THOMAS U. SlIEAlDlAIi THE ABLE WRITER PUNCTUREC I M'KINLEY'S SENSELESS CLAIMS. I . Mr. Mionrmnn Apptlf" llio "llrditrllo n! ' Abunrilum," anil Shown How It M'onL', Be ImpoaMlilo for Trndc to Coiittum ruder 1'rrsrnt AHcgrd Condition. ' A great many people nssurt thnt every tariff is a tax, n:ul n event many mn;v shont thnt no tariff is a tax. When you nek the first wt of people how nmoh c i a tax is tho tariff on common earth, which no one wants to import, whether taxed or free, they firo puzzled, When you ask theeecond set why tho Mclvin ley hill luailoriuv sugar free, if the tariil upon it was not a tax, they ure snirTy, and Fay that wo know thnt a rcven-.v; tariff is n tax. But. why did they not. say so in tho first plr.ee? However, wo mako soino prores.i. It is not merely conceded it is insisted by thoso who have heen declaring for years that "tho tariil is not a tax," that after all a reveime tariff is a tax. Af. 'i how Mr. McKinloy goes n little further, and boasts that every tariff in a t.i::: only ho uwrts that a tariff for protection is a tax npon foreigners, v.-hiln a tr.riff f- r revrnuo only in a tax upon Anierie;:n. . Ho says that tho Repuhlier.n jiarty pro poses to collect the tariff tnxes froi i foreigners, whilo tho Democratic parly proposes to collect them from America:.. It is only u very short time nince th. chosen representatives of tho America:! Protective Tariff league denounced as a downright lio tho assertion that tho tariff was a tax at nil, and here is the foremost champion of their eauso assert ing that every tariff ia a tax, either upon American or upon foreigners. So nt last wo can ngreo upon a few points. Let us make these- clear. Every tariff is a tax law. It lays t n and does nothing else. In fouio cu. nobody pays tho tax, because nobody wants to bring in tho article taxed. But a tax is a tax, whether it is ever paid or not. Every tariff is a tax, although not every tax imposed by the tariff is col lected. All tho money received by tho govern ment under a tariff (amounting to an avcrago of about $'31 1,000,000 a year f,r the last ten years) is a tax. All tho money 1hus collected upon ar ticles which are not produced in our o-.vn country in sufficient quantities to reduce tho price below that ut which foreigners would sell to ns is a tax upon our own people. Thus tho duty on sugar was a tax upon ourselves, although a large amount of sugar is produced hero, but not enough to supply the wants of our people, so that wo wero compelled to buy more from abroad. Ail tho rest of tho money collected under a tariff is a tax upon our people, except so much ns can be shown to be collected from foreigners only. Only a eiiii.11 part of the taxes thus collected are laid upon luxuries such r. ; are used only by the rich. Tho rich peo ple are not numerous enough to enable the government to collect a large reve nue from taxes upon their luxuries. And as tho necessaries nnd decent corn forts of life aro sold to tho comparative poor in far greater umounts than to the rich, tho tariff taxes to far ns they pro paid by our own people aro paid niu.;l!y by tho poor. Ail theso statements are agreed to hv Mr. Harrison, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Me Kinley, Senator Sherman, Senator Mills and every intelligent protectionist, tariff reformer or free trmler. Ve have now some common ground, of agreement, from which we can pro ceed to talk together about matters nwai which wo do not all agree, with so::.e chanco of understanding each other. A revenue tariff is n tax, and every tarii: to the extent to which it produces any revenue is a tax. And theso taxes ere mainly paid by the poor. Tho rich pay but n small part of them. Now wo come to points upon w!:K-') wo all do not ugree. Mr. McKinloy say s that t:io taxes imposed by a protect!'-.-tariff are paid by foreigners, and th:-. the gr'-at difference between his tariff and a revenue tariff is that ho lue.ic. foreigners pay tho taxes, whilo the Democratic! party proposes to make the Americana pay their own taxes. Hound hi:; party i:l iv. . ert that vln-n no revenue- 5a collected by tho governuiei:': un der . an it'-m in tho tariff no one pay. any la:: in conseipieneo of it. The op ponents of protection maintain t'..; Americans cannot make foreigners p;-y any share of American taxes worth talk ing about, and that they ought not to try. They also maintain that an an r Uious t.i:: is collected by a few Ata y ican capilali.