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Show the poor mm. How He Is Robbed to Support The Rich. How Prof. J, H. Paul Roasted The C. O. P. at Manti. Figures Presented That Everlastingly Ever-lastingly Knock the Stuffing: Stuf-fing: Out of It. There is one class in the United States that escapes taxation. There are thirteen million families in the country, which we may divide into the wealthy, the moderately rich, and the poor. A hundred and eighty-two thousand families belong to the" first class and own S43,367,0UU,0(J0, the middle mid-dle class consists of 1.200.000 families and their wealth amounts to, seven billion dollars, the poor class cdulaiiib eleven and a h .if million of families and own .eleven bdlion doliars. The taxes on the ioitv-tl.ree llhon bv-Jonying bv-Jonying to the rich are 22-5 million dollars, dol-lars, w idle on the eleven billion dollars dol-lars of the poor it amounts 10 nine liuudred and sixty millions. Although the rich own four times as much as the poor, they prty but one-fourth as much tax. lhe discrimination of the tariff cau thus be illustrated, if a poor man imports im-ports $10 worth of overalls the tariff js $20, the middle class will probably tret something better and the tariff on Lis wool clothing will amount to but 10, while the rich importing an qual value in broadcloth, silk, etc. will have to pay but $5. This may be on the principle that as this is a poor man's government, the poor man should pay for it. Calvin Reasoner of Payson says it is much easier to make Democrats than it is to make Republicans. The reason is evident, Democratic arguments are ; simple, figures never lie, and tney present pre-sent an unanswerable argument. The bodv of American workmen belong be-long to the Democratic party, it is from them that the party draws its strength. Au evidence of tnis is found m the fact that the Democratic campaign cam-paign funds were made up of contributions contri-butions varying from one to five dollars, dol-lars, while the Republican party had contributions from $10,000 to $500,000. ' The working men can readily under- I stand the arguments of facts and fig- 1 ures, but figures are not dealt in by J the Republicans. When a challenge I was made by the Democratic speakers I to meet on the stump and debate the I . , - - ' questions at issue, the Republicans de-I de-I " s clined to meet them. The strusn of I Z - tm wnwataat. strong, for tliem., i i . When the McKinley bill was reported, i, . debate was cut down to tw& hours. : " ' . The bill cannot be read in that length of time, but the Republican members feared the figures, of the Democrats ; and ruslied it through in a hurry, they ' . . bad no desire for debates on this sub- I . . ject coming before the country. . Frotectiou'sts use sophistry to de fend their principles, and their argu-i argu-i ments are much like those of the i priests in the days of Galileo. The priests called the attention of the peo- I pie to the sun's rising and setting to ' ' prove that it moves, and claimed that the old astronomer was thus refuted. I In their arguments for protection the Republicans tell you that if you import im-port goods you must send out money to purchase them and to prove that you send out money they say ' don't you have to pay money when you buy goods in the store?" Money is only a local representative of value, and what goods we import we pay for with tl.e products of the country. If we pay for them in gold and silver, we must produce the metals or we would not , trade in that way. You will readily see that the money does not circulate in any country but those in which it is made. If it did why do we not find the money of foreign countries in circulation cir-culation here? Did you ever see a Chinese or European coin in circulation circula-tion here? If not it is evident that if they get our money we don t get t heir's. We liud by the Treasury reports re-ports that our exports are about six million dollars per year and our imports im-ports are just a trifle less, and the? gold and silver exjKjrted in 1888 was about 4(5 millions while that imported is about 59 millions. If we do not pay for foiegin goods in coin, how do we pay for them? Th farmers of the Umced States produce enough to supply a population of a hundred million people, aud as the population is but sixty three millions, there is evidently a large surplus that must be exported or it will go to waste. If the fanner had a vvaud like that of the fairies so that he could change tins surplus into articles that he needs, what a nice thing it would be. lie would soon have everything he needed. Well, he has just such a wand in tl e shape of exchange; in this way he can sell his surplus and receive in return whatever he wishes to obtain; unless . he is willing to take what other nations na-tions have to pay he cannot sell his produce. England could not raise enough money to purchase it for five years. Our manufacturers hzrve levied j a tax of cJO per cent, on this surplus which the American farmer has by his labor produced, so that lie will not be able to real) the full benefit xi n is labor, la-bor, and are thus driving away the trade that would be brought to this couutrv. In this way they have driveu f 1,500,000,000, to