The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-19
THE TARIFF SCRAMBLE.
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government have always been raised
by means of internal revenue and
tariffs on imports. With the burden
of the state and county taxes al
ready upon them. il would be diff
cult TO persuade the people to sub
NIT to another direct tax ut the
hands of the fedora government.
Therefore, IL may be assumed
that a tariff on imports is now and
will continue TO be one of the most
important methods of raising the
federal revenues. Therefore, If this
be true, We can have no free trade
and If We must have an import duty.
il is simply question of how ii
should be laid. We might put un-
form percentage tax upon all inn
ports. Let us say that 10 per cent
might be enough TO raise the reve-
nues required. Under this plan every
thing coming into the United States
would be taxed. Tea, coffee. sugar,
silks, steel rails. plate glass-every-
thing would pay the 10 per cent duty.
I'VE all know that it would be a
better plan TO have tea and coffee
on the free list and make some other
things pay a higher tariff. We all
know that in some lines of industry
higher tariff would not only ben
eft the industries in the United
States but would make indirect ben
efits sometimes almost inealculable.
Therefore We perceive that a tariff
may be laid so as 10 benefit the
American people and ii may be laid
in ways that submit the American
people To an unfair price.
Let us take the cases of the tariff
on coarse cotton goods. continued
the speaker. Fifteen years ago
there was over production of cot
ton; the price was cents per pound.
Wages throughout the cotton grow
ing district We're very low and work
difficult to get Everybody produced
cotton and it was sent abroad to be
manufactured. Since that time fac
tories have been developed in cotton
growing districts. The factory pop
ulation have become consumers of
perishable farm products. The ulti-
mate result is that the price of cot
ton has been doubled In practically
the last 10 years. This means $780,
4 100000 for a 100000 bale crop.
Values have been given to perishable
farm products of over s10o,000,000.
The 100000 bales of cotton manu-
featured bring 10 the south two and
three times the money that the same
quantity of cotton brings when ship
ped abroad to be manufactured there
The cotton growing states have
approximately one third the popula-
Z ton of the entire union. We see
that in the last ten years the condi-
ton OF these has been improved -four
times above what IL used 10 be- This
improvement has all taken place un-
der fair protection to cotton goods
1t is my opinion that the maintenance
of this improved condition is depend.
ent upon the continuance of the tar.
if under which II has been devel.
oped
1T is also prosperous and corl
paratively a happy situation in which
the people of New England live. The
maintenance of this great develop
ment of q factory system consumiI {
cotton upon which so many people
depend for a living has been accom-
plished under a tariff system and in
my judgment If this tariff was re
moved depression would at once SCI
in, which would entail great hard
ships upon the people. In both
sections the kind of goods made al