
levied. With the tax removed from
sugar the price is down In all Amer
lean markets TO an amount about
equal to the duty removed. On the
other hand, when an additional tax
of 1.2 cents "A pound was imposed on
tin plate, tin plate went up In price
all over the country. so on pear
buttons, upon which the duty was
vastly increa, Ell; so on linen goods
Whatever may have been the situa'
ton before, the American people
have come to know that the tariff IL
a tax aud haye dealt with those wh'
increased the tax in the last congress
accordingly by administering to the
authors Of the high rates we now
have to pay, the greatest rebuke that
was ever a, ministered to any party
In this country, turning the Repuh.
lican majority into u Democratic
MI, orlty of almost three 'fourihs.
.phere is another provision of the
present law which should be
amended, the one allowing those
who are opulent enough and have
leisure to 20 abroad to bring In free
Of duty quantities of clothess AZ
wearing apparel" In closing, the
speaker said, "the people have re-
solved, and they will make that
resolution good, that they viii
have reduction In the rate of taxa
ton or stlll further reduction OF
those IN congress who favor highe'
taxation. THIS battle Is on, and b
onc TO fiuish. On Que side Is ar
rayed the Democratic party Ia favoi
Of just taxation, on the other side Ia
opponents clamorlng for excessiv'
and unjust taxation"
During McMlllin's speech, Bur
rows, OF Michigan, and few o
bis leading Republican colleague
vacated their seats aud gathere'
on the Democratic side to be nea
the Tennessee gentleman, AS h
arralgned their party from IA Demo
cratic standpoint and defended tia
justice of the Springer wool bill
aud the various measures reportt'
from the ways aud meaps CON
mlttoe to reduce the duties on inI
ports.
When Dlngley, although not
member Of the ways aud mean
committee, opened the dlscusslo
IN behalf OF the Republican sid
no less llatterlng WAS the attenuo
paid him by the Democrats. SeI
afor Carlisle. under whose leade
ship as speaker OF the house a
past Democratic tariff debate was r
viewed, found the occasion Of sue
charm that he left his seat In Il
spper body, and was an attenti'
listener to the argument OF Re
reeentntlve McMillin. No le
vigllant was the attention vii
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