The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-06

it would not do for the house 70 fight
the senate bill in conference on such
trivial difference.
"A study of these figures" says the
congressional committee, through Con
sentative" Faulkner, will show but a
small difference between the Wilson bill
as II passed the house and the senate
bill as amended"
Yes. but a comparison Of the schedules
Of the Wilson bill with the German
Brice bill will also show the German
table to be unreliable. To arrive at the
total averages bare-faced juggling was
resorted to. Such Juggling with facts
before court would be sufficient cause
for disbarment of the pettifogger who
should present them.
The Sugar Schedule.
1t is not necessary to go over the whole
table to illustrate the dishonest methods
employed to get the German tariff aver
ages. Take sugar for example. Every
school boy knows that the Wilson bill
passed without putting one cent tax on
sugar. All sugars, raw and refined. I'M
der the Wilson bill are admitted free of
duty. The average rate on sugars in the
Wilson bill, therefore, is O0.OO per cent.
Yet in the table prepared for the use Of
the conservatives" 2S.43 per cent. is
given as the average tax on sugars in
the Wilson bill They would make II
appear that under the Wilson bill the
consumer would pay a tax of more than
Is per cent. on sugars.
Now, how did their expert get this
average? In the Wilson bill, under
schedule E-sugar-" will be found
the following dutiable schedules:
Sugar. candy and confectionery. includ-
ing chocolate confectionery, made wholly
or in part Of sugar, valued at u cents or
less per pound, and refined sugar, when
tinctured, colored or IN any way adulter-
ated, 80 per cent. ad ValOrem.
Other not specifically provided for. 80
per cent. ad valorem.
Glucose or grape sugar. Is per cent. ad
valorem.
Total schedule E sugar (average), IS. 43
per cent ad valorem.
So it will be seen that they had 10 take
candy and confectionery TO pad their
comparative" table to run up the total
average of the whole Wilson bill.
The total value Of the above three arti-
cles taxed under the Wilson bill imported
last year amounted to $150.O03, as shown
by Voorhees, compilation. The same au-
thority estimates the revenue derived on
these three items by the Wilson bill at
Sle,S32. Yet this small tax OF S16.sS2
which the Wilson Dill levies on candy and
gar in the German table.
The senate bill puts all sugars back on
the taxed list with an average rate Of
1889 per cent. The 1883 per cent. under
the senate bill would amount to between
S45, 0O0,0 900 and S50,0O0,000
Another GIaring Example.
Another example is the spirits schedule,
known as schedule III" 1t is known by
everybody that he house fixed the tax
on whisky at 81 per gallon and the Cor
man bill increased it to $1.10 per gallon
Yet in the conservative" table of tariff
average, sent out to deceive the people,
we find the average tax on spirits. wines
and beverages at 59.9S per cent under
the senate bill, and under the house bill
60.69 per cent. This beverage showing
higher tax under the house bill than un-
der the senate bill was obtained by adopt
ing the same deceptive methods.
The other schedules were all treated
the same way and none are reliable, be-
cause the system used to obtain the av-
erage is a false one. The average OF each
of the fourteen classifcations is first OBJ
tanned. These averages are then added
and divided by fourteen.
The System Analysed.
This system can be demonstrated thus:
Smith is a stock dealer. He sells
one car load of horses valued at
$4,000 at a loss of % per cent; he sells
a car load of cattle valued at $1,000 at a
loss of 80 pers cent, but he also sells d
COW valued at $40 at a gain of so per
cent. and one calf valued IS at a profit
of 70 per cent. According to the system
used by the conservative" to deceive
the people with tariff reform Smith. the
stock dealer, made a total average profit
on his total sales of % per cent. Still
when Smith counts his cash he will find
a loss of 1854. This Is not an eXagger-
ated illustration of the deceptive docu-
ment sent out by the democratic congress-
sional committee to convert democrats to
the support OF the GOrman-Brice tariff
reform" bill
But they Will receive no assistance
from the tariff refcrmers OF the house
This audacIous document has caused
resentment toward the congress
sional committee. The leading tariff re-
formers of the house say that as long
as the congressional committee is con-
troIled by the conservatives" they will
not contribute a cent, because they be-
lieve it is the intention Of the commit
tee TO circulate only the speeches made
by Senator German and the other pro-
tectionist democrats and to give no as
sistance TO those members who have done
most for tariff reform.
If mo. slip" is a sample of the
documents to be sent out by the commit
tee the sooner they close up the palatial
headquarters on Fifteenth-st. the better
it will be for the democratic party, for
It is reasonably certain that no tariff re-
form literature will ever emanate from
the committee.