Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-06
SERVANTS or THE TRUSTS.
Fayoriti>m shown the Combines ~ the
EepubIscans.

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EepubIscans.
The republican party organs make a
loud outcry againt the new tariff bill
.:ecausc it deprives our suffering in
d1stries of protection Day after day
they reiterate the assertion that it will
either ruin our industries or force
manufacturers to make a deep cut in
wages. or both
And yet. with no less persisteucy
and clamor. they repeat the deelara-
ton that the bill has been '.manipu-
lated by the trusts" Herein they
manifest their peculiar sense of con
sistency. They are the creators and
friends of the tariff buttressed trusts.
The foul brood of trusts are the ma
tural progeny of the protective sys-
tenn. II the new bill strikes a fatal
blow at that system it necessarily
must be hostile to the trusts. and it is
ridiculous to say that it has been manip-
ulated by them If it has been manip-
ulated by them it cannot be hostile to
the protective system
What trusts have manipulated the
bill? Is the sugar trusts one of them?
BY the admission of their own tariff
leader in the senate their own Ne
kinney law gave the trusts the benefit
of 50 cents on every 100 pounds of
sugar. while the new tariff bill gives it
the benefit of only 425z cents per 100
pounds And yet they call the allow
ance by the new bill indecent favor
itism to the trust" II that is indecent
favoritism. that OF the Mckinley bill
law must nave been over Il per cent
more indecent by the showing OF their
own tariff leader
And. besides. everybody knows that
the democratic house voted to put an
end to all favoritism to the sugar
trust Everybody knows not only that
the house has done this twice. but that
the senate would have done the same
long ago but for the republican sena-
tors. aided bv a handful of recreant
democrats Throughout the struggle
the republican senators, with unbroken
ranks, have shown the most indecent
favoritism" TO the sugar trust. declar.
ing that they would permit no action
except such as would keep the McKin.
ley law in force in its entirety. and
give the sugar trust II per cent mere
than it is given by the bill
But the republican organs talk OF
indecent favoritism' to the trusts
not the trust" To what besides the
sugar trust do they refer? One organ
names the steel beam trust There
was such a trust. and it fourishe0
nightly under the republican law OF
1888. which protected it by duty OF
S2s per ton. and under the Mckinley
To- l.. L -
800. 10 per Ton. The new tariff protects
the steel beam makers By a duty of
S13.4 "A per ton. If that is indecent IA
voritism" wha. was the 30 per cent
higher duty OF the Mckinley law or
the los per cent higher duty OF the re-
publican law OF 1888?
Furthermore the house reduced the
duty on steel beams to 80 per cent. .,
which on the importations of 1892 and
1898 was equivalent to ss.45 per ton
How came the senate to increase this
to S13.A? It was because Senator
Quay dictated the increase and the re-
publican senators in a body, with a
little squad of recreant democrats.
stood by him. The rePu blican sena
tors are responsible for IS per ton Of
this indecent favoritism"-this duty
which republican organs now de-
nounce as prohibitory-
And the same is true with respect to
the ..indecen, favoritism" to all other
tariff buttressed trusts and interests,
past and present The republicans
are the men who have shown the
tavoritism. They have fought from
first to last to defeat ali legislation
aad to keep on the statute books I'M
changed the Mckinley law, which is
from 40 to 100 per cent more favora BILE
IS all the shielded trusts and
combinations formed to plumber the
American people under the protection
and by the active aid Of republican