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SUPPLEMENT. Containing Extracts from THE DAILY OREGONIAN The Fallacies of PROTECTION! From the Standpoint of “Long ere now, had not the I)emo- rrjtic Party with Its characteristic pi<- hrad nest, persisted in its attacks on the settlement« of the war, there would have been a reckoning on the subject of tarift* plunder, the navigation laws, dishonest money and the entire scheme of quack eries sustained by greed, Ignorance and I deinugogery in combination--and now, If the Democratic party is done with its fol- i lies, the reckoning will not be very much longer delayed.** One of the Lame Arguments of Protection. (Daily Oregouian, Jauuary 11, 1881.] imagines it exactly the thing fur a peo Thus our labor suffers ple situated as we are here to have the tariff maintained at prohibitory rates, so from a system of robbery, that we can buy none of the cheap goods which Great Britain has to sell, and take disguised under forms of the little money we get for our wheat, pretended which must be sold at a low price quackery for because, as we will not trade with our protection of American customer, we cannot get ships enough to carry it away) and buy of our “protected” labor. The stupidity that eastern manufacturers tbe goods which we must have at the high prices which doesn’t see it, particularly the tariff enables them to exact. This is a good policy to pile up the profits of on this coast, where the the protected monopolist, but a bad one producing classes are so for us out of whom these profits are drawn. It compels us to part with our plainly the victims of it, products at a low price and buy what we must have at high prices. And this is is phenominal and perhaps just what is the matter with Oregon at this moment. Every item which enters hopeless.— Daily Oregonian, into the production of wheat is taxed for the benefit of eastern monopolists, even Oct. 21, 1881. ------------- • ------------- to the farmer’s harness leather, harrow teeth, the very bags he puts his wheat in, Government must have revenue and and the iron rails on which it is carried to tide water; and then because the ships sugar is one of the articles that must of our customers are allowed to bring bear a duty, so long as revenue is re nothing to the country, but must come in quired. The tariff on sugar is a tariff ballast, and therefore earn enough in wheat charters to pay for the entire trip for revenue and not protection. Our around the world, our farmers can get country produces but an insignificant but little for their wheat, and that little part of the sugar consumed in it. The they are obliged to part wilL in buying object of the sugar duty is to bring “protected” goods at “protected” prices. This may suit the Salem Statesman, but money into the treasury, It fulfills that it does not please those who have the object. But the object of the duty on comprehension to see through the sophis many other articles, as wool,’iron and tries of the so-called protective system— steel, is to keep out the foreign product a system expressly devised and main tained to enhance the price of American with a design to raise the price of the manufactured goods, and to force non home commodity. We encourage the manufacturing communities, like our importation of sugar because we must selves, to buy them, who otherwise have it and we tax it because we want would buy cheap goods from anybody offering them. The political power the revenue. This is in fullest accord which maintains this unjust and oppres with the principles of free trade. But sive system is in our great eastern states, we discourage and obstruct the importa and the victimized have not strength to | tion of iron, steel, wool and a multitude abolish it. But at least this power should not cozen and hoodwink the vic-I of other commodities, laying a large duty tim into the belief that the wholesale i on them, not for revenue but for obstruc robbery which it legalizes and maintains j tion, and the result is the robbery of the for its own profit, is just the the thing many for the benefit of the few.— Daily we ought to be satisfied with. It is too Oregonian, June 30, 1882. transparent. The Republican party would el ect all needed reduction of tlx S’atinnal revenue*bv repealing I hi axes onjtobacco, which are an an inyance and a burden to agricul- ure, and the^tax upon'spirits used in the arts and for mechanical pur- mses ; and by such revision of the ariff as will tend to check imports if such articles as^are produced by mr people, the production of which jives employment to our labor, and release from import duties those articles of foreign ’production (ex cept luxuries) the flike of which cannot be produced at home. If there shall still remain a larger reve nue than is requisite for the wants of the government, we favor the en tire repeal of the internal taxes rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system at the joint behests of the whisky trusts and the agents of foreign manufacturers. —Republican National Platform, 1888. o us of th« Pacific coast than cheap “The talk of protecting American la whisky or tobacco without price. bor la a Juggle and a farce since the sys Circulars of this sort show that there tem doe* not protect, but, on the con is to be a concerted effort on the part of trary, actually oppresses [the larger