Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-03-30
THE TAXED BREAKFAST TABLE.

THE TAXED BREAKFAST TABLE.
New York Press.
With their President in the White
House and a Democratic Congress at
the Capitol, the free traders have reach
ed a point where they begin to talk
about the taxes which they intend to i'm
pose upon the American people. Since
the election they have been gradually
approaching advocacy of the taxed
breakfast table. The movement began
with caution, but has grown in bold
ness from day to day and week to week,
until now some of the highest authori-
ties in the Democratic party are un-
equivocally on record in favor of duties
on tea, coffee and sugar. The Philadel-
phia Record asserts that, as prelimin-
ary step to attacking the Mckinley tariff,
new sources of revenue, which will yield
about $l00,000,0Q0 to the Treasury, must
be opened, and insists that this amount
can only be raised by going " at once to
those sources of fiscal revenue that be-
long to tariff for revenue only" These
sources are thus pointed out:
FIRST in the list is sugar, which at a
duty of II cents a pound Only would
yield a revenue of S60,000,000 on the
basis of last years importations. Next
comes coffee, which at duty of cents
a pound would yield S10,500,000 more.
Tea would produce $4,500,000 revenue
from low duty of 5 cents pound"
Hara ora fovoc for fh q
contemplation of the workingman who
was caught in the Cleveland net last
November by the bait of "cheaper
necessaries of life" They mean tax
not alone for his break fast table, but for
his dinner table and tea table in the
bargain. These will be tariff burdens
concerning which he can entertain no
doubt. When the Republican Congress
removed the duty from sugar that arti-
Gle dropped in price just the amount of
the duty. When it is reimposed the
price of sugar will go up Immediately,
as will also tea and coffee when they are
taxed, because this kind of tariff is
revenue tariff, and, unlike protective
tariff, is always added to the price.
The Press does not overlook the fact
? that along with these taxes compensa-
tory benefits are promised. But those
benefits are supposed to come from
throwing down the barriers which alone
insure to hundreds of thousands of
workers their daily employment and
living wages. When the workingman
is thrown into idleness or has his wages
reduced by the deluge of foreign manu-
facturers, which Mr.. Cleveland and his
party propose to let into this country,
he will find that every pledge of benefits
made by the Democratic party is false
hood.
CLEVELAND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
New York Press.
The appointment of Mr.. McAdoo to
be Assistant Secretary of the Navy
shows the character of President Cleve-
lands civil service pretensions. When
this position was created a few years
ago tacit understanding existed that
the incumbent she uld not be removed
on account of partisan change in the
Administration. The Secretary of the
Navy is usually civilian, and the idea
in providing an assistant for him was
that he should have some responsible
person constantly at his side who was
perfectly familiar with the practical de-
tails of naval service and department.
Influenced by this understanding,
Prof. Soley resigned life position at
Annapolis to accept the Appointment to
the newly created office. His politics
did not enter into the matter. He was
known simply as man of signal apti-
titude for the place and of long expert
ence in naval affairs. This selection
more than justified expectations 1t was
naturally supposed, therefore, that Prof.
Soley would be undisturbed by the new
Administration. On the contrary, he is
one of the first to feel the edge of the
Cleveland ak. The Cleveland variety of
" civil service reform" is about the most
complete humbug in existence.