Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 October 1893 — Page 6
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—The infant child of W. B. Mount and wife, of Darlington, died Tuesday morning. —Garret Wikoff and daughter. Miss Jennie Wikoff, left Tuesday for Wichita, Kansas, on a month's visit. —The Puitt murder case has been venued from Parke to Vermillion county. Will White, of this city, has been retained as stenographer. —The township trustee has already begun to feel the pressure of the great crush which will come upon him this winter from the poor and indigent. —There is a fish seine sacrificed on the altar of the law nearly every day, The last grand jury did a good work in this direction and deserves a compliment. —There were sixty-five people started from Wavnetown last Sunday for the World's Fair. The excursion was planned by Morris Herzog and William ltyder. —Jim Jenkins, the pride of Waynetown, was corralled by the police here Saturday night while in a state of beastly intoxication. He was fined by the Mayor this morning. —Capt. W. P. Herron returned Sunday from Chattanooga where he has been for the last ten days seiving on the commission locating the positions of Indiana regiments during the battle of Chickamauga. —Many Putnam bounty farmers are complaining of the ravages of pinkeye among their herds of cattle. The stock becomes stone blind and sometimes the suffering of the animal is ended by death. Milk cows afflicted with the disease cease to give milk, but get all right in a sh jrt time if properly taken care of. —H. D.Vancleave returned from Indianapolis last Friday in company with Elijah P. Hallett, whom Mr. Vancleave had succeeded in getting released from the insano asylum after a stubborn of two years. "During this whole said Mr. Vancleave, "Hallett has just as sane as any one and the authorities over there knew it. They simply held him because his wife and her people protested against his release. I shall have him adjudged of sound mind in a few days and he can then take charge of his own property in Ripley township. If Mrs. Hallett wants to sue for a divorce she can do it."
Engagement Announced.
The engagement of Miss Florence Durham, of this city, to Mr. Preston Owen llndy, of Chicago, has been announced. The marriage will occur about the middle of November.
Divorce Granted.
A divorce was granted la9t Friday by Judge Harney to Mrs. Alice Camp from Henry Campbell, together with a ldgment for $8,000 alimony.
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WHO PAYS THE TAX?
The Tariff Question Simplified—Throe Prominent Ohaiees Made by Demoorats Refuted.
To tbe Editor the Crawfordsvllle Journal.'
It is with diffidence that I, an humble plebian, ask .space in your invaluable JOURNAL for a further elucidation of the labor question, for the tariff rid of its labor element, would be void of a soul. It would be but tbe question, as I have shown in previous articles, who shall pay the expenses of this government, the American citizen or the importer of foreign goods.
It seems to me that nc time in the history of this Government has the op portunity been better, to get an honest, candid serious hearing on this
Bubject
than now. The masses learn best in the school of experience, and that school is now being opened by a Democratic Congress, now in session, in
fact
its first
lesson with its accompanying woes are now being experienced. The great Democratic party has declared that a protective tariff is unconstitutional, and as they have always been strong sticklers for the the constitution—as they explain it, of course they will eradicate every particle of protection from our tariff laws. They certainly will not favor unconstitutional measures. Then it is a foregone conclusion that in the tariff laws that they are about giving us, no vestige of protection will appear.
I wish in this article to hastily refer to the three prominent charges made by the Demooratio party last fall, that beyond all doubt carried the elections against the Republicans. The first one was, that, tariff is a tax on the American consumer. Second, that it furnished opportunities for powerful manufacturing combines. Third, that it opens up opportunities for men to grow rich—to become millionaires.
That tariff is a taxI shall not deny. If it could be shown that the tariff tax is heaped upon the American consumer it ought not to prove very objectionable to the loyal American. The Demoorats say that the last Congress was a billion Congress. The first session of the present Congress cost over a half billion, hence the present Democratic Congress will cost at least one billion. This enormous expense must be paid by some one, in some way. That is the question between the two dominant parties. This tax must be paid, either by an ad valorem direct tax, an income tax, a tariff tax, or the two or three combined. To pay this tax by a direct ad valorem system would be, to tax every tax payer in the United States, great and small, on an average $100. This would make the average tax payer pay not less than $200 general government tax, besides his State and county tax. It would be probably more than this, for it would cost near forty per ccnt. to assess and collect this enormous tax. The above facts rule out of possibility a direct ad valorem tax. The.next then, would be an income tax. This would so cripple and enervate the business interests of this country that it could not possibly be sustained by the popular vote. Then there remains but one possible plan, and that is by tariff, and income. Upon this plan both parties are agreed, but the manner in which the tariff duty is to be laid is the issue between the two dominant parties. The Republican party asks to lay it, so as to raise revenue, and at the same time protect American labor and the American consumer, while the Democratic party asks to lay it so as to raise the greatest revenue without protecting American labor, or the American consumer. Now there is no question but what a non-protective tariff will raise a larger revenue than will a protective tariff. To remove protection will oripple American manufactories, make the country dependent upon foreign importation in fact if we depended upon foreign manufacturers altogether it would quadruple the importation, and hence become a greater source of revenue than would any protective system, but would it be better for American interests? I presume that all parties will admit that it would prove minus to American interests to have it so.
