Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-04

per cent. Cheap knit goods were taxed
IA per cent, formerly 70, while silk
goods at 80 per cent. We're raised away
up to 81. Sealskin saques were re-
duced from 30 to 20 per cent, but the
duty on plush sacks was advanced
from 30 to 10 per cent Cheap wooden
hats are taxed Ill per cent, wooden
shirts 100, silk plugs GO per cent. This
discrimination cannot be justified
Some republicans brag about the free
list of the Mckinley bill, and claim
that it was formulated solely in the in
terest Of labor. An examination shows
that this yaunted free list consists main
ly OF such articles as beeSwaX, split
peas, dried blood, crude bones, human
hair, hOofs and horns, ice and sand. but
yet they placed q duty Of 12O per cent
on cheap wooden sacks. Wild animals
are also admitted free. Perhaps this
is with reference to the great political
scare attempted in this state While
Blaine has been twisting the tail of
the British lion, republican orators are
now twisting the tail Of Il wildcat 9th
dandelions, soap grease rags, and sauer
kraut. People who buy broadcloth
ought to pay as high a tariff tax as the
laborer who buy; cheap wooden cloth
The government has no constitutional or
moral right to tax beyond it's needs
The speaker here exhibited a number
specimens Of teXtil fabrics and com
pard their prices in England and the
United States before and after the pas
sage Of the Mckinley bill as follows:
81 inch black cashmere, England, 1882
II lac, 1892, 16 lie; United States,
1889, 2Jc, 1892, SIC. Clay worSted
coating, England, 1889, 63c, 1892, 47c;
United States, 1889, S1O1, 1892, S1.O5
Black alpaca, England, 1889, Z IA, 1892,
&c; United States, 1889, 15c, 1892, 16c
Clay Worsted coating, England, 1889,
S1.0O, 1892, SIC; United States, 1889,
$1.67, 1892, $1.S3. These same goods
Of American manufacture sell at no
less price.
Last year S6,OOO,0OO,OOO worth OF
manufactured products We're taxed il
this country, and an average duty OF
30 per cent. raised their price II J..
per cent, which means the sum OF
S10O,OOO,OOO taken from the pockets OF
the people and given to swell the profits
Of avariciOuS manufacturers. Wages
are higher in England than in Spain
France and Germany, which have pro
tectiye tariffs.
The republican party maintained Itself
in power for n years on the plea that
if the democrats obtained power they
! would re-enSlaye the negroes, pay the
rebel war debt, and pension rebel sol
diers. -Four years Of democratic ad-
ministration proved this to be false
and now they have hit upon the appel
lation of British free trader. If Il dem
ocratic orator should speak of the op-
PRESTON and suffering caused by the
present ubiquitous tariff system, some
, lily-iingered tool of monopoly would
call him Il calamity bowler.
Two years ago we found them i'll
! Wisconsin loudly proclaiming that the
democrats wanted to wipe from the
face Of this commonwealth the little
red School-hOusc. After two years of
democratic SUI remacy the educational
interests of the state remain unm-
paired, but we have succeeded in eff
fcctually wiping the little red school
house from the republican banner.
The speaker spoke Of the
retrenchmcnt in expenses in all
branches of the government. and
of the stopping Of republican
col"Upticn The frs act of the new adj
nlinistration was to repeal the Bennett
law, which WAS Il Gran" against civil
and religious lbcrts The saving in
legislative expenses during the adninis-
trstion has been Sl:!2.3iO AMI the two
extra sessions OF thu legislature have
cost but %1O,0OG For thirty or forty
years the republicans made and prOtitetl
10y GcrrymaIdcrS and the STATE never
had a constitutional apportionmcnt lHi-
til tire one passed 1T the last s. sSinIl.
The speaker SPOKE Of the great inter-
est always taken by the drmOcrati
party in the prosperity OF the UEivvI-
Sty and the normal schools. and of die
hostility of the republicans to their de
vclopmcnt. The school fund has been
taken from the hands of dishonest and
selfish men and used for the benefit of
the people.
After abiding to various other re
forms and economics. the speech was
closed. and the meeting broke up amid
great enthusiasm and cheering.