Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1891 — Page 7

A SOAP BUBBLE BURST. TRICK OF A PROTECTIONIST PAPER EXPOSED. Th* Chicago High Tariff Organ Trias to Prove th. Tariff Is Not a Tax—Fears’ Soap Sold as an Advertisement — A Liberal Offer Not Accepted—A Tariff Editor in a Hole. The protectionist organs are hard pressed to prove that the tariff is not a tax. One would suppose that the fall .of two cents a pound on sugar the very Jday when the duty was removed would . silence them forever. But the eld song ' still goes on, “The tariff is not a tax. ” These organs even try to get what they call proofs that the consumer does not nay the tariff tax. The proofs they print are extremely ridiculous, and they are often tripped up on the spot. The Chicago Inter Ocean has recently suffered this fate. Everybody knows that large retail dry-goods stores often sell some article far below cost In order to advertise their business and attract custom. The tariff editor of the Inter Ocean not long ago found some merchant doing this with Pears’ soap, and instantly he uncorked his ink-bottle and wrote a paragraph to show how the foreigner pays the ta*x. This paragraph made a choice pin-hook bait with which to delude the ignorant, and it was extensively copied into the protection organs of the country. In the meantime this morsel came to the notice of Messrs. Gaunt & Janvier, of New York, who handle every pound of Pears’ soap imported into the United States. At onee they sent the following letter to the Inter Ocean: Chicago Inter Ocean, Chicago, Ill.: De An Sirs—Our attention has been called to a cutting from your editorial of March j 81, in which you say that “Pears' soap, English made, and sold in England at 12 cents per cake, pays 20 per cent, duty for admission to the American market, and is sold there regularly at 10 cents and occasionally at 5 cents. Hence, ‘the tariff duty has not added to the price.’’' So intelligent a paper as yours will surely want to be put right on several misstatements made in the above. The soap Is not sold in England at 12 cents a cake, but generally from 7 to 8 cents. The soap does not pay 20 per cent, duty for admission, but 15 cents per pound specific. It is not sold regularly in the American market at 10 cents. You evidently have assumed that the marked retail price, 6d., is the price at which the unscented soap is sold in London. It'ls cut there as well as here to near cost price. We sell to jobbers here at precisely the English price plus duty and shipping charges. See price list inclosed. We have yet to find importers who do not add to their imported goods the actual duty which they pay the United States government. and which, of course, the people have to pay back to the importer. The net price of the unscented soap in London Is about 78 cents United States money: one dozen soap weighs 2% pounds, and upon this the United States government assesses 15 cents per.pound, or 33% cents. This Is added to the cost of the soap, and in addition there is also added the cost of the United States consul fee’s in Loudon, and the cost of clearance from the custom house in landing here. These, together with the freight, make 51.,15, at which price we sell to jobbers. We have known Pears’ soap to be sold in Chicago at 2 cents per cake, or 48 cents per dozen, for which the. purchaser paid us in New York sl.lO per dozem he himself paying the freight to Chicago; he therefore sold the goods at much less than half the cost to him, and he seerned to think this was good advertising. It seems to us that you have taken an unfortunate exampje to illustrate your argument. The tariff is unquestionably a tax’, and is just as surely added to the cost of the goods as the freight is added to the beef in New York when brought from Chicago, or grain from Chicago, or Oranges which are brought from California. You must know that the selling price of an article at.a certain point is based, first upon the selling price at the place of production or manufacture, plus transportation and other charges. People, of course, may sell a certain 1 article for less than cost, but that the great j bulk of business is not done in this way goes without saying. We are. gentlemen, respectfully yours. Gaunt & Janvier. The Inter Ocean's tariff man replied to this letter as follows: Messrs. Gaunt Cc Janvier, 365-367 Canal street. New York; Gentlemen—Your favor of date 6th of April has been referred to me. The firm mentioned by the Inter Ocean as selling Pears’ soap at 5 cents a cake assures me that it did not sell at a loss; that it does not buy from Pears’ New York agency; that it purchases surplus lots of all sorts of goods. Pears' soap Included, at nominal rates. Tariff very seldom, very seldom, indeed, is added to cost. The Welsh tinplate makers, who have given assurance of their willingness to supply American dealers with Dates at old rates under an increased duty, will enlighten you on this point. Respectfully, John W. Tindall, Tariff Editor. Mr. Gaunt replied to the above in the following “put-up-or-shut-up” style: Mr. John W. Tindall, Tariff Editor Chicago Inter Ocean, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir —I am in receipt of your letter addressed to Gaunt & Janvier. In our private letter I called your attention to the fact that the three statements which you made in regard to Peat's’ soap were not true, and that the inferences you drew are false. In your letter of April 10 you evade the issue, but I assume that you have been imposed upon. You say that the firm sells Pears’ soap at S cents per cake, and that it did not sell at a loss. Now, I will buy twenty-five thousand dollars’ ($25,000) worth at 6 cents per cake; this will then afford the firm $5,000 profit. when this purchase is made. I • will give such an-order for advertising to the Inter Ocean as shall make it worth while to have started the discussion. If the source of information upon which you make your assertion 4hat the “Tariff very seldom. Very seldom, indeed, Js added to the cost,” be as inaccurate as the of information about Pears’ soap, it is without the pale of discussion, and it is hardly worth while to.go to Wales until we have settled the present. Respectfully, James Gaunt, Os the firm of Gaunt & Janlver. No answer has been made to Mr. Gaunt’s liberal offer: and it can safely be assumed that the Inter Ocean man “feels like.... a fool.” Meantime the country press of the protectionist persuasion go on repeating his fib as a part of protection’s gospel. A lie travels with “sevenleague boots.” President vs. Tariff-Maker. When President Harrison was in the Pacific (States he made allusion in nearly all his speeches to the Nicaragua canal. He thought it would prove of great advantage to those by facilitating trade with States lying on the Atlantic. If the protective theory is sound, ought not the President, on the other hand, to have offered his sympathies to the people on the Pacific? The completion of the canal will “flood” California and neighboring States with cheap Eastern goods. Wages are very much lower in the manufacturing States of the East than in the far West. So great is the difference, in fact, that the Pacific people might well call our goods “paupermade. ” Now there is nothing which so paralyzes the protectionist soul as the fear of the “cheap pauper-made goods of Europe. ” Nothing, to his mind, threatens such dire ruin to this country, and his patriotism demands a high McKinley wall to shut out these goods, or, at any rate, to make them dear. The building of the Nicaragua canal will make all kinds of Eastern manufactures vastly- cheaper on the Pacific slope. Yet, strange to say, the ptesi- • \

