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Show WHO PAYS THE TARIFF TAX? During the last presidential campaign, cam-paign, McKinley and his co-partners in deception and downright lying, went through the United States and asserted that the foreigner pays the tariff tax; and so long as he (McKinley) could find foreigners to tax, he was in fayor of taxing them to the exclusion of citizens of the United States. Here in Utah there were many that echoed tne same base, senseless and illogical mlBehoods that were uttered by McKinley Mc-Kinley & Co., in the east. That deluBion has been exploded, but those that then asserted it and won thousands of voters in Utah among that class that do not reason tor themselves, have never had the man-tiood man-tiood to retract that infamous deception. decep-tion. Some of those same campaign liars arj using that Bame argument in this campaign. Let ub examine the question without with-out bias or coloring. Supposing it requires re-quires $500 000,000 annually to run the government, and tbat that amount is raised by means of impoit duties. The result would be that eveiy man, woman and child in the United States, (according to the amount of necessaries necessar-ies consumed) would be forced to pay $S.OO each toward the support of the government. Now, let us take an example ex-ample of which there are millions in the United States.Tom Jones haa a wife and four children whom he supports Dy his daily toil and is without other meana of support than his hands. We will concede that he receiyes $500 per annum in exchange for his services, and that amount is in excess of the average income of woiking men. Out of that $500 he pays $48 or tariff taxation taxa-tion towards the mamtenence of the government, or about 10 per cent, of his income. John Smith Uvea on the same block and has amassed a fortune of $50,000 more or less. Smith haB a family consisting of himself and wife. Smith is also a frugal man, perhaps tight-fisted and penurious, and dees not spend more in proportion to the number of his family than does Tom Jones. If his family of two con sume a proportionate amount of food as compared with that of Tom Jones, Smith will have paid but 316 toward the support of the government. This simple proposition proves that Tom Jones on an income of $500. payB three times as much for the mainteinance of ;(the government as Smith does with his $50,000 more or less. Thus is the contention of the democrats clearly proven that the burden of tariff taxation fallB on the masses of the people, and' that the trjjff-tax burden is unequally distributed. It has ever been the policy of the democratic party to ehift the burden from the shoulders of the toilers to the broad backB of the wealthy who are amply able to carry at least a just proportion pro-portion of the governmental loud. Yoters, we ask you to think back a few years and remember the old republican repub-lican cry that the foreigner pays the tariff tax. We ask you now to bear in mind that that cry is not now ut-I ut-I terert except in the remote counties where,percbance,it will not beiefuted, and ask yourselves the question, if the j republican party can be depended upon to tell the truth on any proposition? J |