dhe Centre Femoral, The Cost of the Present Tari, 80 e yu song are addressed rhe kvening Post by Mr. Chavney G P ker of Nowark,N, J, mainly ro ‘sig 10 the cost of prot ction to tr. tax-payers of the United Stans. M, Purker wants to know what the pre - en ariff cose, both in the amount of revenue ¢ [ected and in the e hanced price of Dhutucieq goods produced a: home. The question is not an easy ene t» answer. The amount «f rev- enue coile ted from duties on imp rs it is, of conree easy toascertain. For the Ins: fi-cal year it was about $228. 000 000. As to the other sum-—the amount paid t the prodocers of pro- teted goods— there have been gross rat ns on both sides, aud any estimate must be largely a matter of eovjecture. Some persons have gone #0 far w+ to a-sumethat all manufu«t arers are pre tected and that the prices of the protect d articles are raised 10 the fu'l extent of the duties. It is warth while 10 notice, therefore, that the tno leading mavufacturiog iu. dui ies of the country sre abwlute y unprotected. The census of 1880 plec1 1he product of the flouringend grist mills at $505,000,000, and that fhe slonghi«ring sod meat-pscki g foot 1neloding retail butchering] ess tebli-hmer t- at $308,000.000. The fron ani sted | indastry ranked bird, with » total prodact of $296,000 000 Im the iwo former industries the pro wet ve syt m does cause a sli ht ad- wance in prices, since it makes dearer the part usd, and often prevents em .l ( stablighments from purctasiog | mee'el ma cinery. Yet the advarce | in pice thus caused is inconsiderabis, | sud in making estimates these expoit- | ing ino usries, whose developm nt is | bamp red by protection, belong raiber | among the tax-payers than amo: g the | E-ga herers, If we dliscend to the minor fudus- tries and tase in alpbabeticalorilers | those having over 1000 establish, ments, we find the following Ist: Industry, Product Agricultural implementa... #65000, Blacksmithing. ... ccosssssnrsrsns Boots and including ecastomwork and repairing 196,000, Bread and other bakery pro- i ARR POR Brick and tile Carpentering Carriages and wagons, etc... All of these industries are restricted snd bam ¢ ed wore or less by pro teci n. Prices are somewhat ad- vanced bot (n'y in #0 ‘ar asthe pub. lic is charged w th interesr on the ad ws neces which these industries make to others and to the Governmert when they boy their raw mst is snd machin ry. This burden auto tbe eounted twice, If this survey is continue ! the entire list « { manufactor comes apoarent that only ah fifths of them should beclass th» recipients, rather than an payers, of prot ive taxes, gregate product of these tw m the neighbor hod of $2 000.0 In spite of conb nations, and of the use of antiquated ma and the extravagant methods Government a ded monopo y the pries 8 of the protected good pot much more than bslf as bigh the aversge as the tariff duties na'e posmble. It would, perhaps, be a modsra‘e estimate to say that ihe consumers pay an average advance of 25 per cent, or £500,000 000. But hore another point must be conmdered. The consumers of these protect: d goods sre often the manu tacturers themselves, The finished | product of one factory is the raw ma terial of another. protected | wdutries pay over $§1,200,000,000 for sven interchanged raw materials, | andthe price of nearly two- hirds of these is cobaneed by pr tection, Whether paid t+ the governmeat or to the manufacturers, it Iso t snextra sarden upon the consuming public. ath ugh 10 8 broad way it is a clog A the prosperity of the country. rom the 000,000 previously found, nearly $200,000,000 must be therefore subtracted. To the result thus found v ry litle peed be added beesuse of Lhe tariffs on imported raw materials, The tax poi wo the declining sugar industry nf Lovisians amountsto but £6 000 000 a year, and the duties levied to protect “stompage” and wo promote the de stroe in of our forests and encour age Obio farmers to use as sheep pesioren land which is worth sixty doMlars an aere for corn-raislog— these have alieady been reckoned in the increase! coat of the product of the woolen and lomber mille, The toral wooey cost of the protective system snnuslly, over and above the smoont paid to the Goveroment, ought not to be reckoned at much mor: than £300.000,000. This sum, however, i« (qoivalent to the total State snd ome pul taxation of the country, sud were Jt a direct tax voul | uot be tolerated another year the tax burdened sections and eames Nothing is lo be gained by 1 {0 £3. 