Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — THE McKINLEY THIMBLE RIG. [ARTICLE]

THE McKINLEY THIMBLE RIG.

The foreigner does not pay the tariff taxes; you pay thorn.” So says MoKinley when he is talking to the people about sugar. *We took the tax off sugar, and now you don’t have to pay it; you get your sugar just so much cheaper. You know you do. See how we have relieved you of taxation by taking the tariff off from raw sugar." “Don’t you believe those wioked demo, crats when they tell you that the tariff is a tax. The foreigner pavs it; you don’t.” So says McKinley when he fears that the people will apply his sugar dootrine to other things, such as olothing, blankets, glass, olrockery, and the thousands of aiticles of iron and steel they have to use. And to prove that tho foreigner pays the tax he assorts that the Canadian farmer pays a tax of 25 cents a bushel on wheat when he markets his crop in Erie, which he doesn’t do, unless for foreign shipment free of tax. He also produoes a list of fifty articles whioh he says are oheaper tha they wore before his tariff went into effect, osrelessly including some things on which the tax has been reduced.— Among these things is binding twine, which is put down in the list as 3] cents a pound cheaper than it was when the new tariff was passed. But the new tariff takes off the tax of sls to $25 per ton on the materials of binding twine and places those mater als on the rreo list. It also educes the tax on binding twine from 2i to 7-10 of a cent a pound. So here we have another case where the foreigner does not pav the tax, but the Amerioan consumer pays it and something more.— That is, he did pay it until the tax was abolished, and since then he has been free of the tax.

“The Amerioan consumer pays the tax; not the foreigner.” So McKinley would suy to the Ohio wool grower if he dared refer to the subjoot at all: “We put up the tariff on wool, and in our Ohio platform we have promised to put it up still higher, so as to enable you to get higher prices from the American consumer because it is he, and not tho foreigner, who pays the ta\.” But somehow the Ohio wool grower do sn’t get the higher prioe. Ho doesn’t get What he expected and what was proui- | isedlam. Ho is greatly disappointed, and so Mc Kinley discreetly say nothing about it. But ho still insi ts as a general prop, osition that tho tariff' is not a tax when xoa buy, but it is a tax when you sell.— *■*"** Tho people appreciate Vt for wi.at it is worth as » doctrine in applied economics.—Chiongo Heruld, i ! English Spavin Linimont removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Curbs, i Splints, Sweeney, Ring-Bone, Stifles : Sprains, all Swollen Throats, Coughs, otc. . Save SSO oy use of ono botile. Warranted the most complete Blomlsh Curo over known. Sold by Long & Ege». Druggists, Ronsselaes.lß'l.

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The new Dunlap shape in stiff hats, at Ellis & Murray's.'* One of the most tolling points In Governor Campbell’s Ada speeoh was his ex. plauation that law, increasing taxation from 40 to 60 per cent. in time of peace, was pressed on the plet of protection to American labor, and that, nevertheless, it had rednced the wages of many laborers and inoi eased those of not a singlo one. Then followed a choice passage: I hold in my hand a list of thirty great establishmehts in this country, inoluding the gentleman you named a while ago, Mr. Carnegie’s place, working 36,300 men, in which organized labor is banished, in which even the great Association of Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workersthat tbev seduced in trying to got the tariff on tin, to raise their w ges; and in those establishments organization is not permitted, and I ask the Major now, and I ask him to answer here, whethor he upholds the banishing of organized labor from the great factories of the country. [Applause.] Since this speech was made the cigarmakers have concluded their great $25, - 000,000 Trust, with the view to the exclusion of Union labor.

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