The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-10-04
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The burden Of every Democratic /
speech in the Safe s., aud Viii he
that the German Sugar Trust hill re- .
moves tie ,ax I'D necessities ari
puts It "a I'll. rich mans luxu-~es
That is true 10 a very limited extent.
but vicious misrepresentation IN
H., attempt to give i; genera apPh-
eatt.u. II is The exc option aud not
IL, raie. "" might point ont dog
-r- ut illustrations a. risgranf as tie
W" mere referred -. GoIdbugs.
= hn alone can afford an annual trIp
To- Europe. are allowed IN this bill 70
pt4ug back $50 UU worth o. clothing
exempt from all custom house duties.
This j. an outrag" upon every Amer
team Vorhlugmau. The labor j. not
puly lost here. but the plutocrat
wears his purple and fine linen.
Exempt from AT taxation. From the
growing Of the wool. through all its
processes Of manufacture into cloth.
through its subsequent phases of fit
ting. cutting and making into gar
m,uts, it Is English pauper made
clothing. II can toe brought to this
country t. the amount of $40 ~ to
the individual uutaNcd. And this Is
Democratic tariff reform IN the IN
interest of the common people.
Another instance equally outra
reous, is the exemption Of diamonds
and still another is the exemption OF
Inc painting, and statrary from Gus
tom duties. Holman, of Indi-
ana. the old Watchdog, was the one
Democrat in the House who had the
courage and manhood to protest a
gainst il. We quote from the Con
grcsSional Record.
Mr.. Holman said:
The gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr..
| Walker this afternoon informed the House
! with loud voice that ,he rich pay the taxes.
| lat wisdom i somewhat akin to that other
| proposition, that if you Will just take care Of
| the rich they viii take care of the poor; and
| also to that other one, that public debt is
| public blessing
He drew this graphic picture, by
| way of illustration:
! \ pale ~adfaced woman sitting in gar-
| ret sewing upon a shirt for the making of
! which She i, to receive Ia cents a little babe
! wrapped in rags, lies in the corner: a little
! barefoot girl j. sitting by her side sewing
! HE buttons ON the shirt. Everything in
| hat room is taXed-the poor dress worn by
| The ,ai-faced woman the dress of the little
| sirI-everything is taxed; even the wretched
! rags that wrap the baby have borne their tax.
| Let us look at the other picture. This
| scene opens in region of that great
| nity where it is thought that the taxgatherer
| should not make his appearance-where it is
| holy ground, 50 to speak. A gentleman and
| his elegant wife have just returned from Eu-
| rope. They are owners of your public secu-
| rites. With them they have brought from
| Florence, Italy, i'll Parian marble, the bust
| II bright Dung girl, a scion Of the nobility
! Dl Europe. Such bust is now taxed ) per
cent. Our bill, gentlemen, places it on the
| free list. y stalwart man is hanging mp a
treat picture, that cost so coo in Paris Tn
per the Mckinley tariff law. so-called, the
tariff on that picture is - per cent under
! this bill it will come in free. The elegantly
| ROBBED lady and her husband purchased the
picture in the most polite city in the world
Paris. 1t is proposed by this bill to allow
such pictures to come in free. | submit to
| you, In that right? In the hOvel nothing is
exempt. The furniture of the elegant apart
ment is totally exempt from the burdens of
| the Government.
The Mckinley bill passedthe house with
ont placing any duty on statuary or paint
inEs, but it was explained day or two ago
that it was mistake or oversight. The Sen
ate, however, put the duty back at Is per
cent SO it will he seen that the law upto
| this time covering forty years, has imposed
upon these articles of luxury duty begin
ming and continuing with 30 per cent al va
loren upto the Mckinley act, and Il per
cent since that law went into effect
Nov it is proposed to put these articles Of
| luxury, used for the adOrnment of the ele-
CANT homes of the fortunate citizens of the
country, On the free list; and this is the first
! time in forty years of our history when that
has been attempted to be done deliberately
and Intentionally. because 1t has been ex-
planned that the failure to put provision
imposing tax on these articles in the tariff
act passed by the FiftY-first Congress was an
| oversight amistakc. and was partially cor
rccted in the Senate.
II am told, Mr.. Chairman-I do not know
anything about it myself, but ! am told
that in some of the palatial residences of this
| country, especially III the city of New York
statuary and paintings are found to the value
of half a million dollars. Now, think of the
| humble homes of the common people in
| New DIRK or in the country, adorned where
they are adorned at all, with simple litho-
graphic prints, costing perhaps 81 apiece and
paying duty Of p per cent. That little
| item of s., with its % per cent duty added
Is quite a tax upon an humble family. and
yet this bill provides that the owners of the
great mansions, full of elegance and luxury.
shall be permitted to import costly works of
art to adOrn their halls without paying one
cent of duty
Remember, dear reader, that this
was done by Democrats, the men who
are now asking you for reelection,
the men who are now on the stump
talking about what they have done