000 100) Sis, 65.000 (xx) 4 82.0060 006 QF 000 0x) we sansnanssese Shy ' 64,000), 0) ria thie er ! | American variety. One of the strong. ob i ARG ns Af is mixed with Ameiiesn oree, How many such industries have been broken down, aud how mapy preven! d f.om comirg up by duties on raw materials, and op tools awl mack i nore, ean only be left to cor je tore, The tariff debates of Congress nie (v!l of illastranons of the clogging «ff ot of the tariff, which ies mply a device tor robbing Peter to pay Paul. In the case mentioned Cor gress confie cuted the proper y of the Eastern co; - per smi lwrs and bended it over to the Lake Sup rior mine-owners, and ¢viled the process protec in to Ameri van iudustry.—N, Y. Post. The Wool Question Again. In an address before the nouw-parti- suv toriff reform club, of New York, the other evening, Mr. Rowland Huz- ard, of a great woolen manufacturiog company in Rhode Island, and a Re. publ can at that, made a detailed stntewent of the varistion in the price of wool under free eutry and with a protective thiitl since 1826, based On reports to the board of trade, He showed thst under a low tariff] fiom 1826 to 1832, she price of woul advanced from 36 10 TL cents per pound, dropping to 56 ceats in 1832, wheo wool was admitted free, but re, covering to 63 ceuts the following year. The pr ce was well maintained under free entry until 1842, when the imposition of a small duty was fol owed by anotherdeclioe aud a subse quent recovery, When wool was wade free again in 1857, the prices went bigher stil. The wi rst break was under th. Leavy duty of the tariff of 1867, when prices went dowa so | that sheep were slavghtered and wool eoi ors and proprietors of the Journal GENTLEMEN — Your piper having «nn pun erous ocearions contatoed edi- torial notice of a yeward, in which’ you sta e that you will pay to any person 81 000 for proof that Bevjomin | Haroon ever said that one dollar per day was enough fr any working wan ; and $1,000 for proof that Ben- jamin Harrison ever said that : Were I the Governor | would force these men back to work st the point of the biyonet (meanirg the strikers who participated fn the strike of 1877.) the executive board of District As sembly, No. 186, K. of L,, the Secre- wiry of which is the accredited author of the above charges, has directed me to write you, claiming the $2000 up n the proof herewith submitted. This board bas never regarded your offer to have been made in good faith, as we have been reliably informed that you did not deposit a dollar io the bank where you claim to have de- posited $2,000 as a reward for the proof referred to. We do oot claim that the evidence required as proof should in every iu- stance be verbatim or exactly in the same language used in your editorial notice, but we do clsim to offer in every instance words to the same effect I have in my nossession, as the cus- todian of the Executive Board, the followir g statements, from which I only quote a small portion of the con~ tents © Isom Haghes testified that Beoja- mio Hairicon did say that one dollar per day was enough for the working: men participated io the strike of 1887 and that he characterized the strikers 8s law breakers and unworthy of the could not be marketed at a profit, These figures sustained Mr. Hrzard's statement of his own experince as a title of ci iz>ne. Matin J. Murphy testified that Benjamin Harrison did say that the strikers had forfeited all claims to woolen msoufscturer, that there is little if any connection hb iween wool | enti the tariff, so far as the interests | of the wool grower are concerned, | { while the high tariff bas failed to | | foster manufacturing. Mr declared that “if the duty on foreign wools should be taken off, manufac- Hazard | tarers could pay at lesst 10 cents a pound more for American wool, be- | cause it would be weeded in mixiog with foreign wools in the manviscture of goods that capn«t be made in thi country now Lecause the foreign quality cannot be secured.” Webave a strong coufirmation of what Mr. Hazard says in the stale ments of Mr. Beach, one of the larg- | eit wo. len masufactarers in Con- piciicut. In the industry in that State, ope hundred different kinds of wool, foreign and domestic, sre used. Says Mr. Beach to