-ts and landowners fori hi lr own bi netiir in consecpietieo of tarill taxes, which aro purposely made so high an to prevent tho government from col looting anything. Let u.i first con: ider whether foreign ers do pay or can bo made to pay any large share of our tariff taxes. .Mr. Mcliiuhy himself has furnished us a test by which wo can docido this qvi.z tion. lie abolished tho taxes on raw anger, especially bocar.so they wero reve::n.i t;;.es i;nd paid by our own peo ple, ur.d ho points with pride to tho tact that, hinco these taxes wero repealed the prico ul raw sugar has fallen in our , muikt.ts to iho full amount of the la:;. But a largo amount of sugar was grown in our own country. It was not e nough to Bui. ply our wants, nor anything like it. Wo May thereforo tako it ai con ceded that whenever we are compelled to import from abroad tho larger purt of our necessary supply of any article, our own people pay tho tariff tax upon thai ar.kie. All tho tariff' taxes upon tin p'lites, oarthenwnro, sugar, linen, most fruits, most furs, carpet, wools ml niuny other articles, chiefly or entirely mudu abroad, amounting in 1821 to ver $'JO.ono,)00, were thereforo cer tainly paid by our own people. It will be said that foreigners pay by giving the American importers goods of sufficient value to repay tho duties. Let ns see if this can be so. Woolen goods were imported which sold in Europe for $43,2!!r),'109, upon which a tariff tax was paid burs of 80 per cent. Tliut means a tax of eight yards of cloth upon every 1 ten imported. Does any man ontsido of I a lunnti'! asylum believo that European manufacturers would go on year after , year making n pi treat to American im- ' porters of eight yards of cloth for every ten yard purchased? How long could , any man do business who gavo awny fornolhirijf four-fifths, not of his profits, but of hi:t entire cr.k: ? Takir.g high nnd low rales together, there v.-ero imported dutiable goods i which would sell in Europe- for $!U('.- ' 4 3 Nil 2, upon which the nverago tariff tax exceeded -10 per cent. Does nnv 1 m;;n really believo that tho producer of these goods did or could give to Ameri cans fur absolutely nothing one-half of tho whole v.tfuo of their goods? Bear hi mind that the values reported to 1k:) custom houses are the ju ices nt which tho foreigners aro able to sell their poods in foreign markets, and that pro tectionists are forever insisting that these values are falsely reported nt too low a rate that Is, that tlu goods could really be readily sold in Europe for much more than these prices. If there is a worl of truth in anything which is snid on the protectionist side, European manufactir-eis could readily rc'.l rt home all the goods which they sen,! here i-.t th" full prices nt which they are invoiced to us and l-iore. It fjllows that if they pay tho tariff taxes, or any part of them, they pay cur people mil lions of dollars for tho privilege of s ell ing here at less than they could pot for their goods ir they kept them nt home. Will any man of sense believe thv.t Ku ropean manufacturers are such fools? But there aro even clearer proofs of the absurdity of this doctrine. Glass was imported to tho value in Europe of ij-l,-060,000, upon which tariff taxes were pnitl to the amount of sJl.Mli.OOO. There aro ninoiig tho preciso "protective du ties" to which Mr. McKinloy referred win n he declared that foreigners paid tho taxes. Does he or docs any one else for a moment believe that Euro peans not oniy gave ns vt .(100,000 in glass for nothing, but iu addition made us a present of f yt-,000 in cash as a thank of fering for our generosity in taking it? A hundred examples equally conclusive might be given. It is easy to show in another way the practical impossibility of collecting our taxes from foreigners to any extent worth considering. Tho present tariff taxes upon articles which aro taxed at all average nearly CO per cent. If for eign manufacturers pay any such tax as this that is, half the homo market price of their goods it would prove conclu sively that their average profit was more than 100 per cent., or a dollar profit on each dollar's worth of goods. Every one who knows anything about manufac tures knows that no such profit can be made for any length of time upon any thing except patented or otherwise mo nopolized articles. A profit of even 10 per cent, npon tho ordinary metal unO textilo manufactures, which constitute the bulk of our taxed imports, would draw unlimited capital into such manu factures and quickly bring down tho rato of profit. An average profit of 100 per cent, in general manufactures not hedged around by monopoly