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A HELD DAY.
Vance and Cowles win Honor aad
Praise.
Washington, .Ian. 10. Last
Monday (January 14th.) was
a "held day" for North Car
olina, in both Houses of Con
gress. In the Senate, Sena
tor Vance made an able and
lucid exposition of the iniqui
ties of the salt duty, or in
plainer English, the tax on
salt. From 184G to 18G0
there was no tax on import
ed salt, iid the price was
2G.4 cents per bushel. At the
latter period a duty of 18
cents per hundred pounds
was imposed, and the price
rose to 4.").4 jier bushel. In
other words, the price was
iucreaced by the amount of
the tax and one cent over;
and yet it is stoMtly main
tained that, the tariff in not a
tax on customers. This tax
nnd range of pi ices continued
in force until 187'J, when the
tax was reduced to 8 cents
per hundred pounds, and the
ju ice fell to 35.4 cents per
bushel.
The Senator presented a
table of invoice prices of for
eign, compared with domes
tic salt, from the year 18G8
to 1881 inclusive. The table
.shows that in the former year
the invoice pricw of imported
salt was a fraction over 83
cents per barrel, while that
of Michigan salt was 185cts.
per barrel, or nearly twice at
much. But the price of the
domestic article gradually
fell down, year after year, un
til 1877, when it reached the
figure 8o cents, It rallied
hooxi:, watai'c; a orNTV.N.c.
from this point in 1870, hut 1
tell again to 7G.3-1 cents in
theyear 1SS0, anl in 'SI the
price rose again to H7 vnts.
Meantime the foreign article,
a Tier some fluctuations in
price, stood in "81 . at Hi ets
and o'.'.e-third. or one vnt
higher than in 18(18. The
great Tall it. price of the do
nicotic article was owing to
the enormous increase in the
production, which, in 1870.!
wj.s IT.CiOO.OOO bushels, and '.
in '80. O.soo,(hU). lint it is
manifest that if the suit boil
ers of ; Michigan could turn
out salt at 87.8 cents ier
barrel, in 1881. in competi-;
tion with the foreign produ-'
cer at 81.3, the price paid by ;
the people in 1SGS for thej
d imestic nrtMo was due (o
the extortionate and wholly!
v.nneees.-nry tax.
"'Many Senators now pres-'
ent," said Mr. Vane, "will
remember a speech that Mr. 1
Ii iyaid made in lss2or83,
when in the S mi ite, in which
he told us of a viit that lie j
made to the Kanawha Salt;
Works. lie descr.hed how
nature had located every
thing for theeonvemenceaud
cheapness of the manufacture
of salt, liight upon the
banks of a navigable river
the salt wells were found.
One bucket which went up'
filled with the brine from the j
dissolved salt rock let down 1
another bucket into the well '
of fresh water which was to
replace the dissolving pro
cess in the rock, and within
2"0 or 300 yards across a
little space of level soil there
was an outcrop, in the edge
of the mountain, of coal, and
a tram-railway upon an in
clined plane led up to that
coal, and the loadtnl car that
ran dowii the inclined plane
full of coal and dumped it in
to the furnace thatboiled the
salt, pulled up the empty car
to be filled in its place. There,
upon the bank of the stream,
with almost the whole 'oper
ation automatic in its char
acter, and self operating, the
salt was boiled, put into bar
rels or packages and rolled
down an inclined plane into
a fiat boat whence it was
floated down the river to
Cincinnati, at that time con
taining the greatest meat
packing establishment in the
United States, where more of
it was sold than elsewhere.
"Yes that institution for
the manufacture of cheap salt
and many others in the nei
ghborhood nnd similarly sit
uated, -as under what is
called a dead rent; that is,
the men from Syracuse, N. Y.,
had paid so much money to
the proprietors of those salt
works to keep them from
making salt, to keep them
from supplying the wants of
the people of this country.
I am told that the same thing
was done by the Canadian
Salt Works across the bor
der, and that a number of
them were under a dead rent
to the people of Syracuse, or
perhaps of the State of Mich
igan I do not remember
which.
The Senator contrasted the
treatment of this necessary
of life, without which neither
men nor animals can live,
with the liberality of the Re
publicans in allowing thefreej
importation ofluxuriex. Salt i
burdened with an 82 icrviit '
tax, and theOttnrof Hoses, I
on the fiw list! The tax.
gatherer permits all swjet
weuted things to come into
the country free, while he fob j
lows up salt wherever it is to
be found, whether in the!
great pork-paeking houses of J
the north-west, or in the cab
ins of the poor, in thegonr.ls
that hang in their chimney
corners.
Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, in
quired if the Senator from
North Carolina had figured
out what the salt tax cost to
each man, won. a a ami i hild
in the country.
