The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-08-17
AWAKENING NEEDED
PAYSAS WRITES INTERESTING.
LY ABOUT TAXES.
Says There Are Many People Who
Know Nothing OF Wha; They Pay
in Tariffs.

Know Nothing OF What They Pay
in Tariffs.
Editor Of Tie State:
Is it not ,assing strange. that an
issue which is paramount TO all 9th
er economic issues should be OBJ
scured and kept in the background
as the tariff has been?
How mla;' men OF even average
Intelligence know what tariff is.
wha. revenue tariff is. what pro-
tective tariff is. and what is the diff
ference between a protective. and g
revenue tariff Should We not be
ashamed to admit that ~e do not
know what taxes ~e pay. or under
stand our national fiscal system?
How mary men know that every
time they purchase goods they pay
taxes? But this is an indirect tax.
and is not recognized or realized
But it is a tax nevertheless. and q
very heavy one at that. and TO which
State. county and municipal taxes
are a mere crop in a bucket in con-
parison.
VIII the people ever throw OF this
incubus? No. Never. until they are
educated as to what 1t means.
Aside from Christianity. what
concerns man most in this sublunary
world? Ways and means Of inprov-
ing our conditions. making good
comfortable living. and the education
Of our children. The shortest. quick
est and most direct cut to this goal
IS what every natural man IS seeking
10 fnG ou: and striving for every
day. This Is not only his natural
right and privilege. but is his bouc-
den duty.
Whatever unjustly interferes wiki
this right. whatever detracts from or
impairs the means to this end. it is
mans privilege. right and duty to
remove. II possible. An unnecessary
:ax is an unnecessary burden. and
unjus. interference with mans God.
given right tc improve his condition
his efforts &C make living. 10 edu'
cate his children. his comforts. civ
ilization. in fact everything which
makes life worth living.
The so-calied protective tariff con-
! Il. ,utes more to the high cost OF
living. it coes more to retard the
improvement. and material growth
Of uur country than any other factor
and perhaps more than all other
agencies com bined
Beyond revenue tariff. all tar.
IFS are robbery. robbery OF the
many for the few. making colossal
wealth for some by taking away from
others II dozen men have mil
Lon Of bricks between them. taking
any number from what each possess
es, and giving them to some Of the
others. it does no. make the aegre'
gate number Of bricks any greater
but does reduce the aggregate nun
Der Of those from whom they were
taken.
Mr.. Lever may plaster his vote OF
lumber as much as he pieases. bu,
that does not change the effect which
the duty wI;; have on the price o!
lumber. He says the duty which he
voted for will not affect the price Of
lum Der in the South.
If putting duty on lumber does
not increase the price down here
Goes not Mr.. Lever know that the
consumers will turn away from Ca
madam lumber and purchase in the
South? In that event there would
be no use OF the duty. Yet he
irsistently says the duty will put
three millions Of dollars in the treas
urr.
To do tn;s the consumers mus;
purchase enough from Canada 70
make the revenue from importation
three milljols. which they would Tot
do il they could get it cheaper in
the South. II Is estimated that 70
raise three millions OF revenue. the
consumers must pay one hundred
millions more for their product
than they otherwise would have TO
pay.
Would tha: some abler pen would
arouse the people TO see the tariff
as II is. and cause them 70 agitate.
and educate until Il Is reduced 10 a
revenue basis alone Paysan.
Orangeburs. July 2ath. 1910.