continued year after year is an utter impossibility. Yet such an absurdity as this must bo realized if Mr. McKinley's doctrine has any foundation in fact. See what would follow. If European manufacturers really pay oar protective taxes they have been making this lo;i per cent, profit on all their productions for tho last thirty years, except on such goods as they have sent to America. As less than one-tenth part of their produc tions have been sent hero, tho net profits of English manufacturers alone would amount to moro than ull tho wealth of England and Germany together. What, then, is the truth of tho matter? Do foreigners never pay any part of our tariff taxes? Never directly. , Sometimes they send their goods here, expecting them to Fell for enough to cover the European price ami tho tax besides, and, sometimes their expectations aro disap pointed and tho result is a loss, Occa sionally they tend a few things hero to sell for what they will bring, just aa American manufacturers sometimes send their goods to auction to cell nt any price. But on neither side of the Atlantic do they coutinuo regularly in such business. Two or three mistake? of this kind shut up a mill very quick ly, and th.) business pns.es into the hands of men who calculato Lettor. Foreign manufacturers make losses jest as Americans do. When an American makes a loss everybody calls it a h: out wnen a loreigner mnKes a loss o:i an American transaction Mr. McKinley calla it "paying American taxes." Tlier'j is not ti.o sin-niest uuierc-iieo tietweon tho two cases. Another proof of tho childishness of this idea that foreign nations can (u made to pay our taxes may bo found j;i the fact that Great Britain is tho only important nation which has absolutely no protective taxes, and which, there fore, upon tho McKinloy theory, does not collect a cent of its taxes from foreign nations, whilo it also exports moro then any other two nations of good3 which aro heavily taxed by "protective" duties in tho countries to which theso goods aro sent. Therefore, on the McKinloy theory, Great Britain pays moro taxes to other nations than any other two na tions in the world, whilo it collects no taxes at all from them. It has pursued this disastrous policy for nearly iifty years, and ought to bo ruined by this time, for what nation can support its own government ami nlso tho govern ments of a doarn other countries at tho isaiue time? Vet what has been tho re sult? Tho wealth of Great Britain hns steadily increased during all this period, and is now greater, in proportion to its population, than that rf any other great nation iu the world. Thomas G. Shear man. DyliiiT ut tlm Top. "The time has been," said Macbeth, "that when the brains were out the man would die." The brains and intellect of the Republican nnrtv are lenvimr it. If is time for it to die, and it is dying at the tivn lmlnn I ll.Ow. "vl" w-jciu. uiuuv-i HE SUITS HISPAUTY. NEW VIEW OF I lArtRISGN'S CHAR ACTER a;o. disposition. "He Docs JCot t'poil tho C'nmpiilrrn ns lllii Onn IVimoiiiiI Af.' Ir, and Dot- Not Try to )ontl;i:i1r II! i I'nvfy" TIhmc Statements IHn-irnvrd, The Washington Correspondent of the Philadelphia livening Telegraph says that President Harrison is "perfectly confident of ruecoss for the Republican party! that he does not loci; upon tho campaign as his own personal affair, and docs not , to dominate- tho party, nnd iinali ihat one thing ho insists upon is that, come what may, the cam paign shall be so conducted on Ids side that they cannot be ( ru thftdly ncci: -ed of resorting to (!i.-ho:ie: t or improper meth ods, nnd that it shall be a clean, straight up nnd down fight." This is an uitl v'y new view of the president's character and disposition. Ho "does not look upimtl' campaign as his own pi r-oiial affair," indeed, when ho employed his whole in.'lut nee as president to force his nomination af .Minneapolis; wh"n he degraded his high position by engaging in the most dis graceful scramble for the standard of tho party; when he packed the national Republican convention with his army of officeholders and v.sid too whole power of the administration in his own behalf; when ho bitterly antagonized every i le nient of the party that for any rea.