Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — HOW WE ARE TAXED. [ARTICLE]

HOW WE ARE TAXED.

,ib. t ffiTOsar’WSfcupsets alii of bimpravioiu claims respecting the tariff, the Boston Post proves Uy tftteliiices of thb'£eiktie- e man himself, Im}he, famous J?aris in-,< tervierw of Dec. 7, 1887, in reply to the’ tariff retorm message of‘President Cleveland,'Mr. Blaiqe said: . “I 'should seriously object to'the repeal of the duty on wook o.To repeal 'that'Would work great injustice to many in-, tepasts knd' would siriousfy-drsebhrage what' we. ehqnld eai/iestly egcouragfi, namely, the sheep culture among farmers thronghodt' the AJniott.- To break down*' wool grqwjngand be dependent on foreign , countries fotthe blankets unler which we sleep andithftceat|hat covers bur backs is* -not a wise policy for the National. mapt to dhfottAj;'” ' * 1 ' 11 Such was -yiew of the; question of free wool two years and a half ago, and‘ifWds.in aeec/rdKnce-with' View that the B^qpublican, platform was.. drawn, and that the Bepublican tariff biKl i-has-, been -prepared. -At that time’, 1 also. Mr. Blaine predicted the.qffeqf of fret wcroi’ npoii but' ex'jSo'Jt trade.' He wis asked if this trade crease if Mr. Cleveland's recommendations were'ddWpted, add he replied’:’- * “Possibly in some few arisen pf pOr eubari construction it might, but it would increasei our impbrt trade i tenfold '•»■ much in . the great etiplp fabrics ii| ypolen and’dtftton gbdds, in iron, in" steel,'in all the th&qißpnd and one shapes, in which tney are wrought. * • * The momentiyeu'begin to imtporV freety from Europe you da;ivepur own from mechanical and manufacturing pursuits. In the samaproportiiqn they -become till-’ ers of the soil, increasing steadily the agricultural 1 pibiffiet and decreasing steadily tbei Jargq which is constantly enlarging as home manufactures enlarge.!'That, of cdtirsh/ works injury .to.the farmer, glutting the market with his products and lending -*dbrfstantly to lower prices. * /* * The enlarging of the borne market for the American 1 farm er bemg chdcktedjhe'would /search in yain*foj;epe.9 f Ihe sawft.vftlue.” 3 l, Tsd great change in Mr. Blaine's expressed belief if4<4BhoWn Ki by- the piefttto J *»idH Im draws of ,toa efiect ? «fta ft| itrade :uponthe export business of the L United. Sfcdtee? and: upon th 6 J ft4llers of the.sqil” as he sees it under the new light jot to-day. -■ In which Mi; HarV? x/ongneHiWlu.Hiniae ' *“*Th® increasedieiports Would be drtWn alike from .qur farms, pur factories, and. :otMs/fbr4sty? Nofib'hi the Latin-Ameri-£cani'cpumtjie.s:produceihuUding timber;! i|hp of them are dependent upon, foreign markets for iheir’Br’rfadfstifffs’hHd ip few is ftpporr/ 'tunity or ihcliri’ation for mechanical ip-, -dustrv. 'Bhenoffecti eff suifii 1 reoiprbeity U j: Thii is all true; but its truth ’twee [equally evident at the time when Mr. denied it odd th A con- 1 Jtrary. It js ianSign of progress- that he acknowledges the falsity and the, humbug of the “home market” idea, which, ifiot*e thafi a!tfy otlref one nian. he aided in fastening upon'his party. 1 ; -A j cortespond6tii of the New York Post was enabled the other day to loqk oyejr. Iftua spring samples-of tn wellknown Scotch 'mill.; To hjs aatopish-, mqnt the jM-icdir were abont what ah American manufacturer would ask for tlte samp .f«rn»i $-4 bounce per yard cassimare, made from a fair Mfthigan or Ohio sfrool, 7s. 6d. Added to thia pfioevdtity,freight’, etc'., yould bring the cost<ofi the Scotch /goods, up tp over $3, and |hjs .yap.the cheapest this miii was selling. It may be, asked if it id possible that American people w.iU,p4j so much morn for foreign gpdds/than for domestics, and, if so, ; Fhat iia the'reason? It is not far to seek. 7?he foreign goods hate a kfyle,'originality of dedign, coloring and softness of texture* for vrhich we look in v iin damage article. "Why this should be it is not, the writer's proXinceto disbtiskhetef, but it is so,'Undoubtedly.