The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11
WHEN cARNnoIR IS CAR

Andrew Carnegie is telling the Aneri-
can people what he would do with the
tariff if he were Gar. He says a page
could be filled with list of the luxuries
of the rich upon which the taxes have
been reduced by the new tariff, Then fol-
| low IA few reductions: China reduced
so per cent, glass-plate and stained glass
40, gold pens Is. clocks %. hats ", flannel
| 6s, silk umbrellas IS, brandy and cordials
%. silks 40, gloves 80, comfits, jellies. etc.,
laces, EN- broideries, etc., 10, woolens and
| silks 10 to 20, owing to ad valorem instead
of specific duties. Under the present
tariff, the supposititious Car remarks,
the rich man of fashion wears his super
! fine foreign broadcloth, superfine linen,
| silk hat, kid gives, fine silk UNI
brella, sips his costly glass OF rare old
wine, at from 20 to no less than
| 20 per cent less than the former
duty upon these supertiuous luxuries. His
grand dame plays her fan, fourishes her
embroidered handkerchief, displays her
exquisite laces, and arrays herself in
superb silks at equal reductions with
many smiles and thanks to the newly
arisen friend of the people, the charming
and brilliant young West Virginian who
apologies for his failure to reduce the
duties upon the champagne she offers
him, explaining that this was not his
faul, as his bill originally provided for its
reduction also. Hundreds of fancy articles
made of wool, silk and linen are now
under reduced duties.
These reductions, the author of A Tri-'
umphant Democracy and the Tyrant OF
Homestead asserts, embrace articles de
IKE which furnish two-thirds OF the en-
tire revenue from the tariff. He then in
forms us that mot one workingman IN
the whole land uses these luxuries sand
probably that is true as regards the en-
ployees of Homestead. If there were
fewer Carnegies the workingmen of this
country might enjoy the results of this re-
duction on articles de luxe" Under the
Carnegie regime, however, the chief OBJ
ject of the workingman's existence is to
procure canned beef and possible cabbage
for families, the possession OF which
would doubtless involve an Indictment for
felony under the beneficent reign of Car
negie if he were Gar.
Since when has Carnegie become ''the
friend of the workingman?" How long
HC OppOScu tdTlll tilte CiiiiShoS
Dives while impoverishing Lazarus? And
by what process of reasoning does he
reconcile the fact that he achieved
colossal fortune under a high protective
tariff, especially imposed for the financial
benefit OF himself and his fellow bandits
in the coal and iron trade?
The cant of such as Carnegie imposes
on no one, themselves least of all, and the
only excuse for these utterances-so Snug
and complacent-is the itch for notoriety
these millionaire economists having
possessed themselves OF everything except
popular approval, y seek to beguile the
fools of the earth to this purpose by
preachments of ''how the burden of taxa
ton may be removed from the masses of
the people, taxation imposed and made
burdensome by the Cars who like Carne
gle, have fattened under special ''protec-
ton" and the sweat of the workingman's
body devoted to the slavery of the Home
steads OF America.