part the protectionists to save their advan of the labor of the country.” tages by making war on the interna) revenue system. To meet it the press of A Burden on Agriculture. the country ought to be vigilant and out [Dally Oregonian, November;i5,;i88t ] spoken. They who have been accus The NewjYnrk Tinies in a series of tomed to the benefits of class legislation articles onj the exactions^ and oppres will employ every ruse to hold them. sions of our.tarifi'jlaaB, is*taking up the schedule item by item [for (illustrations. In a recent issue it shows^how theT.agri- Mischievous Methods. cultural^interests ofjthe country are af- [Daily Oregonian. July 27, 1882.J fected^most (injuriously *byX the (heavy and almost prohibitory duty on railway, The inspiration of this bill (to create a steel. On first cost of railway building tariff commission) is a plan of the ex this burden is fully $3000 a mile, and on treme protectionists to reduce the taxes renewals it is a constant and heavy tax. Times justly protests against the on whisky, beer and tobacco in order The wrong and injury of loading our Ameri that there may be excuse for continuing can grain with such a burden in compe the burden of the “protective” system tition with foreign grain. “It may lie in favor of monopolists. Though every said,” the Tinies remarks, “that the secures to American farmers the thing else be taxed we must have free tariff home market, but it does not. The price whisky, beer and tobacco; otherwise the of grain here is ultimately fixed abroad, American citizen, born to an inheritance whatever may be its fluctuations. The ol freedom, will never know what true average home price is determined by liberty is. And yet who will be bene that of the surplus exported, and neces fited by the reduction of these taxes? sarily. Therefore the duty on steel and Beer will still be five jr ten cents a glass. iron not only hampers tLe competition Whisky two drinks for a quarter, and of American grain abroad, but it lowers tobacco in all its forma, the same price the rate of profits on the whole crop.” as now. The money taken from the It is not only on railway iron and steel treasury, will go into the pockets of brew that the tariff hurts the farmer, but on ers, distillers and tobacconists, to swell iron and steel in all forms in which these tbe enormous gains already made by the products are to be used in connection manufacturers of articles which are a with agriculture. For all the “protec [terennial nuisance and cumulative curse tion” which manufacturers get other to mankind. The revenues from liquors classes have to pay. Since the farmers and tobacco are the very revenues are in one way or another the chief con which never ought to be given up. They sumers the principal part of the burden are derived from articles which ought to falls on them. All others who pay the l>e taxed to as high a point as they will tax—as railroad people and wagon and bear without incurring danger of frauds «makers—have a chance to recoup, upon the revenue. Long experience has ?y recoup mainly at the expense of produced a system for collection of these agriculture. It is said, however, that taxes which is as perfect as anything the labor employed in manufactures has can be. The laws work smoothly and the benefit of high wag. s. But where are easily enforced, and the revenues de are the farmer’s wages ? A Chicago pa rived from these articles are enormous per before us boasts that men employed and constantly increasing. in the steel works of that city receive Taxation of liquors and tobacco relieves from four to ten dollars a day. It calls legitimate industries of taxation, pro these rates “freedom and comfort vides money for internal improvements wages,” and asks us to note what pro and for payments on the public debt, tection does. But what does the farmer and yet oppresses nobody. Manufac get? Where are his “freedom and com turers of these articles do, indeed, com fort wager?” How many farmers ac plain, but certainly they are ail making tually realize two dollars a dav for their money fast enough, and if they were labor to say nothing of a profit on their not the way is open to them to go into investment inland? Tbe talk of “pro better business. The one thing Congress tecting” American labor is a juggle and ought to do is to adjourn. farce, since the system does not protect, but, on the contrary, actually oppresses the larger part of the labor of the coun "Great Britain pays higher average try. To support a coin|>aratively few wages, under free trade, than either manufacturers and give them large France or Germany, under protection, profits it grinds down the great agricul and the United States pays relatively tural classes of the country, who are our no higher wages in her crowded mining most numerous and ueeful laborers. Mr. Thon. 8. Lang, of the Dalles, is an occasior-i! contributor to several journal« of the State in defense of the policy of “protection.” His latest essay is an at tempt to disprove what the Oregonian recently said concerning high prices as an effect of the protective system. It is argued that protection does not make high prices, but gives us low prices; that in consequence of this policy we are en abled to get manufactured goods cheaper than we should obtain them under free trade and that we make goods ho cheap under protection that we