Now the issue upon this tariff question as it now exists, is in the manner of laying it. The Republican party insists upon laying the tariff so as to compel the foreign importer to pay the duty, thereby releasing the American consumer from paving it. Whilst the Democratic party insists upon laying it so that the American consumer will be forced to pay the duty, thereby establishing the Democratic proposition that "tariff is a tax" upon tbe American consumer. In order to make this issue clear to the reader it will be necessary first, to illustrate, and secondly, to refer to unmistakable facts.
The Republican party wishes to lay the duty heaviest upon the articles that we can and do produce, and to admit free the articles that we cannot produce.
The Democratic party, ignoring protection, wishes to lay the duty so as to raise the greatest revenue, studiously avoiding the recognition of the protective principle. In order to do this he will place the duty as near horizontal as possible, that is, evenly upon the articles that we do and do not produoe.
Now for illustration let's compare the results of these two ruleB theoretically and see which plan tallies with the facts. We will first try the Republican plan by placing a duty of three centB per yard on prints, by so doing we stimulate American mnnufaoturing, until we pro duce a sufficient amount to supply the American oonsumer, and by the compe tition reduce the price to 6 cents per yard. Now suppose the English im porter ships a load of English prints into an American port he pays a duty of three cents per yard, will he sell at 9 cents per yard, when just as good an article can be sold for 6 cents per yard? Certainly not. The importer would be compelled to sell at the American price, and only realize 3 cents per yard for his prints. Again we have by an abundant
supply and Btrong competition reduced the price of the self binder from $225 to $125. Suppose a foreigner Bhips into this country self binders, no better than the American machine, and when he arrives in the American port he pays $20 duty on each machine. Will he sell his binder at $125 plus $20, equal, $145? No sir. Even the free trader cannot help but see that Mr. Importer would be compelled to sell at the American estab lished price, $125 less $20, equal $105. Who pays the duty in this case? The importer, of course. Now if the foreigner can, with his advantage of low priced labor, manufacture his binder $20 cheaper than can the American, with his high priced labor, he can pay the $20 duty and then
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for as large a profit as can the American. Again we will suppose cbffee to be worth 15 cents per pound on ship board in a Brazilian port, and this government puts 20 cents per pound tariff, would the importer pay the 20 cents duty If so he would sell his coffee in an American port at 15 plus 20 equal 35 cents per pound. This is just what he would do, and why? We cannot produce the article in this country and hence are at the mercy of the foreigners' price, hence the Republican protective syBtem puts no tariff upon coffee.
Lets go back of 1860 when we had for years endured a Democratic non-protec-tive tariff. Under this tariff our manufacturers lanquished for the want of protection, labor was much lower in Europe than here, which prevented the American manufacturer from competing successfully with the foreign manufacturer. Capital waB Blow to invest in manufacturing from the fact that labor was from fifty to one hundred per cent, lower IU the old countries. Under these ciroumstances we did not more than supply one-half the American demand for cotton, and woolen textures, for railroad bare, nails, cutlery, etc. What was the result?
Turn with me to an old ledger kept by a county mercantile firm, in the village of Parkersburg, Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1856, and we see charged: May 19, 1856, Thos. Graney. Dr.,
To yds. muHlln shirting at 14c
.84
Peter Bellowes. Dr., To 2 yds. print at 12!4c 25
May 20, John Servis, Dr., To 8 lb, Orleans sugar at 12Hc.. 1.00 May 22, Thos. Grlder, Dr.,
To 1 pr. trace chains 1.00 To 1 scytbe and sneath 2.25
May 25, Joseph Milinger, Dr., To 2 lb. 10 p. nails at 7!4c 15 June 1, John D. Hester, Dr
To 2 lb nails at 7&c 15
The above were the prices paid in this country by consumers in 1856, under Democratic tariff, when the labor of the consumer was 50 per cent, lower than in 1892. Thus you see that whilst he, the consumer, worked for less wages, he paid more than double for the manufactured articles, that he was compelled to have. -Why was this? The question is easily solved. Under non protection American machinery lay idle and rusting. We depended for more than half of the manufactured articles required in this country, upon foreign countries. As a matter of course Americans could not, need not establish competition. They could not fix the price to the consumer hence the importer fixed the price, and of course being free and untrammelled by American fixed prices, he added the tariff to bis wares. The American manufacturer took advantage of this Democratic shield and raised the price of his article.
