Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-29
ANOTHER TARIFF yST.


xhe Soap Manufacturers Exteac'n= Their
Trust I'm order to Enjoy Their Tariff Spoils
-NcKinleyisn1 the breeder of Trusts
The Boston Commercial Bulletin, a
high tariff organ, prints the following
piece Of news
a large number OF soap manufacturers in
Philadelphia, Pa. have organized 3 branch
or the National Soap Manufactures Associ
alton NJ II. Esvensoa was elected presi-
dent, Peter Day vice presfdena end William
Hamilton secretary and treasures. The ter
FitoYy covered By che nev brax<AKAr ind
- Pennsylvania east of eiel Allerhes5fes.
New Jersey, west OF sAf>ueU Yorh xssocis-
.ions district, md - ssates Of Delaware
The association here referred 20 Is
what Is known as The soap trust
The soap makers Are but another u
The vast number - industries which
are making haste . form trusts ia or
der TO get rid OF competition and en-
ter into the full enjoyment OF the spoils
which the tariH makes possible The
Mckinley duty on castle soap is IL
cents per pound, On fancy and toilet
soaps Is cents par pound, and on all
other kinds IL Il = per cent sd ralorem-
Some prominent Republicans teach
the doctrine that ia eases where COM
binations are formed for checking COM
petition or for raising prices the pro
eecting duty should be revised in order
60 invite competition from abroad
This Is the doctrine heard only from
the stump; 10 aever appears IN practical
form on the Aoors OF Congress. The
| Republican leaders wilfully shut their
| eyes &c the fact that in every depar--
mens Of induktry trusts aye springing
up, and that ehis Pernicious tendency
toward constellation has never been
more active than during the past six
months Trusts were sprouting mp
rapidly eveA while the Mckinley bill
was still under discussion; bus since che
passage OF this bill, with all IFS jobs
and deals, che trust-making industry
has leapec forv ard with unexampled
vigor. Trusts come SO rapidly that IL is
scarcely possible 10 keep record Of
them.
Some Republican journals are fearful
lest these trusts viii undermine the
whole protective system" But these
journals are clearly not in harmony
with the spirit and purposes of the Nc
kinleyites- The purpose of the Mckin-
ley law was 90 raise prices and thus
give the manufacturers higher profits.
II this was not the purpose of the law,
object in passing il; and Republican
leaders, like Mckinley himself, were
doing very inconsistent and needless
thing when they went up and down the
country in the recent campaign making
speeches against cheapness. McKin-
ley himself said in his speech on his bill
last May in the House Of Representa-
tives: I'VE want no return 90 cheap
times in our own country" and he
argued that where merchandise is
cheapest men are poorest
II being thus a sound Republican doc
trine that cheapness is bad and dearness
| is 20 be preferred. how can Republican
newspapers and statesmen consistently
lift up their voices against trusts:
Major Mckinley says that cheap
country sis not the kind our fathers
builded. Furthermore, il is not the
| kind their sons mean to maintain"
Now trusts are the mos. potent
agencies imaginable for realizing the
ideal here set forth by Mckinley; and
if that ideal of a dear country be ac
copied by the Republicans it is folly
for them to denounce trusts The preSi
dent of the sugar trust takes this view
He says: 1.-The great cry OF one OF the
great parties is for protection; that is
they cry for il loudly during campaigns
But when we proceed TO give ourselves
some protection howl is raised. They
demand projection Tor the industries.
When an industry protects itself il is
said that it is Illegal The sugar trus,
was making 20 per cent on watered
capital when this was said; but what
good Republicans can object to that:
The trust at any rate was blessing %
the country IN giving rs sugar which
| was neither '.cheap- nor nasty"