Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — A TARIFF BOOMERANG. [ARTICLE]

A TARIFF BOOMERANG.

Hon. Godlove S. OrtM died at bit home tr. Lafay- tte. Saturday night, from cancer. one tbomM ■) ..pplienKUiow. tar „ , or -rate h«« b««» “ ' ■. union at West to me port, Ti 'land.

Curio or ' Tort. «„» ot *l,Wa tor eolie cling P” 11 "' from custody. S ..tor Don Cameron aays the late ei<-ct. nin Pennsylvania was a game r p) ser, nnd that he got the hot end . (<!)) thing. _ \ t Air lino work train was wrecked S. t irday between Delphi and I rank foi by jumping the track, killing two men and injuring six others. The Monticello Herald says that a Mrs. McNara, of Monon, di.d last week from th* effects of a dose ol morphias taken by mistake instead of quinine. CHarles Derby, a recent arrival from San Francisco, has developed into leper at the almshouse in Salem, Massachusetts. He was bota nist »ueen Emma at Honolulu for «ohi. i ars.

qq re me Court of the Unitod -.ta-. 3 Is the statute on political agß s to be constitutional, and uov ( Curtis will have to “put up’ ti mount of his fine, or be “ ■ it i i” prison. Now let a move meat I B <1« on “My Dear Hubbell." ; . er this Republican Con. g>, , ost of the time In trying i venue without diminij. -lon of taxation. This v/j ( , i ing to reform the civil g , . > it decreasing the abusr I form so far proposed is u'hjui .ml to the brilliant legislation which removed the tax from ci garettos and perfumery.A proposition in the way of tariff reformf?) has been made to advance the tariff tax on plain earthenware, that is on “pi int< d, painted, dipped or cream cAcred” ware, from 25 pea ee if to 65 per cant. A few concern* in the United States manufacture plain earthent are, and they want a monopoly ot Hie business, and demand that tlio people shall be cnor* moii.-.dy taxed to increase their profits.

Tobaceo and whiskey under the present ttysten of taxatien being real luxuries ; <• t ixsd so that they produce n j hi of sixty million do Hv ,irr ; u Being luxuries an 'do ■g n !■ ! . • than good, th e t.i « aJm< - 1 one can see, should be c< .'.i.i'i • thermal good ot the p< ople and the government. Sugar and salt, on the contrary, whi' h are necessities of infinite im" porp icn should, for the benefit of tip ople, be free. No tax at all be imposed upon them, and ommon sense of the people v .so decide, if they could get a upon the question. e whole object of the so-called p tective tariff" is to pauperize the me .f&cturer in the most expensive up- uer. The whcle agricultural laercst is taxed fifty cent*, at 1 -Mt, o n eXery dollar, to maintain this pauper, u-nufacturi ng interest in luxuiy »- lie the people all suffer most in- . - sely.

Ibe whole arrangement for “pro tec’, re tariff” is an infraction of nu tuts aw. It is an endeavor te force, as wore, the raising of tropical pro* ions in the temperate zone iri hot oiises, with the result of de privii a e people of very desirable article a moderate price, and conflnisg ti use of these production* to th'* pre i acted few, Th- r e policy is to buy where yet e;u buy cheapest and be able h t< sc.l our own natural product* o :i . aet of the world, in succ *-!i co petition with all oihersIf *< ” - conducted solely upon • rr •• ,no could compete sue c* y c- markets of tho world wit et. .*tion. Lot Democrats in;- ; nls policy It is only t id parties who cannot n ik< own living, who are alv, ys h > .Ing for donations from the people to keep them from starving: their scheme, now, Is to take off al] internal taxation on luxuries and then raise the tariff higher on the necessities of the people. They have recently taxed the poor man's socks, shirts and other woolen, goods some fifty per eent. more than before> while proposing to lift the lighi burdens off bank capital and bank checks.

Among others who argued the tariff question before the Commissioners was Mi. Thomas MaoKellar, well known to the eraft. He argued for a continuation of the tariff, bat showed unintont ionally but conclusively, that it was the duty upon material used in type founding thi-t made it necessary to have a protective duty on type. It looks according to his argument that if there were no tariff at all. it would be better for the printer and just <s well for the type founder. He said: “The protection was now 25 per cent, ad valorem, which was much less than the rate which type foui d era hai to pay fer their raw material, lead, antimony and copper. On lead the duty was 2 cents a pouad, or about 50 per cent, ad valorem; on copper, 5 cents a pound, and on antimony, ten per c-nt ad valorem. Then they had to pay duty on iron, flies, etc., used in the business. To offset all these disadvantages they had only # protection of 25 per cent. They

were handicapped by a heavy t-x on all their raw materials, so that they could meet the foreigner* op a fair footing, hey would not care for the foreign competition, even though hey paid 40 per cent, more for wa* ges than was paid in England. While the ptlce of Nonpareil type in Philadelphia was 58 cents a pouud. it was 5S cents in Mondon, where t*.e typo foundeiehad all the raw materials free. It would, therefore, b? seen that American type founders were not oppressing American printers. And yet, notwithstanding the duty of -5 per cent, ad valorem. American type founders found it hard work ro keep out English type.”