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SUPPLEMENT. EXTRACTS TAKEN FROM THE DAILY OREGONIAN I The Fallacies of ; V. “The talk of protecting American I*. IU us of the Pacific coast than cheap bor and a fares line* th, whisky or tobacco without price. Circulars of this sort show that there teiu du,, not protect, but, ou th« Coy. actually oppr,,,,, the l»rg«r is to be a concerted effort on the part of trary, part of the ------ ------------------- - labor of the country. ” the protectionists to save their advan tages by making war on the internal revenue system. To meet it the press of A Burden on Agriculture. (Daily Oregonian, November 15, 1881 j the country ought to be vigilant and out spoken. They who have been accus The New York Timet in a series of tomed to the benefits of class legislation articles on the exactions and oppres will employ every ruse to hold them. sions of our tariff laws, is taking up th« schedule item by item for illustrations In a recent issue it shows how the agri- Mischievous Methods. From the Standpoint of One of the Lame Arguments cultural'interests of the country are af [Daily Oregonian. July 27,1882.] fected most injuriously by the heavy of Protection. ♦ #»*♦** and almost prohibitory duty on railway (Dally Orogoulau, January 11,1S81.| The inspiration ol thin bill (to create a steel. On first cost of railway building Mr. Thos. 8. Lang, of the Dalles, is an tariff commission) is a plan of the ex this burden is fully $:i000 a mile, and on occasional contributor to several journals renewals it is a constant and heavy tax treme protectionists to reduce the taxes The Times justly protests against tl-e of the State in defense of the policy of on whisky, beer and tobacco in order wrong and injury of loading our Ameri "protection.” Ilis latest essay is an at that there may be excuse for continuing can grain with such a burden in coiniie- tempt to disprove what the Oregonian recently said concerning high prices as the burden of the “protective” system tition with foreign grain. “It may lie said,” the Times remarks, “that the an effect of the protective system. It is in favor of monopolists. Though every tariff secures to American farmers the argued that protection does not make thing else be taxed we must have free home market, but it does not. The price high prices, but gives us low prices; that in consequence ol this policy we are en whi-kv. I>eer and tobacco; otherwise the of grain here is ultimately fixed abroad, abled to get manufactured goods cheaper Ameiii an citizen, born to an inheritance whatever may be its fluctuations. The average home price is determined by than we should obtain them under free nuvn what . V. it iret-duin, , Will will I1CVC1 never know true trade and that we make goods so cheap librily is. And yet who will be bene bene- that of the surplus exported, and neces under protection that we are ublo to un fited by the reduction of these taxes? sarily. Therefore the duty on steel and dersell England even in her own market. Beer will still lie five or ten cents a glass. iron not only hampers the competition And Mr. George B. Loring, of Massa- Whisky two drinks for a quarter, and of American grain abroad, but it lowers chusets is produced as authority for the The proposal to abolish internal tobacco in all its forms, the same price the rate of profits on the whole crop.” statement—which he is said to sustain now. The money taken from the It is not only on railway iron and steel taxes, while keeping up the exces as by giving trade prices at Manchester and treasury, will go into the pockets of brew that the tariff hurts the farmer, but on sive and even prohibitory duties Birmingham—that consumers in the ers, distillers and tobacconists, to swell iron and steel in all forms in which these United States are enabled to buy, under levied under the existing system of the enormous gains already made by the products are to be used in connection our protective system, “almost every “protection,” means cheap whisky manufacturers of articles which are a with agriculture. For all the “protec A Tax on Sugar Is for thing” in the manv lines of manufac tion” which manufacturers get other and dear clothing; an untaxed beer perennial nuisance and cumulative curse classes tured goods of home production, at lower have to pay. Since the farmers to mankind. The revenues from liquors iron barrel and an excessive tax on rates than they would have to pay for Revenue and Not and tobacco are the very revenues are in one way or another the chief con the English product. Here it is that ex in every form; free tobacco and which never ought to lie given up. They sumers the principal part of the burden cess of zeal for the protectected monopo Protection. dear salt; cheap cheroots and are derived from articles which ought to falls on them. All others who pay the lists of the United States, of whom of high-priced printing paper. The be taxed to as high a point as they will tax—as railroad people and wagon and course Mr. Ixiring is one, leads that gen without incurring danger of frauds plough makers—have a chance to recoup, purpose of all this is to assure bear tleman to prove too much. For of course upon the revenue. Long experience has but they recoup mainly at the expense of if we manufacture and sell “almost continuance of enormous profits to produced a system for collection of these agriculture. It is said, however, that everything” at lower prices than Great eastern iron masters, salt boilers, taxes which is as perfect as anything the labor employed in manufactures has Britain can, we want no “protection.” wood pulp proprietors, and the can be. The laws work smoothly and the benefit of high wag s. But where We are not in danger, then, from the easily enforced, and the revenues de are the farmer’s wages? A Chicago pa whole train of monopolists who are "pauper labor” of Europe. Our home rived from these articles are enormous per before us boasts that men employed manufactures would not be “destroyed” are “protected” at the expense of and constantly increasing. in the steel works of that city receive by those whom we even now undersell. the consumers of the country.