the interviewer: | “Just look at this line of samples, a'l mate for the spring trade of 1889, on whieh the sgents are now Lying to obtain orders. You will see they number 665 difforent patterns—coarse 1 ow end fine wool, worsted and silk There is twice as many as a mill of this size should be required to make, | the floest grades can be imported at a much less rate very irom iu ds ol ’ ! than Jey are made {course the wool bh or clothing the wool | ot # uel as g od wool 1s rais d in h a limited extent. In ny respects what are called XX and XXX wools of Obie, Pennsylva na and Western Virginia are the best in the world; but practizally it would be impossible to run our mili | depending entirely upon these for making such goods. To secure the | quantity reqaired five times as much | wwald have to be bought, and if) bwght direct from ihe growers, probably ten times as much as used, and after making the selection of suitable quality, the great bulk would be sold again. No company could stand such a business.” An explaoation follows, showing how the difficulty is met by mixing five grade Australian wools with the untry, Lo . est arguments for free wool is that we do pot produce the varieties demand. ed by the varying fashions of the day. Here Is whete the European manu- facturer bas the advantage. He has the worlds * ' 10 select from. “Many of the manufac: turers,” Mr, Beach ads, “who make goods for the American trade under stand how their competitors in this country arc handicapped by this wool daty, and admit tbat what they fear more than soy duty that can be t on the goods is that we shall ree raw materials Those on fine gouds, for which their best customers are in this country, allow that could not have it better thao now if they were to make it in their own interests." Pittsburg Post, Sr — ——— ERLUFFCALLED DOWN, ™ Editor John OC. New Knodked Ont by Knights of Labor, : The Indianapolis Jowrnol kept a reward of $2000 for many weeks for proof that Geoeral Harrison ever said that $1 per day was enough for workingmen, and were he “the Gov- ernor of Indisoa he would shoot down the strikers or force them back to work.” The statement has created intense Sistem t's Kou Edwin F Gould, » ! | recognition by going on a strike; that Benjamin Harrison did get a misitia company for the purpose of pursuing the strikers; that some of the strikers received only 90 cents a day ; that Benjamin Harrison claimed that the railroads coold not pay any more, and that the strikers were not justified in asking for more, and that 81 wassuifi- cient for a workingman and he ought to he satisfied, Patrick H. King testified thst Beo- | jamin Harrison did say thatthe wages | of the strikers was sufficient , that the men must return to work or the mili tia would force them to submit, William Miller testified that Har- rison, at the conference, said on tvo occasions a dollar a day is enough | for a workingman and that if the] strikers did vot retarn to work they | would be pot down by the mi'itia at | the point of the bavonet i William Shock testified that Mr. | Harrison sa‘d the men bad better | work for a dollar a day than do what they were doing, ana that a Wirs ¥ We. dollar a day was good pay farth er, nw ingmen. John Hackinson testifies a aid jamin Harris say that ugh for an auld ascep IA Was &1 5 and the sh sath fled Th nas Me Hugh Harrison threatens ¢ : the ME 1 the slr tal ree Lhe men net And ni the mil the point « Day wr ges were sufl road « Michesl jamin Harrison did say Toads were unable to pay one dollar per day the men ough npany could afford Crowley testified ths that if the more than ti 10 a i snoueh | : Moa #3 y SBR OT | be satisfied as that amount was enough | multiplies taxes upon the common | 0 ort in ber for any workingman. Ben. Seabm says: I now quote Benjamin Hartison's exset language If I were Governor of the State or Sheriff of this county, I would have every train running of I had to wade in blood to my finger tips. William Hagho testifies that Ben jasmin Harrison did command a militia duriog the strike; that he claimed the wages were sufficient, and that the men bad po right wo even claim arbi tration. T. E Callidan testifies that Harri- son insulted the strikers in 1877; that he said they were getting plenty of waged! that $1 8 day was enough, and hat many were obliged to live on less than that amount Charles A. Fogarty testifies that