Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Proper and Improper Tariffs. [ARTICLE]

Proper and Improper Tariffs.

Daniel C. Roper, chief clerk of the and mean-; committee of the house, statistician and tariff expert, says: “The Democrats have clearly shown that there are two kinds of tariff ; one for revenue, and one for protection; that a revenue tariff is intended to produce the necessary money to support the federal government; that a protective tariff is to tax the people to raise revenue for private packets. As the tariff wall of prohibitive duties is increased, just so are trade combinations fostered and the people required to pay exorbitant prices. Prohibitive tariffs prevent relief from without the country, while combinations plunder the people within the country. Again, as the revenue for private pockets increases, that for the public treasury diminishes, because of the high and protective wall created against imports.”