Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22
BLAINE AND TRUSTS.
lingo Jim Mnnigan.s Latest Direct, CIeai
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months. in which they were seeking 10 do the
most radical things with our revenue laws that
they dare. That bill. after its seven months
| incubation. left the House containing forty
one sections sixty-seven oct1yO pages, more
| than i,5O0 lines Hnd IS 100 words. and It does
not contain seetion, or line, or word, or
syllable relating, directly OF indirectly, or in
any way whattver to trusts The zeal witE
which the President started OF TO saddle the
whole Of the uEoopularity OF trusts on the
protective tarn and upon the Republican
party SENS not even 70 have bern heard OF in
Congress-
These words are from Blaine latest
deliveranee in support of q trusts.
| There seems to be no occasion to
m ince matters with this mai. 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 contradic-
ton means argument, and that impu-
dent denial viii take the place OF sober
| fact. y
Contradiction on the part of Blaine
will not serve the purpose OF ar
gument any more than it 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. It 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:
!. The steel rail trust Is now protected by
| tax OF seventeen dollars a ton. The Mills
| bill reduced the tax TO eleven dollars.
| Tho nail trust IS now protected" by a
| tax OF one and one-quarter cents pound. The
Nils bill reduces the tax to one cent.
/ The iron nut and washer trust is new
| protected" by tax of two cents a 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 a tax OF sIx.tenths OF cent a
pound The Mills bin reduces the tax to four
| tenths of a cent.
3. The copper trust is now protected" by a
tax OF two and a half cents a pound. The
| Mills bill puts copper on the free list.
4. The lead trust is now protected" by
tax OF one and half cents pound. The Mills
bill now reduces 1t to three-fourths OF a cent
| Z. The slate pencil trust is now protected"
by a tax OF thirty per cent. ad valorem. The
| Mills bill reduces the tax 10 twenty per cent.
8. The nickle trust is now protected by
tax Of fifteen cents pound. The Mills bill re-
| duccs the tax TO ten cents
8. The zinc trust is now protected by tax
| OF two and one-half cents pound. The Mills
bin reduces the tax 10 two cents
IL. The sugar trust is now protected" by
taxes averaging eighIy-two cents on the dollar.
It's &ills bill reduces the taxes to sixty-seven
cents on the dollar.
/. The oi!-eloth trust is now protected" by
taa . OF forty per cent ad yalorem. The Mills
| bll. reduces the tax to twenty-five per cent
u. The jute bag trust is now protected" by
| tax OF forty per cent ad valorem. The Mills
BIZ puts iute bags for grain on the free list
ant reduces the tax on bagging for cotton TO
| III. ee-eights cents pound
b. The cordage trust is now protected " by
| tax OF thirty per cent. I'D valorem- The Mills
bill reduces the tax TO twenty-five per cent.
ID. Tho paper envelope trust is now pro
tecied" by tax OF twenty-five per cent. ad
vacrem. The Mills bill reduces the tax to
! twenty per cent
Is The guttl percha trust is now pro.
tec'ed" by a ,s1 Uf thrty-Hve per cent ad va
lorsm. The HIs bill reduces the tax to thirty
per cent.
lG. The castor. oil trust is now protected =
by tax OF eiRety cents a gallon. The Mills
BIZ reduces tbs AK TO forty cents a gallon
The sad oil trtsSf is
| by u tax of tv>aty- five cents o gallon The
| Miis bill reduces the tax To fifteen cents a
gai1n.
~ The cot orseed.on trust is now "pro-
| tee'ed " by ttA f twenty-five cents q gallon.
TIE Mills bill uts cottonseed OIL on the free
lis.
| 10 The borax trust is now protected" by
tax Of five cen pound on borax and boracic
&C j. three eCnts on crude borax and borate
| of nme and fcgr cents on commercial boraeic
&C The Mil bill puts all OF these on the
| free lst.
- The ultrornarine trust is now "protected''
by = tax OF five csnts q pound. The Mills bill
recuees the tax o three cents
Here are twenty specific cases in
which the Mills bill deals directly
with as many trusts, the existence of
each one of which is, we believe, a no
torious fact. We do not claim that the
list above is complete. 1t will suffice
rs :'sober fact against Blaine's ''im-
pudent denia,,' and will serve to show
that Congress both heard and needed
the following words Of President
Cleveland's message concerning trusts:
In speaking OF the increased cost to the con.
| sumer OF our home manufactures. resulting
from duty la upon imported articles OF the
same description, the fact is not overlooked
that competition among our domestic pro-
| dueers sometimes has the effect of keeping the
price OF their products below the highest limit
allowed by such duty. But 1t is notorious that
this competition is too often strangled By COM
biustions quite prevalent at this time and
frequently called trusts, which have for their
object the regulation OF the supply and price
OF commodities made and sold by members OF
the combination. The people can hardly hone
for any conside alton 10 the operation of these
selfish schemes. The necessity Of combination
TO MAINTAIN the price OF any commodity to the
tariff poi7t furnishes proof that some one is
willing TO accept lower prices for such com
modify. and that such prices are remuneratlve:
and lower prices produced by competition
prove the Same thing. Thus where either OF
these conditions exist case would seem 10 be
presented for an easy reduction OF taxat!on.-
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