Mr. Vance replied thai that
had been done for him by a
gentleman on the other side,
whose estimate was, tint it
was 3 cents jwt head, to
which Mr. Vance answered,
that it it was big enough to
sti:al, it was big enough to
SAVE.
Doubtless the estimate of
the gentleman on the other
side was confined to theamt. j
paid per head, upon imported
salt to the government and
over looked the tax pai 1 by
the people to the home man
ufactures, which is generally
live or ten times as muen as
goes into the Treasury.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas,
thought to lie very si arp
and smart in arraigning Mr.
Vance as inconsistent, be
cause he had not propose 1 a
reduction or abolition of the
tuxes imposed by the bill up
on rice, ground peas, mica
and sumac. Hut the latter
replied, "He has no right to
say what I am going to do
in relation to the duty on
rice, for I have not yet been
called upon to vote on it.
lint I have this to say to him
and to all others, that there
is no product of my State on
the dutiable list (and there
are only two or three) that
I will not go as far aw he, and
a great ileal further than he,
in reducing those of his State.
In the House of Represent
atives, on the same day, Mr.
Cowles, in "the easiest way
in the world, made a ten
strike," and upset the. calcu
lations of the protectionists,
by introducing a bill to
amend the Internal Revenue
laws. Itisuumbered 12,131.
The Speaker said the bill
will be referred to the com
on Ways 'ind Means.
Mi . Cowles. I ask that the
bill be referred to the com
mittee on Appropriations. 1
do so for the reason, that on
the 17th day of hmt Decem
ber,! introduced a resolution
to that effect, which was re
ferred to the comnittee of
Ways and Means, but that
resolution has met with no
response.
The Speaker. It is not de
batable. Mr. McMillan, of Tennes
see. Let the bill be read.
Mr. Cowles. I will state to
the gentleman from Tennes
see, that it contains, verbat
im et literatim, the provisions
of the Mills bill relative to
the Internal Revenue.
After some conversation,
and opposition to the refer
ence proposed by Mr. Cowles,
vi:i)Ni:si)AY.ri:n r
a vote was taken, when, on
motion to refer to the com
mittee on Appropriations,
the yeas and nays were 12G,
nays 01, absent 10(.
So the bi'l was rofen-ed to
the ( ommittco on appropria
tions. The effect lias been dis
connect the proposition to
amend the Internal Revenue
laws from the Mills bill, the
main Teat urs of which is the
reduction of duties on im
ported goods.
It is well known that Con
gress will not agree on that
subject, while there is reason
to exMvt that the repeal of
the tobacco tax may get
through both houses. If such
should be the result, Mr.
Cowles will have achieve! an
honor of w hich any man in
either 1 1 oust! would have rea
son to be proud. There is a
-i owing feeling that all taxes
upon industry are injurious
and impolitic, and this con
sideration will reconcile many
to the repeal who would oth
erwise oppose it. 1). RCIood
loe, in State Chronicle.
The Tai iff and Tni&ts.
Washington, 1). C, Janua
ry 2."). Ex-UniteM States Sen
ator Carl Shurtz delivered an
admirable speech, a few even
ings ago, to the Common
wealth Club, of New York.
Though a prominent friend
of tariff reduction, he arose
above party, and gave whole
some advice to the incoming
administration. He warned
Mr. Harrison' and his friends
of the danger in the delay of
reducing the tariff. The de
mand of the people for a re
duction of duties had only
begun. Yet it was the strong
point in favor of the election
of Mr. Cleveland. If the dis
cussion had begun a year or
two earlier, he would have
been re-el(M-ted by a great ma
jority. He. every whet e gain
ed votes in the manufactur
ing districts, among the op
eratives the class hfe whose
behalf, it is pretended, the
high protective duties are im
posed. But he lost ground
in the agricultural districts,
among the farmers, where
discussions are less frequent,
and where there is less oppor
tunity for an interchange of
idea. Mr. Schurtz maintain
ed that no future event could
be morecertain than that we
are on the eve of a great rev
olution of public opinion on
this subject; and the danger
was, that when the revolution
shall come, the reaction
against the protective policy
will induce a too sudden
change of system ; that by
sweeping away all protection
at once the manufacturing
system would be wrecked,
and that a financial 'crash
would follow. It would not
do for the Republican states
men to be led by the manu
facturers. They will never let
go their hold. Their motto
is to make hay while the sun
shines.
This is good advice to the
incoming Republicans, but it
is not even remotely proba
ble that they will heed it.
How can they resist the dic
tation of the vast money
power that sustains them?
ismi
When the pensionets on thej
bounty of the government!
revolt against it, and refuse
their quarterly drafts upon'
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tut- 1 1 i-llll r-l , Ml- lllil r".HTI.
to hear of the revolt of the Re
publican managers against
the manufacturing and rail
road monopolists.
