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BROWN.
CONCORD, SEPT., 12, 1898.
wno jpays the tax:
'One of the points on which Sen
a&ir Pritchard dwelt with peculiar
rcndaeas, an apparent force in his
ineeh Thursday night, was, that
esaader the Republican tariff system
fee foreigner pays the taxes neces
.jssxj to meet tne expenses of our
.jSjoerament, and appealed to the
patera that if they wanted to pay
taxes themselves to vote the
Uemocratie ticket, but if they
' TOiated the foreigner taxed to pay
Tote the Republican ticket.
JNow let us see about this thing.
"So bsgia with, we thought the
j2Lderican people were a high toned,
gaied people who wonld disdain
te'al: any other people to 'pay the
zosassary expenses f of the govern
ffieat of this, that we call the
iandcst country in the world.
SUfcaa we remember ttoo that moat
f .these 4axes come from the labor
HzzZ classes of the world and that it
i3 claimed by Mr. Pritchard himself
that European and Asiatic laborers
go almo8twithout clothes and fare
much less well than American la
borers, how could we in the light tf
fairness and humanity take the
bread and clothes of foreigners to
pay our taxes for a goyernment in
which we enjoy a higher degree ef
freedom and happiness than ,they.do,
if Mr, Pritchard'a statements are to
be relied upon. They are probably
true with regard to some foreign
laborers and false with regard to
others.
Again if the foreigner pays our
taxes when we collect a tariff from
him, do we not in turn j pay his
taxes when we deal with, him?
What is the use for him to pay our
taxes and we pay his taxes ? This
is sure to be the case (according to
Mr.' Pritchard's theory) with all
countries that collect a tariff on
imports. It is true we do most of
our trading with free trade England
and if Mr. Pritcbard's theory (uot
an old exploded theory to which Mr.
Pritchard adheres with wonderful
tenacity) is correct we are succeed-
ing in getting something for nothing
when we trade with her, that is we
are making the capitalist or the la
borer, or both, in England pay the
expenses of our freedom anJ our
protection. Democracy dops not
aak any such unfairness but is will
ing to pay her own honest debts
and settle her cwn bills honorably.
But does the foreigner pay the
tax ? We thought that had been so
successfully disproven that a man
of Mr. Pritchard's apparent smarti
ness would dare to suggest, it to an
audience, embracing much of the
best talent in and around Concord.
It that were true we would not now
be burdened with monopolies and
trusts as we are. It that were true
we would not today find thei wealth
of our country absorbed by the few
at the expense of the many.!
Let us take clothing as ah lllus
tration. It is prominent among a
considerable schedule of articles 7
The McKmley tariff was very high
on woolen clothing but we will, for
illustration, take a suit of clothes
that the English importer! could
bring into our ports for ten dollars.
He is met at the port by the col
lector and must pay "five dollars tar
iff. He goes to the wholesale dealer
to sell his shipload of suits. The
dealer saya you can make a profit on
this clothing at ten dollars a suit.
"Yes," says the importer, "I can,
but your collector has made me pay
five dollars for the privilege of
bringing in this suit." The dealer
might say "very well, I'll, buy my
clothing from an American manu
facturer," but finds the American
manufacturer ready for him with a
price of exactly fifteen dollars, for,
says he, "you have to pay that for
eigner that price and I am going to
have the same." So the price is
hxed on the market at fifteen dol
lars instead- of ten. Then who
pays the five dollars tariff ? Clearly
it is the man who wears the suit of
clothes, and away goes , that f petty
theory that the foreigner pays the
tax. It does seem too clear to be
discussed that the consumer pays a
tax equal to the difference between
the price he must pay and the price
he might pay if he could get his
goods at necessary cost of making
ana nana an g, ana in tne case j sup
posed, the amount is exactly five
dollars. 1 -'' ".;: 1
But further, when the American
citizen buys a suit made by the
American ra-mufac urers, the fi?e j
dollars do not go into the United
States treasury but into the pocket
of the American manufacturer.
With! a part of this he pays his
workmen the market price of their
labor, and no more, and pockets the
rest to add to his legitimate and
competative profits and grows rich.
The great McKinlev tariff bill
very distinctly stated that it was a
bill to reduce revenue, as we were
getting a surplus above the neces
sities of the government, and the
tariff was put very high on many ars
tides so that American competition
became great on account of the im
mense profits. Too many wanted
its benefits. Prices necessarily drop
ped, foreign competition was shut
out, the revenue also dropped, man
ufacturing became crowded and
competition became x alarming, sup
ply of goods too great, trusts jj were
formed by buying out and closing
mills, men were thrown out of work
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and it will take years to get back to
a normal condition. If high tariff
is to be resorted to it may help
awhile, bat will run to seed, soon
again and the consequences will soon
be felt again.
We would say with all the powers
within us,' "Don't be misled by Mr.
Pritchard's tariff speech. It is er
ratic and palpably so and is only
the more dangerous because he is a
speaker that Is more pleasant than
most Republican speakers.
Any sarsaparilla is sarsapa
rilla. True. So any teals tea.
S o any flour is flour. . But grades
differ. You want the best. It's
so with sarsaparilla. There are
grades. You want the best. If
understood
you
well
sarsaparilla
as
as you do tea and flour it
would be easy to determine.
But you don't. How should
you ? When you are going to
buy a commodity whose value
you don't know, you pick out
an old established house to
trade with, and trust their ex
perience and reputation. Do so
when buying sarsaparilla.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla has been
on the market 50 years. "Your;
grandfather used Ayer's. It is
a reputable medicine. There
are many Sarsaparillas
but only one Ayer's, It
cures. ;- -
JNO. R. ERWIN. C A. MISENHEIMER
ERWIN & MISENHEIMER
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