Another Short Preachment About
Our Tariff
Ihe British Parliament consists of more
than double the number of members that make
up our National Congress, and Parliament is
the supreme law-making body for a vaster
empire than ours. Yet the annual cost to the
British people of maintaining their national
legislature is less than $1,300,000, while the
American Congress costs the people upwards
of $14,000,000 per year. That’s the price we
pay lor having our laws made in the interests
of the Trusts. Each of us contributes in
proportion to the amount of manufactured
goods of foreign make which we purchase.
A two-horse farmer who has to purchase
several hundred dollars’ worth of family and
plantation supplies pays as much or more
toward the support of the Government than
Andrew Carnegie does. Thus you see how
accumulated millions escape national taxa
tion, while the Government draws its revenues
from the unprivileged millions who have to
buy these various articles to which the Tariff
applies. Don't you think that it is a perfect
outrage that a national tax should be hidden
away under the price of practically every
thing that you buy to clothe yourself, furnish
your house, kitchen, and dining-room, work
at your trade as a mechanic or your calling
as a farmer? whereas the ungodly fortunes of
such men as Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould,
Vanderbilt & Company contribute nothing
whatever to the support of the national ad
ministration.
How are those colossal piles of money
heaped up? No such accumulations by in
dividual citizens were ever known in the his
tory of mankind.
