The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-29
BLAINE AND COMBINES.
lingo Jim Muiiigap's Latest Direct, Clear
uue0uiyOcal Lie.

UneQuivOcal Lie.
Take the Mills bill, that the HouSe or its
committee had under consideration for seven
months. in which they were seeking - 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, moro
than 600 lines and 15 900 words, and II does
not contain section, or line, or word, or
syllable relating, directly or Indirectly, or in
any way whatever to trusts. The zeal with
which the President started of to saddle the
whole OF the unpopularity OF trusts on the
protective tariff and upon the Republican
party sens not even TO have been heard OF In
Congress.
These words are from Blaine's latest
deliverance in support OF trusts"
There seems to be no occasion to
mince matters with this man. His
statement quoted is a 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 contrad ic-
tion 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 1t will an
swer for any "class Of editors" and
'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 so 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 /" impudent
denial' of Blaine:
1. The steel rail trust ia now protected by
tax OF seventeen dollars q ton. Tho Mills
bill reduced the tax to eleven dollars.
9. The nail trust Is now protected" by q
tax OF one and one-quarter cents pound. The
Mills bill reduces the tax to one cent.
Q. The iron nut and washer trust is now
protected" by tax OF two cents q pound.
The Mills bill reduces the tax to one and one
half cents pound.
d. The barbed-wire fence trust is now PRO.
tected" by TAX Of six-tenths OF u cent q
pound. The Mills bill reduces the tax to four.
tenths OF o cent.
s. The copper trust is now protected" by q
tax Of two and half cents pound. The
Mills bill puts copper on the free list
d. The lead trust is now protected" by a
An.r
bill now reduces 1t to three-fourths of q cent.
z. The slate pencil trust is now protected
by n tax OF thirty per cent. ad valorem. The
Mills bill reduces the tax to twenty per cent.
8. Tho nickle trust is now protected" by a
tax Of fifteen cents pound. The Mills bill re-
duces the tax to ten cents.
0. The zinc trust is now protected by n tax
OF two and one-half cents n pound. The Mills
bill reduces the tax to two cents.
10. The sugar trust Is now "protected" by
taxes averaging eighty-two cents on the dollar.
The Mills bill reduces the taxes to sxty-seYer
cents on the dollar.
II. The oi-cloth trust is now protected" by
taxes OF forty per cent ad valorem. The Mills
| bill reduces the tax to twenty-five per cent.
H. The jute bag trust Is now protected" by
tax or forty per cent. ad valorem. The Mills
bill puts jute bags for grain on the free list
| and reduces the tax on bagging for cotton tc
three-eights cents o pound.
o tax of thirty per cent ad vslorem. The Mill.
/ bill reduces the tax to twenty-five per cent
H. The paper envelope trust is now "pro
| tected" by tax of twenty-five per cent. at
valorem. The Mills bill, reduces the tax t,
| twenty per cent.
| 10. The gutta percha trust is now "pro
| tected" by tax Of thirty-hve per cent. I'D va
| loren. The Mills bill reduces the tax to thirty
per cent.
| 16. The castor-oil trust is now protected
| by u tax of eighty cents q gallon. The Mill.
bill reduces the tax to forty cents q gallon.
II. The ltnseed-oil trust is now protected '
| by tax OF twenty-five cents q gallon. The
| Mills bill reduces the tax to fifteen cents
| gallon.
1S. The cottonseed-oil trust is now "pro
tected" by q tax Of twenty-five cents gallon
The Mills bill puts cottonseed oil on the free
| list
10. The borax trust is now protected by {
tax of FIVE cents pound on borax and boracit
| acid, three cents on crude borax and boratt
| OF lime and four cents on commercial boracit
| acid. The Mills bill puts all of these ON tht
| free list.
20. The ultramarlne trust is now protected
/ by tax OF five cents pound. The Mills bill
i reduces the tax to three cents.
Here are twenty specific cases il
which the Mills bill deals directly
with rs many trusts, the existence O
each one of which is, we believe, a no
torious fact. We do not claim that tn,
list above is complete. 1t will suffice
as "sober fact" against Blaine's ''im
pudent denial" and will serve to show
that Congress both heard and needed
the following words of Presiden
Cleveland's message concerning trusts
In speaking OF the increased cost to the con
| sumner of our home manufactures, resultin,
| from duty laid upon imported articles Of tn
| same description, the fact is not overlooke
| that competition among our domestic pro
| ducers sometimes has the effect of keeping tn
price OF their products below the highest limi
| allowed by such duty. But 1t Is notorious tina
this competition Is too often strangled by CON
binations quite prevalent at this time, an
frequently called trusts, which have for thei
object the regulation Of the supply and pric
of commodities made and sold by members Q
| the combination. The people can hardly hop
| for any consideration in the operation OF thes
selfish schemes. The necessity of combinatio
to maintain the price OF any commodity to tn
tariff point furnishes proof that some one /
willing to accept lower prices for such CON
modify, and that such prices are remunerative
and lower prices produced by compettio
prove tho same thing. Thus where either
these conditions exist, case would seem to
presented for an easy reduction OF taxation
Albany (M ~ Argus.
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