The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-11
REPUBLICAN MIsREPREsENTATION or
THE TARIFF.

In his address to the Minneapolis Conven-
ton Mr.. Mckinley said
I'VE propose to raise our money 10 pay
public expenses by taxing the products of
other nations rather than by taxing the pro-
duets of our own.
The palpable dishonesty Of this statement
10 as gross as the statement itself is mislead-
in. The Republican party does not lay heavy
duties upon imports TO raise the Government
revenues. That is only an incident. The
chief purpose had in view is the raising the
price of the article in question to point that
viii enable American manufacturers to make
such profit as they think they ought TO have
and to make then secure in their purpose to
fleece their fellow citizens Mr.. Mckinley
had himself in the preceding sentence de-
clared this to be rs purpose. He had said:
I'VE stand for T. protective tariff" This is
Republican doctrine and the party's plat
form, which Mr.. Mckinley assisted in
framing as soon as lie got through with his
speech, utters the same doctrine with the
usual pretext for robbing the people 10 fill
the pockets of the owners Of protected in
dustries. And what is there in this doctrine
in common with purpose to raise the reye-
nue. we need out Of foreign products rather
than out OF the products of America?
Their doctrine 3what Mr.. Mckinley and
the platform states il 10 be for "protecfire
tGrif" that 49, tariff that will protect"
American manufacturers against the competi-
tions of foreign manufacturers modified
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try of cheap foreign calicos. cloths. hats. &c.
in order that American manufacturers NAV
force those who need new calicoes. cloths
hats &c, 10 pay for them the price of the
European article plus the tariff that must be
paid by the American consumer Of the Eu
ropean article if it come here and enters our
markets in competition with the American
product.
An American manufacturer Of hats declares
to a Republican Congress that he cannot man
ufacture hat and sell il at profit in New
York for less than S5. But a European manu-
facturer having neither government aid nor
obstruction can manufacture the same hat
and sell it IN New York for $3.50 The Amer
lean manufacture says he must go out of bus
mess unless he can get aid from some quarter.
Accordingly Mckinley steps up and passes an
act of Congress requiring the buyers of the
European hat TO pay the government a tax Of
- before 1t can be landed il New York.
Plainly then the importer of the hat mus.
ask 80 for it when he sells it-s25O
the cost IN Europe, :2 what he has
paid as tax and fifty cents as his
profit. The American manufacturer ia thus
enabled to sell his hat for 20. because the
European hat cannot be- sold for less. But. il
that tariff tax act of McKinley's had aot been
passed. the man who wants new hat could
have purchased it for $3.50, whereas since
the Mckinley act was passed he must pay S.
for 1t, aud tue same is the case in respect to
everything protected" which is used in
daily life by every citizen Ye, Mckinley &
Co. say they are only aiming at making for
eign goods bear the burden Of our taxation,
and they have.th impudenco to say also that
that tax does not come out OF the American
who buys new hat.
They belong TO party whose chief object
is TO control these United States in the inter
est of plutocrats- protected monopolists-
who get their money by forcing poor and
citizens to pay IS for hats that
they ought to get for $3.50 They are aiming
at binding all the free citizens Of this country
in the chains Of protected. law made monop-
oiists.