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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1888)
SUPPLEMENT. EXTRACTS TAKEN FROM J ■ THE DAILY OREGONIAN The Fallacies of PROTECTIQJi! *1 . “Lon« ere now. had not the Demo cratic Party with Its character la tic pig- headness, persisted in its attacks on the settlements of the war, there would hare been a reckoning on the subject of tariff plunder, the navigation laws, dishonest money and the entire scheme of quack eries sustained by greed, ignorance and demagugery In combination—and now, if the Democratic party is done with its fol- les, the reckoning will not be very much longer delayed." ! From the Standpoint of One of the Lame Arguments of Protection. [Dally Oregcnl.r.. January 11,1881.1 M r. Thon. 8. Lang, of the Tlatles, is an occasional contributor to several journals of tlte .State in -defehse df the ’ policy of '•proWtion.’*» His latest essay is an at- icmpt to disprove what the Oregonian recently «aid concerning high prices as an effect of the protective system. It is imagines it exactly the thing 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, ana take the little money we get for our wheat, which must be sold 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 tied one for us out of whom these profits are drawn. It compels us to part with our products at a low price and buy what we must have at high prices. And this is just what is the matter with Oregofi at this moment. Every item which enters into the production of wheat is taxed for the lienefit of eastern monopolists, even to the farmer’s harness leather, harrow teeth, the very bags he puta his wheat in. •• Thtlalk ,.f prolertlag ta.rlwa la io us of th- Pacific coast than cheap b«»r la* Juggle and a force since the sys whisky or tobacco without price. Circular, of this sort aliow that thrr.- tem the» net protect, but, on the con is to lie a concerted effort on the part of trary, Actually oppr iie« the larger part the protectionists to eave their advan •♦f thelaborof the country." tage« by making war on tbe internal revenue system. To meet It the pre -s of ABtrdan on Agriculture. [Dib Oregonian. November 14, INI ] the country ought to be vigilant and out , spoken. They who have been accus Tlieffew York Time» in a series hf tomed to the benefits of class h-glslaiion ■ • artici article i ou the exaction. and oppres will employ every ruse to hold Jliem. . ,sioo«i sor tariff lass, is taking up the schedlle lie item hy item for illustrations, lu a cent tssne it shows how the agri- Mischievous Methods. culmal '■‘ ‘J '-■ aU'i ‘Tresfa of the country are at- [Daily Oregonian, July 27,188?. j fecled most _ by the __ ____ ------ jrijuriously heavy a • « V ''i* ' * * and am oat 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 ox this »mien is fully $3000 smile, and on renerals it is a constant and heavy tax. treme protectionists to reduce the taxes Ther,«ir« justly protests against the on whisky, beer and tobacco in order wrote and injury of loading our Ameri- that there may be excuse for continuing can train w ith such a burden in conipe- of the government, we favor f/rr en the burden of tlie “protective” system tittti with foreign grain, “ft may lie sad.” the Timer remarks, “that the tire rejieal nf the internal taxe» liuve revenue and .rallier than the surrender of any in favor of mono|H>lists. Though every t/itl secures to American farmers the thing else be taxed we must have free lame market, but it ikarn not. The price i grain here is iiltinialelvJuM^^teMg^— Thus our labor suffer., l ie kepobli. an party noilld el- cl .11 l.ccdol reduction of tile from a system of robbery, Xtdjoii.il revenue by repealing the disguised under forms of tax. a on toll .ci u. uhicli tire an an' iloyniiee mill n burden to Hgricul- quackery for pretended tuie. ami tlie tax upon spirits used protection of American in the arts and for mechanical pur ; and by such revision of the labor. The stupidity that poses tariff as will tend to check imports doesn’t see it, particularly of sttcli articles as are produced by on this coast, where the utir people, the production of which employment to our labor, and producing classes are so ■'gives release from import duties those plainly the • victims of it, articles of foreign production (ex luxuries) the like of which is phenominkl aid perhaps cept >annot Im produced at home. If hopelesS.— Oregonian, there shall still remain a larger reve nue than is requisite for the wants Oct. 21, 1881.