are ablo to un dersell England even in her own market. And Mr. George B. Loring, of Massa chusetts is produced as authority for the The proposal to abolish internal statement—which he is said to sustain taxes, while keeping up the exces by giving trade prices at Manchester and sive and even prohibitory duties Birmingham—that consumers in the United States are enabled to buy, under levied under the existing system of our protective system, “almost every- “protection,” means cheap whisky thing ” in the many lines of manufac- k Tax on Sugar is for and dear clothing ; an untaxed beer ; tured goods of home production, at lower barrel and an excessive tax on iron rates than they would have to pay for Revenue and Not the English product. Here it is that ex in every form; free tobacco and cess of zeal for the protectected monopo Protection. dear salt; cheap cheroots and lists of the United States, of whom of high-priced printing paper. The course Mr. Ixiring is one, leads that gen purpose of all this is to assure tleman to prove too much. For of course if we manufacture and sell “almost continuance of enormous profits to everything” at lower prices than Great eastern iron masters, salt boilers, Britain can, we want no “protection.” wood pulp proprietors, and the We are not in danger, then, from the whole train of monopolists who “pauper labor” of Europe. Our home manufactures would not be “destroyed” are “protected” at the expense of by those whom we even now undersell. the consumers of the country.— And thus the main argument for “pro Daily Oregonian, Oct. 26,1881. tection” is overthrown by the too zeal ous advocates of that system. The complaint about sugar is that we I Daily Oregonian, Dec. 11, 1880.] As a matter of fact, however, the state did not reduce enough. We have dealt A Great Discovery. ment is not well founded. It is part of An inquiry is addressed to the Oregon more harshly with sugar than with any The Principle of the Mills the scheme of sophistry, cozenage and ian by a person who read its remarks other article we have left on the dutiable [Daily Oregonian, November 27, 1882.J deception by which the monopoly sys list. Yet gentlemen on the other side All the taxes that spirituous liquors Bill Sustained by High tem sustains itself. Of course our manu of yesterday on “Loss of the Carrying tell us that we have been sectional; that and tobacco can be made to pay should Trade. ” The inquiry is as follows, viz : facturers are not offering cheaper goods we have protected sugar and rice and Republican Au than Great Britain. If they were, the "Since we produce all materials that enter aimed at the destruction of Northern in be collected. That is, the taxes on those shipbuilding, viz: timber, iron, etc., natural law of prices would keep out into thority. I am at a loss to determine what ) ou refer to by dustries. The charge is absurd. We commodities should be kept at as high British goods, and there would lie no remarking: 'But such are the duties levied oh have not looked at the section where any a rate as possible without creating in clamor from our protecting monopolists materials that go into ship building,' etc. Will article is produced in order to determine centives to fraud and so defeating the ob please explain In what manner said duties for a tariff to prohibit foreign imjjorta- you what we would do. We have tried to ject. Another thing, if we strike off the are levied on nome-prodnced materials*’*' On no other subject [protection] is lions. These protected monopolists deal fairly with all, and in doing so find one hundred millions of revenue annually This inquirer is misled by his own con know well the purpose of a protective that we haye cut it far heavier than iron, obtained by the national treasury through there so much effort made to mis tariff'. Such tariff is a schedule of taxes fusion of terms. Though duties are not or glass, or earthenware, or woolens, or these taxes, then no modification of the levied on imported goods with design to levied on home-produced materials that cottons, or hemp, or jute, or flax. In tariff on imports will be possible. There tify and befog the people. Perhaps raise the price of home commodities. It enter into ship-building, yet the cost of districts, in proportion to the relative such materials is enormously increased short, the cut on sugar is nearly twice is a tax on all the necessaries of life, cost of living, than Great Britain.** ''The lumber duty Is the most inexcus forbids the consumer to buy cheap for as much as all the others pct together, amounting to probably >500,000,000 a the reason is it pays to do so. able folly and iniquity of the whole mon eign goods that may be offered to him, by our system of protection. We refuse except woolens. [Applause.] But, on year, which is paid by consumers, of to let in the foreign article, but invite strous bundle of iniquities and absurd It must be owned, too, that the and forces him to buy the home product the producer of the home article to correct principles of taxation, there ought which however, only about one-third The East and the Tariff. ities called the tariff law.” at advanced prices. This is the whole to be a higher duty on sugur than any goes into the national treasury, while [Daily Oregonian, April 30, 1887. j beneficiaries of the system are scheme of a protective tariff. Except make the