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ü •• (cvrwan gr»m ' ^oroma. t»,»,. K»w«»rw Wl.iMk.v iZ. .1,1,.Im tor * ate of profits pn the who»^A*rop.” tobacco In. ,1 it« form«, the __ i not onlv on railway iron and steel la»* j- f.tfittt.Tyifzirtltr.iap. as now. ”yhe money taken f nnent—wlileh be 1« ««l<l to sustain that the tariff hurts the farmer, but on treasury, will go into the pockets J.y giving trixle prices at Manchester anil iron and steel in all forms in which these ere, distillers and tobacconists, to sw Birmingham—that consumers in the ^United States are enabled to buy,, under the enormous gains already made by the ►_________ are to be u«ed in connection*. * L our protective system, “almost every manufacturers of articles which are a | viti? -agriculture. For all the “protec- thing” in the many lines of manufac perennial nuisance and cnmulative currse J ion*’ jihioh nianufachirers get other, 8 Tax on Sugar is. for tured goods of home production, at lower to mankind. The revenues from liquors Oasses -have to pav. Since the farmers rates thin they would have to pay for and tobacco are tlie very revenues a^4u*QAe*way or another the chief con- Revenue and Not ’■ -Z .■ I the Engli,h product. Here it is that ex which never ought to he given up. They «ittoM-ffihe principal part of the burden cess of zeal for the protectected monopo Protection. are derived froth articles which ought to fab on them. All others who pay the lists of the United States, of whom of be taxed to as high a point as they wilt taa-aei railroad people and wagon and course Mr. Loring is One, leads that gen bear without incurring danger of frauds ploigh makers—have a chance to recoup, tleman to prove too much. For of course upon the revenue. Long experience has butlh^y recoup mainly at the expense of if we manufacture «and sell “almost produced a system for collection of these agrlultare. It is said, however, that (everything” at lower,prices than Great taxes which is as perfect as anything thelabor employed in manufactures has Britain can, we want no “protection.? can be. The laws work smoothly and tbe benefit of. high wag s. But where We are not in danger, then, from the are easily enforced, and the revenues de areliq farmer’s wages? A Chicago pa ‘ pauper labor” of Europe. Our home rived frqtn these articles are enormctis per »etpre us boasts that men employed manufactures would not be “destroyed” in thf 'Steel work« of that city receive and constantly increasing. by those whom we even now undersell. Taxation ofliquors and tobacco relieves from four to ten dollars a day. 11 calls -And thus the main argument for “pro 'thein ¿ Yates “freedom and comfort legitimate industries of taxation, pro tection” is overthrown by the too zeal vides money for internal improvements wag^,J’. and asks us to note what pro ous advocates of that system. The complaint about sugar is that we and for payments on the public debt, tect im does. But what doe« the tanner . -As a ulatter of fact, however, the state- did not reduce enough. We have dealt ’Daily Oregonian. Dec. It, ISSO.] and yet oppresses nobody. Mauufac; Cit? Where aré Ns--“freed<»in and < < hii - lixent is not well founded. It is part of more harshlv with sugar than with any rt Atoige«?” How many farmers a<- A Croat Discovery. Hirers of these articles do, indeed, cone An inquiry is addressed to the Oregon otl^r The Principle of the Mills the scheme of sophistry, cozenage «nd article we have left on .-the dutiable [Daily Oregonian. November 27, 1 k «2 I plain, but certainly they are all making tualv-fealize two ddiliirs a dav for t heir h»boi io HUy'nothing of a profit on thejr ifeceptjon by which the monopoly sys ian by a person who read its remarks list.' Yet gentlemen on the other side All the taxes that spiriltious liquors money fast enough, and if they were inviXitAient in land?* The talk of “pro- e Bill Sustained by Hi^h tem sustains itself. Of course our manu of yesterday on “Loes of the Carrying tell us that we have been sectional; that not tlte way is open to them to go into facturers are not offering cheai>er goods Trade.” The inquiry is as follows, viz: we have protected sugar and rite and and tobacco can be made to pay should better business. The one tiling Congress lectiig” American lal«>r is a juggle and Republican Au than Great Britain. If they were, the “Since we produce all mateiiala that enter .aimed at the destruction of Northern in be collected. That is, the taxeson those ought to do is to adjourn. fareq since the system does not’protect, natural law of prices would keep out Into ■ ship-building, viz: timber, iron, etc., dustries. The charge is absurd. We commodities should be kept at as higli but, bn tlie contrary, actually ojo»reuses thority. • ♦ British goods, and there would be no I am at a losa to determine what j on refer to by have not looked at tlie section where any a rate as possible without cresting in the hryi-r part of the lalior of the coun remarking: ‘Bnt such are the duties levied on article is produced in order to determine try. To iuipport a comparatively few clamor from our protecting monopolists materials that go Into ship building,’ etc. Will centives to fraud and so defeating the ob “Great Britain pays higher average - r for a tariff to prohibit foreign importa you pleast explain In what manher said ditties what we would do. We have tried to ject. Another thing, ii we strike off the wageN, under free trade,.