Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-26

the Fifty-first Congress is more than
one billion dollars. Mr.. Cannon's
mouth states the total as 1888, 41O,-
1885, or a little under the round bill
lion. This omits $4,000, 600 involved
in the act to refund the direct tax
The omission is merely a trick of the
mouths to escape the awful last cipher
of the long row of nine. 1t does not
alter the fact, or render less significant
the confession that the statements
prepared by Mr.. Dockery OF Missouri
and Mr.. ssayers of Texas did not exag-
| gerate the extravaganza and reckless
ness of the Fifty-first Congress. Over
a billion dollars in two years! Such
is the record of unchecked Republican
rule during the existence Of the body
| which President HARRISON correctly
describes as 'a most remarkable Con
gress." The acknowledgment of the
| billion in the semi-official statement
of the person lately Chairman of the
House Committee on Appropriations
closes the incident and makes the is
sue. Contemplate it:
$1,OOO,OOO,OOO.
In these ten figures there is De M
ocratic President for .1s93.-N. Y. San.
On the Goth of February Mr.. Gros-
venor made his farewell speech on SUBJ
sides and the Mckinley tariff, in the
course ef which he said:
l am going to make on broad sweeping
statement here, and will put into the Rec
ord, with the consent of the Committee, a
statement conclusively proving what [ have
to say. My statement is that to-day in the
markets of this country the commodities that
enter into the daily life of the common peo-
pie of this country, without one single ex-
ception, are cheaper than they were on the
1st day of September, 1890, and cheaper than
they ever were before in all the history of
the American people.
Such statement, if made by a re-
sponsible person, or by any body who
had not been convicted in the way tn at
Grosvenor was convicted by Lodge,
wouI excite W onder and astonis h ment
among the buyers of potatoes, for ex-
ampl"-p"tatoes being one of the ar;i-
cles that enter into the daily life ofthe
common people. While we were read
ing venor's broad, sweeping
statement a copy of the Dry Goods
Economist reached US Containing an
article entitled" Who Pays this Duty?"
This article says that cotton velvet,
which, under the former tariff, was
sold here at Is cents per yard whole
sale. is now % cents wholesale; that
the former duty was cents per yard
and is now 9cents-an increase of more
than 100 per cent. The former tail
price was % cents; it is now So to 40
cents. 1t is certain that cotton plush
is one of the commodities that enter
into the daily life of Tie common peo-
pie. If it had not been such, it would
not have been so heavily taxed, for the
Economist gees on to say:
To increase the wrong. headed absurdity
of the thing, the better grades of cotton vel
vets are hardly advanced at all by the new
tariff, and the best grades would actually
pay smaller duty than before, excepting
for the sweeping clause of the tariff which
prevents any dutiable fabric coming in at
less than 40 per cent. This KEYNOTE runs al
most all through the tariff: Bear heavily on
loao- priced goods and lightly on the higher
priced ones; encourage the American man
ufacturer to make cheap trash, but give him
little or no nducement 10 20 into fine goods.
This is irrational, unpatriotic, and oppres-
sive.