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 And again thsy assume the sane thing when they provide for drzw- backs on exported goods The tariff [ Law 0t 1888 provided that when goods made of imported materials were ex- ported The exporter should receive from the treasury 8 drawback equal 10 ss1 per ceot 0f the tax paid or The i'm ported material The Mckinley act provided for a drawback Of ss per cent Now fl iae duty On the material were not tax paid by the American mar1fzc1arer-if II were TO; 8 tax al al CT if il were paid by the foreigner this drawback wOald be a pure gra;uity to the mzuufaesarer. and a premium put upon the exportatlon oi the goods The Mckinley ecoaomisfs wIIl hardly be willing 10 say tha. in providing for a drawback they in- tended to To.e gratuity to exporters out O. the public treasury. But they must say that or admit that the tarI1 Is tax paid by American consumers or that al least y9 per cent of II is paid oy American eonsuuers
 4 statement by the commissioner of customs was recently laid before the house shoEing that drawback 10 the amount Of $l- TIL 06l was allowed by the government on tin cans etc. manufactured from imported tin plate and exported from Oct | 1890 ic December 3l. 1891. This drawback
 was authorized by the Mckinley act upon the assumption that first the inn
 porter and afterward the can manu-
 faeturer paid al least 9s per cent ot the tax on imported tin plate The
 drawback is allowed upon the further assumption that when cans are con sumed in this country the nanufzc-
 iurer can pass the tax along 10 iht eanner. and the canner 10 the con sumer. whereas the tax on the ex- ported cans cannot be passed on to the
 consumer. Thus the tariff taxes ths
 American consumer and the drawOa
 has the effect 10 give the foreign con . sumer American-made in cans at ? price lower than that exscted undel the tariff from the American con sumer. That is legislating for Ameri r cans with a vengeance,
 . When 8 Republican tells you tha , the tariff is not a tax or that it i ' paid by ihe foreigner just ask hin
 why. if that Is %. his party puts extri rates on finished products 10 compen . sate for the rates on materials, ans r why his party retur2s t5e duties pai( on imported materials when the, , come to be exported as finished pro drcts