The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-05-07

We are curious to know what the
democrats who industriously circulated
That document in 1883 have to say of
the Springer free-wool bill. And what
consequences they think must newt
ably follow" the total abolition of wool
duties? but the Ohio campaigners did
not conhne themselves to general state
ments merely. but assumed to speak for
the Democratic party. Said they:
The Democratic party, as the facts show.
nave been steadily and earnestly opposed
10 the preparation of this great wrong
against the people.
SO 1t seems that the Mckinley prices
lies, and the snap Judgment wrenched
from the people by them in 1890. were
not new dodge of the Democra 1t
Is not without interest to also note that
the campaign of lying of 1855 was sue
cesstul, too, a Democratic governor
having been elected by good plurality.
But then, as now, the triumph was
brief. Ohio went for Blaine with a
whoop the next year, just as ii went for
Mckinney last year and will 90 for the
Protectlonist candidate this fall. And
the other states whose people were lied
to III 1890 will follow Ohio's example.
The day of wrath for the Mckinley
prices liars Is drawing near. 1t rarely
pays to lie.
Those Rags from Begsars' Backs
Representative Dingley, Of Maine. in
the House:
The gentleman from Tennessee (Mr.
McMlllln) further said:
'Ihey"-the WOolen manufacturers
have been forced to use shoddy as a
substitute for woolen goods; the rags
that had already fallen from the backs
of beggars in other countries have been
used as substitute for wool"
And he has presented bill which he
advocates as a remedy. What is the
remedy? The difficulty, according to
his statement, Is that rags, as David \.
Wells asserts, laden with disease and
fraud, are imported and put by Ameri-
can manufacturers into WOODEN cloth.
Now, what is the provision of the gem
tleman's bill respecting shoddv and
woolen rags? Shoddv is simply WOODEN
rags passed through machine fed by a
boy at a nominal expense, whereby the
rag tibers are torn apart and converted
INTO hat IS known AS rag wool or shod
dy.
Now, the gentleman proposes to ex-
clude the importation of shoddy in d
frce-Wool bill by imposing n duty of -
per cent. upon it. But what does he
do ith rags, WOODEN rags, "disease-
laden rags" ''rags permeateG with
fraud all through" He puts them on
the free list. Rags that can be con
verted for less than l cent pound into
shoddv are placed on the free list, while
shoddy is placed at - per cent ad
valorem. That may be good for tie
purposes of electioneering talk upon
the platform, but for scientific adjust
ment of duties in a tariff bill, what shall
De said of it?
The shoddy which has been passed
through the machine, mingled with oils,
has been disinfected, ifthere was anyd dis
ease lurking in it but the rags, the dis
ease laden rags" according to David A.
Wells, if either shoddy or WOODEN rags
ever do bring disease, are placed on the
free list. In the Mckinley tariff act
the duty is absolutely prohibitory on
these rags.
Mr.. Simpson the gentleman be
kind enough to state what the duty on
rags in the Mckinley act is?
Mr.. pingley-Thirty cents pound );
practically prohibitory. The disease
laden rags" which gentlemen com
plain may come into this country
under the Mckinley law and be CON
vertcd into clothing are practically pro-
hibited Ivy that law by duty of so cents
a pound, and almost none were import
ed last year. The gentleman from Ten
nessee, TO cure the evil that he coniures
UP in the Mckinley tariff, brings in A
taritf-reform" bill that puts disease
laden rags on the free list.