As to the second charge in the Demo oratic indictment against the Republican party, that protection only protects the manufacturer, 1 would answer by formulating the following question: If the American manufacturer when labor was lower in 1856, had to sell his cotton shirting at 14 cents per yard, his prints at 12J cents per yard, his rotton iron nails at cents per pound, did not make a profit, what do they make now in the way of profit, when they sell cotton shirting to the consumer at 6 cents per yard, prints at 5 to 6 cents per yard, and iron nails at 2 cents per pound I affirm without the fear of successful contradiction that the American manufacturer is selling his pro ducts at a less per cent, than ever before in the history of this country, and if it was not for the protection to the com mon laborers and the consumer that Republican protection gives, the Amer ican manufactuer could double his profunder a non protective sistem. Hence low prices and small profits is the mother of manufacturers' combines, to protect them from the ruin of over competition.
As to the third count in the indictment, that it opens up opportunities for men to grow rich, to become millionaies. (This charge cannot be brought against Democratic legislation!) In a well ordered social system, the mutual relations existing between the rich and the well to do, and the poor, have been more or less strained. This should not be and would not exist were it not for that egoism, or selfishness that morbidly exists in human nature. It is natural for the thriftless to attribute their failure to some social law beyond their con trol. In this country this is a mistake. All are free to travel the road to wealth if they have the ability. Nearly all of our very wealthy men have been poor in their beginnings. The wealth in this country, like political and social honors changes as each successive generation makeB its advent. The familes of this generation that are wealthy, are as rule, poor in the next generation, and the familes in this generation that are poor are rich in the next generation This is largely owing to habits of indue try with the laboring classes, and habits of profiigaoy with the rich. Again our decedent laws dividing real and per sonal wealth equally between the several members of the family, tend to prevent the perpetual accumulation of wealth in the hands of any one favored branch of a family.
There is an artificial gentleman in this oountry whose wealth, if not prop erly manipulated, might possibly prove detrimental to the poorer classes. His
name is Corporation. So far he has proved a blessing. So far under wise legislation he has, I say, proven a great savior to both the individual richand the bread winner as well. This gentleman carries on our great manufactories, he manages the mining of our coal, our gold, our silver, lead and copper. He has builded our «reat railroad syatems, through the means of which markets are brought to each and every man's door. He supplies us with telegraphs and telephones. He lights our Btreets with electricity he warms and lights our dwellings with natural gas, in fact he carries on every great enterprise requiring more capital than can or would be furnished by priyate individual capital, and last but not least he furnishes employment to the millions of wage-laborers, furnishing them comfortable homes, food and raiment.
Now the peculiarity of this individuality is, he has "no back to lash, nor soul to save," hence being soulless he needs to be restrained by law,and whenever he begins to put on airs, nothing remains but for the people through their law makers to take him down a notch or two, I say so far this individual has answered a double purpose: First, he enables us to carry on the great enterprises that have made us one of the foremost nations on the earth. Secondly, he has furnished a handle for political demagogues to arouse the populace, pointing out the great danger in this monster. When the minister preaches a funeral he generally consoles the mourners by quoting, "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away." So say 1 to you, the people giveth and the people taketh away. A corporation is solely the creature of law and the law is the creature of the people, hence there can be no danger in corporations where the people rule. Without the wealthy individuals and wealthy corporations of this country, we would rapidly lapse back into obscurity. Without the chance of becoming wealthy and influential the spirit of emulation in our people would be destroyed. We would become indolent and slothful, lose our industry and energy and in a few decades we would be rapidly tending to a semi-barbarian-ism, hence all this twaddle in our last presidential campaign was gotten up and kept up by fools and political demagogues for politioal gain. Thousands of honest men were made to believe it, and hence result of the election. Politicians should be very careful how they prey upon the prejudices of the populace, for there is a point beyond which such prejudicial excitement cannot co without bringing ruin both to the rioh and the poor. Even the unworthy demagogue would be dragged down in the seething whirlpool of human hate and passion.
Now dear reader, permit me to close this long letter by affirming that a Democratic tariff is a tax to the consumer, whilst a Republican tariff is a tax to the importer alone. Can you, will you, dare deny the above propositio'ns
PARKERSBUBG, Oct. 2, '93. CITIZEN.
Hationai Bank Statements. The reports of the two National Banks of this city which appear elsewhere in to-day's JOURNAL show them to be in sound and healthy condition. As compared with their reports in July they show a falling off in business, their loans and discounts being less now than then about $85,000, while the individual deposits subject to check have been reduced by about the same amount. Conidering the depression of the times tbe reports make an excellent showing and will do much to increase the confidence of the public in the stability of our banks.
Teachers' Institute.
Section No. 2 of the Union township teachers' institute will meet in the small court room, Oct. 21, at 9:30 a. m. The following is the programme:
Koll call. Quotations from
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Announcement of committees. Orations of llurke and Webster..Robert Weeks Classification and Graduation Institute School Management Mrs. Clara Calvin
Ward Isn't Built That Way. There was a weird report on the streets Saturday evening to the effect that Ward F. H. Burrows had "ewallered pizen" at the jail and was dying in horrible agony. Investigation proved that the dear boy was merely suffering from a severe attack of the cramps. He was in great pain for a while but came around all right finally. He will be taken North this week. Ward had another attack last night similar to that of Saturday,
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