Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-31
152.6S as the total cost TO this district by
reason of tariff taxation last YEAR

reason of tariff taxation last year.
I'VE can. and will. stand all tariff tax
| alton necessary to run our government,
and give our home manufacturers
reasonable protecti N against cheap labor
foreign competition; but when million
aires are SO rapidly multiplying among
them. and they are able to send their
goods, as they do, TO the homes of those
cheap labor foreign manufacturers, and
sell them there at less prices than they
sell them to us here at home. are thew
not getting too much protection? That
protection Is simply bonus
which we pay them for carving
ON their manufacturing among us. We
were already paving them an average of
~ per cent. protection. Did they need
that increased to 60 per cent. protection.
which the Mckinley bill gives them:
Were they losing money? Would they
have to stop business if they did not
get it?
The reduction of tariff taxation
under the Mckinley bill is S6I. 600 900.
Of that about $5t.o}3. 100 j, on sugar and
molaSses, 1t transfers to the dutiable
list about $3,5OO,o)0 before on the free
list. This leaves but small margin for
further reduction on anything else.
Our home sugar producers, who pro
duce only one tenth of the sugar used in
this country, and the sugar trust retinerS.
are the only ones heretofore benefited
by the tariff on sugar. BY the Mckinley
bill. the sugar growers are given a bounty
of Il cents a pound on all the sugar they
produce grading from 50 to 95 degrees
polariscope test, and cents a pound ior
all above 80; and all sugar below mum
Der Is, is admitted into this country free
OF duty. A duty of cent a pound is
retained on all sugar above number Is.
What does this mean? 1t means the
low grades of sugar, such as the sugar
trusts want tor refining, and little or
none OF which is used by our people,
free to the sugar trust and tu.red sugar
W VIC AtitSNoSS Va Vic people. lIidI one
half cent a pound on the three billion
pounds of sugar used yearly in the
United States, amounts to vast sum
enough to enable the sugar trust to con-
troll the market and keep up prices to
the consumers; and are they not likely
to do so:
The bounty to the sugar growers will
amou It to somc 5000, 900 year, it is
estimated. Way should they have that
bounty for raising sugar, any more than
the growers of corn. wheat or oats? The
Mckinley bill largely increases the tariff
bonus of protection, which We have long
been paying to the manufacturers of
croCkery, glass, and almost everything
else of the necessaries of life, heretofore
taxed by tariff duties.
" In this bill. Henry w. Oliver. a lead
ing manufacturer of Pittsburgh, saws.
the rates adopted were those proposed
by the manufact r,I3 They got what
they wanted; that is, law to enahte them
to make increased profits out of the
people.
''With thirty-one and half billion dol
lars of the sixty billion of all the wealth of
this country, already in the hands of les
than -, coo individuals, and most of it ma
nipulated out ofthe hands of its producers
within the last thirty years, is it not
about time that we began to look after
and protect the interests of the other
64.000,oO of our population?
The Mckinley bill increases tariff
taxation on dutiable imports one third.
49, per cent. We're not these protected
monopolsts piIing up profits out Of
the people fast enough before
d" How will you. vote? Will you vote
that you approve of this kind of legisla-
ton, and want more of it, or that
you disapprove of it, and want
change?
We read that the monster God
Saturn, devoured his own children
We do not read that they voted
themselves victims to his Unsuitable and
horrible appetite.
Have not the ieagued and protected
monopolists. trusts and combines, been
devouring the people of our country
long enough? Shall their billions of
money, and their skilled and able hired
agents and attorneys. with the consent
of the voters of this third congressional
district of Wis 'onsin, mislead, buy or
corrupt the people and their public ser
wants, longer? Shalt we vote ourselves
continued victims of their ravenous
creedIn