The Wilmingtonian., 1886-07-24
Senator Gray Opposes Local In
terests.

f1CDubOI oi"S OppoSSo A-"N'tH $50
terests.
Senator Gray has placed himself on record
in the United States Senate as opposed to the
taxation of fraudulent bItter.
Upon the vote upon the Oleomargarine
bill, an enactment which provided for the
laying of a tax of two cents per pound upon
that manufacture, Senator Gray cast his vote
against the tax.
In doing SO, despite the speciOus argn-
ments he make iu defense of his action, he
has definitely arrayed himself once again
against the interests of Delaware, and in
this case against the extensive farming and
dairying industries of the agricultural sec
tions of the State of Delaware.
What will the farmers and dairymen of
Brandywine Hundred, of the Hundreds of
ChristIana, of Mill Creek, of White Clay
Creek, and of New Castle Hundred say of
this-why, simply that his action, if sue
cessful, as he voted and wished it to be,
would have ruined them
Senator Gray knows well that the State of
New York aloue during the past twelve
months has lost $780, 900, 900 through the in
truson of this fraudulent industry within its
border lines and this has been encompassed
by ousting the genuine butter trade from the
New York markets
Senator Gray knows or aught to know,
that this fraudulent oleomargarine industry,
which the Senator's comprehensive mind
has adjudged by implication to be right
proper and legitimate commercial eutity has
displaced from the markets OF the country
1870, 200, 900 pounds of genuine butter And
that in one single year-the product of the
State Of New York alone
And yet the Senator hats in his action
upon the matter and says II shan't agree to
this bill because it interferes with State an
tonomy-the Federal Government has no
right to legslate "for the general good ~
Senator Gray knows that it is only mat
ter of time, and very short time too, when
similar reaction as recorded of the State Of
New York viii and must be felt in his own
State of Delaware is to say if the Sen,
ators mischievous theories had succeeded,
The Senator must plainly see that farm
lands must tumble down fifty per cent. il
cash value. That the genuine butter ant
dairy interests of Delaware must be event
ually wiped clear out of existence as an i'll
dustry, had his line of thought as indicated
by his vote in the Senate prevailed
He will probably argue bye and bye, whel
taxed by his constituency, as he most as
suredIy will be fol- such action, that it is
wrong theory to tax one industry for tn
support of another aud that taxation shoul
be for revenue only.
B That is all well enough as an exercise q
abstract mental theorization and possibl
{ available argument under certain cases.
! 1t partakes too much however of the al
e stract, inapplicablc and impractical theor
cations of Senator Gray's distinguished pr'
t decessor and great examplar, the HoI
J Thomas F. Bayard. The minute speck {
= inconsequential and iuapplicable argumel
S is dabbled with and played upon while Il
: great tangible practical point is not graspe'
If The millions Of dollars of value vested
dairying interests and farm lands Of IL
d country are worthy of infinitely less legit
lie mate consideration, in Senator Gray's estim
sr tion, than the questionable rights of the ma
ulactures of deletei Ous, even filthy cor
Jh pound, whose almost sole extensive manufa
e. urers are two immense monopolistic firm
st one located in Chicago the other in Ne
is York City.
To these foreigners and for such film
ay arguments as he puts forth Senator Cir
d, would at this moment sacrifice the whole
IT. the dairying interest and half the cash val
he of the farm lands in the State of Delawa