dent waxed e oquent over the canal, and the Pacific audiences applauded warmly. If protection is true, how can the people of the far West bear to think of cloth, iron manufactures, steel rails, window glass, etc., coming in at the Golden Gate at prices far lower than they have ever known? Will it not “ruin” California? Will it not make the people there “cheap men?” As if all this were not enough, the President even spoke eloquently about extending our foreign trade. Here is one of his sentences: “I believe we have come tea time when we should choose whether we will continue to be non-par-ticipants in the commerce of the world, or will now vigorously, with the push and energy which our people have shown in other lines of enterprise, claim our share of the world’s commerce. ” Now, this is diametrically opposed to McKinleyism. In his speech a year ago on his tariff bill, McKinley said: “If our trade and commerce are increasing and profitable within our own borders, What advantage can come from passing by confessedly the best market, that we may reach the poorest by disant seas? In the foreign market the profit is divided between our own citizen and the foreigner, while with the trade and commerce among ourselves the profit is kept in our own family and increases our national wealth, and promotes the welfare of the individual citizen. ” Let protectionists decide which is right, President or tariff maker. ‘‘Serves Mexico’s Interests.” Is not this too bad? A dispatch from the City of Mexico announces that since we have abolished the duty on sugar Mexico has begun to export sugar to this country. “During the present year,” the dispatch goes on, “there will be a large increase in area de-oted to agriculture, and especially by sugar planters,

