The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-19
ct the coffee duty in ISL and By the Nc
kinney Law in lssO from the American
veskinsman's table vas:


pity oa sssss. eee.o0
Dssy on coa-s fs.oR.'0
Total; va 90. go
OF course il the Democratic Chicago
tariff plank Is enforced hy legislation. TIE
protective duties. being s'Tneonstitu-
sisnal," will be repealed and duties on
srra.. tea and coffee. being 70. revenue
oily will be levied 10 meet the expenses
OF the national government The restors-
tion Of q revenue duty Of cents . pound
or sugar will increase the price Of sugar 2
cents pound to the American consumer.
and tariff duty Of 3 cents pound will
likewise increase the price Of coffee.
Tne Democratic tariff reformers Who
believe in honestly keeping the
pledse Of the Chicago platform agree that
. duty must be reimposed on coffee and
sugar in order TO make up for the def
cheney in the revenue that wall be caused
by the extension Of the free list. How
does the American workingman like this
proposition that his breakfast Is to be taxed
81. o0o, 600 on coffee and sugar in order that
foreign made goods and foreign cheap
iaaer shall have a chance TO compete with
domestic manufacturers? How will the
American wOrk:pgman like this fulfill
m INT Of the promise OF the last campaign
that ''the Republican policy of taxing the
neressaries Of life" should be extinguished?
The Republicans took 800. 900. 600 of the
poor mans sugar and coffee, and now the
Democracy propose to reimpose the old
duty Of cents pound on sugar and Q 3
ceat duty on coffee. OF course the LOUISE
ans sugar planters will be satisfied with
tina reimposition of the sugar duty. but
with the reimposition of the sugar duty
the payment Of sugar bounties viii 60,
and how will farmers Of the West that are
trying to establish the sugar beet industry
like that just when the new industry
promises to become protitab!ef The re-
port Just made by Mr.. II. w. Wiley. the
chemist ofthe agricultural department. on
the results OF the experiment made in rails
Ing sugar beets at Schuyler. Neb., shows
mes profit Of SO an g. This result is
reached after allow the market price Of
lard and labor and under all the disad-
sugar export of Germany is greater than
that Of Cuba. and the protection Of the
sugar. eet industry at the West would in
time render that section independent Of
foreign supplies of sugar.
No less men than David A. Wells and
Heary Watterson among Democratic
tariff reformers are represented as believ-
ing in Ievying taxes on tea and coffee. and
restoring the tax on sugar and wiping out
the sugar bounty. This would furnish, it
IL estimated. nearly one hundred millions
Of sevenue by means Of tariff for revenue
only. The Southern members are opposed
to shis taxation of tho breakfast table:
they want An income tax. Secretary Car.
Isle. while in congress. and Mills. of
Texas, both supported the income tax.
The Popuiists declared for an income tax
in The last campaign. despite the fact that
an income tax would be class legislation,
which they pretend to denounce.
Then there are Democratic tariff re-
formers who would increase the internal
revenue taxes. David A. Wells holds that
an increase Of internal revenue taxes
would actually defraud the government
Of revenue by the temptation offered for
fraud" When Mr.. Wells was internal
revenue commissioner. II he had had his
way. the tax on whiskey would never have
beea raised to 90 or even 70 cents .
gallon: he believes 70 or 20 cents is ample,
because q high whiskey tax tempts to
fratsd, and il is difficult to devise practical.
ageacies that can cope with these frauds.
crease Of internal revenue taxation, but il
10 dangerously likely that the South and
the West viii enact an income tax. 1t
will be speciousiy urged that the rich
ought TO bear tho chief burden Of taxation.