* It is, therefore, not 4 quest on of price BQ,fac as high-plass goods go that enables so' many foreign manufacturers to ship their product here, but of manufacture. If, therefore, our mills, with the be«t machinery .and the, much-lauded intellectuai, superiority of the American wdrkihan, ' cannot, after being fostered with cate and subsidised by a high tariff for many goods for which Americans themselves "vjjlLpay l as -nfuWAs< for the foreign, sombtuing is radically wrong? ' C t ■■■■ "* . ’ Spmebody haff proposed in the British fearliainent to *nact a retaliatory tariff against qf theiVniied States, but thb British people are too sensible to adopt apy such policy. They wont the markets of the whole world to buy in as ’ well as 'to- sell in., Of our more than exports England buys more thhtr-balfrahd she wbuld bhy even more, thus extending the markets for the prWuCtsi of American labor,, but for our mhdimval tariff laws. Already Great Britain has cdt the price of American bffijt in India—something ghe did only as against our tariff. , noUr car-loads of t n-plate came into Bitt alb from ■Canada Friday, paying a dwisf 1 centr a ponad, says the Courier. /^ys.Serhum-indicates. th# ,somebody is stocking up to" make a handsome turn ( pric6s, f ’' when tin-platb will bb ] taxed /2.2 cents a pound. The speculators may o» may nqt have noticed' that by the bill as McKinley reported it ■lhelncrease of the tin-ptatfftfix doeshot take effect till Jylj} 1, 1891. n 'lp ' u Ih /iguring -on -rkriff legislation" ft ft,/ bpet-to/jtm PWW*»4 CPr ato/4' otrtof the .IfilL while (oh Itw pisk’age; and tob Jate. to "enable pppeuiatgrp ito [takn * 'barley, in wbol andkwctoleh goodi, dhd’in mqfiy JhinM gtfr jpb hyiie)iiat'ti«WMM»ed 'pricew.caiased by-tat-iff legislation you- find schemes 'fry \ jurthqr enrich the rich atXhbi&ffthsAotf* the Poor- > urjJIVT I ■ The following ?t£?X * ’ample of the tariff arguments that have been industriously circulated during the prep-

- I . • Tn .r G- H J’ W’”!! oration of the tariff, bill, now w* Congress, says the -ftM/em Stockman and Cultivator: t “The, combined .preduet es sroo end steel in yhis country is npt equal tu that of hides of animals *apd their products. The largest cbnttftnArs^of*leatbexJafe-'the farmers who furniah. the hides r (tho xaw for { j.For j«oww years the foreigner ha& controlled the price d hides in this country, *' This takes money, out of the pockets of evdrv farmer and* stock- raiser-, The pew tariff .bill . pro-. soses5 oses a duty of 15 per cent/ on hides 'his will'tie of material benefit to every farmer in the nation. If you are inter egted ip , getting more money .for eyeryi animal you paisa, write a letter to tout 1 itaembar of' anfi 'Uhitefi states' Senators faVoriug tMb proposed duty,”,. v . . 4i , i e • n "We cannot.give spice to. a full analysis of the fahbe logic of' tfiis' ttitemeni. It is enbugh to way that whatever rneMaff’es the, co at of hides to the tanner increases the cost, of leather tq the shpeipakcr and, the cost of shoes to the wearer. If Mhe largest consumers of leather are the farmbrsj” thutatmers win thereto*® be. fieeeefd more than any other class by a on hides. “This fakes the jnouey out of the ‘pjorkets.bf every farmer," whether hb‘ in veiling or not, ns we must all wear-i shoed andqse harq^ss; ( iff worse,, it takes th'e money but of the pockets of the poorest out of the poekets of the rich. m > Ttte Bifttbn 1 CWMhiWiUt 1 * protectionist paper and a trade journal of murked;ability apd high standing, points out thatj under one paragraph there would, be imposed on nearly all the carpet wool’ brought into the, Udited States “a duty ranging from ,8, to 24 cents a- ,pound?'* Here are the Commercial £(ulle(if'»CQniments. J j “This duty might enoburafee the raising of carpet woqJb Ju this .country, but.it ’would put carpefs. out of jhe roach of the ordinary Citizen, is it hot a disgrace to the United States thdt a"man 6f A Sdnator ’ Sherman's .reputation will t stoop to suoht and ’ t l a fl?P are H t .poetical, tpicks?. The outrageous wool schedule the Me-. 