price excessive, and “protect” other article on the dutiable list. the other two-thirds are divided as Harvey N. Shepard, an eminent Bos for this, no manufacturer would demand him in doing so. Just as our tariff on *♦«*»»» The Lumber Tariff. special bounties among favored indi highly successful in their duperies p otection. Men like Mr. Loring of steel rails increases the cost of all steel ton merchant, recently addressed the Now, Mr. Speaker, we get by the pres viduals and corporations. Free trade in [Daily Oregonian, February 21,1883.] rails used in this country, whether im of the people at large. — Oregonian, Massachusetts want the duties so nigh ported or produced here, so our tariff on ent duty on sugar and molasses about these necessary commodities i« not ex New England Club on the necessity of The lumbermen of this country, so far as to exclude foreign goods altogether, ship-building materials increases the $58,000,000 per annum. According to pected or desired, but a reasonable modi tariff reform. Protection, practically, it as their views have found expression, and thus give them the complete monop FW>. 2. INN2. the estimate of the gentleman on the fication and reduction of the rates of oly of the home market, which is the per cost of all materials of this class. Herein other side who offered the amendment duty ought to be granted. At any rate, lavished upon a few favored industries, care nothing one way or another about is one of the causes why ship-builders of fection of protection, or at least so high for free sugar and a bounty for the sugar whisky and tobacco ought not be the and tells Brown that his trade must take the question of free lumber. The busi as to raise the price of foreign goods ' i a the United States cannot compete with grower, the present rate of duty affords only free articles which the American its chance with foreign competitors while ness is here so well adjusted upon the those of other countries. That we have INTRODUCTORY proper basis of supply and demand that little above the point at which they ley ai are protection to the domestic sugar grower citizen is allowed to buy and consume. Smith’s is guarded by a tax so high as they have no fear of competition with desirous of selling their own. Our tariff in our country all necessary ship-build equal to $6,000,000; so that the whole ing materials is a bootless boast, so long to shut out foreign competition. The British Columbia. In any event, there is wholly controlled in sup cost to the people is $64,000,000. In or The articles contained in this legislation port of this system. The manufactur as our tariff policy makes them so der to get $62,000,000 of revenue from United States, France and Germany try is no danger of over supply or reduced A Characteristic Ruse. paper, and credited to the Oregonian, ing interest has become powerful enough costly that we cannot use them. manufacturers of iron and steel, and to protect their manufactures by restrict price. But in the old northwest there is [Daily Oregonian, October 26,1881.J much division of sentiment. Lumber woolen and cotton goods, the people are editorial articles taken from the to control legislation absolutely for its ive duties. Great Britain’s manufactures own profit and against the interest of A duty ought to be laid on those arti have to pay $500,000,000 to $600,000,000. Mr. Wharton Barker, of Barker Bros. have to face the world without protection. men are opposed to removal or reduction files of the Oregonian, covering the consumers. Government is made an in cles which will produce a clear revenue — Mill’s Speech on the Mills Bill. the tariff because, they frankly aay, & Co., bankers of Philadelphia, has ad What is the result? Here is Mr. Shep of it will bring Canada lumber into the through which one class of citi at least for collection W W # Sugar is period from 1880 to 1887, inclusive. strument herd ’ s answer : country and reduce the price. From the zens is given legal authority to plunder one of these. WWW It is a tax for “Mr. Carlisle is in no sense a free dressed to Senator Morrill, of Vermont, “Great Britain sells in Germany twice They comprise only a part of much another. This is “protection.” Of revenue, and Is directly opposed in prin trader. There is no reason to be fright a letter urging the abolition of all inter what is sold by the French and three point of view of the consumers of lumber, who outnumber the dealers several hun those who are so favored by the ciple and effect to a duty imposed for pro ened over Mr. Carlisle’s Intentions, and nal taxes. This letter has been mailed that that paper has had to say dur course times what is sold by us; in France one power of the Government will not wil tection. --Oregonian, Feb. 24, 1881. the republicans who are commencing an to all the leading newspapers of the and one-half times what is sold by the dred to one, these are excellent reasons ing the time mentioned upon the lingly give up their advantage. They alarmist’s campaign for 1884 are making country. The following note addressed Germans and twice what is sold by us; for reducing or removing the duty. From the point of view of the national good, deign to argue to the victims of the The reduction of the revenue on sugar a mlst.ke." to editors accompanies it: subject of protection and tariff' even and here twice what is sold by the