The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-09
HOW 1T ROBS US
Some Facts About the Tariff That Will Be
Read With lnierest. I
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PLUMBERS EVERY One

How the Prices OF Nearly AL We
Have to Buy is. Taxed Either by
the Government or the People
Who Manufacture: the Articles We
Buy.
Do you know how much you con-
tribute eve.7 yeer$to the support o;
the United State government.
The question is deeply important
to you and should Stause you to put
on your thinking cap.
There are so,oOo,ooo people in
this little and big, young
and old, plack and white, rich and
poor. The Federal Government is
spending over S35, 100000 every day
exclusive Sundays and legal holt
days. Consequently, nearly forty
cents a day is what Uncle Sam spends
of your money-besides 40 cents for
your wife and for each of your csil-
dren.
If your family consists Of five per-
sons, your part of the Federal tax
is $500 per day!
What do you think of that, son.
For the 800 work days Of tho
wear your contribution to the U. S.
expenses is $500.
Pretty steep, isn't it? You pay
that tax when you consume tobacco,
cigars, cigarettes, firewater and man
ufactured goods.
You can escape the tax on tobacco
and whiskey by letting, them alone;
but you cannon help yourself when
it comes to manufactured articles.
They are necessary to your busin ess
and to your very existence. Cloth
ing, crockery ware, cutlery, furhl-
ture, plantation supplies, etc., yoa
are compelled TO purchase, whether
you want to or not:
Now, let us see how the protec-
tive principle works:
The foreign manufacturer wishes
to sell you a suit of clothes, or a
pair of blankets, or a cheap over
coat, or a bottle Of wine or an au-
tomobile; but our Government VIII
not allow him to come into our mar
kets freely and compete with the
American manufaeture:.sg.
On the contrary. he Is forced 70
pay for the privilege. This takes
the form Of duty paid at the Gus
! tom House, where the foreign goods
are landed. This duty goes by the
name Of the Tariff.
When the foreigner brings his
| wine to our country for sale, he pays
tariff Of 81 per cent, at the custom
house. When he imports an auto
mobile, he pays so per cent OF It's
value for the right to sell it here.
II blankets are imported from
abroad, they have to pay a duty OF
|165 per cent; If cheap overcoat,
$50 per cent.
1t must be quite clear to you that
the foreigner adds the customhouse
duty to his original price; and that
you pay the tax when you purchase
/ the imported goods.
Consequently, if you buy import
ed wine, you are charged one-third
| more than the foreigner would have
demanded, had there been TO tariff
duty on the liquor.
If you purchase an imported car,
YOU pay one-half more than the orig
inal price.
If you buy blankets made in Eu-
rope. the price is doubled, and then
increased IS per cent. more. besides,
because of the 1865 per cent. tariff
! tax.
On the cheap overcoat. the price
will be four and half times as
much as the original price.
Suppose you purchase ten dollars
"OTIu VI ulH :lhClp' II tt'ti' I''''C ) SoA
! Federal tax on that item alo2e.
amounts to more than six dollars.
Let me turn it around. and ex-
plain il to you. another way:
The foreigner comes to New York
with IL pair OF blankets valued at
s4 before he can offer them 10 you
for sale. he is charged 1GH per cent.
tarifT-duty. Now, l65 per cent IN
81 amounts to $3.50. Therefore, the
foreigner. in order to get his 81 for
his blankets. mist add $3.50 to his
original price. making the goods cost
you $1,000.
But suppose an orercoat of cheap
grade Is imported-a coat which can
be sold In London for 81. In that
case duty OF $50 per cent rlus; he
paid, before the coat can hc sold in
this market.
Now. ESQ per cent on 81 amounts
TO $40; consequently The cheap over
coat costs you S14. In other W. :.
you pay the Federal Governmen; d
tax Of $40 when you supply your
self with cheap overco"t.
On ordina.y clothing, :ou pay two
PRICES one for the goods. the 9th