Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-04

tariff bin promised and sxpec tea by the
country.
Mr.. CAMDEN repeatedly and wisely
urges haste first OF all and declares that
to end the uncertainty and stagaatiOn
he has ever been ready TO vote for the
bill in any shape that was satisfactory
to the majority Of his party,
Mr.. CAMDEN's speech is enlightsning,
able and sensible and should be read by
those desiring a clear knowledge Of the
subject and Of the Senator's position.
REPUBLICAN ANTITRUST CANT.
Commenting upOu the everyday rep
stltion by the organs Of MeKinleyism Of
the charge that the pending tariff bill
favors trust combinations. and that the
Democrats are paying political debts by
so shaping the tariff as to enrich trusts,
the Chicago Herald says;
When they descend TO particulars they
specifv only the trust that Democratic
Senators have shown themselves disposed
to favor-the sugar trust. They denOunce
the compromise sugar schedule as rot
ten, " ''rascally," and a gigantic boodling,
swindliRg scheme" which they assert will
give the sugar trust and the bOOdlers no
less than $50 600, coo taken from the peck
cts Of consumers.
In figuring the amount Of the grab they
assume that the trust will add the entire
amount OF the tax on imported sugar to the
price exacted from consumers. In their
fiery zeal they seem 10 forget that they have
for years been telling the people the do
nestle producer does not add the tariff tax
to his prices; that the foreigner pays the
tax; that tariff taxes lower prices, and so
on
This is exactly what they have been do
ing, and vet now that they think they can
make point against the Democrats they
do not hesitate TO assume that the domes-
tic producer adds the entire tax 70 his
prices. It would be a satisfaction TO ind
them admitting the truth If IL were not GER
tain that they would deny il again as soon
as it suited their purpose.
They also seem to forget, as the Her
aid points out, that not long ago they
were denying that trusts were in any
way benefited by tariff taxes. Now
they admit that trusts are benefited by
such taxes. Those organs that hold up
the Mckinley tariff as a model Of tariff
legislation admit that tariff taxes en-
rich trusts, and hold up Democrats to
execration as the chief Of sinners be-
cause they have arranged a schedule so
as to favor one tru st!
While the pending bill favors one
trust the Mckinley law favors score
at least. It does not favor even the
sugar trust so much as the Mckinley
tariff does, and as for others, it deprives
them Of a very large part OF the favOrs
bestowed upon them by the Mckinley
law.
The steel rail combination, the glass
combination and other combinations by
the dozen were given blank sheets of
paper when the Mckinley act was in
process Of incubation, and told TO make
the schedules to suit themselves. They
wrote the schedules, and in not
q lew Instances the mckinley hepuoll-
can Congress gave them more than even
they had the audaclty TO ask. And yet
Republican editors and Republican
Senators have the effrontery to lecture
Democrats for favorlng trusts in pay
ment OF party debts.
Democrats can consistently denOunce
anything in any schedule which savors
Of iavoritism to any trust or combina-
ton. But, says our righteously indig
nant Chicago contemporary, when Re-
publlcans. who hold up the Mckinley
law for admiration as model of tariff
legislation, presume TO lecture Demo-
Gratis for iavorlng trusts, they furnish
forth an amazing example Of hypocriti-
cal can't.