*Iliau either inaniiiact ur»*r« and give them large are levied on home-produced materials?'' deal fairly with all, and in doing so find one hundred inillionsof revenue annually France or Germany, under protection, profit < it griu<la down the great agtictil- On no other nubject [ protection] b> tions. These protected monopolists This-inquirer is misled by his own con that we have cut it far heavier than iron, obtained by the national treasury through and the United States paj s. relatlvely lural ida -Hi’Hi'i the country, who are onr know well the purpose of a protective there no in neh effort inatte to ni in 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 no higher wages in her erowded mining most mimerons ami n.-eftil laborera. levied on imported goods with design to levied on home-produced materials that cottons, or hemp; or jute, or flax. In /i/jf anti bc/og the peop/e. /Vr/m/w raise the price of home commodities. It enter into ship-building, yet the cost of short, the cut on sugar is nearly twice tariff on imports will be possible. There districts, in proportion to the relative is a tax on all the necessaries of life, cost of living, than Great Britain.** and iniquity of t|»v whole moo thè reanon in it payn to do no. forbids the consumer to buy cheap for such materials is enormously increased as much as all the others put together, amounting to probably $500,000.000 a 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 rs bundle of iniquities and absurd- The East and the Tariff. correct principles of taxation, there ought to let in the foreign article, hut invite called the tariff' Isw.” It mnnt be oirned, too, that the and forces him to buy the home product which however, only about one-third at advanced prices. This is the whole the producer of the home article to to be a higher duty on sugur than any goes into the national treasury, while [Dally Oregoulxn, April HW7.J beneficia rien of the ngntem are scheme of a protective tariff. Except make the price excessive, and “protect” other article on the dutiable list. The Lumber Tariff. the other two-thirds are divided as Harvey N. Sheparil, an eminent Bos ******* for this, no manufacturer would demand him in doing so. Just as our tariff on special bounties among favored indi [Di*lly Oregonian, February 21, 1883.] hiÿhtn nuccennfal in their duperien protection. Men like Mr. Loring of steel rails increases the cost of all steel Now, Mr. Speaker, we get by the pres viduals and corporations. Free trade in ton merch uit, recently addressed tl»e Tlie linnberinen of this country,« sq far Massachusetts want the duties so high rails used in this country, whether im ent duty on sugar and molasses about these necessary commodities is not ex New England Clulj on the necessity cf nian as of the people nt large. to exclude foreign goods altogether, ported or produced here, so onr tariff on $58,000,000 per annum. According to pected or desired, but a reasonable modi tariff reform., Protection, practically, is as their .views have found expression, rare tiutfiin^one way or another about and thus give them the complete monop ship-building materials increases the the estimate of the gentleman on the fication and reduction of the rates of lavished upon a few favored industries, Feb.2, 1882. the question of free lumber. The busi 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, fection of protection, or at least so high is one of the causes why ship-builders of for free sugar and a bounty for the sugar whisky and tobacco ought not be the and tells Brown that his trade must take ness. i|r be so well adjusted upon the as to raise the price of foreign goods a the United States cannot compete with grower, the present rate of duty affords only free articles which tlie American its chance will, foreign competitors while proner.basis of-supply and demand Ihal ¡hey nave no fear of < with INTRODUCTORY. little above the point at which they are those of other countries. That we have protection to the domestic sugar grower citizen ¡sallowed to buy and consume. Smith’s is guarded by a tax so nigh as British Columbia, in any .event, there desirous of selling their own. Our tariff in our country al! necessary ship-build equaj to $0,01)0,000; so that the whole to shut out foreign competition. The is' no danger of over supply or -reduce«! is wholly controlled in sup ing materials is a bootless boast, so long cost to the people is $(54,000,000. In or The articles contained in tllifs legislation