I. "111 '-Sl J I ; JO?*' Harrison’s Unsuspecting Happiness.— Chica;io Times.

who are everywhere prosperous.. The trade of the country is increasing daily.” Whenever anybody in this country talks about reducing duties, the McKinleyites instantly pop up on all sides and shout that he “serves foreign interests,” that he is working against the interests of his native land, and charges are made that he has in his pockets Cobden Club gold. These McKinleyites hunt up all the news they can find and print it in their papers showing how McGinley's high duties on foreign-made goods have closed up factories in Europe and thrown thousands of workmen out Thereupon they smile very broadly, rub their hands in glee, and exclaim, “Europe’s loss is our gain.” But where we remove a duty, as we have just done with the sugar tax, and the removal of it brings renewed prosperity to other nations, must it not inevitably follow, upion the protectionists’ argument, that we have done a very bad day’s work for our own country? If “Europe’s loss is our gain,” it must be true that Mexico’s gain is our loss. But are our people suffering a loss? On the contrary, they are guying their sugar two cents per pound cheaper than before the removal of the duty. Who concerns himself that Mexico is helped? Let Mexico enjoy to the full every advantage that our vast free-sugar market gives it: no man except a protectionist, not even the veriest ignoramus in the world, could suppose that we have given Mexico that advantage at our own expense. Trade, like charity, blesses him that gives and him that takes. Trade must be beneficial to both buyer and seller, or trade ceases —a principle constantly and persistently ignored by the whole school of McKinleyites. Therefore we can say to the Mexicans, “Dump your paupermade sugar unon our markets as rapidly and in as great quantities as possible: the more the better. The cheaper sugar is the better for our people, and we don't begrudge your ‘paupers’ the pennies which they earn in producing it”

Tin-Plate Lying. McKinley's high duty on tin-plate goes into effect July 1, and the importers have been bringing in enormous quanti/ ties of plate in order to save the extra duty. How imports have grown may be seen from the following table: IN THE LA6T TWO YEARS. 18S9. 1899. Tin plates, terne plates, and taggers’ tin imS orted in the calensr year, pounds 742,135,688 737,735,029 -Average quantity per month 61,844,640 61.477,919 FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 1890 AND 1891. 1890. 1891. Imports in January 54,839,779 50,782,064 Imports in February 54,055,297 66,764,466 Imports in March 48,609,428 101,174,507 Three months 157,474,504 218,721,037 The figures for April, May and June will be still more remarkable. The increase from forty-eight million pounds in March, 1890, to 101 million in Marph, 1891, shows how tin plate with a tax of 1 cent per per pound is preferred in the market above piste taxed 2 2-10 cents. If the foreigner pays this tax, is there any reason why our tin plate dealers should be in such a hurry to fill their warehouses? This inrush of tin plate from England shows clearly where the large stocks now in our markets come from. Yet the lying New York Tribune has the brazenness to make the following remarks in commenting upon the reports that the Welch tin plate mills are to shut down on July 1 for one month: • “Why, the McKinley bill was going to traise the price of tinplate! Don’t you remember the free trade tears that were shed'' over the ‘little tin pail of the laborer?’ And now to learn that the American market in six months’ time has been so far filled by American tin

plate as to compel the Welch trust te shut down to prevent a glut of th« market This is sad for the fres trader. ■ The only evidence that American tin plate is filling the market is found is the shape of tin plate bills of fare at protectionist banquets, and sheets of tin hung in the windows of protectionist newspapers In no American city has American made tin plate been offered for sale in “commercial quantities. • Selling; Farm Implements. • The New York •P'-esw rejoices thus in the increased exports of dur-agricultura; implements: “United States Treasury reports do net lie. The one just issued dealing with our exports and imports shows that whereas in March, 1890, we sold American agricultural implements to othei nations to the value of $387,255. In March, 1891, we sold these implements abroad to the value of $621,721. This does not look as though the McKinley tariff was checking our exports. " No; but it looks as though our manufacturers of farm implements, with a protection of 45 per cent., were succeeding pretty well in enlarging theii foreign market by their method ol making special discounts in that market below home prices. Why then do they need protection at home? The Reciprocity Principle. Our imports of coffee from Venezuela during the fiscal year 1890 reached a value of $9,662,207, making her the most formidable competitor of Brazil, from whom we purchased $45,664,12? worth. Negotiations are now going on to fprm a I reciprocity arrangement with the United I States, and it is said there is among the i Venezuelans a wholesome fear of having the duty imposed upon coffee at the be-

