The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-09
TARIFF BURDENS
Wake S Direct Tax$100,-
900, and its Tax For
Federal Government
$1,6OO,OO0.
If You Spank One of the SO-Called
Infant Industries it is LuSty
Enough to Yell so that it
Can be Heard From
the Atlantic to
the Pacific.

the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
(Hon r. b. Glenn in Raleigh
Il do wish l had the power ana tne
logic and the eloquence to Durn Hllo
the brains Of the people OF this couIi-
ty the injustice, the iniquity Oh TINS
high protective tariff-and tneie
would be no Republican party leIt 10
tell the talei"
In Wake county he understood that
the State and county taxes amounted
to $1O0, 900; the same county is taxed
from the tariff 100000, and from the
internal revenue over $1,O0O, 0oo. II
the sheriff should try to collect a mil
lion dollar tax you wouldn't stahu 1t.
You would raise a revolution ana
have a tea party and hang the tax
collector Yet because the tax is IN
direct. because it is invisible in its
Cperation, the people bear 1t tamely.
Ii you had in Raleigh only one store
keeper, he would sell his goods 1or
what price he chose and he would buy
your products for as little as he chose
10 give You would be buying in the
highest and selling in the cheapest
market.
The manufacturers agree to COM
hination to keep out France and
England and Germany. When these
countries come to bring their pro-
ducts for sale they are met with the
tariff tax. We are compelled to take
from our people the goods they make
at what they charge, and we are COM
Ielled to sell for what they pay.
1t is a privilege, made by the Re-
buhlicans-for themselves.
The Republican party says:
strengthen the WALL; the Demo-
cratic party says that IS unjust; that
the tariff should be only sufficient to
iun the government and 1t shodlo
be levied in such a way as to give no
specia, privileges.
OUGHT not the American manuflc-
turer sell to his own people as cheap
ly as he does to the people of Canada,
CT France, of England? And yet there
they sell far more cheaply than they
sell to us! els it right? God for
bid
He referie ed to steel rails sold in
The United States for SIS, in foreign
countries for see, and answered the
defense that the difference in price
came from the corporations, rather
than from the people. 1t was the
people who paid III the end, every
time.
The American farmer buys a cult
vator for Sill; the same thing sells
il, Canada for SIS, the poor woman
W
America $25 for the same machine
that a foreigner buys for SIS; the
working girl must pay 500 for type
writer which her Canadian sister
gets for $40 or $50. 1t is con-
temptible shame!-dry, perhaps, but
You ought to have it. And the worst
thing about the high protective tariff
is that it taxes highest the things the
greatest number of people want and
the lowest the things that the fewest
people need. The common shawl
that keeps the cold from the thin
clad shoulders Of the poor, pays
higher tax than the rich and gauzy
fabrics that make the adcrnment of
the rich. The Democrats say make
the tariff equal on all, but If there
must he inequality, let it fall not on
the poor and needy. AS it is the
common cotton pays tremendous
tax, while the silk hat gets OF with
one-third the percentage of duties.
They will tell you that the tariff
protects the infant industries; they
may be infants but ii they are, they
are strong enough to take the Pres-
dent of the United S4atss by the
throat and can strange Congress. If
YOU spank one it is lusty enough to
yell so that it can be heard from the
atlantic to the Pacific. Cine Of then:
is worth 50, 00e, 900, 900, a sum so vast
that every time it takes breath
this way-its income is S1I2 and
every time it says LAY me down to
sleep" it gets off it's knees richer by
SOC. Under these conditions one
nan has come to be worth FIVE times
the value of the wheat crop, seventy
times that of the tobacco crop and
Ten times that of the cotton crop of
the United States. And the farmer,
the merchant. the lawyer and the aoc-
stlnv n 20
this possible.
The Democratic party believes in
protection, but it is the protection
of the masses instead of the classes.
The kind of protection l believe in is
t. give to every man the protection
that comes to the extent of the law.
Protect the corporation, don't take its
money. or destroy its property or leave
ii at the mercy Of lawless strikes.
but at the same time protect the men
and the women and the boys and girls
who work in the mills from morning
till night
Protect the mines-let us have no
strikes-save their property-but at
the same time don't forget the man
with the pick and the shovel-don'
sell him powder for $2.35 that cost
so cents-don't charge him IS for d
$3.50 house--nake him work twelve
hours for eight hours pay-and make
him mine $500 pounds as a ton when
the law says a ton is only 1000
pounds.
ProteOct the railroads.&c. them go
( everywhere-let juries give them
justice-but don't forget the engineer,
the flagman, the fireman, the man
who pays the freight along the line.
Will Seek Capital.
God forbid that I should rail against
capital, but that he should help me
to strengthen the weak, to see that
every man gets the money that is
due him from his work, to aid some
little towards bringing capital and
labor to dwell together in love like
twin-sisters treating each other with
4 common spirit of fairness and con-
S4deration.
If as Governor, I shall have a
hobby, it will be to educate myself in
the resources of this State, to &c
North and East and West to appeal
to capital to come. l shall tell OF
the fertile soil, the crops, the water
powers, the forests, the climate, the
patriotism of our true men, our pure
and Christian womanhood. [ shall
seek to fill up the waste places, tC
Iava Factories everywhere. furnjShing