The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-23
TARIFF ROBBED
People Yearly PIundeved OF Bill
lions for
BENEFIT OF TRUSTS
Senator Eacen, Of Georgia, Gives
Some Ssarlias Facts as to Flow
the Masses of the People are Ecld
Up and Roltbss CEaer Fora Of

the Masses of the People are Ecl
Up and Robbss Craer Fora Q
Law.
. On May I in the discussion Of th
, tariff bill Senator A. o. Bacon mad
!; an argument which will be the dealt
knell OF the tariff system when th
people shall once clearly understand
it. The senator had shown how i,
the higher price Of goods due to th'
tariff duties the people are made t
pay $4,000, 100000 year to enricl
favored corporations and individuals
and the Republican members. eXcit
ed by the fearful arraignment Of the
tariff that was being made, were ply
ing the senator with rapid FIRE Of
questions. But unconcerned thereby
Senator Bacon continued:
in considering the protective
tariff senators lose sight Of two great
questions. One is: What is best
in order to raise revenue for the gov.
ernmeat? The others is: Who pays
this money? The great cotton in
dustry of the South, makinsl3,0 ,000,-
900 bales of cotton, which preserves
the balance of trade between this
country and Europe, brings into this
country every year in gold, or keeps
gold from going out Of the country
through bills Of exchange more
money nearly twice over than all the
gold that is mined in all the mines
of all the world each year.
What possible excuse can be CIV
en- that this immense industry shall
be required to pile up here in this
chamber, not only for once but for
every year, its great proportion OF
this two thousand million dollars
of tariff tax, and say that It shall
be distributed without return as a
bonus to other parties, who are
either unable to live upon the profits
of their own business, and who de-
mand that the public shall contribute
out of their pockets that which IS
necessary thus either to reserve them
or to still further enrich them?
Suppose that instead Of this in
direct way of collecting money and
paying it over to the favored indus
tries, we, here sitting in our sover-
eicn law-making capacity were to
determine, 50 far as it could be done
under constitutional limitations, that
tax .satherer should be appointed
by the law of congress. and that he
should proceed through tao country
to levy and collect this two thou
sand million dollars. and have it saic
by this tax eatherer. as he took this
tribute from men toiline with brain
and muscle, this is not for the gov
ernment. nor a dollar Of that Will
go to the public treasury. it is to
be carried to Washington and piled
up in front of. the secretary's desk
in the senate chamber, to be dis
tributed by the senate to private
parties to aid them in their private
personal busin ess.'
and after it has been thus col
lected from the people by the tax
gatherer and piled up in a .grea:
heap in this chamber, suppose that
we should then be surrounded in all
these bibles and hotels with men
engaged in other branches Of In
dustry, and that they should imPor-
tune US that this money should be
given to them for their private gain
that We should listen to them and
to their demands, that the Republl-
can senators should hear them in
bosom talks in the secret conclave
in that marble palace Of which
have spoken, and to which the SEN
ator from Iowa alluded day before
yesterday, and according as this one
might have political influence. or
that one might have power, or that
| one might excite pity. and thus Sc
cure the recommendation Of the Re
publican members of the finance
| committee in favor of this one, that
and the other, this two thousand mil
lion of dollars, gold dollars. thus
gathered out of the toll Of the Amer
can people, should be put in bags
and handed out to them at the door
C.! the senate chamber, and they
should walk away with teach one
of them taking in his hand his bag
of ill-gotten gold. How long would
it be before the people of the United
States would rise up in revolt and
overthrow it? Yet that is not an
| overdrawn picture 1t is the Gods
truth as to what in practical efec:
is being done under the operation
Of protective tariff.
1.-The most unwelcome visitor III
:. the world is the taXgatherer. we
have in the United States two kinds
of taxgatherers outside OF the inter.
nal revenue officers. We have tax
gatherers who are at the ports and
who gather through duties on i'm
ports the taxes that are necessar!
for the support Of the government
! WHO gathers the other taxes? Whc
gathers the $1,000, 900, ,oo0, tina
men and women and the Industries o
all kinds in this country are required
10 bring here and pile up in soli
dollars before that desk? Who ar
the taxgatherers? There is not
corner grocery store that sells
pound of sugar to a poor widow bu
what at the time it sells that suga
gets the value Of the sugar and the
collects from that widow hetwee
aod . cantc think is is aDDrOY