— Taxation of liquors and tobacco relieves from four to ten dollars a day. It calls And thus the main argument for “pro legitimate industries of taxation, pro these rates "freedom and comfort Daily Oregonian, Oct. 26,1881. tection” is overthrown by the too zeal vides money for internal improvements wages,” 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, tection does. But what does the farmer [Daily Oregonian, Dec. 11, 1880.] As a matter of fact, however, the state did not reduce enough. We have dealt and yet oppresses nobody. Manufac get ? Where «re his “freedom and com 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 turers of these articles do, indeed, com fort wage i?” How many farmers ac The Principle of the Mill the scheme of sophistry, cozenage and ian by a person who read its remarks other (Daily Oregonian, November 27, 1W2 | article we have left on the dutiable plain, but certainly they are all making tually realize two dollars a dav for their deception by which the monopoly sys list. Yet gentlemen on the other side All the taxes that spirituous liquors money fast enough, and if they were labor to say nothing of a profit on their 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 not the way is open to them to go into investment inland? The talk of “pro Trade. ” The inquiry is as follows, viz : facturers are not offering cheaper goods we have protected sugar and rice and Republican Au better business. The one thing Congress tecting” American labor is a juggle and than Great Britain. If they were, the “Since we produce all material, that enter aimed at the destruction of Northern in be collected. That is, the taxes on those ought to do is to adjourn. farce, since the system does not protect, ship.bnlhltng, viz: timber, iron, etc., natural law of prices would keep out Into thority. commodities should be kept at as high I am atuloaa to determine wliat ion refer to by dustries. The charge is absurd. We but, on the contrary, actually oppresses British goods, and there would lie no remarking: 'But sncli are the duties levied oil have not looked at the section where any a rate as possible without creating in the larger part of the tabor of the coun 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 ‘‘Great Britain pays higher Average try. To support a comparatively few please explain In what manner said duties for a tariff to prohibit foreign im|>orta- you ject. Another thing, if we'strike ofl ’ tin what we would do. We have tried to are ievled on nome-produced materials'.'” i »ages, under free trade, than either manufacturers and give them large On no other subject [protection] in lions. These protected monopolists one hundred million* < .f revenue annually deal fairly with all, and in doing so find I France or Germany, under protection, profits it grinds down the great agricul This inquirer is misled by hie own con know well the purpose of a protective that we have cut it far heavier than iron, obtained by the National treasury through ■ there no much effort matte to mii>- 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 | and the Foiled States paj s relatively tural classes of the country, who are onr no higher wages in her crowded mining most numerous and useful laborers. levied on imported goods with design to levied on home-produced materials that tlfy and befog the people. Perhaps raise the price of home commodities. It enter into ship-buil.ling, yet the cost of cottons, or hemp, or jute, or flax. In tariff on imports will be possible. There districts, in proportion to the relative is a tax on all the necessaries of life, short, the cut-on sugar is nearly twice cost of living, Ilian Great Britain.” such materials is enormously increased “The lumber duty is the most inexcus the reason ht it pai/n to do no. forbids the consumer to buy cheap for by our system of protection. We refuse as much as all the others put. together, amounting to probably $500,000,000 a able folly and iniquity of the w hole mon eign goods that may be offered to him, year, which is paid by consumers, of except woolens. [Applause.] But, on to let in the foreign article, but invite strous bundle of iniquities and absurd The East and the Tariff. It maul be owned, too, that the and forces him to buy the home product the producer of the borne article to correct principles of taxation, there ought which however, only about one-third ities called the tariff law.” at advanced prices. This is the whole [Daily Oregouian, April 30, 1887.J goes into the national treasury, while to be a higher duty on sugtir than any bene/iciarien of the syntem are scheme of a protective tariff. Except make the price excessive, anil “protect” other article on the dutiable list. the other two-thirds are divided as llarvey N. Shepard, an eminent Bos The Lumber Tariff. for this, no manufacturer would demand him in doing so. Just as our tariff on ******* special bounties among favored indi highly nueeennful In their duperies p otection. Men like Mr. Loring ol steel rails increases the cost of all steel [Daily Oregonian, February 21,1883.] Now, Mr. Speaker, we get by the pres viduals and corporations. Free trade in ton merchant, recently addressed the rails used in this country, whether Im The lumbermen of this country, so far iiltin, Massachusetts want the duties so high ported or produced here, so our tarill’ on ent duty on sugar and molasses about these necessary commodities is not ex New England Club on the necessity of of the people at la rye. as to exclude foreign goods allo/ether, ship-building materials increases the $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, and thus give them the complete monop fication and reduction of the rates of Feb. 2. ¡8N2. the estimate of the gentleman on the 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 fection of protection, or at least bo high is one of the causes why shiji-builders of for free sugar anti a bounty for the sugar whisky and tobacco ought not be the and tells Brown that his trade must take the question of free lumlier. The busi as to raise the priee of foreign goods 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 proper basis of supply and demand that INTRODUCTORY little above the jioint at which they are those of fither countries. That we have protection to the domestic sugar grower citizen ¡sallowed to buy and consume. Smith’s is guarded by a tax so high as they have no fear of couqretition with desirous of selling their own. Our tariff in our country all necessary ship-build equal to $6,000,000; so that the whole lo shut out foreign conqietition. The British Columbia. In any event, there legislation is wholly controlled in sup ing materials is a bootless boast, so long cost to the people is $04,000,000. In or The articles contained in this port of this system. The manufactur as our tariff policy makes them 80 der to get $02,000,000 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 Ixicome powerful enough costly that we cannot use them. to protect their manufactures by restrict price. But in the old northwest there is manufacturers of iron anti steel, and [Daily Oregonian, October 2i>, IkSI.J much division of sentiment. Lumber to control legislation absolutely for its woolen and cotton goods, the |>eople are editorial articles taken front the own ive duties. Great Britain’s manufactures profit and against the interest of A duty ought to be laid on those arti have to pay $500,000,000 to $taM),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 mado an in cle« which will produce a clear revenue — Mill’» .Speech on the Mill» Hill. the tariff because, they frankly say, 4 Co., bankers of Philadelphia, has ad What is the result? Herein Mr. Shep of it will bring Canada lumber into the through which one class of citi at least for collection. W "Ar # Sugar is period frotn 1880 to 1887, inclusive. strument herd's answer : zens is giyen legal authority to plunder one of these. WWW It is a tax for •■Mr. Cai lisle 1« Io no ««nae a free dressed to Senator Morrill, of Vermont, country and reduce the price. From the “Great Britain sells in Germany twice They comprise only a part of much another. This is “protection.” Ol revenue, and ia 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, those who are so favored by the ciple and effect to a duty imposed for pro ened over Mr. Carlisle*« intentions, and nal taxes. This letter has been mailed who outnumber the dealers several hun that that paper has had to say dur course times what is sold by ns; in France one power of the Government will not wil tection. --Ol ?gvminn, Felt. #4, 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 deign to argue to the victims of the the point of view of the national good, The reduction of the reveuue on sugar a mistake." to editors accompanies it: subject of protection anti tariff even and l.ere twice what is sold by the without reference to the cost of the arti policy—and all communities s tuated proposed by th * bill la 1111,759,799, and P hiladei . phia , 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 ex epting the woolen schedule, Is nearly Reduction of Taxes. cle, a change in the law which will in D ear S ir : I beg to call your atten the Germans.” to their advantage that the twice as much as all others combined. W crease the importation of lumber, and [Daily Oregonian, December 14, 18S3.; policy and injustice of the present immensely tion to the inclosed letter to Senator Great Britain does not do this because l>oliey be continued and sustained. check the rapid consumption of our own W W Hut 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 demónstrate the Long ere now, had not the Democratic tion there ought to be a higher duty on pine, is most desirable. The lumber you to inform me what objections, if any, average wages under free trade than alarm the people, which many republi party with its characteristic pig-headed sugar than on any other article on the duty is the most inexcusable folly and soundness of the views contained in ness, you have to the propoeal for abolition of either France or Germany under pro iiersisted in its attacks on the set datable 11stApec«**ef Ko<rr f/. Milla, 'July cans have made because the democrats internal taxes. tection, and the United States pavs rela iniquity of the whole monstrous bundle President Cleveland’s tariff mes dements of the war, there would have V/, 1888. ■lid 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 been a reckoning on the Htibjectof tariff sage, and are in perfect accord with plunder, the navigation laws, dishonest 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 to favor any policy which be properly presented to Congress in relative cost of living, than Great Brit die consumer to encourage the destruc all the essential features of the Mills money and the entire scheme of quack Sugar, Revenue and Protec understood will be disastrous to the general interests December.’’ ain. Before 18410, under a very low tariff, tion of the forests. Lumber is a peculiar eries sustained by greed, ignorance and tion. ibill. They show conclusively that demogogery in combination—and now. of the country. The fact of excessive The letter addressed to Senator Mor we led all nations in shipbuilding; to-dav product, in that it is limited in quantity, exhausted, can can — supply apply is is exhausted, [Pally Oregonian, February 24. 1MI.J taxation is universally conceded, and the rill argues the projioBition at length. I our shipyards, that were once vocal with and, . once ” the 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 i 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 filial effort to rehabilitate Bourbonism ■that the tariff on sugar is and is done with its follies, the reckon tion shall the necuMary reduction be omits all mention of the real reason why ► ilent, and last year Maine did not build 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 revenue, and is directly ing will not lie very much longer de moval of duties. 8nch a result would | made. Times that the proper direction for re phia is the center of our “protective” building by making a vessel cost from extinction, should stimulate instead of layed. Divison of partie^n these issues, • opposed in principle and 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 tariffsystem. Men like Mr. Barker per $20 to $30 a ton more in Bath, Me., than prohibiting the importation of supplies reason desirable. Revenue must be manufacturers, the stimulation of trade, ceive that the country is growing restive across the line in New Brunswick. frotn other counti ies. • Idtny iinjiosed for protection,” and cratic party gets done mourning for the any 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 past and trying to restore it, has ever been devised which has,- on the contain, therefore, a complete ans hoiieless of lalmr, and not toward cheapen that there is an increasing demand for a institutions, our vast line of seacoast, ’’ The unprotected elastes not only SU) - will cut right through the lines of parties whole, been BO satisfactory as levying meut ing the mischievous luxuries of the modification of it. To anticipate this < our restless, indomitable industrial ply the whole co ntry with their prod wer to tlubcharge that the Mills bill, as now constituted. Wliat is demanded duties on imports. The whole question smoker and the drinker. We think that and foil it is the object of the energy and talent for trade, we ought to ucts free of bounty, hut exported a «ur- is honest money, free ships, revision of at issue turns on the principle upon freer development for American trade demand wbUii takes nearly $12,000,000 off the effort of which the protectionists are lie the greatest maritime and commercial ptua exceeding «800.000,000 last year, tariff in the interest of the people these duties are to tie 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 augur, is partial and sectional in rather than in that of monopolies, and which A duty ought to lie laid upon those arti for American workers, are lietter titan a taxes. our favor, paying off our foreign Indebt general policy of favoring trade or cles which will produce a clear revenue free bar. The high protectioniats on V’e • Thi«, however, is by no means the only 1 < are the least among the great powers of edness and dlfftislng prosperity over the favor of the Southern planters. the i the earth. The foreign trade of Great allowing it freedom rather thau ob least for collections. Sugar is one of other hand are in favor of retaining or [ objection to the pro;>oeal. By far the j Britain is more flian $100 per head of land In detianee of the high tariff handi These articles expose in advance structing it. Proper adjustment would at these. Coffee and tea are also admirably increasing the duty on imports of all j greater part of the revenue raised by in the population; that of France $45; of capping of pampered greed, which, like have been forced on these questions long the fallacy of revenue reduction, ago had not the Democratic jiarty ]>er- adapted to Hie same end. though our laws kinds and the remission of all liquor and ternal taxation is derived from liquors 1 Germany $35, and our own about $25. the horse leech’s daughter, cries always 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 for more.