New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-31
HOW THE TARIFF WORKS
THE REVENUE TARIFF ON SUGAR
AND THE PRoTECTIVE TARIFF
ONsLUNIBER

I say am willing to put rsflned sugar
On the free list, as we'll as raw sugar be-
cause after many years of protection we
! ! are not able to produce more than one
! tenth Of one-eighth part Of the sugar we
| consume. Wehave not been able to
produce enough to enter into competition
]. with the sugar imported into the country
and thereby reduce the price Of sugar.
/ We certainly do not produce enough to
control the price of sugar. If we could
only produce sugar enough to supply
our own people, and have a surplus to
sell to other countries, as we do iii lurn-
! Der and almost every other protected ar
ticle, then we would control and fix the
price of sugar, and the price would be
| reduced Notwithstanding the duty levied
! upon imported sugars.
In regard to the duties levied on sugar,
they have been tax which has been
paid by the consumer, and the evidence
of this is that when raw sugar was put
on the free list and the duty on refined
sugar was reduced from 3 and 81 cents
per pound to half cent per pound, down
went the price Of sugar; and at once
every free trader or tariff reformerbegan
to say, Eve told you the tariff was a tax,
L 4
and you see now, as the tax is taken off,
down goes the price and you are getting.
cheaper sugar" Certainly sugar is chea.
per. And why? For the reason, as I
have said, we never produced enough of
sugar in our own country to supply our
own people or seriously to enter into
competition with the sugar imported
from other countries, and therefore we
could not control the price nor produce
sugar enough which did not pay any du-
ty to give to our people cheap sugar.
Now, in proof Of this / will refer to
lumber. We reduced the duty on lun-
Der from So to 81 per 1000 feet; and
believe because Of a provision in the law
Of 1890 Canada removed the duty on
logs exported, which she had imposed.
And did the price Of lumber go down,
as did the price OF sugar? No, it did
not. The price of lumber remained as
high and we are paying just as much
. / e, I
posed to put lumber on the free list, and
[ venture the assertion that If it should
be done the price of lumber would not
thereby be lessened to the consumer
The farmers of Illinois, Of Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, and other states, COM
planning, as some of the citizens of those
!, states do, about s'the tax on lumber
would not get their lumber one cent
cheaper than they do now. And why?
:: Simply because we have produced lum-
Der enough incur own country to supply,
and more than supply, our own
people, and therefore the price is fixed
and controlled here at home, and the
lumber we have imported has been sold
at our own market price, whether it had
to pay a duty of 50 per 1000 feet or 81
per 900 feet. AS a farmer in the coun-
ty in which live said to me four years
) ago: "The Democrats are talking to me
about the tariff, and the taxes that we
farmers are compelled to pay on account
t of it, especially on lumber, just he
| said, Gas if did not know that fol
: every cargo Of lumber we import from
: Canada we manufactured nineteen al
e home, and the nineteen cargoes at home
y control the price, and not the one thai
h comes from Canada
Z Now, you cannot answer the argumen7
z of the farmer, and that is the truth as t.
n hundreds of other articles of which W.
a produce a supply OF more than a supply
J. to meet the demands Of our own people
a Hon. T.. Henderson.
st The members of the state militia al.
Ii made happy over the news that it ha
IS been decided to purchase 1 200 militar,
L overcoats for their use. The#governmen
a grant for the year will bedevoted to buy
Isl ing the coats for the soldier boys. TIL
ii material is secured from the federal GOV
le| crnment and is similar to the material 0
n which the regular arm coats are made
s. The cost tothe government is $11.16, bu
ii the state will besable to secure them 70
81 alittle less. In style the coat is Xix
# those used BY the New Y ork guard /
n is a double breasted froek, with cap
y made to button all the way up in front
le 4 high collar gives protection to tn
j wearer when marching o. on dress ps
le rade.