ginning of next year if no agreement is made in the meantime. According to the terms of McKinley reciprocity, it is made the duty of the President next January to put a duty of three cents a pound on coffee coming from countries which by that time have not given us a reciprocity arrangement satisfactory to him. This is the “reciprocity principle. "We tax ourselves to punish the people who will not buy from us! The Price of Beef. The wholesale price of beef in Chicago has advanced about 33 per cent within the last month. The cause of the advance is said to be the scarcity not only of but a general scarcity of all grades and the advance in price of corn. * So far as known, not even the blindest protection journal has been so idiotic as to claim that this rise is duo to McKinley’s doubling the duty. He changed the duty from one cent per pound to two cents. The Treasury reports do not mention any beef among the imports into this country. But they show that last year we exported more than $35,000,000 worth of live cattle and beef. McKinley’s beef duty was only made to fool the farmers. New Hampshire's Woods. It is a hopeful sign that New Hampshire stems to be recognizing the commercial value of her mountain forests, and the movement in favor of establishing a permanejt forestry commission, with a view to the preservation of the natural beauties of Crawford, Dixville, Franconia and other mountain notches, is one which ought to succeed. The judiciary committee of the House has before it several bills relating to forest preservation, and it is not improbable that important legislation may be the outcome. To strip the mountains of New Hampshire of their timber is to seriously affect the water supply on which so many manufacturing industries depend and to destroy the attractiveness of New Hampshire scenery for summer tourists. — Boston Traveller. Mr. Sloane Objected. The venerable and dignified Samuel Sloane, of the Delaware, Lackawana & Western Railroad, was recently called up by an imperative ring on his telephone, addressed by a reporter at the other end of the line as “Sammy” and requested to give up what information he had about a certain foot ball game. Mr. Sloane remarked that his name wasn’t “Sammy* and he had no information about a foot-ball game or a dog fight either, and would the other fellow kindly take himself away. A few words of explanation sufficed to show that the reported was after a sporting man of the same name and had called up the wrong number.— New York World. One of the strong objections to the tariff system as a means to raise revenues is the enormous expense of collection. A Philadelphia paper reports that the customs receipts at that city now amount to less than $870,000 a month, and that the expense of running the Custom House averages SIOO,OOO a month. It is said that under the old sugar duty the Goverument paid not far from $160,000 a year for weighing sugar alone at the three ports of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Is there not a less expensive way to get revenues? A small box filled with lime and placed on a shelf in the pantry or closet will absorb damp and keep the air dry and sweet Miss-fortunes com# to some men when they get married, and they don’t mind it a bit

