The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-08-05
THE TARIFF ON WALL PAPER.


what the "RsForm" Club Ssys-Des the
Free Traders Left . Duty ON 1e When
They Framed the MILLS Bill-Somessan8
| About the Industry.
Tariff Reform is the name. printed u
large type, across the head OF = four
page pamphlet recently issued. 1t II
] the latest addition to the series issued
by the Reform" Club, and, like its
predecessors. while pretending to give
only facts, twist them out of shape. and
deduces conclusions totally unwarrant-
ed, even by its own data Their pre-
paration and printing is paid for out OF
the always overlooking treasury OF the
'.reformers," and they are gratuitously
distributed in the rural districts, where
the high-sounding phrases descriptive
Of the ''reformer's" devotion to truth
will find easier credence than in local
tiles where his dishonest purposes and
INSCRIPTIONS methods are better known
The particular document under con-
sideration treats of wall Paper and
the Tariff" 1t reviews the rapid pro-
SASSo "a SAhC AlouotAy III Vic - hieCNA
States, and, with a stupidity inexplic-
able, gives a table of the rates of duties
at various times, showing that the do
mestic industry from its earliest begin
nings was we'll protected. In 1889 it
shows the duty was ~ per cent; in
1890. 10 per cent in 1892. Is per cent;
in 1SOS. 1719 per cent; in 1916, 35 per
cent and in 1924. 30 per cent. That IS.
the great statesmen who shaped the
destinies Of the young republic, and
started it on its marvellous career OF
industrial development. foresaw the
great future of paper making, and gave
it ever more and more protection, till it
had a 40 per cent Tariff wall about it
in 1924 The relation of cause and effect
between the table of tariff rates and
the wonderful expansion of industry is
not pointed out in the pamphlet.
OF course the object of the pamphlet
eer was to establish the iniquity of the
Mckinley tariff rate on wall paper.
I'm the production of this class of paper
our manufacturers lead the world.
They need no protection whatever"
Those are his words The reader is led
to suppose that the one remedy for this
terrible state of affairs is to place the
''reformer' in power. and the Protection
to wall paper will forthwith die an
ignOble death, to the infinite relief of it's
previously taxed victims, the purchasers
OF wall paper: Well, the ''reformers'
had the power to shape tariff bill a
few years ago according to their own
sweet will. Did they abolish the duty
on wall paper? No. But they certainly
reduced it? No. not even that. They
left it just exactly as it is in the Me-
kinley law, 25 per cent ad valorem, Il
per cent. less than the duty under the
tariff of 1924. 1t WAS n protectionist
congress and a Protectionist president
that in 1883 reduced the duty from 81 to
% per cent. SO that this reform
essay is as much an arraignment of the
Mills bill as it is of the Mckinley law.
In the meantime no one needs to lie
awake o nights on account of this tariff
tax. for, as the ''refOrmcr'' himself tells
us, 1--WE can produce wall paper cheaper
than any other country in the world
and since the tariff lis of no benefit to
the manufacturers here" our people
must necessarily be buying the cheap
est paper in the world