The Mi'U bill only propos
ed n reduction' of tariff du
ties from forty-seven to forty
two per cent. Rut when the
great revolution of opinion
comes, the jieople will not be
satislied with any such reduc
tion ns that. Mr. Calhoun
and the free-traders of hisday
insisted upon a strictly reve
nue tariff, which they placed
at twenty per cent, ad valo
rem; and they were not over
anxious to pay even that low
rati.
The truth is, that of all
methods of raising revenue,
that of imposing taxes on
foreign imports is the most
expensive to the people, and
the least productive to the
government. For, in the first
place, even a strictly revet. ue
tariff must discriminate in
favor of domestic manufac
turers, or the result will be
the destruction of the manu
factures. A uniform rate of
even twenty per cent, upon
all articles imported, would
tax some or all of the raw
material of most articles
manufactured in this coun
try; and thus, the foreign
manufacturer, who receives
his raw materials free of d uty,
would be protected by our
laws at the expense of our
manufacturers. It is there
fore necessary, when we tax
the raw materials of Ameri
can fabrics, to impose a doub
le tax on the foreign fabric of
the same kind. On the other
hand, if we make free, or put
on the free list, all raw mate
rials of our manufactures, we
exempt from taxation the
very articles that would be
most productive of revenue.
For it is manifest that the
taxes imposed on articles
that are not produced in this
country, all go into the treas
ury ; while, for the most part,
taxes imposed on foreign ar
ticles of the kind produced by
our people, go into the pock
ets of the domestic manufac
turer, in the proportion of
ton or twenty to one into the
treasury.
Rut it is the policy of pro
tectionists to exempt from
taxation every article of for
eign production which is not
grown or manufactured here.
And this policy in dictated by
the two-fold reason, that the
effect is to make higher duties
necessary upon their produc
tions, and, at the same time,
to bring them to the foreign
article, of which they are
consumers, nnd not produc
ers, at the least cost.
The protectionists avow
that their purpose is to im
pose taxes so high on foreign
goods imported, as to ex
clude them altogether from
our markets. They have
done this, ns far as practica
ble; and the effect has been
to raise up, in many instan
ces, a domestic competition
which has destroyed, or would
destroy, all the advantages
that were expected to result
no ar
from the exclusion of foreign
ers from our markets. Rut
they have found a remedy
for this evil. That remedy
consists in the organization
of what they call "Trusts."
The word fails to convey the
idea, and is a misnomer.
What they denominate trusts
are merely combinations or
written agreements among
the leading manufacturers,
when their wares fail to com
mand the prices they expect
ed, that they will not sell un
til that price rises. The high
tariff protects them against
foreign competition, nnd if
any smaller manufacturer in
this country ventures to put
his goods upon the markets,
the great members of the
trust immediately pounce
down on him and ruin him.
They flood his market with
their goods, at a cheaper rata
than he can afford to sell and
thus break him down at once ;
w hen they again resume their
prohibition policy until the
prices rise. In English law,
this practice is called 'fore
stalling," w hen applied to the
necessaries of life, and is se
verely punished. Itsapplica
tion to cotton, leather, iron,
coal and other goods, is a
modern American invention,
which could not be practiced
but for the exorbitant pro
tective; tariff. The protective
tariff has produced "trusts,"
and "trusts" supplement the
tariff. The tariff protects
the manufacturer against
foreign competition; and the
trusts protect the great man-!
ufaeturers against their less
er domestic competitors.
Free trade will kill both
of these schemes of robbery.
Mr. Shurz also spoke of the
rapid demoralization of the
parties, their resort to bri
bery to achieve success, and
the necessity of civil service
reform. He also lamented
the destruction of American
forests, and expressed ihe
opinion that it was an irre
parable evil, and therefore,
even greater than the pro
tective policy, which may be
repealed. D. R. Goodloe.
North Carolina:) IntheSupe-
U a tuga County) nor Court.
Emma Johnson) Suit for Di-
Vs) vorce.
J. R. Johnson)
It appearing to the satis
faction of theOourt, That the
above named Defendant is a
Non-Resident of this State ;
and that personal service of
summons cannot after due
diligence be made upon him;
nndthnt the plaintiff has a
good cause of acting forn di
f irce absolute against him.
It is therefore ordered by the
Court that service of Sum
mons be made upon him, by
publishing this notice in the
Watauga Democrat, a week
ly newspaper published fin
Boone, N. C., for 0 successive
weeks, and the defendant will
take notice, if he fails to ap
pear at Spring term 1889, of
Watauga Superior Court,
and answer or demur to the
complaint which will be filed
in said action during the 3
first days of said term, the
plaintiff will demand therelief
then asked. JoeB.ToodC.S.C
This the 28 Jan, 1889.
W. B CouncillJr.Pltf'sAtty.
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