COURTESY IN CHURCH. so Pttttteneas laatinettve and Inbora, era Mero Convention? As the sweet, sacred music floated above the heads of the congregation and welled and reverberated among the fluted pillars that upheld the groined roof of the cathedral, a great light seemed to fall upon the soul cf the reporter, who was comfortably seated in a well appointed pew. He looked about him and observed that many women were standing here and there. For a moment he forgot that he was in a church. A faint suggestion of the car —surface or elevated—flashed across his mind, and, acting as though he were in one, he arose and offered his seat to the nearest lady. With a surprised smile she thanked him, whereupon it occurred to him that he had done a very unusual thing. As a matter of fact his thought was true. As he stood in the aisle he saw about him many ladies standing and many men seated. For the first time he realized that he had often seen the same thing before and it had never occurred to him that there was anything out ol the way about it—in church. He, who never allowed a woman to stand in a car when he had a seat to offer her, had frequently done so in church and thought nothing about the matter. The reporter, as he stood unconsciously listening to the swelling peals of the organ, preached a little sermon to himself. What, thought he, is this thing we dub politeness ? Does it come from the heart, or is it merely imitative and conventional? Are we polite because we are taught to be so, or is it an instinct of civilized man to be gentle and courteous and unselfish? Every day he saw men raise their hats to women in the streets or offer them theii seats in the cars. Was it due to respectful reverence for the sex to which mothers, wives and sisters belong, or was it merely superficial—a conventional habit taught in childhood? As he looked around the church and saw women standing while men sat throughout the service, he was forced to conclude that courtesy is not inherent; that men are polite because imitative, and that selfishness is paramount in the heart of man even before the altar ol God. The men he saw seated around him he knew would not let women stand in a car, then why in church ? Probably because it was the custom and no one could condemn it. There are, it is true, many New Yorkers who keep their seats in cars while women stand. They argue that as distances are great in this city and a business day is very irksome, that they, the tired bread-winners, are justified in resting, while a woman, who is out but a few hours for pleasure, shopping, or recreation, should take her chance with the rest, as she is not obliged to be there. The logic, if ungallant, is irrefragable. But it can not apply to the church. The business ther'e of men and women is presumably to worship God. The body is not tired with the turmoil of business, and the heart should be softened while gentle emotions stir the breast If there are not seats enough for all, it would seem to be but natural that men should give way to the weaker sex; to the women who are wives, mothers and sisters. That they do not do so indicates that politeness is not instinctive, that it is a mere convention. To be polite must be taught and be made to act unselfishly, they must be shown wherein they are selfish. They are like sheep, and in the absence of a leader, or leaders, de nothing but huddle together, not knowing what to do. As the reporter looked down upon the sweet motherly face of the woman whe had accepted his seat, a vision of the multitudes of women he had in his lifetime allowed to stand in church arose before him. Their faces were not reproachful, but his heart smote him. He thought of his own mother and sisters and of his lost Lenore, and the fact that so simple an act of courtesy had nevei occurred to him before brought before him, with a vividness that was startling and unpleasant, the fact that he was s man. As the last words of the benediction fell upon his ear he realized that the only sermon he had heard that day was the one he had preached to himself. —New York Press.

School-Boy Heroism. Two boys were in a school-room alone together, when some fireworks, contrary to the master’s prohibition, exploded. The one boy denied it; the other, Bennie Christie, would neither admit nor deny it, And was severely flogged for his obstinacy. When the two boys got alone again, “Why didn’t you deny it?" asked the delinquent “Because there were only we two, and one of us must have told a falsehood,” said Bennie. “Then why did you not say that I did it?” “Because you said you didn’t and 1 would share the falsehood.” The boy’s heart melted, Bennie’s moral gallantry subdued him. When the school resumed, the young rogue marched up to the master’s* desk, and said: “Please, sir, I can’t bear to be a liar—l let off the squibs,” and burst into tears. The master’s eyes glistened on the self-accuser, and the unmerited punishment he had inflicted on his schoolmate smote his conscience. Before the whole school, hand in hand with the culprit, as if the two were paired in the confession, the master walked down to where young Christie sat, and said aloud: “Bennie, Bennie, lad, he and I beg your pardon—we are both to blame !" The school was hushed and still, as the older scholars are apt to be when something true and noble is being done —so still, they might have heard Bennie’s big, boy tears drop proudly on his book as he sat enjoying the moral triumph which subdued himself, as well as filled all the rest; and then, for want ol something else to say, he gently cried: “Master, forever!” The glorious shout of the scholars filled the old man’s eyes with something behind his spectacles, which made him wipe them before he resumed the chair. — Exchange. Just Like a Donkey. The death of Lord Minto makes a vacancy in the Order of the Thistle, for which a number of names are mentioned, that of Lord Strathmore being prominent. The order consists oi twenty members, including the 3 four principal royal dukes, and the decoration is eagerly sought after by Scottish peers. It consists of a star, a green ribbon, and the motto Nemo meimpunt lacessit. good story has been revived of the reply made by Lord Melbourne to a political friend who had been importuning him to give the decoration to a peer, who was more noted for his urbanity than for his great talents. “Give the Thistle to 1” said Lord Melbourne, with one of his usual expletives: “why, he’d eat it!”

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