Show NOT A TAX HEY referring to to senator Faulkner Faulk ners its the bariff t is a t tax ax the nation says wo nye cl challe lallen csc c hial or liis his d defenders ef enders to produce d tice a single ie instance in which american all coll consumers have to pay the foreign price biec with ill iaci IQ awful tariff tax added athe ilalio tax hag even stool stood as 08 long ar ae one car yet he be as w well oil na as professor paul Bouie lime ago enumerated many articles naming the tariff duty anil and trying to convey tile the idea to the audience thai haf every timo we bought then them we ive paid 11 tax in odilion addition to their real reail value emuil to that tariff duty and nd we ve challenge cha llense the to baini forth any any proof to till of 0 senator faulkner and arol baor paul I 1 iut on oil this subject tatt is the kind of talk we like window glass from to 28 old bold in 1860 in ill this q country at 2085 2035 for 8 boxes one of each s size ize 11 in 1890 the same size sold for 8 at 1012 tile the reduction ill in price 8 per cent it in 30 years foreign c glass fron from up ud to and above 30 sold at an average of H 4 12 a box of ibs A in 1860 cowit now 0 it gells eclis at foreign in glass fell over 50 per cent while ours fell but S per cent the protection on th these ese grades tl of pass glass wis was 50 ia per cent oil no nol we dont pay the tax on oil window glass wo we buy olt off tile the lionie home producer paying him nearly as much as wo we paid in while foreign 0 price s have eliav fallen one half from the report of tile commissioner of labor 11 wright right for 18 1 l we quote these words the entire direct cost labor an ani and I mammals mat mals of producing a 1 ton toll of steel rail nas as for or the united states 7 81 for great isri grifiin tain and for or the continent of 0 europe the hinr cost is iq los les in this country than in ili great Brita britain iii or europe A tariff of ip 4 l per ton would cover this Terence ference in the price of if materials tile th tax on a ton of steel rails is 14 the price of a 1 single ton of steel rails in england 0 is from 18 to 22 the price here is from 31 down to 21 2 for a single 0 ton the only reason that the price does not always stay above 30 is that occasionally some member of the trust beg begins gins to fight 0 that gigantic monopoly and then ile he sells bella ri right V ht down to the 1 english 0 price in in order to compel the trust rust to buy hini him out tile trust tru t doca doc s this a and iid ill up ROCS goes the prie price azain flom 1871 to 1882 tile tiie price pric or of sti st rl I jail itil wab nab froni fro n 14 to Y 6 pez pe ton higher lii glier here than abroad within the last four years the steel have quarreled a good b kocl deal and have occasionally the trust so 0 o that it could not always chare char e the full 14 extra on oil eich each ton and lias haq at times dinies leen been content with 5 extra tile the tax on oil a ton tell of ili pig 0 iron is 47 2 li pig 0 iron selli sell abroad at 10 pr pir ton average n in this country at 17 per ton average average 1 ot of coa course arce we do 10 not dot pay y the foreign C price with tile awful tax added 1 wo we are merely of the i the census shows that tin the total wages paid in producing M a ton of pig iron in this country is U sugar r for years past lias sold in angland at 4 to 5 cents a pound it sold liere here at from froin 8 to 11 cents during the same time the tax on oil refined sugar was 3 01 3 cents a pound not a pound of refined sugar for table use was imported our refineries supplied all the refined sugar SU gar we used and then exported sugar each year two cents tax on oil raw sugar was taken off and sugar fell exactly two cents sugar is still i a cent calit plus tile the freight dearer clearer here than abroad T the tax on oil refined sugar is now J a cent of course we pay tile the sugar taxi white lend lead sells for 5 cents in the foreign market and 11 cents here soda frodi 1 11 cents on oil tile tho foreign market and 0 3 3 cents here window g glass I 1 ass above it li inches square 2 cents a pol pond id on the fore foreign ign market and 4 cents here plate gla glass s 25 cents it a square foot tile there re and S 85 cents here pi pig giron 10 to 13 per ton there and 17 to 20 here iron for building purposes 1 1 10 cents a pound there and 2 3 10 cents a pound here bugar 3 A cents there and 5 cents here the blanket that costs 50 cents a 1 pound there sells for 85 cents a pound lacre the cloak that sells for 2 there sells cells for here wonie ns and childrens dreas goods that sell for 15 cents a yard there sell for 24 cents a yard here the flannel that sells for 20 cents it a bald thelo sells for 37 cents a yard hero here tile the wool hat that sells for 55 cents there sells for here the knit goods that cost 20 cents a 1 pound und there cost 45 43 cents here shawls costing costin 03 3 cents a pound there cost here and so on oil I 1 every E very article here mentioned has b absen en protected protects d for thirty years enough 0 11 is a feast everything tile farmer lias has to buy is 1 in a protection market at protection prices everything lie has it to 0 11 ical II is sold at the worlds 0 cheap est t market prices |