without reference to the cost of the arti policy—and all communities s.tuated proponed by the bill in «11,759.799. and P hiladelphia , Oct. 6, 1881. French and four times what is sold by reform, and in exposure of the im like ours are victims of it—that it is excepting the woolen schedule, is nearly cle, a change in the law which will in Reduction of Taxes. D ear S ir : I beg to call your atten the Germans.” to their advantage that the twice as much as all others combined. < crease the importation of lumber, and [Daily Oregonian, December 14, 1883.] policy and injustice of the present immensely tion to tbe inclosed letter to Senator Great Britain does not do this because check the rapid consumption of our own policy be continued and sustained. * But on correct principles of taxa Morrill, of Vermont, and I will thank she pays less wages, for she pays higher In refusing to join in the attempts to system. They demonstrate the Long ere now, had not the Democratic tion there ought to be a higher duty on pine, is most desirable. The lumber to inform me what objections, if any, average wages under free trade than duty is the most inexcusable folly and with its characteristic pig-headed- sugar than on any other article on the alarm the people, which many republi you soundnesg of the viewB contained in party you have to the proposal for abolition of either France or Germany under pro iniquity of the whole monstrous bundle ness, persisted in its attacks on the set dutable Utt,—Speech of Roger Q. Milla. July cans have made because the democrats internal taxes. tection, and the United States pays rela President Cleveland’s tariff’ mes tlements of the war, there would have 9/, 1888. I did not follow their advice and elect Mr. It is my desire to obtain the views of tively no higher wages in her crowded of iniquities and absurdities called the a reckoning on the subject of tariff > Randall speaker, we should not be mis prominent men, so that the question can mining districts, in proportion to the tariff law. It cuts two ways. It taxes sage, and are in perfect accord with been plunder, the navigation laws, dishonest to favor any policy which be properly presented to Congress in relative cost of living, than Great Brit the consumer to encourage the destruc all the essential features of the Mills money and the entire scheme of quack Sugar, Revenue and Protec understood tion of the forests. Lumber is a peculiar will be disastrous to the general interests December.” ain. Before 1860, undera very low tariff, product, in that it is limited in quantity, sustained by greed, ignorance and tion. of the country. The fact of excessive bill. They show conclusively that eries The letter addressed to Senator Mor we led all nations in shipbuilding; to-day demogogery in combination—and now, [Daily Oregonian, February 24, 1881.] taxation is universally conceded, and the rill argues the proposition at length. our shipyards, that were once vocal with and, once the supply is exhausted, can wool and lumber should be free; if the Democratic party has made its not be replaced for several generations. Again the principle known as free only practical question is in what direc But the argument is not conclusive. It the sound of ax, saw and hammer, are The law should study the preservation of effort to rehabilitate Bourbonism tion shall the necessary reduction be omits all mention of the real reason why silent, and last year Maine did not build that the tariff on sugar is final and is done with its follies, the reckon trade does not contemplate the total re We believe with the New York the proposition is submitted. Philadel a single ship. Protection has killed ship the forests instead of encouraging their “a tax for rexenue, and is directly ing will not be very much longer de moval of duties. Such a result would made. stimulate instead of Tinies that the proper direction for re is the center of our “protective” building by making a vessel cost from extinction, should the importation of supplies Di vison of parties on these issues, not be contemplated, even if it were for duction to take is toward the relief of phia opposed in principle and effect to a layed. tariff system. Men like Mr. Barker per $20 to $30 a ton more in Bath, Me., than prohibiting which will take place when the Demo reason desirable. Revenue must be manufacturers, the stimulation of trade, ceive that the country is growing restive across the line in New Brunswick. from other countries. duty imposed for protection,” and cratic party gets doue mourning for the any bad and no method for raising revenue the extension of markets, the employ under the exactions of this system, and Measured by our intelligence, our free past and trying to restore it, has ever been devised which has, on the ment of labor, and not toward cheapen contain, therefore, a complete ans hopeless there is an increasing demand for a institutions, our vast line of seacoast, " The unprotected claSae* not only sup will cut right through the lines of parties whole, been so satisfactory as levying ing the mischievous luxuries of tbe that modification of it. To anticipate this our restless, indomitable industrial ply the whole co ntry with their prod wer to the charge that the Mills bill, as now constituted. What is demanded duties on imports. The whole question smoker and the drinker. We think that demand