Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — WHO PAY THE TAX? [ARTICLE]

WHO PAY THE TAX?

f/r S ?gy. - ■ ■ Nothing could be more absurd than the contention, that Aoferloan consumers pay jfhe tariff duties on impfcrta of following extract fwm-tbw-iqte .Jisue of the . Trade ithvWW^rirfoadlng commercial paper of Ore: t Britain: ■'One effect of protection, snob M foreign countries are now presenting and enforcing against our exports, la that they often get what they want of our gopds at reduced prices and a contribution to their reveuueoat the’stme time. If there is no euoh Tariffs tie rover** effects would follow, Opr manufacturers could demand better prices; the revenues of these States (as In ours) wonld be chiefly a burden on their own Industries, end entirely bone by their own people. But as It is, these protected countries taka their taxes out of foreigners using their markets and get the benefit of both i foreign and borne competition." The tariff simply compels forejgm manufacturers to pay for ! the WNUdffW of our home markets, aud that we use for "rovenue only.” • '■* HOM :