“ proposed by the liepublican plat aisled so strenuously in upholding the blunderingly When such articles are taxed tlw whole and the distribution of the mirphiaamong These are the very articles which ought ¡ mining wealth, in water power, we are exploded theories of the state sovereignty form, by abolishing the internal I , reliellion, thus com|>elling all who be of the tax goes into the juibiic treasury the states, the collection of the liquor tax to be taxed so long as taxes are required ; the richest natio.i on the earth, but Protected and Non-Pro- It is a tax for revenue, and is directly for the benefit of the states, or the di for any purjxise whatever. The proposal I Great Britain beats us because food and revenue tax, thus making whiskey I lieved in the nationality of the United opi<osed tected Industry. in principle and effect to a duty version of the internal revenue to the to aliolish internal taxes, while keeping raw material go into Great Britain free, States to combine for (lie defense of it [Daily Oregonian, January 28, 1882.] and tobacco free, while the neces- i and for preservation of the results of im|>oeed for "protection." The object of support of education. Judging by his up the excessive and even prohibitory and therefore she can manufacture more *»♦♦♦♦ ♦ those laws is not revenue, but prolubi- utterances and his votes, Mr. Carlisle is duties levied under the existing system cheaply and undersell France, Germany saries of life are made dear. In the great war. lion of importations, in order to give the I in no sensea radical free trader. He' of "protection,” means cheap whirky and the United States in the markets of Thus it appears that ninety per cent of home market to the protected class at I does not think that free triple would lie and dear clothing; an tintaxed beer bar the world. Last year the «um of $100,- our exported products are of the "non short, these articles are unanswer high prices. The members of the Iron wise or practicable tor the United States rel and an excessive tax on iron in every 1)00.(XX) was paid to Great Britain by the able arguments in support of the Protection “la a good policy to and Steel Association profiting im ' for manv years. "When we s;>eak of form ; free tobacco and dear salt; cheap 1 uited States for ocean freight, and a protected" and only ten per cent of the pile up the profits of the protected mensely under thia system, untlereland this subject,” he sava, “we refer to ap cheroots and high-priced jwinting paper. large part of this freight monev might “protected" clasB. Fifty millions of peo policy of the Democratic platform I ple are taxed constantly to the extent of monopolist, but a bad one for ue its effects well enough, how much soever proximate free tr:nle, which has no idea The pprjioee of alt this is to assure con be in our pockets if our tariff, called pro and candidates upon the tariff ques out of whom these profits are their organ may attempt to disguise of crippling the growth of home indus tinnance of enormous profits to Eastern tective, had not obliterated our shipping 40 to 100 percent on all the manufac I tries, but simply of scaling down the iron master«, salt boilers, wood pulp pro tured goods they consume. This tax is drawn," them. tion. and turned over to England the carrying iniquities of the tariff schedule, where prietors, and the whole train of monopo trade of ttie world on the high seas <-ol)ected of the consumers whether they 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 use importeil or domestic manufactures, Fortunes for the Few. | Daily Oregonian, Det'. 29th, IMO ] demands of that growth. After we have of ail the consumers of the country. No! kmc of these ban! facta is the specious : and was imposed for the |airpoee of giv • as a contribution to Democratic j [Dally Oregonian, February 2,1M&) calmly stood by and allowed mono|>olies let us continue to tax consumers of pteaerf protection to native industrie«. ing to the capital ami latair of one-tenth campaign literature, these articles There is an ignorance of the funda to grow fat, we alswild not l>e asked to whisky, lieer and tobacco, and have Mr. Shepherd answers this argument at of the people a special bounty or aulwidy mental principles ol political economy under the fallacious pretense that it A limited class have conceived and ¡mt make them bloated. Our enormous rev cheaper clothing, cheaper sugar and salt, have a special value as an expres- which inippoaei« coin to lie the only in practice the doctrine that it is a good enues are illogical ami oppressive. It is cheaper railroad iron, cheaper ship length, and we quote elsewhere what he would add to the wealth of the whole says on the subject of wool. The tariff country. Yet out of the nearly $800,- ■ sion of the opinions of one ol the ' actual wealth; and therefore it is im- entirely undemocratic to continue these building material« and clieaper tools for 1UI out foreign competition. , ixx),000 surplus products of the country ablest and best known Republicans > ikgincd that if a people maintain a policy scheme for them to make the great body burdens on the |>eople for years and our farmers and mechanics. Besides all but it kills 8' our own iron trade with other , exported to foreign nations this snbei- of the |>eople pay high prioee for commod 1 which prohibits the imiiortation ol years after the requirements of protec these, there are things without end on the Pacific Coast, upon the vital ‘ foreign goods, that each goodscan fie had ities which the comparatively small elaaa tion have l>een met with, and the repre which, if tliey could lie had cheaper, eountnes. Mexico, South America, dized and protected class contributed less and Asia buy millions of dol I than ten per cent. The unprotected questions of the canvas, made from cheap, and collect their foreign ftalancee, have to sell, and the government is sentatives of these industries have l>e- would be better fora country than free Austrnha lars worth of iron from Great Britain clasm-s not only supply the whole coun when there happen« to lie any, in coin — called in to rob the many for the benefit eome incmaled with wealth." There is whisky and untaxed tobacco. Therefore time to time during a series ol 1 though they are obliged to i>av out the of the few. This is "protection" and all no reason to be trightened over Mr. Car we are not able to agree with Mr Barker and none Irom us, liecause “Great Brit- try with their products free of bounty, could and did take in return for iron but exported a surplus exceeding $8tM>.