'Kinley bill exduto for an increase in the duty on woolens. That bn women’s dothwreaebestdn-somo* instances, 150 per cent. The wool legislation is admittedly a ‘poTflfteal dodge contrived by twpjkerswho do not know carpet wool when they see it. The wobW"stohodule 'has'been necessarily marked up in geometyipal ratjio tilj ,the special legislation in behalf of one or two favored nianufactUters givds amjfle ’ground' for effective etump epeakine, lifi-net'for calih in t ti» aid days, kfciml . eri John Sherman was hailed as a statesman, and-rfiSuy pCoufe 'regrerteiT tlai he was‘niotiPresident!”■ ./ j» r»«. pnuiA. L t But if js. the ,purpose Wool'Growers’.Association, by tariff.leg. i-iaiation* to raree tfie v of the very quantity-of <ronrse'dnd 1 Cheap-'car pet w'obl grown in this countryJo-the.price,of clothing wool! . cret about this'. . • In 1867 the corn crop of the United States .covered' 4 Sf.Sfh.zHf a'crMs*'and* amounted to -7(i8i,32h,4J00 ' busheft; - of .total value .of t $61Q,94&39fi». CouijWh eraged 80 cents per bushel in that year and the’ average'''M'ufc of thb crop per : aote wa£ si&27. i IU-'lßsFtbe acreage hail increased to X&,|1j72,753 and ibe-icrop to 1,9875,790,000 bushels, ’ while, the. aggregate value haff only risefi to $67?,5&l, 1 - ’SBOT‘- During ,l tbdsi-period - the -vaiue'of corn hadj , shrunk, from 80 cents to 38. U cents per bushel, and the acre that earnedslß.B7 id ' 1867 yielded only fr.B2 in IM" 'Likewise'-with‘-wheat. Ttf ‘4B6?4hfe nfett 1 . devoted, to iffheatiwasi epreff,: and,, the crop amounted, to J1?,441,400 'Weft, valued ?he acreage in 1887»WttS 1f1\ '644/ 788 fcefre#/ Hud, i although (he crop had more than doubled, $385,248,030, or $36,548,430 less than the crop of ndt hdlf thd size' in 1867. aterage valne 'of the wheat crop fell jfrom $1.98 ney bushel m, 1867 to 87.3 cents in l&B7”ahd the value of tie crop per acre* decreased in the sameperiod from $23.05 to $10.30. Bye, oats, Barley apd .buckwheat make a similar, though z even worse, showing, but corn ni' the largest sufficient to show that the! American farther haff oeen going down-hill, in .spits of hia> tariff- protection, at a more r%pid pace than the, most rabid protectionist would care to predict ias< the < resulVOf 'a jfaftial removal of onerous tariff

, Secretary Blaine'* Converniuu. If. Mr. BlaiDe has not become • convert to thp prinpiple of, free trade, bis views nave at least undergone so serious a modification > that he can no longer be classed among the ultra-protectionists. Free trade means unrestricted commerce between 'nations: Protection means little less than the prohibition of foreign commerce. The ostensible purpose of a protective tariff is to stimulate home industry, and to ere .te a borne market for the consumption of home' products. In other, words, it Is designed to make the nation sufficient unto itself. The proposal which Mr. Blaine has made to the President, and which the President has transmitted to> Congress, contemplates the employment of protective means zpr the accomplishment of a iree-tradi end. Mr. Blaine protests against the reduction or abolition of the duties on certain foreign products without consideration;, be wishes the present duties maintained,'so that in negotiating | reciprocity . treaties this cotintry may have something to cppcedeyi 'Senator Hale’s amendment to the pend-' ing tariff bill, autborizing~tfce President to open ibopopts of the United-States l to ali countries omttaa A*m?jfan .•on theif agreement so receive certain of, dur staples freywf dnty/is W4bemV>6di--m'fnt of num t w 1 dining ttp of fOrh'ign markets, the llbfhe? markeif the;pro- . tpntiye (doctrine -mturtba abandoned;,the hofare ri tarket must be’ left to of ttte'ilK This is .the freebelieve /isl the Hgbti thing ttf fib. , They and, the Secretary • State-; pte JO"*. I >l 1 1 trho «i»Ptlie Motley? '* ' 1 * jr .Thd Tr&feiiry received Jgg&PPMflft protected j'pets many, .of; whom arb iuhdth houses, vdyn g thepeo-, pie’s money into their own ®tWkiSt*,‘MS receiving at least sßßo,ooo,ooo.— James B. Beck. 0