be used in loreign countries, and call this building up home industries. . A fourth of what our farmers raised in 1879 was sent abroad, or to be exact 31 per cent., the value being six hundred hun-dred and eighty-live million dollars. The tariff was $164,630,661, in other words the government confiscated one-third one-third of the farmer's surplus, amounting amount-ing to $82 for every farm laborer and dairy maid in the country, and this they call protection. When the manufacturer man-ufacturer says he wants to be protected protect-ed against the pauper labor of Europe he means that he wants to be protected protect-ed from the American farmer, lie would sooner have a protected workman work-man working for 70 cents per day than an independent farmer working for $1.50. The paupers of Europe have nothing to ship into America, consequently conse-quently the only competition he has to fear is that of the farmer who has a I surplus to sell. ! j ; We learn from government statistics that there are about 11.000 persons engaged en-gaged in the protected industries while there are seven million farmers. Those who are engaged in the protected protect-ed , industries are about o per cent, of the total population. To pay the wages of these 14.000, the country is taxed millions of dollars, the wages of the protected workman are lower than those of any other industry, the average aver-age being 70 cents perday. Most of the protected industries have been in existence nearly a hundred years. They asked fur .something just to give them a start and received an S percent, tax. Ten years after, they received another start of"T2 per cent.', aud they have from time to time been getting a start, until now the McKin-ley McKin-ley bill gives these hundred-year-old infants a start of 60 per cent, tax on imported goods. Thev only ask for it for a short time, and if we live five or six hundred years, they may have suf-licent suf-licent start to make a live of it. Rut the claim that these industries cannot compete with foreign nations finds a refutation in the fact that American factories are to-day selling their goods in South America cheaper than they do at home. The same plow that is Hild here for $is sts ?!) in South America. Other t . an be found in prop, ri ion. Tin' - -ar I rust sold siiL'ar in Liverpool tor 4i cents p.-i pound. witiL' at home ti-. y c niied 8 to 12 e nts, ami meanwhile the boast ed that they controled the English market, and admitted before a Congressional Con-gressional committee, that they made 19 million dollars profits in one year,al-though year,al-though they onlv employed 6.000 oper ators. iron in the United States costs $17 per ton. The foreign price is $10 and the tariff $7. Last year the iron manufacturers made thrue million tons of pig iron, and paid twelve million mil-lion dollars in wages, or about four dollars dol-lars per ton. Very little figuring shows that the tariff paid the wages of the workmen and the manufacturer stole three dollars more and had tin-iron tin-iron left. The American people pan. twice the cost of production and left h:m the iron ready for sale. Is it any wonder that the country has such men as Carnegie who are ready to support the party that is readv to rob the poor man so that the rich can thrive? President Harrison boasted that his administration was a business one. Tne Republican party have, put up the unices at auction, as it were, and knocked them down to the highest bidder. bid-der. They have been nmre shameless in this respect than ever imperial Rome was. with all her corruption. In this way John Wanam.iker. because he p-iid $450,000 to the campaign fund, was able to have anything in the administration ad-ministration he might demand. Levi P. Morton, with his friends, raised $550,000. I am informed that there are wool growers who think it to their interest t ho l)n,,l,l; IT II , iicjiuuiiv,un5. iiuvv Limy tan oe-Ifeve oe-Ifeve anything fit the kind, t cannot topfeelte'.";E-errtime the taiiff goes up, wool begins to fall. Tli s is au invariable in-variable rule. In '06 wool sold at an average of 474. cents That year a tariff was put on it, and the consequence was that in 6S it had dropped to 37 cents, and has continued to fall ever since, until to-day American wool is cheaper than any other. The lowest that foreign wool can h.; obtained is at 22 cents per pound, and the tariff raises it to o2 cents per lb. We raise but 250 m il-lion il-lion pounds and it is estimated that we will use about 800 million. The manufacturer must pay a heaw tax on the foreign wool which lie is obliged to have, and therefore cannot pay much for the home production. Even then he is unable to compete with foreign for-eign nations, after haying brought the price of American wool beiow that of any other, and many of the woolen factories are standing idle for lack of material to work with, their owners bankrupt, trying to compete with the manufacturers iu nations where there are no such clogs to home industry; and meanwhile our wool is being exported ex-ported to be made into cloth in other lands. What is asked for, is that these unjust un-just discriminations be done away with. "Favors to none, equal rights to all," is the motto of the Democratic party. |
