The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-25
1t is signed by all the Democratic mem

| equal taxation for the many for the benefit
| of the few We are as anxious as the major.
ity can possibly be to promote and encour-
| age American Industries and advance the
interests of American laborers, and those
who impute to us any other purpose or de-
| sign, either misunderstood or misinterpret
our position, but we believe that both these
objects can be accomplished by reducing the
burdens of taxation, and not by increasing
| them, and that the benefit thus secured will
be far more permanent and far more salts
factory to those directly concerned than
any supposed advantage that can result
from different policy.
According to statements made before the
committee the protected industries of the
country have never been at any time in our
| history in such depressed and discouraging
| condition as they are now. After nearly
thirty years of continuous protection by
Government taxation for their support.
great many OF them are reported to be on the
very verge OF bankruptcy and ruin. while
very few of them, according to the testi-
mony, are yielding a fair profit upon the
capital invested. A great many OF the parties
engaged in these Industries have declared in
the course OF our investigation that the
slightest reduction in duties now imposed
upon competing foreign products would
compel them to close their works and d,s-
charge their employees, and others have even
gone so far as to assert that they would be
forced to go out Of business IL the rates OF
taxation are not increased. At the same
time the laborers in those industries
are complaining of insufficient wages,
| repeated suspensions Of work and a general
condition of uncertainty and insecurity in
| their relations to those who give them en-
ployment The laborers fully realizing the
fact that this system has wholly failed to in
crease their earnings or improve their con.
dtion in any way, have been compelled to
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methods of combinations and cooperation
| for self protection; and those various or
CARNATIONS now offer the only efficient
means at hand for the preservation even OF
the existing rates OF wages"
The report states that the remedy pro.
posed by the majority is the imposition OF
more taxes upon every article Of foreign
origin which the people of this country de.
sire to buy and for which they are ready and
anxious to exchange the cotton which they
can not spin, the corn and wheat which they
can not consume the oil and coal which they
can not burn, and many other products OF
the farms, the forests and the mines. These
surplus products must find a market some
where outs de OF the United States The i'm
ports last year were S745, Isl,6J,, paid for
mainly in surplus agricultural products. IL
would be impossible for the people Of the
United States to send out of the country
that sum In cash and e> ery one knows they
did not do it. In fact 1t is spent there in the
production, preparation and TRANSFORMATION
of the articles sent abroad to pay for impor-
taticns; and il they were not sent abroad the
money could not be spent here because there
would be no market
The silk bounty Ia Sc, erely criticised in
the report
Continuing the report saws the bill will
| increase the taxes on wool and woolens
$I5,5 90 per annum. according to last years
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sum, while taxes on tobacco to the amount
Of s., SO, o94 are abolished. The minority can
not afford to do this at the price of an in
crease on necessaries.
The report then attacks some Of the de-
tails of the bill as follows: "The iewest
grades of wooden yarn, worth not over 80
cents per pound, are to be subjected to q
duty of liz per cent, while the most costly
yarn will pay q per cent. One grade of
coarse, cheap blankets will be required to
| pay los per cent, but the nnest blankets will
pay q per cent. TIE coarsest and cheapest
wooden hats will be subject to a duty of Ill
per cent. and the finest to 65 per cent
Women's and children's cheapest dress
goods with cotton warp are to be taxed 16
per cent and the finest 81 per cent. The
lowest grade of wooden cloths will pay l2s
per cent, and the highest grade Sc per cent
The cheapest qualities of knit goods for un
derwear range from 1l2 to 13S per cent but
the finest and most expensive will pay 7speI
cent. aoo,en shawls of the coarsest and
lowest grades, used by the poorest people,
will pay 1s1 per cent duty and worsted
goods of the lowest grade will pay 40 pei
cent, while the highest grade will pay 80 per
cent"
Continuing, the report says: 1--WE have
for long time been endeavoring to increase
our trade with the people CT Central and
South America and Mexico and at our re-
,nta iS hein
held TO devise means for the accomplish.
ment of this result The people of all these
countries have the right to suppose that this
Government was acting in good faith when
it inyited them to send their delegates here.
and that nothing would be done by us to dis.
turb the harmony of their deliberations
or prevent the success of their mission; but
in the midst of their consultations and when
IL was earnestly hoped that some practical
plan might be agreed upon for the establish.
ment of closer commercial relations this
bill is reported containing provisions which
will not only retard reciprocal arrangements
for the future but will destroy large part of
the trade row existing between this country
and those of our neighbors on the s~"th
"For The further purpose of inducing the
farmers of the country to believe that they
can and will derive some benefit from the
protective policy, this bill imposes rates OF
duty upon certain important agricultural
products which it is well known could not
be imported to any material extent with or
without duty. 1t is impossible to protect
the farmer against foreign competition In
his home market, for he has no such compe-
tition, and the insertion or retention Of these
articles in tariff bill is device which
will deceive no one who gives mo-
men;s thought to the subject. During
the last nscal year we exported o9,oSZ,9os
bushels OF corn ana imported only 2-SSS