United States, France and Germany try prie«.. But in the old northwest there is port of this system. The manufactur as oiir tariff policy makes them so der to get $02,000,000 of revenue :rom A Characteristic Ruse. ( to protect their manufactures by restrict much division of -sentiment. Lumber paper, and credited to the Oregonian, ing interest has become powerful enough costly that we cannot use them. manufacturers of iron and steel, and [Daily Oregonian, October 26, M81.J j ive duties. Great,Britain’s manufactures men are opposed to removal QrXMhietion woolen and cotton goods, the people are editorial articles taken front the to control legislation absolutely for its of. iJjejtariff.Iiecause, they frankly ¿ay, own profit and against the interest of A duty ought to be laid on those arti have to pay $500,000,000 to $600,000,000-. Mr. Wharton Barker, of Barker Bros. have | to face the world without protection. it will bring Cann» I a liimlier Jnio-’tb«* files of the Oregonian, covering the consumers. Government is made an in cle« which will produce a clear revenue — Mill's Speech on the Mills Bill. A Co., bankers of Philadelphia, ha3*a<l- ' What is the resuif? ' Here is Mr. Shep countty and refined the price. Fruni.llie strument through which one class of citi at least for collection. # W < Sugar is period front ISSftto 1887, inclusive. zens herd’s answer : _ of vient of the.consuinerfeaf lijmber, is giyen legal authority to plunder one of these. * -ft * It is a taw for “Mr. Carlisle is Itf no sense a free dressed to Senator Morri 11,-of Vermont, ' “Greàf Britain selfs in Germany twice ¡»oint wjayouttunyl$eV tlie dealer« twvoral hun They comprise only a part of mtich 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 anil three dred to one, these are excellent reawona that that paper has had to say dur- course tliose 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 hah l>pen mailed j times what is sold by us; in France one for redu< ing or removing the duty. Krom power of the Government will not wil tection. — Oregonian, Feb. 24, 1881. the re, ublicans who are commencing an to all the leading newspapers of the , ami one-half times what is sold by the the |M>int of view of the national good, . ing the time mentioned upon the lingly give up their advantage. They alarmist’s campaign for 1884 are making country. The following note addressed Germane i and twice what is sold by ns ; without reference to (he cost of the grtfr*» even deign'to argue to the victims of the mistake. ” 1 a to editors accompanies it : ( subject of protection and tariff policy—and all communities stunted The reduction of the revenue on sugar and l.ere twice what is sold by Uie ¡cle, a change in the law which will in- by th? bill is SI 1,759,700, - and P hiladelphia , bet. 6, 1881. French and four times what is sold, by .crease the importMion of lumber, and reform, arid in exposure of the im like ours are victims of it—that it is proposed Reduction of Taxes. excepting the woolen schedule, is nearly D ear S ir : I beg to call your atten- I the Germans.” check the rapid consumption of our own [Daily Oregonian,* December 14, 1883.] | tion to the inclosed letter to Senator policy and injustice of the present immensely to their advantage that the twice as much as all others combined, ft Great Britain; does not do tLis because pine, i« most desirable. Tlie lumber policy be continued and sustained. ft ft But on correct principles of taxa Morrill, of Vermont, and I will thank i she pays less wages, for slife pays higher duly is the most inexcusable folly and 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 you to inform me what objections, if any, average i wages under free trade than of the % hole monstrous bundle party with its characteristic pig-headed- sugar than on any other article on the alarm the people, which many republi- • you have to the proposal for abolition of < either France dr Germany under [jro iniquity soundriess of the views contained in of iniquities and almurdjties called the , , v 11COO, U 111 nestf, pVIOlOlA persisted in 1KO its atUKIVO attacks Mil on 111C«**3U the set- dutable 11 st. --Speechof Roger Q. Milla, July cans have made because the democrats j internal taxes. . I lection, and the United States pays rela tarifTT^w. It cuts two ways. It taxes President Cleveland $' tanji mes-.. xlemenfta of the war, there would have 21, 1888. did not follow their, advice and eipct Mr. It is my desire to obtain the views of 1 tively no higher wages in het crowded the c.oqfcumer to encourage the destruc been a reckoning on the subject of tariff sage, and are in perfect accord l^ith 1 Randfrll speaker, we should not be mis prominent men, so that the question can i mining districts, in projiortidn to Ihe tion qQhe forestB. Lumlier is a peculiar ‘ , / - A J n ‘ plunder, the navigation laws, dishonest understood to favor ‘any.policywhich cost of. living, than Great Brit prodff^ in that itjs limited in quantity, all the esStlitial features of Ajillr*- money and the entire scheme of quack- Sugar, Revenue and Protec- will be disastrous to the general interests ■ bej properly presented lo Congress in i relative December.” ' i ain. Before IS®, under avervlow tariff, and, mice the supply j is exhausted, can- can greed, '* ignorance and ' x by - - bill. They .'show coi u?