as Chairman of the Relief Committee in the 1877 strike be was noable to at~ tend the meeting where Benjamin Harrison's remarks were made, but that he sent others there who reported 10 him corroborating the above state ments, In connection with the above state ments we wish itdistinetly understood that these statements are extracleonly that we have the onginal statements of the men and from others whose names we are bound to shield on ae- count of their occupation, The statements which we have pro- cured are from men whom we know to be true members of the Kaights of Labor, the Brotherhood of Locomotive and Firemen and the Brake- men's Brotherhood. They are men whom we know to be possessed of veracity and integrity, who are in rospect of the confidence of the people, po they Sr 10 the states desires the | against the strikers and thiea ening | taxes amount over and above that required for the purpose specified to be paid | to the K of L relief fond, to be used | in similar contis's and (qually us| paid 10 the undersigned, being duly | authorized to r ceive the same This Board charges B.njamin Har- rison with haviog tke up arms them with fostant death at the point | of the bayonet if they did not return to work; that he claimed $1 to be day's wages; that while employed by the railroad us their attorney, receive ing a large salary to cause the strike to be broken, he p wed as a friend of the strikers in the capacity of the Chairman of a Citizens’ Committee for the purpose of deceiving the citi- z:os and the strikers; that he gave » receipt for $20 for four days’ wages which is vow oo file in the Adjutant General's office; that he received for five days’ service as sttorney for one of the railroads 81,000, and bi« sworn affidavit appears in the Federal Court room to the effect that bis services for that period are worth $1,000, while he claims that $1 per day or $5 for five days is enough for a workingmao; that he scted in the capacity of pros: cator of the strikers, for which he re- ceived an additional fer; that he pros- ecuted one man who was not io the city and knew nothing of the strike, and Mr. Harrison was obliged to manufacture evidence upon which to criminate him. The above letter has been ready by the Execoiive Board of District As sembly 186, K of I, who bave di- rected it to be forwarded to you, with a request that you reply, saying by what method you will agree to select a committee to examine the original tesiimony now in possession of this Board. For the Executive Board. [Signed] Epwix F. Gouwp, District Recording Secretary District Assembly 186. K of L —— — Juggling with The one great demand of the peo ple of the whole country is for relief | from needless and oppressive taxes on the necessaries of business and of life, All parties have solemnly promisd it from year tO year, but h {axes have continued jong alter the pecers ty for war revenues has ceased, and to-day we present the singular specia Taxation ! gh war | cle of $130 000,000 of surplus money in the treasury, exacted fiom the in- { dustries of the nation, withdrawn from legitimate chavoels of business and trade, and serving no purpose beyond | oppression to tax-payers and whetting | the appctite of the jobber and prof] { gale, Since the war we have reduced the taxes of the opulent and allo red war to remain upon common | necessaries of life Wa have re lieved corporations of millions of taxes on receipls; we remitted the taxes of emplovers in manafacturivg bave repealed the tax have eff ihe taxes on | es paid y by we nl mads legacies an CORSE wi d the grows have pursuits wi #1 On MA neon 8. we ed boo i have free; abolish Axes ne $250 000 nave slamD e | thasrepealed AY f annual war taxes paid by the t the high WAN iaxs fremann i g, Whe t and ot on in daily use by the workingmen land. And these oppressive taxes have logically } Necessaries of the bred combines and trasts whose greed needs of life and of business, until our | taxes Lave become so extortionate | that the wage-earper pays 47 cents out of bis £1 earned for taxes on very many of the articles most needed for himself and his family. The Democrats, with two Republi- cans supporting them, passcd a relief bill in the House, It enlarged the free list in common necessaries; re- duced taxes which specially oppress labor and maintained a higher stand. ard of protection to our masufactariog industries