- years when these questions were money at once to protected home tno- there ia of it. tin no other subject is there lisle’s intentioae, and the republicans on the repeal of the internal tax laws, in am wool, corper hemp and linseed, whim 'XXI,000 Iasi year, turning the balance of for the very goods at higher so much effort to mistifv anil befog peo who are locnmencii.g an alarmist cam order that the consumer of the country onr tariff i.wbids us to buy them If we not in issue lietween ¡Mirtief anti , i nopoliat« price«, which they could obtain at low ple. Perhaps the reason is that it |>ays paign for 1884 are making a mistake. may lie robbed indefinitely for the bene would reduce the duties upon iron, wool, trade heavily in our favor, paying off coneitleralinn was not price« under free trade-such policy our foreign indetaediires anil Uitfuaing to do so. It must be owned, too, that when their The people are in advance of their lead fit of protected mono|«>lists Take off anil linseed, the excellence of eur prosperity over the land in defiance of must lie the higheal fruit of wise alate« the beneficiaries of the system are highly ers on thia subject. Many uf the leaders I the prohibitary duty on iron, ao that we copper iron and steel would win a market for the prejudice of party biased by maneldp. This, in brief, ia the political i successful in the practice of their dnpe- have l>e»u left alresalv, sim I them is dan-! may have cheap shins and get low ■ he high tai iff, handicaping of pampered them in tire remotest nrmers of the greed, which, l.ke the horseleech s | economy of the Salem Sialesnuin. It | ries on the people at large. ger that more will he. freights. This would be of more value world. politics. daughter, cries always for more. “I.onir «re now, had not I ‘ the itemo- crallc Party with It. characterl.tlc |>l<- heatlue.«, persisted In It. attacks on the •ettlemeut. of the war, there would hare been a reckoning ou the subject of tariff plunder, the navigation laws, dlshone.t money aud the entire scheme of quack eries Hustalned by greed, Ignorance and dema<i>ffery In eomblnatlon--and now, If' the Democratic party la done with Its fol io«, the reckoning will not be very much longer delayed." party would el Thus our labor suffers j fed The all Republican needed reduction of the from a system of robbery, | National revcnue’by repealing the on’tobacco, which are an an disguised under forms of taxis noyanee and a burden to agricul quackery for pretended ture, anil the’tnx 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 such articles as are produced by our people, the production of which on this coast, where the gives to our labor, and producing classes are so release employment from import duties those plainly the victims of it, articles of foreign production (ex luxuries) the'like of which is phenominal and perhaps cept cannot be produced at home. II hopeless.— Daily Oregonian, there shall still remain a larger reve nue than is requisite for the wants Oct. 21, 1881. of the government, we javor 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. —liepublican National Platform, 1888. imagines it exactly the thing for a peo- pie situated as we are here to have the i 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 sold at a low price (because, as we will not trade with our J 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 bad 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 Oregon at this moment. Every item which enters into the production of wheat is taxed for the benefit of eastern monopolists, even ---------------- 4 0» •--------------------- to the farmer’s harness leather, barrow 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, an<l 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 with 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 tieasury. It fulfills that But the object of the duty on it does not please thorn, who have the object. < comprehension to see through the sopliis- many i other articles, as wool, iron and tries of the so-called protective system— foreign product a system expressly devised and main steel, is to keep out the tained to enhance the price of American with a design to raise the price of the commodity. We encourage the manufactured goods, and to force non- home 1 manufacturing communities, like our- j importation of sugar because we must sqjves, to buy them, who otherwise j have it and we tax it because w e want would bu'A cheap goods from anybody revenue. This is in fullest accord offering them. The political power the 1 the principles of free trade. But which maintains this unjust and oppres- with ' 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 Hhouid not cozen and hoodwink the vic- of • other commodities, laying a large duty tim into the belief that the wholesale on < them, not for revenue but for obstruc robbery which it legalizes and maintains tion, | and the result is the robbery of the for its own profit, is just the the thing many t for the benefit of the few.— Dailg we ought to lie satisfied with. It is too Oregonian, June 30, 1882. transparent. 1 vvi mv