élf¿ivi li' ti»U.*™*«»*“ - n<çl * . tion, of tlie co^ntrw^yThe|&ct.^Df excessive .jhe letter addressed to- Senator^ Mor-. we led all nations inghiplniilding ; today not l4Hg<‘ , |'hi' eil tbf for several generat ion«. generations. jrnogb^ery fa In combination —and now, . - I demogOdery combina taxation is uniyersaily conceded,$nd th0. i ■* [Daily "flregonlan, February 24. lssi? ” our ihipyàrds, (hat were gnee'vocal witii ritl' arglies the proposition at length. < Hie Hhoukfetudv shi ’ iihLstiidy the ’ preservation df wool .mid lumber should | —11 bcrTTi-i* u.if f r tfte "Demdtntic party has made its v only practical IjQestioft is ih what direc But the argument is not conclusive. It. ' the sound- of a3, saw aritd h<M>met,Ve the 1 íiih I ímw T of encouraging their Again the principle known as . free final effort to-rehabilitate Bourbonism that the* tariff op ’‘•stigar ligar is L““—- tion shall the ^necesfhry redii(*tion be 1 pro its all. mention of the; real reason why dent, and last year-Main« did not bttild extirt ucHonJ bhdnlÄ Htinmlate ¡instead of and'is done with its follies, the reckon trade does not contemplate the total re We belfeve with the New York the proposition is submitted. Philadel- i a single ship. Protection has kille<t,sEip- prohibiting ihé * ' Importation *..................loll OÍ HUpJHMHI ■* “a tax for; revenue, apd is,directly, i ing .wilL not be very much longer de- moval of duties. Such a result would made. Tiniea that the proper direction for re phia is the center of our “protective” building by making a vessel cost.from from otherA'oun tries. lay«M.~ Iiiyiaou of parties on these issues, * L ____________ - opposed in principle laid effect to a which will-take place when the Demo- not be contemplated, even if it were for duction to take is toward the relief of tariff system. Men like Mr. Barker per $20 to $.'U> a ton more ill Bath, Me., tKan manufacturers, the stimulation of trade, any reason desirable. Revenue must be across the luie in New Brunswick. ceive that the country is growing restive duty imposed for protection,” a#iT: , cralic party gets done mourning for the had 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 ** The unprotected classes not only SU| - ply the wholefeo! ntry with their prod past and trying to restore it, has ever lieen devised which has, ÿti the ment of labor, and not toward cheapen contain, therefore, a complete ahs- hopeless institutions, onr vast line of seaeojtst, will cut right through the lines of parties whole, been so satisfactory as levying ing the mischievous/ luxuries of the that there is ah increasing demand for a our restless, indomitable industrial ucts free of bounty, but exported a sur wer to the charge that the Millsbil^ as now constituted. What is demanded duties on imports. The whole question smoker and the drinker. We think that mollification of it. To anticipate this energy and talent for trade, we ought to plus exceeding * HO o.ooo.ooo last year, demand and foil it is the object of the tlie balance of trade heavily In which takes nearly $12,000,QQO off is honest money, free ships, revision of at issue turns on the principle .upon freer development for American trade* effort of which the protectionists are be the greatest maritime and commercial turning our f& vor, paying, off our foreign Indebt- the tariff in the interest of the people which these duties are to lie imposed. and industry, and a free breakfast table of sugar, is partial and sectional iu- rather than in tliat of monopolies, and A duty ought to be laid upon those arti for American woi4cers, are better than a making for the abolition of internal nation on the lace of the globe ; yet- we ednesji an«l diff using prosperity over the are the least among the great taiwers of taxes. lu defiance of the high tariff handi favor of the Southern .planters. the general policy of favoring trade or cles which will produce a clear revenue free bar. The high protectionists on tbe This, however, is by no means the only the earth. The foreign trazle of Great land capplug of pampere I greed, which,11h« allowing it freedom rather than ob- at-least for collections. Sugar is one of other hand are in favor of retaining or Britain is more than $100 per head' of objection to the proposal. By far the the horse leech’s daughter, cries always These articles expose in advaneff strtmling it.- Proper adjustment would .these. Coffee and teaare also admirably increasing the duty on imports of all greater part of the revenue raised l>y in the [Kipulation ; that of France $45; of the fallacy of revenue reduction, have been iorced on these questions long adapted to the same end, though onr laws kinds and the remission of all liquor and ternal taxation is derived from liquors Germany $:15, ’ and our dwn alioiit $25 for more -Oregonian. .lain. 28. 