| Show IS THE TARIFF A TAX democratic theories and republican facts dont jibe one argument arzu ment used by the free traders when the mckiniry bill was wets under discue slon was that any tariff except one for revenue only is is a tax UP on the consumers coa samera that the cost of an article upon which a duty is laid is enhanced this the republicans Republic avs deny they eay say that competition in man manufacture lessens the cost to the consumer and they prove it too here is a case in point the tariff on beal plush an additional duty was levied on imported blushes by the mckinley bill the democrats said that as there was but one seal plush factory in the united states that one factory would the sole beneficiary of the addition to the duty on plush and that it would add the difference between 50 per cent ad valorem valoree va lorem which was the doty ander the old law and to 3 50 par per yard plus 15 per cent ad va lorem which is the new duty to the belling selling price they denied that new factories would spring up and create competition that was democratic theory the dry goods chronicle supplies the republican facts here they are manufacturers have failed to keep the advantage in the way of higher prices which they expected from the tariff the cause is that blushes made here are sold at a substantial reduction on price of imported goods the chronicle alo al o says the consumer however benefits by this and now can obtain for per yard a very serviceable fabric which heretofore coat cost importers 2 if not more to land in other words there is now competition in the home manufacture of plush and the price has gone down as the republicans said it would and as the democrats said it would not Is the tariff a tax |
