The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-25

Some More Light Thrown On the iniqu'-
ties of tho Allison Biil

some More Light Thrown On the iniqu-
Ties 81 the Allison niil.
The more the Allison bill. now un-
der consideration in the Senate. Is cS-
nmincd. the palmer becomes It's pur-
pose TO reduce the taxes Of the rich and
10 increase the taxes Of the poor.
Recently we showed By what device
thc tax on fine pcn-knivcs was reduced
from 50 per cent. 70 81 per cent. while
the tax on the cheap Congress knife
would be increased from 50 per cent
10 %.
In guns the same rule has been APP
Piled. Section III reads n follows:
AN double harrclcd. sport ng breech-loah-
ing shotguns. ten dollars each and = per cent.
al salorum.
Doublo-barrelcd shotguns costing 50
abroad are to pay an import tax OF
Sll %. or on twenty guns costing 800
tax Of S222j.
But take fee shotgun, such rs the
rich buy. costing 800; the tax will be
only sSj. Thus. twenty poor men
buyine shoiguns valued at just what
one rich mans gun Is valued At. are
taxed in the aggregate 1928. while the
rich man is let OIL with tax OF $50.
Why?
Because AZ Syracuse. n. r.. are
three firms making cheap sho;sunS.
and they want to have prohibiioIy
tax put on that grade A. the Senate
rs now constituted exists only. to re-
cord the edicts OF the manufacturer,
Allison draws the bill that is to draw
the blood.
The same principle runs all through
this infamous bill. The common
things OF life, the articles needed by
the poor building materials, house
hold articles. fencing. farming imp!c-
ments are taxed doubly. and the Al
lison bill is drawn for the purpose Of
reducing the revenues by increasing
the rate OF taxation.
Senator Vance illustrated the meth
DDS adopted when. in discussing the
proposition To take macaroni from the
existing free list and taxing II at the
rate OF two cents pound, he said
he bad one day last summer peeped
into the room OF the Finance Com
mittce where he found 'chipper
Dutchman" telling the subcommittee
what he knew about macaroni. and
who said he had been making macaro-
nj in Cincinnati under the impression
that there was duty imposed upon
it. and had been doing very well.
but he couldn't believe his eyes
when he read recently that it was on
the free list. lie wanted a duty on
il Of three cents per pound. Mr..
Vance read some amusing extracts
from the testimony OF this witness.
One Of the strong points made BY
Mr. Vance was the pleading OF the
witness that the duty would be very
small thing for the public, but that
lit would be big thing for u.
He commended this point in political
economy 10 the senator from Con-
necticut CHR. Hawley), as il sustained
that Senator's argument the day before
about salt
Ii seems to the Republican members
OF Congress little thing 10 tax the
people one cent = Htdu ~ 1853 $500
two cents head on cotton ties. ana
cent Il head on macaroni. and one dol
lar head on pig iron, and nifty cents
head on steel rails. but in the aggre
gate the burden is something enor
nous. and. though the Republicans ds
not sec the danger ahead. they are 20
ING Just the things which may precipi
tate in the next four years an indus
trial revolution which will destroy tn
whole system OF legalized robbery. roo
and branch
Every proposition made by the Dem
ocrats to lower these taxes of the poo
is rejected by the unanimous vote y
the Republicans. Every attempt 7
remove the absurdities and inequall
ties OF the tariff j. opposed by tn
united Republicans. But when Nj
Allison, now the spokesman OF In
, trusts and monopolists. proposes q
| amendment stih further to grind tn
I faces OF the poor. he is supported b
! the unanimous Republican vote
: Louisville Couricr-Journal.