1882 ago bath not the Democratic party per- exempt them from duty. tobacco taxes, or the retention of these (spirituous and malt), and from tobacco. In soil, in industrial skill and talent, in proposed- by tlie Republican plat sisted so strenuously in upholding the blnnderingly and" Non-Pro- When 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 Protected form, by abolishing, the internal exploded theoriesof the state sovereignty of the tax goes into the public treasury. the states, the collection of the liquor tax to be taxed so long as taxes are required the richest natio . on the earth, but tected Industry. reliellioh, thus compelling all who be It is a tax for revenue, and is directly for the benefit of the states, or. the di [Daily Oregonian. January 2S, IHSXj- for any pur|M)se whatever. The proposal Great Britain beats us because tool and revenue tax, thus making whiskey' lieved in ^the nationality of the United opposed in principle and effect to a duty »•*»••• version of the internal revenue to the to abolisn internal taxes, while keeping ; raw material go into Great Britain free, and tobacco free, while the neces States to combine for the defense of it imposed for “protection.” The object of support of education. Judging by bis up the excessive ami even prohibitory and therefore she can manufacture more T hus it aiqimtre that ninety per cent of and for preservation of the results of those lawB is not revenue, but prohibi utterances and his votes, Mr. Carlisle is duties levied under the existing system cheaply and undersell France, Germany saries of life arc made dear. In the great war. tion of importations, in order to give the in no sense a radical free trader. He of “protection,” means cheap whisky and the United States in the markets of our exported products are of the "non short, these articles are unanswer home market to the protected class at does not think that free trade would be and dear clothing; an untaxed beer bar the world. Last year the sum of $100,- protected” and only ten per cent of the high prices. Tbe 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 “piotected” class. Fifty millions of peo- 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 i United States for ocean freight, ami a policy of the Democratic platform pile up the profits 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 monev might pie are taxed constantly to the extent of monopolist, but a bad one for us its effects well enough, how much soeyer proximate free trade, which has no idea i The purpose of all this is to assure con be in our [lockets if onr tariff, culled pro 49 to 100 percent on all the manufac- and candidates upon the tariff ques out of whom these profits are their organ may attempt to disguise ! of crfppling the growth of home indus tinuance of enormous profit« to Eastern i tective, had not obliterated our shipping tired g'Kals they consume. This tax is drawn." tion. them. tries, but simply of waling down the 5 iron masters, salt boilers, wood pulp pro • and turned over to England the earryiog . collected'bf the consulners « hcther they iniquities of the tariff scheilule, where prietors, and the whole train of immopo- - trade of the wqrld on the high seas. i use imported or domestic manufactures, Aside from their intrinsic value, Too Transparent. they are utterly out of proportion to the lists who are “protected” at the expense The answer of high tariff men to the and was im|sised for the purjajee of giv Fortunes for the Few. as a contribution to Democratic, [Dully Oregonian, Dec, 29th, 1KS0.J demands of that growth. After we have of all the consumers of thecountry. No! logic of these hard facts is the Specious ing to the ca dial ahd labor of one-tenth [Daily Oregonian, february 2,1882.] calmly stood by and allowed monopolies Let us continue to tax consumers of plea of protection to native ioduslries of the people a S|iecial bounty or subsidy campaign literature, these articles There is an .ignorance of the funda «««*««« to grow fat, we should not be asked to whisky, beer and tobacco, and have Mr. Shepherd answers this argument al under ihe fallacious pretense that it mental principles of political economy have a special value as anexpres- A limited class have conceived and put make them bloated. Our enormous rev» cheaper clothing, cheaper sugar and salt, length, and we quote elsewhere what he would add to tlie wealth of the whole which supposes coin to he the only Yet out of the nearly $H0O,- sion of the opinions of one of the actual wealth; and therefore it is im in practice the doctrine that it is a good enues are illogical and oppressive. It is cheaper railroad irou. cheaper ship says on the subject of wool. The taritl country. entirely undemocratic to continue these building materials and cheaper tools for iron may shut out foreign competition, 000,000 Mirplus product« of the country scheme for them to make the great body ablest and best known Republicans agined that if a people maintain a policy burdens on the people for y ears and our fanners and mechanic*; Besides all but it kills our own iron trade with other exported to for, ign 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 counlries. 