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.
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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.
Yes, we have
proof abundant
which shows that
no one remedy in
all the world lias
relieved so much
female suffering. ".
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