Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-10

| submit to It. But an Increased rate was i'm
posed by the law OF that year. This increase
did not satisfy them. They demanded more
| and never stopped until they got it. When
the war tariff was imposed, an international
| tax was placed on manufactured products,
and corresponding additional import duty
from abroad to compensate the manu-
| facturer for what he was thus required to
| pay. This manufacturers tax was repealed,
but the eo%psnsSssing duty retained By
those who need itworst has been benefited
| by the various laws passed by our opponents
| on the subject of taxation since 1855 There
| was a tax on incomes, corporations, ETC. It
yielded the last two years Of irs existence
about $1z0, 900 600, but it was repealed. There
relieved. This was collected OF iegatees
| and devfsees who inherited property with
| out working for 1t, and could therefore
reasonably afford to contribute q moderate
| tax for the Governments through whose pro-
lection 1t had been accumulated. There was
q tax on railroad corporations, on banking
corporations, on insurance companies, trust
companies, teisgrapn companies and 9th other
| tax on bank checks. Coming from these
| classes it came from those who depended on
| IT alone for neither bread nor clothing. It
was tax upon wealth and accumulated
| property, and therefore was not to be en-
dured.
These were all repealed, and "the
Opproeb6U rlCu' r0l10VoQ lrOu1 tu6 UuTuoHS
Of supporting the Government. All! how
| tenderly the Republican party looks after
those who toll not, neither spinl With what
afectionate regard 1t deals with and relieves
comes to imposing q tax on consumption,
| the fact that . man who fsSworth $50, COX, 900
requires no moro cloth to wrap his corpse
ing T man. "a doe does not ~ deter it Il from imposing a
HIGHER rate of duty on the poor and common
cloth worn by the Que than is imposed on
the purple and fine linen that Is the daily
apparel of the other.
Sir, If these income and other taxes have
mentioned had been permitted to stand,
they would long since have wiped out our
national debt, improved all the rivers ana
harbors, appropriated or estimated for, built
all the Qualifications now contemplated
around our coast, and paid all the pensionA
An Attack on Reciprocity.
Our opponents have made great boasts Of
the benefit they have bestowed on the coun.
try by that portion OF the tariff bill they
passed which provides for reciprocity"
with other countries. It provides for the
imposition Of taxes and the remission Of
taxes by the President Of the United States
alone. He may. according to this provision,
impose . cents pound tax on sugar, cents
pound on conee, n cent Q pound on hides,
and 10 cents a pound on tea. He may i'm.
pleasure. he is not required to consult
either Cabinet or Congress. He may levy
$5o.0oo. 900 without convening Congress or
consulting that body Of it's concession.
where the right Of taxation through chosen
representatives was bought with blood,
such thing Is possible as the surrender Of
right the free man has is to determine tho
extent and manner Of his taxation. But 1t
Is sad to reflect that ia years after the right
Of self taxation was substituted for taxation
ssuyifh ,foff ton onff ffa ann
of these sires had 30 degenerated that they
were willing without protest, without even
murmur, to surrender this blood bought
right to the President of the United States.
The system of rebates ID extended and in.
tensifed by the present tariff law. This
has been another means used to quiet the
American people and keep them from COM
planning against that system. By this means
the American manufacturer is encouraged
and enabled to offer and sell the products
OF American manufacture to foreigners
to the American laborer and American citi-
zens. But for this many American people
who have dealings with foreign countries
would long since have Joined in crusade
against a taxation SO high that it amounts
to exclusion in some instances aud robbery
in Others. By this means and others very
many agricultural implements and prod
ucts of American manufacturer are sold at
a much lower rate to foreigners out Of the
United States than to citizens in it,
Where is the Justice in this? Why sell to
d u
borer at homer Why fleece your neighbor
in way that no one in any other country is
required to or will endured We may admit
that is even bolstered up by the pillars that
sustain rebates, is better than no commerce
at all. But even when we concede this we
have not conceded and do not concede the
bolsterfng or the Justice of such taxation.
Mr. Chairman, the rebate paid to the
Standard OIL Company alone on the taxes
year amounted to, It is said. about 100000.
Alleged Destruction OF Commerce.
Mr.. Chairman. another most serious OBJ
lection to the high rates OF duty heretofore
existing ane growing higher with each new
Congressional act, is the destructive infiu-
enoe that it has had on our commerce. The
time was when American commerce was
carried in American ships bearing the
American nag and manned. by American
freenen. In those proud days our flag
foated over every sea and our ships cast an
snenor IN every har6or; We in 1880 carried
materials Of which our ships are built with
out the imposition OF excessive duties and
built them ana sailed them in competition
with all the other nations of the earth,
The joyous songs OF our free and happy
seamen were heard wherever any civilized
tongue was spoken Then came in an evil
meath that and other banefuI influences. that
commerce has withheld till we now carry
only Tx per cent Of our vast foreign COM
merce, and only per cent of our foreign
trade was conducted in steamers bearing
our national flag, while TOO per cent was
with all its profits conducted III alien steam
vessels, We neither allow our citizens to
buy ships abroad nor build them at home.
Such are our laws that if an American citi-
zen who cannot build ship at home at a
rate that enables him to compete with others
in the carrying trade, goes abroad with
American money, buys a ship, mans it with
American seamen and officers, hoists above
it the American flag, puts on it |
cargo for American consumers, and
seized and he arrested and never permitted |
to clear from the ports of his country. An
other sails q ship under q British flag manned
with British seamen and casts anchor in the |
Tended and the American navy. if need be,
is called out to defend his foreign flag and
his foreign ship. All that America requires
by her laws is that If one of her citizens buys
q ship abroad he shall hoist foreign flag
over 1t, give the right to, q foreign Govern |
ment TO use it against us in time of war un-
der certain circumstances and he Is secure |
in his possession Of his ships and the pursuit |
of his vocation. |
High Rates Of the Present Duty.
Sir, in the speech which made ON this |
floor protesting against the passage of this |
legal outrage, gave, so far as it was posi- |
BILE in advance, the extortionate rates which |
would result If the Mckinley bill became q |
law. told you then that blankets fannels |
and hats would, on some Of the lower grades, |
be taxed as high as ITO per cent. In the last |
home consumption statement from the |
Bureau Of Statistics some blankets imported |
last year under this bill actually paid 1O6. u |
per cent; fannels for underwear, 1885 per |