St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-25
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

lates the American workingman to in
creased toll to replace the robberies
perpetrated by its taxation. The
farmer lays tariff on the bee by
deprivfng it of its honey and
the protective tariff takes from
the worklngman the fruits of
his toll. From this proposition the
speaker drifted into facts and figures.
He laid down the proposition that the
few men of the country have the wealth
while the farmers who produce the
wealth have but One-tenth of the wealth
OF the country.
He drew picture of the Republican
congresses, where men did the bidding
of the men who desired wealth. In this
picture he represented men going to
congress with the story that it is neces-
Sary to have rich men to build
and operate factories, railroads,
build fine buildings and to send
the gospel to the heather, besides
paying high wages to the working
men. The fallacy of this proposition
was demonstrated by an argument
which ended with the statements that
men had grown rich under special legis-
lation. When it was asked who we're
the men that asked legislation to enable
them to get rich, although they knew
the Bible had pronounced woe upon
the rich man, Jay Gould had shrieked
that he was willing to become rich, so
had Vanderbilt. John &. Fair. Andrew
Carnegie and many Others. They had
grown rich under the invention, tariff.
Mr.. Shearman then proceeded to Item
iZe the wealth of number of persons
worth from s250OO0,O0O down to a
| much lower sum. Then he clinched
his argument against high tariff
by stating that Astor does not pay a
cent of taxes to the federal government
on S200,00O,000 of his wealth that is
somewhat more than that sum; Carnegie
does not pay a cent of taxes to the feder-
al government OH his 10000, 900. neither
do many others, like Russell Sage and
the hundreds of protected milliOnaireS.
Mr.. Sherman declared 4hat Senator
Sherman and even Mckinley do not
deny this proposition. The speaker
then reiterated proposition that he
has kept standing for a long time, that
he is willing to give $4,000 to any
man who can show him that the
foreigner pays the tax on i'm
ported goods. He will place goods
in the custom house, at New York
to the value and give them to the man
that will prove that the foreigner will
pay the tax thereon, and let them into
this country without the consumer pay
ing the added cost of the tariff. He also
stated that he is ready to give to any
organization of workingmen 100000
who will agree to take it now and re-
fund it out of the enhanced value of
their wages when the tariff is reduced
to proper basis. He declared that he
has no manner of doubt that his money
would be returned soon after the tariff
is reduced to a proper standard. for the
purchasing power of wages will surely
be increased by a reduction of the
tariff.
MIR. Shearman's next proposition was
that the poor are taxed out of all pIO-
portion for the maintenance of the gov
eminent. The man worth $4,000 is
taxed in a proportion ten times greater
than Russell Sage with his SS0,OO0,000,
and the sewing girl is taxed Ill pro-
portion of 100 times greater. Such is
sample of the convincing argument pre-
scented by Mr.Shearman in a speech last
ing more than an hour.