-ou was arrayed against him. lie does not try to "dominate tho party" when it was by his efforts and tho efforts of his personal friends and beneficiaries that all tho prominent Republican leaders wero snubbed and tho management of tho party's campaign was placed in the hands i f those who wero iudcKcd to him for political favors. So ofticious, in fact, was his personal domination of the party that it was only after weeks of the most earnest conference nnd solici tation that tho national lenders of the party could bo persuaded to assist in tho work of promoting his political for tunes. Tho statement of Tho Telegraph's cor respondent that Mr. Harrison insists that "the campaign shall be so conducted on his side that they cannot bo truthfully accused of resorting to dishonest or improper methods," etc., shows tho utter hypocrisy of tho Harrison plan of campaign. Mr. Harrison knows better than anybody else that ho is president today because of the dishonest and im proper methods employed by tho man agers of his campaign four years ago. H knows that Indiana was carried hv tho Republicans iu ltNS by Dudley s "blocks of five;" that the electoral vote of New York was procured for him four years ago by tho open purchase of votes at the polls; that he gave John Wana maker a place- in his cabinet because hs had raised a corruption fund of 100,000 to debauch the ballot box; that sinco ho took the onth of office as president he has degraded tho wholo public service to the payment of his political debts, and he knows that his only liopo of suc cess in tho present contest is by tho adoption of the same dishonest and im proper methods that characterised his campaign four years ago, Tho Tolegr.' ph correspondent says that "there is r.o question about his being ono of tho best politicians in tho country." From the Harrison-yuay-Carter-Davo Martin point of view this is true, but in the uso of honest and proper methods for the attainment of worthy political ends Mr. Harrison is a novice. Tho best that can bo said of him nnd for him is that ho is a lit representative of tho Re publican party as it is. Charleston News nnd Courier. Tlio South TVill Ki-tuHtn f;ol!d. Of course tho south is solid. And so will the south remain in politics whilo a political party exists to threaten tho substitution of negro domination for the supremacy of tho white race. The Democratic parly is the whilo man's party, and its followers comprise a largo majority of the white men in nil sect Ion i of the Union, not only in tho south, but also in tho north. Today bait for tho colored vote tho Republican party could not carry ten states, and that vote is graour.uy ananitomng tlio orgnin::"!: after the mariner of rats deserting sinking ship. Littlo Rock Gazette. n, TUo Fat rrlcrn Harvesl. The fat friers aro reaping a golden harvest from tho wealthy Republicans of Pennsylvania, and most of tho 2,000, 000 which it is expected to raiso will bo used ns a corruption fund in New York. Tho people of Pennsylvania should come dowu handsomely, for iu no other state nf tho Union have plutocrats aud monop olies been more munificently benefited because of tho McKinley iniquity. They ;onxo down with from $10,000 to iVI.jO.ihi!) rpiece, nnd of courso it is all done for "the poor workingman." Detroit Prco Press. A Mikiilflri'i:t ixi'.uurnt. Mr. Cleveland is a great muu, tower ing head and shoulders above uny man tho Republicans can possibly pit against him. Still neither he nor any ono else can bo greater, or as great, ns tho Dem ocratic party, for that would be tho per fection of greatness, nnd a point to which lio mortal can attain. But he is ns fine nn expoir.-ut of tho principles of De mocracy ns uny living man can bo, Richmond Times. Tluitia (hilling lircczca. The breeeses from tho Harrison ioe wagon havpovidently chilled tho Repub licans of Vermont, Maine, Kansas, Flor ida and Georgia. These are tho only elec tions that liuve been held up to date, but the indications aro that Republicans from Mawo to California and from the I lakes to the gulf have tho chills very I 71 li . T J..4. i uuu. i uuruiiy xe-;iuer. A woman's faith saved her, 4Here are her own words : "I was prostrate with displace ment of the womb nnd the conse quent ulceration and spinal weak ness. " I wns obliged to lio in bed, as to walk or stand was impossible, because of dizziness and severe bearing-down pains. "A friend told me how she had been cured of similar trouble by using I,xiit E.ritiki'iim's Vegetable Compound, and I believed if it would cure her it would me. " And it did one bottle brought me out of bed, and three got nie up so that I could do the house work. " I believe it is tho best medicine in the world for female complaints, and I want every woman to know about it." Josei'itine Sciiokn iioun, 713 Baker St., Baltimore, Md. 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