f .'I I \ 4 ■•'I s * w «• J - % t- r I f 1 SUPPLEMENT. p . « EXTRACTS TAKEN FROM DAILY I “Lon< ere now. had not the Demo cratic Party with its characteristic pig- headness, persisted In its attacks on the settlements of the war. there would have b«en a reckoning on the subject of tariff plunder, the navigation laws, dishonest money and the entire scheme of quack- | cries sustained by greed, Ignorance and demagogery in combination—and now, if' the Democratic party is done with its fol- ies, the reckon will not be very much longer delayed." The Fallacies of From the Standpoint of the I One of the Lame Arguments of Protection. 'Daily Oregonian,. January 11,1881.1 Mr. Thos. 8. Lang, of the Dahes, is an occasional contributor to several journals of fin* lutate in ■•defehse of the’policy of ^prwteétión.’*» His latest essay is an at- Aclnpt to disprove what the Oregonian ¡recently’ said concernine high prices as .an effect oi the protective system. It is imagines it exactly the thine for a peo ple situated as we are here to have the tariff maintained at prohibitory rates, so that we can buy none of the cheap goods which Great Britain has to sell,and take the little money we get for our wheat, which must be sola at a low price (because, as we will not trade with our customer, we cannot get ships enough to carry it away) and buy of our "protected” eastern manufacturers the goods which we must have at the high prices which the tariff enables them to exact. This is a good policy to pile up the profits of the protected monopolist, but a Wad one for us out of whom these profits are drawn. It compels us to part wiHi our products at a low price and buy what we must have at high prices. And this is just what is the matter with Oregofl at this moment. Every item which enters into the production of wheat is taxed for tiie iienefit of eastern monopolists, even to the farmer’s harness leather, harrow tejdi- Um very bags be puts bis wheat in, I e to IM of til" Pacific coast than cheap •« Thil talk <>f protecting AtnerioMU la b«»r isaj juggle and a farce nlnre the sys- a Itirtlcy <>r tobacco without price. Circulars of this sort show that then I tem <ib«*i ?■ not protect, hut. on the c<*n- trary.^cti tally oppr.-aaen the larger part is io lie a concerted effort on the part ol the protectionist. to save their advan- I ••f thelabor of the country." h tages by malting war on the internal 1 * < revenue system. To meet It the pre s oi A-Btfden on Agriculture the country ought to be vigilant and <ait-I / (Dily Oregonfsn, November 15, iMi ] ‘ spoken. They wbo have been an us- ‘ /THF anus- Thep'ew York Time» in a series of tomed to the benefits of class h glslation ' harticl^l oppres- article on the exactions and oppres* will employ every ruse to hold Jlietn. ■ sions‘1 our tariff la a a, is taking up the schedule item toy item for illustration*, hi a tocentlmuie it shows how the agri- Mischievous Methods. riihutol‘jalcr sis of the country are af (Daily Oregoolxn. Julj 27. UUSi. j fected most injuriously by the heavy and amoat prahibitorv'duty on railway, » » • v -* * * The inspiration of thia bill (to create a steel.' On first cost of railway building this lirden is fully |3000 a mile, and on tariff commission) is a plan of the ex renefals it is a constant and heavy tax. treine protectionists to reduce the taxes The Timex justly protests against the on whisky, beer anil tobacco in order «rag and injury of loading our Ameri that there may lie excuse for continuing can train u itli such a burden in comj>e- titfcn with foreign grain, “ft may l>e the burden of the “protective” system s0U*” the Timex remarks, “that the —•« ------------- tire repeal of the internal tare» in favor oi mono|>olista. Though every- t/ifl secures to American farmers the must, have revenue ami ,rather than the eurrender if any tiling else be taxed we must have free pine market, but it dues not. The price i grain here is ultiinafeiv fixed abroad, . otliei - ■ — the Thus our labor suffer» from a system of robbery, disguised under forms of quackery for pretended protection of American labor. The stupidity that doesn’t see it, particularly on this coast, where the producing classes are so plainly the • victims of it, is phenominal ahd perhaps hopeless.—Do/fy Oregonian, Oct. 21, 1881. I II'- Ibpubli -mi party nould el 1-1 I rill l<n-i|,-il reiluctiiill of the X:,tic,liai n-Vi iiue by re|iealing tile taxi s mi toll un . «hi. h tire mi nnj ilovniHT mill a burden to agrictil- tuie. and the tax upon spirits used in the arts and for mechanical pur poses ; and by arch revision of the tariff as will t< nd toeheck imports of such nrtieles as are produced by oiir people, tiie production of which gives employment to our labor, mid release from import duties those artiefes of foreign production (ex cept luxuries) the like of which cannot lie produced at home. If there shall still remain a larger reve nue than is requisite for tiie wants of the govei iiment, we Ja for the en < M -1