Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
THE ABOuINATIOES BILL.

Having with infinite trouble and need
less travail, passed the tariff bill, con-
gress promptly adjourned, to the great
relief of most people. Although by far
the most important and far reaching
measure of the session, IL was the last TO
become law. For months and months
it dragged its slow length from house to
senate and back again. receiving at each
separate stage of its progress, some new
Disagreement or deformity to make it
more and more repulslve TO oil but the
favored few for whom it was designed.
At the last moment, in spite of every
thing that could be done TO prevent,
three Republicans of the house, and
three OF the senate voted against it. OF
course they were Westerners, who by
their irmness in resisting the blandish-
ments of the Eastern members, demon-
strated the decisive political turn things
are taking in the West where the protec-
ton spirit has for twenty five
years been as earnest as in
Massachusetts itself. The outrageous
disparity between the Industrial, COM
mercial and financial conditions of Mas-
sachusetts and Kansas or Iowa is too
patent and too striking to be overlooked.
1t is there in full view OF all, as visible
as Pixies peak to the man at Its base.
1t is perfectly clear from comparison o,
the East and West that protection doe
not protect all alike, and that in the
nature of things It can not and will not
until IL acquires what Reed or Mckinley
can never give 1.-THE power of omuipo-
teuce itself. Where are the Carneges,
Ammidowns or Ameses of Kansas or
IowsI Until the Western agriculturist
be given an equal chance under the
tariff with the Eastern factory lord,
never tell US that protection protects all
alike.
Well the Westerner is beginning to
see It that way. 1t took him long
time TO get the kindling wood out of his
eyes, but he sees at last, dimly perhaps,
but surely. The juggling over the tariff
on binding twIne is enough to open his
eyes to the rascality of the whole thing.
In spite OF the unanimous demand from
the wheat growing section of the North
west for free Irvine, the Irvine trust was
powerful enough at the last moment to
have the tariff on its product restored.
The voice of the millions of agricultural
;,., o,l nf ha fro
outweighed in congress by about a score
of men who constitute a powerful trust.
Who but poems and serfs would put up
with such treatment as that? John
Sherman and others said that the trusts
whose products enjoyed the bene-
fit of protection ought to be
struck at the custom house.
Which ons of them was SO struck? Not
the cordage and binding Irvine trust, the
rubber trust, the white lead trust, the
most powerful of them all; the steel
trust, the implement ombines, the cot
ton bagging or cotton tie trusts, or any
of the scores of powerful trusts that
might be named. On the contrary, the
Mckinley bill gives most of them addi- |
tionel protection, increa sing the general |
average from AZ to about GO per cent.
In the interest of a "free breakfast |
table" the duty on raw sugar was re- |
placed by bounty, while protective
duty remains on refined sugar TO foster |
and encourage the inso,ent and au-
dacious sugar trust. Although about
$50 900 900 duty on sugar and mo-
lasses is thrown away for the sake |
of ''free breakfast table," no
one believes that sugar will be one cent