Iron County register., 1888-10-18
MockING THE PEOPLE.

MOcKlNG THE PEOPLE
The Republican Whisky and Tobacco Re-
lief Measure.
The Senate w Whisky-and- Z tobacco Re-
lief bill would reduce the revenue, it is
said. about $4,000. 900. This would
be a greater reduction. by about two
millions, than the Mills bill would eff
feet. But, the Senatorial scheme pro-
poses to take no less than $31, 500, 900
(almost one-halD of the reduction from
the cxcise taxes on schisky and tobacco,
and only $43. SOC, 900 from the war tax
es. And of their proposed reduction
of the war taxes, less than six mill
ions would be effected by putting raw
materials on the free list; whereas, the
reduction of that most beneficent meth
cd which the Mills bill proposes would
amount to nearly twenty millions.
Here is the telegraphic statement of
the reduction proposed by the Senate
nd-Tobacco-Relief bill:
Tobacco f.nternal excisel .... 80. ga, 500 00o
Whisky 0nternal excise) 7,O)u,000
ADD tons to free list ............... 6.5OOOO9
Other tariff reductions. 100000
Total ............ S7S 759, 900
In their Blaine platform of 1884, the
war-tariff oligarchs pledged them
selves g to relieve the people from the
burden OF unnecessary taxation by
reduction and Encouragement OF the
tariff duties" Examined in the light
of that declaration, what a mockery is
this project to ''relieve the people
from the monstrous war-tariff by re-
lieving whisky and tobacco of $31, ,5OO,-
600, the colossal sugar trust of $27,-
759, 900, and the people and all their
other manufacturing industries of the
phenomenal sum of $6,O00,000. or
thereabout--for the Blaine relievers
propose to put many things in the free
list-such as ''opium crude, for smok-
ing''-that would be no relief to either
decent people or moral industries.
Compare the foregoing Blainiac
mockery of the hopes of the people,
oppressed by colossal war taxes in an
epoch of profound peace, with the
manner of reducing that unnecessary
burden which the Mills bill proposes.
The tariff reduction proposed by the
latter is distributed as follows:
Raw materials put in free list 80. So 773. 500 81
IS. Earthen and glass ware..... s55,:62 81
c. Me ais. Observation-Disclosures. ....... 1887 366 US
d. Wooden ware .................. 47.5N ~
r. Sou5ar. .-...-... ~, 3oa, !a4 ~
=. ProviSi ionS. %. 369,6 ,60t 10
1. Cotton and cotton goods ... s77,6l0 20
j. Hemp. jute and fax goods. 49,. 1,S45, ,962 80
K Woolen goods. .......... X, a54, SIP 20
NJ. Books. papers, etc 3,556 90
N. SunGres. Observation-Disclosures. 1,103 191 90
Total reduction S4J. .4S6, ,240 IS
A considerable part of the things
which the Senate whisky-and-tobacco
relief bill would put on the free list are
included in the longer free list of the
Mills bill. But the Senate abortion
makes some curious Determinations
that it will be worth while to examine
attentively. Crude opium, for instance.
a raw material extensively used in GER
tain industrial arts, is found in the
Mills bill free list; it is also in the pro-
posed Senate additions to the free list,
but there it's free Importation is limited
to a peculiar and not very Amer
lean use. "Opium, crude, for smok-
sng," would have free entrance; but
crude opium for the manufacture
of medicinal preparations must pay
the war tax! The Blaine statesmen
would permit the opium-smoking in
dustry to import its raw material; but
any moral and decent industry in
which that material is used must pay
tribute to induce somebody to try to
produce in this country something that
looks, tastes or smells like opium.
Cocoa, a kind of tropical bean from
which is made one of the most health
full and nourishing breakfast beverages
known in the world, appears in the
Mills free list; but the Senate scheme
for the relief of whisky and tobacco
would levy tribute upon the breakfast
of the working-man, and upon the
drink as wholesome as fresh milk for
his little ones, to encourage the
growth of the cocoa bean in Alaska!
This Blainiac bill for the relief of
whisky and tobacco is full of equally
absurd determinations against count
less number of things whose free adj
mission, o1.admission at lower duties,
would afford relief and encouragement
to our mechanics and wage-earners.-
Chicago Globe.