The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-09-21

| Editors DemocYaf
Is i true as alleged by republicans that
the Mills bill puts all products OF republI.
can states on the free list and maintains
the tariff duty on all products In democratic
| states
| INQUIRER.
There Il not a word CT trd,h In this state.
inent so ofteh made by republicans. Most
of those who make the statement are en-.
tireiy ignorant OF what the provisions of
the Mills bill are, not one In fifty having
ever read the full bin. A brief statement
will show what articles are put on the free
list. They are as follows; Beeswax crude
gycerine. phosphorus, soap, except fancy,
extract OF heniock, indigo, iodine, croton
oil, hemp seee and rape seed oil, aiums, all
limitations Of natural mineral waters and
al arlIfsial mineral waters, baryta, boracic
acid, borate of lime, borax, copper, ,suiphatc
OF or blue yitriol, sulphate Of iron or cop.
peras, crude, carbonate Of or fused and
eaustie potash. ehloraie Of potash, ,salipeter,
saiphate OF potash. nitrate Of soda, ,sulphate
OF soda, Glauber's salts. refined sulphur.
wood.tar, coaI-tar and products OF such as
napiha, beuzine, benzalc dead oil and pitch,
all preparations Of coal tar, logwood and
other dyewoods,spirlis Of lurpentine. ocher,
oehery ear,hs, umber and umber earths,
sienna and sienna earths, olive oil salad oil,
whale oil, seal oil, cotton seed OF, and meats
foot oil, all barks, beans. berries, balsams,
buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, nut.galls, fruits.
flowers, grains, gams, herbs, leaves. .licbens,
moses, nuts, all earths or elays unmanu
factured, opium crude and not aIulteraied.
brick other than fire brick, German looking
glass plates made Of blown glass and 81.
vered, glass plates or iscs.unwrought for
use In making optical instruments, specta-
eies and eye glasses, iron or steel sheets
known as tin plates, terne plates and tag.
gers Tin, iron and steel cotton ties OF hoops
for baling purposes not thinner than mum.
Der twenty wire gauge, adtimony, needles
| except for knitting and sewlng machines,
quicksilver, chromate Of iron, mineral sub.
stances In crude stats, timber hewn sawed.
squared or sided, lumber, hubs, posts, slaves
OF wood. pickets, paiinks, laihs. shingles,
clap boards, pine or uce.Iogs, fresh milk,
vegetables in their natural state or In salt or
brine, chicory root, aeorns, dandelion root
cocoa, curFants, dates, figs, fax straw. fax
not hackled or dre>sed, tow OF flax or hemp,
hemp. manila, jute butts, juie, sunni, sisal
grass, burl~ps, bags of jute for grain, wool,
wooden rags, shoddy, bibles, books and
pamphlets printed In other than the Eng.
llsh language. .bristles, broom-corn. feathers,
finishing powder, grease, grind.stones,eurled
hair for beds or mattresses, human hair
garden seeds, beans, peas, osier or willow,
rags, rattan and reeds, salt, stone unmanu.
tactured,ali strings OF gut, ,tallow, waste, brush
wood, sheep-dip, petroleum, ami.ine oil
ollzarine, egg.yelks, meats, game, poultry
and soap stocks. This completes the lisi
OF articles which are placed on the free lis,
BY the Mills bill. As enquirer" has doubt
lcss observed. when republicans have made
the charge that the bin puts all northern
/ articles on the freq list and southern arti
clea ou the dutlable list. they always men
ton wool as an exclusively northern pro
duct. Now the truth Is this, that wool Il
not by any means an exclusively northern
product as may be seen BY any one who
will take the census reports OF 1850 and
figure a little. Al that time there were II
the sixteen old slave states ten sheep fol
every twenty inhabitants, and in all th'
other states there were fourteen to every
twenty inhabitants. Since that census the
Increase OF sheep has been much creates
In the South than in the North so that Il i
safe TO say to-day that the South has Al
many sheepin proportion to her population
as the North. People when considering
this charge Of sectionalism should bear IL
mind that the South has no protection o
any consequence outside of wool, excep
sugar and rice, while the North receive
$50 of tho benefits of protection where tn
South receives but one.