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 bay millions of «lol Ilian 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 ouly snpply the whole coun 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 none tr im ns, because “Great Brit try with their poslm-ta free of laiunty, time to time during a series of when though they are obliged to pay out the of the few. This is “protection” and all no reason to be frightened over Mr. Car we are not able to agree with Mr. Barker ain cou'd and did take in return for iron, lint exported a surplus exceeding $H00,- years when these questions were money at once to protected home mo there is of it. On no other subject is there lisle’s intentions, and the republicans on the repeal of the internal tax laws, in wool, copper, Ireuip and linseed, w Idle 000,000 la-t J ear, tun.mg tlie balance of off trad,- heavily in 0U1 favor, paving i not in issue between parties and nopolists for the very goods at higher so much effort to mistify and befog peo who are commencing an alarmist cam order that the consumer of the country our lariff fori i Is us to buy them. If w. our foreign hidet.le.luess amt I diffusing prices, which they could obtain at low ple. Perhaps the reason is that it pays paign for 1884 are making a mistake. may be robbed indefinitely for the bene would reduce the duties upon iron, w.s.l when their consideration was not prices under free trade—such policy to do ao. It must be owned, too, that The people are in advance of their lead fit of protected monopolists. Take off copper and linseed, the excelle re of Mir prosperity oyer the land n defiance of high iaiitf , liandt, iping of pampered biased by the prejudice of party I must be the highest fruit of wise states the beneficiaries of the system are highly ers on this subject. Many of the leaders the prohibitarv duty on iron, so that wv iron ami steel would win a market for the manship. This, in brief, is the political successful in the practice of their dupe have been left already, and there is dan may have cheap ships and get io* them in the remotest co-ners of the g,ecd, which,. I ke the horseleech’« politics. daughter, ,-riea always lor more. economy of the Salem Staletman. It ries on tlie people at large. ger that more will be. freights. This would In» of more value world.” B GHaracienslic Ruse-Free Whiskeg anil ToùaccD. iKat they are obli$re<1 to part; FY*1> in buying “protected” goods at “prmPcted” prices. This may suit the Salem Statesman, but it does not please those who have the comprehension to see through the Sophis tries ol the so-calk-<l protective svstein— a system expressly devised and main tained to enhance the price of American' mannfictnred goods, and to force non manufacturing communities, like our selves, to buy them, who otherwise would buy cheap goods from anybody offering them. The political [lower which maintains this unjust ami oppres sive system is in our great eastern states, and the yietimized have not strength to abolish it. But at least this power shonid not coten and hoodwink the.vic tim into the belief that the wholesale robbery which it legalizes and maintains for its own profit, is just th? the thing we ought to lie satisfied with. It is too transparent. . ... ~ /' " ' Tlie [•rrqwsjnl to alxdish internnl money into the It fuliillH that taxes, while keeping up the exces- object. But the object, of the duty'on Isive mid even priihiliitorv duties niany other articles,, as wool, iron and [ levieil'umle.r the existing system of steel, is to keep out the foreign product “protection?’ meitiih cheap whisky with'a design to raise the price Q£-th£ and dear chrt king jail untaxed beer home commodity. We entourage the barrel and ah excessive tax on iron importation* of sugar because we must in every form; free tobacco and bave it and we tax it localise we want dear salt; cheap cheroots and the revenue. This is iu fullest, accord i high-priced' printing pa|»er. The with the principles of free trade. But purpose <>f all this -is* to assure we discourage and obstruct the. importa continuance of enormous profits to tion of' 1rt>n, steel, wool told a multitude eastern iron-masters, salt boilers, -of other, commodities,' laying a large duty wood pulp’ proprietors, and the on them, not for revenue but for obstruc whole train ’of monopolists who tion, and the result is the robbery of ihe tire ••pnifented” at the expense of njanj’ for the benefit of the few.— baily the "consnrticrx of tlie country.— Or^gonitui., June 30, 188£. l>ailg Oregauian, Octi 2tl, 1881.