The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-13
OLD FAi-sEHooDs REPEATED.
s~fock-in-Trads Arguments Of High Tarin
Republicans


Said Mr.. Mckinley In his recen,
speech nj Akron: They say a protcc-
tive tariff H. a tax and n burden upon
the people. !, Is n tax upon the foreign
producer. and his welfare is not our frs,
concern"
The soft coal begrnrs in their supple
cations before the ways and means
committee told u different story. They
all agreed that they wanted the tax on
imported coal because without il Nova
Scotia coal could he delivered in New
England ports cheaper than their own
could be. That is, they wanted the
tax 70 enable them to exact seventy
five cents per ton more from New Eng
landers than they could get without
the tax. They wanted it as a tax on
New England consumers, not on Nova
Scotia producers.
Other tariff bcggars have admitted
the same thing, some of them expressly
as well as by necessary implication.
For instance, George +. Ikert. who was
heard on behalf of the pottery bcggars,
SAID in reply TO a question from Mr..
Reed that 'thc tariff tax was undoubt-
10y N'ftt w Nv DIitt. anu lHc cOu.
sumner really paid the duty" Three
years ago ex-Gov. Warmoth, of Louisi.
ana, protested against the substitution
OF a bounty for the tariff tax because
II would disclose the fact that the tariff
Is a bounty" and the people wouldn't
stand it when they discovered that fact.
Nhcn benjamin Harrison was prcsi-
dent his protectionist solicitor general
made an argument before the supreme
court in which he said that 'the
amour OF duty levied is q bounty to
the domestic manufacturer" and hat
lit is with a view to such q benefit for
him that it is levied"
And so say they all when they are
not trying to deceive people whom
they take to be unidentified. Nc
kinley himself said so when he
was defending his notorious bill
three years ago. Speaking Of his
ridiculous provision putting the same
duties on articles imported for govern
men use as on the same articles inn
ported for private use. he said: The
government, its officers, agents and
contractors will hereafter have to paw
the same duties which its citizens gen.
orally are required to pay" In his
eagcrncss to foo the people in one way
he let slip the truth in another way.
He admitted hat the citizens of this
country. and not foreign producers,
pay the duties. In the same speech, re-
ferring To the free admission of .'per-
sonal effects" under the old law, he
The practical effect OF this provision was
mat the wealthy classes who we're able to
visit distant countries secured exemption from
the Taymcnt Of duties. while the average citi-
zen, unable to go abroad. was compelled TO pay
duty upon the articles which he might want
10 use"
So it was the average citizen who
paid the duties, while the wealthy citi-
who could go abroad and bring in
A small cargo Of personal effects"
Tree, escaped. And even in his Akron
after asserting that the tariff is
a tax on the foreign producer, he ad-
mits in no less than three places that
the home consumer pays it in the form
Of higher prices
Of course every man who understands
he subject knows that the object Of
protection Is to tax the domestic con-
tuners for the benefit of favored pro-
and that IL this were not the
the latter would lose all interest
n protection. But since the prctec-
persist in their old attempt 10
II is in order to convict them
# falsehood out of their own mouths
Chicago Herald.