The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-24
sLAINE AND TRUSTS.



Take the Mills DILL, that the House or It's
committee had under consideration for seven
months in which they were seeking to DO the
most radical things with our revenue laws that
they dared. That bill, after its seven months
incubation, left the House containing forty
one sections, sixty-seven octave pages. more
than 1,6O0 lines and Is 900 words, and IT does
not contain . section, or line, or WORD, or
syllable relating, directly or indirectly, or In
any way whatever to trusts. The zeal Wiz
which the President started on TO saddle the
whole Of the unpopularity OF trusts on the
protective tariff anG cpcn the Republican
party SENS not even TO have been Ssard OF In
Congress.
These words are from Blaine's latest
deliverance in support of g trusts. >
There seems to be no occasion to
m ince matters with this man. His
statement quoted is direct, clear, un-
equivocal lie. In the speech from
which the words quoted are taken,
Blaine had something about "a class
of editors who think that contradic-
ton means argument, and that impu-
dent denial will take the place of sober
| fact"
Contradiction on the part OF Blaine
will not serve the purpose OF ar
| gument any more than it will an
swer for any s'class of editors" F" and
s.impudent' assertion does not lose one
whit of its impudence because it comes
from beaten and dishonored candi-
date for President
The Mills bill does directly relate to
trusts. 1t deals with them 80 vigor-
ously that the trusts and their repre-
sentatives in Congress fought it at
every stage of its progress and are
fighting it still in the columns of Re-
publican newspapers and in one New
York newspaper which has tried to
defeat two Democratic candidates for
President. and falsely flying Demo
cratic colors, is bound up to trusts this
year. Here are the "sober facts
which we put against the impuden'
denial of Blaine;
/. The steel rail trust is now protected" b.
tax Of seventeen dollars o ton. The Mill
bill reduced the tax to eleven dollars.
2 The nail trust il now protected" by
tax of one and one-Quarter cents pound tn
Mills bill reduces the tax to one cent
IL
"protected" by . tax Of two cents q pound
The Mills bill reduces the tax to one and one
half cents pound
4. The barbed-wire fence trust Is now pro
tected" by q tax of six-tenths Of cent
pound The Mills bill reduces the tax to four
tenths of Q cent
s. The copper trust is now protected" by
tax Of two and Q half cents pound Tn
Mills bill puts copper on the free list.
d The lead trust IL now protected" by
tax Of one and q half cents pound. The Mil
bill now reduces It to three-fourths Of cent.
e. The slate pencil trust is now protected
by tax Of thirty per cent. ad valorem tn
Mills bill reduces the tax 70 twenty per cent.
8. The nickle trust is now protected by
tax of fifteen cents pound The Mills bill n
! duces the tax to ten cents.
O. The zinc trust is now protected by to
Of two and one-half cents pound The Mil
! bill reduces the tax 10 two cents.
10. The sugar trust is now protected"
. taxes averaging eighty-two cents on the dollar
The Mills bnl reduces the taxes to sixty-seve
cents on the dollar.
II. Tho oil-cloth trust il now protected" b
taxes OF forty per cent I'D valorem. The Mill
bill reduces the tax TO twenty-five per cent.
IL. The tute bag trust II now protected"
4 tax Of forty per cent I'D valorem. The Mil
bill puts jute bags for grain on the free Lis
and reduces the tax on bagging for cotton
[ three-eiehts cents pound.
13 The cordage trust Is now protected "
: tax Of thirty per cent ad valorem. The Nil
e bill reduces the tax to twenty-five per cent
g IL The paper envelope trust is now pr
: tected" by tax Of twenty-five per cent. q
valorem. The Mills bill: reduces the tax
g twenty per cent
9 Is. The gutta percha trust is now "pr
!. tected" by . tax of thirty-nve per cent ad "
y loren. The Mills bill reduces the tax to thir
per cent
~ rr~ -, .-n.A L. u~-.x~-<oa
by tax of eighty cents q gallon. The Mil
bill reduces the tax to forty cents gallon.
H. The linseed-ofl trust Is now protected
Il by tax OF twenty-five cents q gallon II
Mills bill reduces the tax 70 fifteen cents
gallon.
s. IS. Tho cottonseed-oil trust is now "pr
7. tected" By q tax of twenty-five cents gallo
list
10 The borax trust is now "protected" by
y tax OF 1--WE cents pound on borax and boras
acid. three cents on crude borax and bora
:. Of lime and four cents on commercial bora<
y acid Tho Mills bill puts all Of these ON I
,e free list
20. The ultramariae trust is now "protecte
- by tax OF i've cents q pound. The Mills
. reduces the tax to three cents
Here are twenty specific cases
which the Mills bill deals direct
y. with as many trusts, the existence
@ each one of which is, we believe, a n
b. torious fact We do not claim that Il
O list above is complete. 1t will sum
as ..sober fact against Blaine's ''il
ne pudent denial" and viii serve to she
q. that Congress both heard and heed
'h the following words OF Preside
'ir Cleveland's message concerning trus
In speaking Of the increased cost to the O
he sumer Of our homo manufactures, RESULT
:. from q duty laid upon imported articles Of
ue Same description. the fact Ii not overlook
be that competition among our domestic p
ducers sometimes has the effect of keeping
- price cf their products below the highest lii
DC allowed ~ such duty. but II is notorious 4
ITS this competinoa 10 too often strangied by ct
| hin as,o uuffa vsreva1a0t nj fhfs tima