than was ever given in any tariff when the country was free from the exactions of war. The Republi: cans first denounced the effort to re vise our taxes and reduce our surplus revenaes as needless agitation of the tariff and as unsettling the business of the country; but before the contest closed in the House, the Republicans saw that their protested promises for tariff and tax revision must either be redeemed or some pretence exhibited of doing #0, The complaint of tariff agitation was abandoned, as the Re- publicans scoepted the necessity of proposing a tariff of their own, and now, after morths of careful study of the political necessities of the day, we iv the Republican tarift revision bill. And hat {ots the Ser a's tariff bill propose in relief of either the pressing necessaries of busines. or the com- mon necessaries of life?! Beyond » severe reduction in sugar that would simply destroy our suge industries without log sugar to eonsum- ers, what is ¢ of importance that effects fegtet mass of the ple? Wool is increased, of making it free, as it bas been during balf the the history ¢f our govern present suns, ud, of heoemity, the I WAS every month: | handsome furnitare; {and iol {count for th from the era le to the grave; our eon- sumption amounts to next y $600,000, 000 annually, snd instal oi! cheapens ing this great no cessits, we po ba k- | Inudable purposes ; the money 10 he Ward even bevond a tual war taxes « Aas and incieaw burdens upon the whole people only ty pr tect Eogl sh mils and lghor, The refuel of Bensts to give our mavufacture s rod one labor tne ben efit ofthe free list of raw matarisls, is simply a monstrous upon American vO) | | capiial, American labor snd Ameri | enflicient for any workingman for a | ean consumers, It in ia defiance of the earnest teschings of Republican | Parvidents Grant, Arthur and Gare fi: 1d, wud is st war with every princi ple of justice 10 labor and justice 10 | conswmers, It is turning backward the bands of progress into the dark- ness of Chinese walled theories, and is a fearful confession that there can by uo relief te either capital or labor without an impericus demand from the people in the comiug election. It is an appalling declaration that the highest war taxes on the necessaries of business and of lite shall be con- tinued indefinitely, and that high taxes and low wages shall bs the only hope of American workiogmen. It is 1” policy of madinesf, the policy of op- pressing the waoy for the penefit of the few, and it is the most flagrant as- sult tbat wes ever made upon capital, labor and cossumers since the forma- tim'of the Republic. It is mean lef the fuct Trot would have bey formed in he Tt rest of the Bank which os, 18 ibe would have been as shen idle in CHO os the Sait cad Sugar Traces of . And th 28ers ol th: Gye eS Lent wonder have heen oo) ied «if. € at us thar of a retnil denis in ) © anmo favs Arie I) f Lise Una | Sines Bink adv untes witl oyerinke in theend vig Pr tectionisie Juv k on throvled the one aud C even thie other, i. 4 iy 11 — a — " {inn fag hought worthy of oye ert hy the nesypapes. taoids the New Yok Observer, that a railway jmagea e who rteoently diel, wale fprovistm in hs will hat his wife { should be exceuisic of 81] bis vast ens (1ate, woith many millions. In ¢x- plas ation fF this pecaliar feature of the willy «bie aid ti asithe milliouaire Conrles Cr wkeor, of C1 fornia, was a poor man when ie married, sud that {be binsdf a tributed ali his subse- | QUrDL Buc enmes ithe practicsl sympa- (thy, the ¢ ol seise snl the wise counsel of bis wif-, Ii is plessaot go record soch ac mEpicuous example of | perfect trust and true spprecistion as (this case affords, Toousands of men [who might sitribute their success in life ty the rome cause never give any tangitle evidence of their recognition | " - New Wo k for Women, pardsan jugglery with taxation; noth-| Women have 1o work bard in the fog more; nothing less, | Blooming Mrs. Becker, ! In 1864 & man named Becker come | drifting foto Wah'ngton with his | wife, Those were the days of vio lence. One morning Becker left his | wife's side, stepped into a cigar store | to get a light, and wes sh tdown by a blundering provost guard io hot chase of a deserter as he stepped out on the sidewalk. His wife, left peunilessand | in debt, had everybody's sympathy O!d Treasurer Spinoer whose un. readable autograph