Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — WAR TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

WAR TARIFF.

flgfl Boston Po*t rubligheit a Letter from IHBfernioPter. and *Vtids a K» Kemark, Way of Enlightenment. gjglHhe Editor of the Boston Poet: |J|lH learn from the Post that England HHigardcd as a free trade country, and |§g« I do not know why she is so rejjgHled, and wish to be informed; HH. if this admission occasions snrHe, please consider that I don’t reHH in a State where all the rays of ■Ht concentrate. I have hitherto supwßjUid England far from being a free Government, and believed she lIIJI practiced, almost from time immeHH'ial, the exact opposite of free trade, as the advocates of protection JHHm, the poor are enriched by an imHHerishing process. 1 thought the llwj-eontinned bleeding system had HHan England the richest paupers HH'Vn in any Christian land. I have HH posed, too, that we borrowed or ■Hied from England our humbug sys|H|li of tariff for revenue and protection, HHich purloins from the poorer and ■■re unfortunate citizens a portion of HHh meal to enrich and elevate other who have no right to be, by [HremmeDt aid, above one common H 9 hold that the man who cleans your owns as much Government as HHaderbilt and Gould; that the true ■Hi just nature of a government is HH-verted when administered for any '« Her object than government; and I HH Dice that there is some prospect of HHdng in our next platform of princiHH s one plank worth contending for, ■Hi if you can shame or persuade the HHmocrats to stop playing tag with the which they have been doHHF for about twenty years, I believe HH shall shorten the income and lessen days of a detestable humbug, and will deserve more praise than Lincoln.” that I am not the only per§§■l who can be enlightened on the subHt which has suggested this letter, I |H)h you to explain in the Post what HHes England the enviable reputation |H: being a free trade country, and ■Blether England has a different system HHm those which prevail iu her foreign ■Hssessiona. If you can not, for any UHjison, give the desired information in |Hi Post, I trust you will be pleased to ■He me some light in a more private and so I inclose a two-cent stamp, MHving upon its face what is supposed HHbe a likeness of the great and good Washington, the people’s friend. Hmrs truly, D. G. Dixon. igHSouth Hero, Yt. HWe will endeavor to give Mr. Dixon |Hhie light, as requested in his interesting letter, and we will shed that light gjHjrough the columns of the Post, beep Hose, by so doing, it will penetrate not ISHIy Mr., Dixon’s cosy Green MounHn home, but thousands of other ■Bines, scattered over the land. Great jjHritain has the reputation of being a e trade country because she is such |Hx>untry, or the nearest to it of any SHrilized country in the world. Some ■H her possessions have a protective ■Hriff; none, however, a horrible monjjjHosity like our own. No protective gHities are now levied on goods imported BHto Great Britain, customs being Harged solely for the sake of revenue. RHjrmerly the articles subjected to duty IHmbered nearly a thousand; now they ||He only twenty-two, the chief being |Hbacco, spirits, tea, and wine. The is a complete list: ■ £ S. D. or beer, specific gravity not exHeeding 1,065 deg. per barrel 0 8 0 ■He or beer, specific gravity not exjgjHeeding 1,090 deg. per barrel 0 11 0 |SHe or beer, specific gravity ex- - Heeding 1,090 per barrel. 0 16 0 SfHher liquors, various rates of duty. ; Hrds, playing, per dozen packs.. .0 3 9 per cwt;.... 0 13 3 jHoonr, roasted 0 0 2 HHiloral hydrate, per pound 0 1 3 jjHlDroform, per pound 0 3 0 ftHcoa, other conditions, various ||H:ates of duty. ■■>ffee, raw, per cwt 0 14 0 gHffee, roasted or ground 0 0 2 SHllodion, per gallon 0 1 4 SH&her, per gallon 0 1 6 IHtait,dried, per cwt .0 7 0 pHalt, per quarter. 1 4 9 flHtphtha, purified, per gallon 0 ip 5 ■ckles, in vinegar, gallon 0 0 1 ■Hate, gold, ounce 0 17 0 Hate, silver, ounce 0 1 6 IHpirits, brandy, rum, etc., gallon. .0 10 5 ■pirits, rum, from British colonies.O 10 2 IHpirits, cologne water, gallon 0 16 6 Mea. pound 0 0 6 IHobacco, unmanufactured, pound.o 3 \% IHobacco, containing less than 10 1» per cent, moisture, pound 0 3 6 jHavendlsh or Negro Head 0 4 6 JHther manufactured tobacco 0 4 0 |Hnufls, rates varying from 3s. 9d. ■ to 4s. 6d. IHobacco. cigars, pound..: 0 5 0 .■arnish,containing alcohol, gallon.O 12 0 IHiaegar. gallon 0 0 3 Hvines, rates varying from is. to H 3s. per gallon. » 111 Among the articles upon which a Hustoms tax is levied in the United Hitates are barley, books, buttons, Hiheese, china ware, earthen and stone■vare, coal, cotton goods, feathers, fruit, ■glassware, straw goods, India rubber, Hron and steel, raw and manufactured, ■ratlery, jewelry, leather and leather ■joods, lemons and oranges, oils, salt, Hiardines, silk, spices, spirits and wines, Hragar, molasses, tobacco, toys, boards, ■planks and deals, Woolen goods, earpets Hind carpetings, dress goods of all sorts, ■aosiery, zinc, marble, etc., etc. In ■short, everything to wear, to eat and to Shake shelter, is taxed in this country, jnd in many cases the exactions are so outrageously high that even a Government mule must be ashamed that so £and a country as the United States of nerica should impose them. But we are glad to be able to agree with our friend at South Herb, Vt., in the belief that at last the masses are getting their ©yes open to 'the iniquities of our monstrous war tariff, and that the Democratic party in the immediate future will be marshaled for battle under the banners of tariff reform and under the leadership of statesmen who will not consent that the Democracy yhall longer play tag with the Republican party. The war tariff must go. And that is not all; all men calling themselves Democrats, who favor the retention of that “masterpiece of injustice,” in its present form must go— Into the Republican party, where they and all men calling themselves Republicans, who favor a genuine reduction and reform of our tariff laws, must come —into the Democratic party, Where they belong. No more running with the hounds and siding with the

fox; no more “policy” at the expense of principle; no more grinding the noses of the masses to please and enrich a favored few; down with fiddle-faddle, fear, and favor, and up with common sense, firmness, and justice to all.