The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-07

wages now paid their employees by the
protected lumber men approximate the
starvation point about as closely as posi-
BILE, and the bulk of these employees are
not American citizens anyhow, but SUBJ
jects of Her Majesty, the Queen. Free
timber will not hurt anybody but hand
full of millionaires who have amassed
colossal fortunes by one of the most OPP
pressive and Ubiquitous taxes ever levied
by any government.
Free salt means cheaper food for tn
people. 1t means q new impetus to our
great meat-packing interests, which en-
ploy thousands of men where the salt
barons employ scores, and pay good wages
while the latter pay starvation wages.
1t means more employment for working
men, larger expectation of American pro-
ducts, and lower wages for nobody. Like
free timber 1t will hurt nobody but few
millionaires, made such by extortions
legalized by the spoliation tariff.
Then free tin plates means a vast ex-
pansion of certain manufacturing inter-
ests; increased expectations of American
products; more employment for working
men; better market for agricultural and
horticultural produce; lower wages for no.
body, and black eye for nobody but q
dozen or two Eastern monoplies.
Free wool means cheaper clothing for
the masses; employment for more men Ia
our wooden industries; competition on a
fair basis in neutral markets between
American and foreign manufacturers OF
clothing and fabrics of all kinds; warmth
for multitudes OF poor people who now
SILVER through our long winters in shabby
clothing and under flimsy bedding. Free
wool will hurt nobody save pc sibly few
wealthy wool-grovers who are victims
of the insane delusion that the government
can snd ought to, by an arbitrary exercise
of the taxing power, make sheep culture
profitable on 800 an acre land, while mill
lions Of acres of cheap grazing land are
available in the far West for that purpose.
Free pulp for paper makers means cheaper
books and newspapers, and q correspond
ing extension OF intelligence among the
people. 1t will injure no workingman nor
workingwomsn. Free needles will be q
boon to the tolling sewing women who
exc out a miserable existence, the slaves OF
protected employers in our great cities.
Free bark for tanning means cheaper foot
wear for all, and more boots and shoes sold
in foreign countries. And so on all the way
down the free list proposed in the Mills
tariff bill. Space will not permit an emu
meration OF all the articles embraced in
this free list, bat it may be said that there
are controlling reasons why every one of
them should be admitted duty free. There
are hundreds of other commodities, now
heavily taxed, which ought to go On the
free list, and will in the course OF time. AS
to many of these q substantial reduction
OF duty is provided In the Mills bill.
The reduction in revenues contemplated
by this bill is estimated at $53. 600, 900. A.
the same time it would relieve consumers
of an annual tribute to monopolies of per-
hsps 5000. OO0, 900 or $3.50. OO0. 600. We think
the bill ought to receive the united sup
port Of the Democratic party in Congress.
Il is far from what it ought to be, but it Is
God as far as it goes. II Mr.. Randall or
any of his followers choose to oppose it
they should be no longer recognized as
Demo Gratis. 1t Is time for the lines to be
sharply drawn. The issue is squarely
joined between monopoly and the people.
He that is for monopoly is against the
people, and has no business to call himself
or be called Democrat.