The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-22

We onght to do something. If
nothing better, let us hang out flags
and illuminate at night.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Taxes.
Senator Sherman in his recent
speech made the extraordinary state
ment that 1--WE the Republicans
have never in any case put duty SO
high as to give anybody monopoly
in the article"
Quite the contrary is true. The
Mckinley act was framed for the
purpose of limiting and prohibiting
Importation, and in some instances
it succeeded, giving to the American
manufacturers the monopoly of the
market.
For example: The present tariff
law taxes all unbleached cotton cloth
valued at less than six and one-half
cents yard 66.67 per cent. The
average price per yard of the goods
imported under this classification is
three cents. The tax is practically
prohibitive In 1891 the value of all
such eottons imported into this coun-
try was 500.
A slightly heavier unbleached cloth
was taxed 494 per cent, and only
$40950 worth was imported.
The law practically prohibits the
importation Of binding Irvine, only
1913 worth having been brought into
the country in 1891.
The value of grass cleth worth five
cents pound brought here in that
year was SIS.
Bottles holding less than a quarter
Of pint are taxed 1872 per cent.
This tax limited the importations to
the value of 1861. The aggregate
tax was 1872.
One size of plate glass is taxed SO
per cent. The value Of the imports
was 81. A tax of 50 per cent. reduced
the importation of one size of cylin-
der and crown glass to $72. And
there are several sizes in the glass
schedules which are not imported in
the regular commercial channels, for
these small importations mean that
the articles are not dealt in in the
regular course of business.
OF one small size of round iron the
importation was valued at 81; of a
certain kind of iron strips. $500; of
ingots worth more than 10 cents a
pound, $40; of thin hoop, band or
scroll iron, 50; of all boiler and other
plate, 1927 This gives to Mr.. Car
negie q large part of the American
market and to him and his protected
associates full control.
The law gives to protected manu-
facturers monopoly in one size of
circular saw plates and saws, in some
iron wires, wire ropes taxed at S64,
SS4, lit and 104 per cent, in axles,
mill irons, ETC., in cast-iron pipe, in
single barrelled breech- loading shot
guns, in certain kinds of nails and
in wood screws.
A tax of 43 per cent. enables Gen.
Buffers mill to control the bunting
market, only So worth of foreign
bunting competing with itin 1891.
Taxes ranging from 733 to LOG per
cent. exclude all blankets but the
most expensive Taxes of CT, IS, SO,
81 and LOG per cent. exclude cheap
flannels. A similar story may be
told of wool hats. The value Of the
portations of one class of these
was 81, of another S. and of another
$1202 The tax on the last was
$13.12. A tax of 1859 per cent. ex-
cluded the cheapest shawls, only
seven pounds probably one shawl) i,
valued at 80, being entered in 1891.
Here is large and varied assort-
ment of articles that contradict Mr.
Sherman. The present law has built
a Chinese wall around this country
which is high enough and thick
enough to keep out many articles
that would compete with domestic
manufacturers if they were admitted
Not only the Mckinley but Republi-
can tariffs that have gone before it
have given monopolies to certain few
Americans, to the grievous cost of
hundreds of thousands Of other
Americans who are obliged to buy
the protected products at whatever
prices the protected monopelists may
see fit to exact. Some of Mr.. Sher-
man s former speeches indicate that
he is aware of this, but in one of
them he said that he would favor re
moving the protective duty in any
case where the benefciaries took adj
vantage of it to form trust. But
of course he has never proposed, nor
would his party pass, such law
". Y. World.
Elk Governor j. ID. Cox, of Ohio, n
life long Republican and a member
of Grants Cabinet, will support
Cleveland. Governor Cox states
that he can not endorse the Republi-
can doctrine of high tariff His
flop has caused q sensation,