and foil free of bounty, but exported a sur it is the object of the and talent for trade, we ought to uct* honest money, free ships, revision of at issue turns on the principle upon [ freer development for American trade effort of which the protectionists are energy plus exceeding SHOO,000,000 last year, which takes nearly 112,000,000 off is be the greatest maritime and commercial the tariff in the interest of the people which these duties are to be imposed. and industry, and a free breakfast table making for the abolition of internal nation on the face of the globe; yet we turning the balance of trade heavily In of sugar, is partial and sectional in rather than in that of monopolies, and A duty ought to be laid upon those arti for American workers, are better than a are the least among the great powers of our favor, paying oft* our foreign indebt- the general policy of favoring trade or cles which will produce a clear revenue free bar. The high protectionists on tKe taxes. favor of the Southern planters. allowing This, however, is by no means the only the earth. The foreign trade of Great ednea* and diffusing prosperity over the it freedom rather than ob at least for collections. Sugar is one of I ................ 1 other hand are in favor of retaining o„ or objection to the proposal. By far the Britain is more than $100 per head of land in defiance of the high tarift handi These articles expose in advance structing it. Proper adjustment would these. Coffee and tea are also admirably increasing the duty on imports of all greater part of the revenue raised by in the '■ population ; that of France $45 ; of capping of pampered greed, which, like been forced on these questions long adapted to the same end, though our laws kinds and the remission of all liquor and ternal taxation is derived from liquors Germany horse leech's daughter, cries always the fallacy of revenue reduction, have and our own about $25. the ago had not the Democratic party per blunderingly exempt them from duty. tobacco taxes, or the retention of these (spirituous and malt), and from tobacco. In soil, in $35, for more.” industrial skill and talent, in proposed by the Republican plat sisted so strenuously in upholding the W’hen such articles are taxed the whole and the distribution of the surplus among These are the very articles which ought mining wealth, in water power, we are and Non-Pro- theories of the state sovereignty of the tax goes into the public treasury. the states, tbe collection of the liquor tax to be taxed so long as taxes are required the richest natio.i on the earth, but Protected form, by abolishing the internal exploded rebellion, thus compelling all who be It is a tax for revenue, and is directly for the benefit of the states, or the di- for any purpose whatever. The proposal Great tected Industry. Britain beats us because food and revenue tax, thus making whiskey lieved in the nationality of the United opposed in principle and effect to a duty i I version of the internal revenue to the to abolich internal taxes, while keeping material go into Great Britain free, [Daily Oregonian, January 28, 1882. | States to combine for the defense ol it imposed for “protection.” The object of support of education. Judging by bis up the excessive and even prohibitory raw and tobacco free, while the neces and therefore she can manufacture more for preservation of the results of those laws is not revenue, but prohibi i utterances and his votes, Mr. Carlisle is duties levied under the existing system and cheaply and undersell France, Germany saries of life are made dear. In the great war. Titus it appears that ninety per cent of tion of importations, in order to give the I in no sense a radical free trader. He of “protection,” means cheap whisky and the United States in the markets of home market to the protected class at does not think that free trade would be and dear clothing; an uutaxed beer bar the world. Last year the sum of $100,- our exported pnxlucts are of the “non short, these articles are unanswer high prices. The members of the Iron wise or practicable for the United States rel and an excessive tax on iron in every 000,000 was paid to Great Britain by the protected” and only ten per cent of the able arguments in support of the Protection “Is a good policy to and Steel Association profiting im for many years. “When we speak of form; free tobacco and dear salt; cheap United States for ocean freight, and a “protected’’ class. Fifty millions of peo- policy of the Democratic platform pile up the profit* of the protected mensely under this system, understand this subject,” he says, “we refer to ap- cheroots and high-priced printing paper. large part of this freight money might I pie are taxed constantly to the extent of monopolist, but a bad one for us its effects well enough, how much soever • proximate free trade, whieh has no idea The purpose of all this is to assure con be in oer pockets if our tariff, called pro 40 to 100 percent on all the manufac- and candidates upon the tariff ques out of whom these profits are their organ may attempt to d sguise of crippling the growth of home indus- tinuance of enormous profits to Eastern tective, bad not obliterated our shipping | tured goods they consume. This tax is drawn.” them. [ tries, but simply of scaling down the iron masters, salt boilers, wood pulp pro- and