Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — A Hard One for McKinley. [ARTICLE]

A Hard One for McKinley.

Mr. McKinley says that revenue can be raised only in two ways—by taxing the people directly, or by taxing foreign people’s property by means of a tariff. If the United States can tax other people why did he throw away $50,000,000 a year revenue by taking off the duty on sugar?—Nashville American. If the tariff compels the foreigner to charge lower prices and thus pay our tariff taxes, how does protection protect?* Domestic manufacturers would in this case receive no benefit. And yet are we not assured that protection has built up the industries of the country? How can it build them up if the foreigner pays the tax and his goods are sold as cheap as ever? Does McKinley believe that, the foreigner pays the tax? If so, >yhy did he put beet sugar machinery on the free list till July, 1892, to help our beetsugar men? If the foreigner pays the tax surely a duty on this machinery could do no harm to our beet-sugar industry.