has given os all so much delight at diff Limes then t ying the experiment giving women employ met [ressary Department. He like the rest, snd prompt Mrs ’ rent ) 3 } Becker AR Cierx office, of the cenl-per-cent, meh, an long was hyj n for years cryu She soon fell yO! heceted belors her salary This 1a suddenly day changed with ber. She paid debts: she bought a ore ng her ana ali piano moved 1210 five she a pretty hous; she thought its back eramped and borg hack yard Lo running Lrecet in € jaunct ri, & irom pepary ilo someiamm | luxary. Hor former friends, most it for the sake « company, © i sudden and prosperity exoej whom she « pretentiion slariii as Lhe resull et r a She did no lem for them, but pr ithy m » als arrvi wever lod she had seleci« All A Line Division worn nat counted Redem pti [reasurer(s office, where the ional! bank notes come wiore being exchanged for new ones, Last week it was discovered that she Account OF noles handled $044. She absented hers if from the Department, and was found at home sick in bed. $944 to the officers of the Department and meekly socepted her dismissal. Now the question that distracts the Department is bow moch more money did she get away with? For ought they know she has $90,000 or £900. 000 plied up somewhere. Her method of operations was sim- ple but ingenious. She made ten notes out of nine by cuttibg a slice out of each of the nine for the tenth and then ng the pi of each note together. - It to be done dexter. wasly and expediously for she was un- der the eyes of other women and had only time enough to count each bun. die as it came She probably experi- mented a long time before she became #0 expert as 10 perform her little feat with success and without detection. How long she has been stealing and how she bas stolen are questions easier 10 ask than to answer. There Is unfortunately no way of traciog the notes she has handled, since most of them have found their way to the macceratiog machines and have once moure become pulp per haps paper--and po one knows except herself what everybody in ber office from the Treasure down would like to koow. And she keeps her lips tight ly closed. 1 do not see how she can fi bsnl Vas in the | to be Lae She paid over | old world. A L n'on writer io the Boston Traveler say.: Now neenpa- tiond for women fie A non ihe 1 Clg of the fair sex here, where they are al- ready employed ax hotel clerks, tick t sellers, ushers io theatres, and, sorry torelate, b rienders. Naarly every bas iv England is st ended by young women. But the new field fr the f house pamting. Not merely decorations of interiors, but good every-day paiping of the out wiher dy “ighty ior b ting Window gardening in England, evervewhere, ladies i» tha 4 siele of {ine houses and bul lings. TAagency, alres fiods empiov. ment for more thas ladies d in exter de ra nis use pan FITS coration, prried to grest so d of Fi 5. x wir | in 8 » fi bet} Association, tr Xtremely AD { wis gard. “Make voor flowers.” shop of Lanbeth Palsce at ——— encoral Sheridad { the Army of Hs dea h caveed meeting of the 21st, Califor. m. The werving as Reister of dow i» 11 t advo 01 this society. Nn XL Verio s a nn the Lie #111 — A, — The Burden of Criminal Exile fest, 1 thind a Sood ’ t is mae that whe s (Ky teririlers, erers is injurions liberated t Wo Niberia ¢ danger. order and security For more than half a century the people of Siberia have been groaning under the heavy burden of iminal exile More than two all the crimes committed in the i committed by common felons who have been transported thither and then sot at Liberty, and the peasants everywhere are becoming demoralized by enforced asso- ciation with thieves, burglars, counterfeit- | ers and embezziers from the cities of Euro- | pean Russia. The honest and prosperous in- babitants of the country protest, of course, against a system which liberates every year, at their very doors, an army of 7,000 worth- loss characters and felons. They do not ob tothe hard labor convicts, because the tter are shut up in jails. They do not ob as 1 ¥ Ar colo from this cause of disease in the country than in towns and cities, but there are strong res f ! £ HHH peut up attosphere of a large town in which excavations of some kind or other are at cer tain seasons of the year carried on with more thas usual fetid. Wan. A: Hmm i
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