Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-04-17

mittee with some Western hide men
On common window glass, such a
lights the homes of farmers and me
chanics, the duty, already up to from
sixty to one hundred and sixty pel
cent, Is heavily increased.
On penknlves, pocket knives, razor
land that class of cutlery, the duty, al
ready averaging 80 per cent, is in
creased to from 65 to 25 per cent, and
again the highest rates are levied on the
cheaper goods used by the mass of the
people. Table cutlery now taxed 81
per cent, is raised to from so to $50 pei
cent. Guns, now 85 per cent, are to
pay from so to $50 per cent, the high
er duties on the cheaper goods.
All kinds of buttons are raised from
so to250 per cent, and taggers iron,
their rawmaterial, Is raised so per cent.
Clay pipes rise from the present rate,
35 per cent. to 20 per cent. On
matches the match trust will be de-
lighted to see the duty doubled. On
wood pulp for printing paper, Mr..
Warner Miller's speciality, the duty is
also doubled.
On cotton ties the duty is nearly
trebled to encourage the negro cotton
raisers. On hoop iron IL is largely in
creased, and on boiler and other plate
iron there is an increase of about 40 per
cent, because Pennsylvania "fried
out" On railroad bars there is a de-
crease Of So per ton-evidently some
railroad corporations "fried out"
Leaf tobacco (Sumatra), is now pay
ing 35 to rs cents per pound, is to pay
from So to 1915 per pound, so that the
cigar-makers must get their wrappers
at home.
Tin plates are doubled-and up goes
the canning industry. On bottles the
duty is increased so per cent.-and up
goes the great mineral water and beer
bottling industry. On glue there is a
large increase, as isalso on all paint oils,
faxseed, poppy seed and on paints, ali
which makes the poor mans house
dearer once more.
1t is for the benefit of the great mass
of laboring poor in our great cities, we
suppose, that the duty on oranges, lem
ons and lines have been trebled.
Because the New England manufac-
turers were saucy enough to ask for free
wool, coal and iron ore they are pun
ished by an increase of 20 per cent. on
steel blooms-the bases of all steel
manufactures of that region-and an
other increase of 10 per cent. on chair
cane, which is now free, and which is
extensively used in New England in
dustries.
A great number of articles now on
the free list are made dutiable. 1t is for
the benefit of the laboring poor, of
course, that fresh fish, now duty free,
are to pay cent a pound duty; that
the noble cabbage must pay 8 cents
duty, about 100 per cent; that apples
are to pay rs cents per bushel, onions
40 cents bushel, dried apples 2 cents
pound, cider cents a gallon, eggs 5
a dozen, ,macaronian vermiceIli 2 cents
a pound. All these and many more
provisions consumed by the masses of
the people have been on the free list,
but are now to pay heavy duty.
Straw, now free, is to pay, So a ton.
Poppy seed oil, now free, is to pay 80
cents gallon. Peppermint oil, now
free, is to pay 81 pound. Teazles, now
free, must pay 80 per cent. Alumi-
mum, now free, Is to pay 35 per cent
some Pennsylvania evidently is going
to try to make it. Camel's hair, now
free, is to pay II cents per pound. These
are only fair samples of bill whose
all effect will be to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer; which, in every,
part, is ingeniously contrived to enable
trusts, corporations and capitalists to
fleece the mass ofthe people, and which |
yet only redeems the pledges of the Re-
publican party in the Presidential can
7ass.-Ndtional Democrat.