turned over to England the carrying collected of the consumers whether they tion. iniquities of the tariff schedule, where i prietors, and tbe whole train of nionopo- trade of the world on the high seas. use imported or domestic manufactures, Aside from their intrinsic value, Too Transparent. I they are utterly out of proportion to the 1I lists who are “protected” at the expense The answer of high tariff men to the and was imposed for the purpose of giv Fortunes for the Few. j demands of that growth. After we have ■ | of all the consumers of theconntry. No! logic of these hard facts is tbe specious ing to the capital and labor of one-tenth as a contribution to Democratic [Daily Oregouiau, Dec. 29th, 1880.j [Dally Oregonian, Tebruary 2,1882.1 j calmly stood by and allowed monopolies > 1 Let us continue to tax consumers of plea of protection to native industries. , of the people a special bounty or subsidy There is an ignorance of the funda • •*•**• campaign literature, these articles to grow fat, we should not be asked to >' whisky, beer and tobacco, and have ■ Mr. Shepherd answers this argument at 1 under the fallacious pretense that it have a special value as an expres mental principles of political economy A limited class have conceived and put make them bloated. Our enormous rev -' cheaper j it, mi'« vv ■ quote j VLDV n Livio n Liak he t would clothing, cheaper sugar i uiiM and uuiVj Balt, , length, and we elsewhere what add to the wealth of the whole which supposes coin to be the only in practice the doctrine that it is a good enues are illogical and oppressive. It is 'cheaper railroad iron, cheaper ship- says on the subject of wool. The tariff [country. [ Yet out of the nearly $800,- sion of the opinions of one of the actual wealth; and therefore it is im ' entirely undemocratic to continue these ■ building _____ o___________ materials and ____ cheaper tools for , iron may shut out foreign competition, 000,000 surplus products of the country scheme for them to make the great body burdens on tbe people for years and our fanners and mechanics. Besides _________ ablest and best known Republicans agined that if a people maintain a policy all .________________ but it kills our ow n __________________ iron trade with other ' exported to foreign nations this subsi prohibits the importation of of the people pay high prices for commod years after the requirements of protec- these, there are things without end countries. Mexico, South America, dized and protected class contributed less on the Pacific Coast, upon the vital which foreign goods, that such goods can be had ities which the comparatively small class tion have been met with, and the repre- which, if they could be had cheaper, Australia and Asia buy millions of dol- than ten per cent. The unprotected questions of the canvas, made from cheap, and collect their foreign balances, have to sell, and the government is sentatives of these industries have be- ' would be better for a country than free lars’ worth of iron from Great Britain classes not only supply the whole coun J"‘l none t«-*»™ there happens to be any, in coin— called in to rob the many for the benefit come incrusted with wealth.” There is whisky and untaxed tobacco. Therefore and from us, twn.n«o because •«< “Great Brit- i try with their products free of bounty, time to time during a series ot when though they are obliged to pay out the of the few. This is “protection” and all i no reason to be frightened over Mr. Car- J we are not able to agree with Mr. Barker ain cou’d and did take in return for iron, but exported a surplus exceeding $800,- years when these questions were money at once to protected home mo- there is of it. On no other subject is there lisle’s intentions, and the republicans on the repeal of the internal tax laws, in wool, copper hemp and linseed, while 000,000 last year, turning the balance of for the very goods at higher so much effort to mistify and befog peo ■ who are commencing an alarmist cam- order that the consumer of the country our tariff forbids us to buy them. If we trade heavily in our favor, paying off not in issue between parties and nopolists prices, which they couhl obtain at low ple. Perhaps the reason is that it pays paign for 1884 are making a mistake, may be robbed indefinitely for the bene- .could reduce the duties upon iron, wool, our foreign indebtedness and diffusing when their consideration was not prices under free trade—such policy to do so. It must be owned, too, that The people are in advance of their lead-; fit of protected monopolists. Take off copper and linseed the excellei.ee of eur prosperity oyer the land >n defiance of be the highest fruit of wise states the beneficiaries of the system are highly ere on this subject. Many of the leaders tbe prohibitary duty on iron, so that we iron and steel would win a market for the high tariff, handicaping of pampered biased by the prejudice of party must manship. This, in brief, is the political successful in the practice of their dupe have been left already, and there is dan- may have cheap ships and get low them in the remotest corners of the greed, which, like the horseleech’s politics. | ger that more will be. ' freights. This would be of more value world.” , economy of the Salem Statesman. It ries on the people at large. daughter, cries always for mors. io De Free! vlvzvli