| Show WHO PAYS THE DUTY laet L a at week tile committee on ways and weans means commenced p preparatory rep 1 to lo framing a bill I 1 wo senta ives from the british colony of 0 bermuda appeared boget to get tile the tai lal ial reduced on r products r of their colony they both a argued alint the united states tariff was a tax on I 1 the fie producers and not the consumers this kind ol of argument did not please the democrats on oil the committee how hons do you know th that 1 l t ali the e producers and not n ot the consumers colsum e ra p y the dut dullee les aked mr br bryain afi of if al a mr SI asters the latter replied well as aa secretary of tile iho ra farmere Farm cre AI alliance liance I 1 was mas cognizant cognize nt of tile the tact fact re rc latiner to the shipment of 10 00 boxes of f oil onions ions to new york th athla Is acao season lon the duty d on cacci box aas as about 39 cents and the freight IG cents making 51 54 cents and the onions were sold at sin an average price of 50 cents a box nolif now it we did not pay the duties I 1 would like to know who did ile he said raid that if the duty should be r re moved tile the producer should receive re ceia 38 cents a box more for his onions sept 1893 1803 who paid this duty why the foreigner 0 of course lie ile paid the duty daty and the freight on these onions and four cents more on each box in order to got get rid of them any one must be a fool that cannot understand this republican argument that thai tile the foreign pauper works all summer to raise onions and then pays four cents a box to the hungry people who wish to cit cat the onions simply to induce people to carry off his valuable vegetables ilow how beautifully the republican tariff tax works it make us pay V 50 cents a box for onions that cost four cents less than nothing per box to produce says the enquirer when foreigners raise onions for us without charging one cent for their time and trouble with without ut receiving ceivia a penny for their labor or the rental of oathir thir th ir ground pro und without being reimbursed for the boxes in which they ship their produced pay the freighters 16 cents and our government 38 cents per box and getsell yet sell their onions at fifty cents per box tho the tariff works like a charm there is only one thin thing the enquirer oni omits its to t 0 state in this th is connection tion it forgot to tell the rest the importer of these onions is an american Ams rican lie ile paid the duty but he was forced to raise some money quickly and sold liis his onions for whatever they would bring on oil many saturday nights in salt lake city in the summer time you can buy fish bananas and gr ganes if L io ipri enat V 1 att J the dealers are afraid these goods will not keep till monday ALTon day these articles ai tides often sell pell at less than the freight frei 0 lit on them therefore says the republican editor the producer pays the freight and makes a present of liis his products to our dealers ilow how kind it is of foreigners to pay our taxes for us and give 0 us its their products lor for bothin nothing gl |
