Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-27
TARIFF REFORM"
The Democratic Majority In the senate
Makes 10 a Greater sham Than

Makes 10 a Greater sham Than
II Was Before.
Free sugar disappears, and the tan is
put back.
Free coal disappears, and the tax is
put back.
Free iron disappears, and the tax is
put back.
But the Democratic majority was
kind enough to put diamonds on the
free list so that the poor, down-trod-
den millionaire coald get them freed
from the robber tariff.
Here are the changes the Senate
proposes to make in the Wilson Bill:
ARTICLES stricken from the free list
are as follows: Apples, green, ripe, and
dried, etc, beef, mutton. and pork, bone
char, suitable for use in dccoiorizing
sugars; bituminous and shale, and coal
slack or clum, coke, cocoa fiber, floor
mating manufactured from round or
split straw, including Chinese mating;
dates, cocoanute. Brazil nuts, cream
nuts. gambler. CUTS. sailed: horn strips
and tips, iron ore, olives, green or pre-
pared; orchids, lily of the valley, azal-
cas-, palms. and other plants used for
forcing under glass for cut flowers or
decorative purposes; sausage, SKINS
sugars, stained or painted window glass
or painted glass, paintings and statuary
in the paragraph referring to articles
imported for exhibition by any associ-
alton authorized by the United States
or any State"
The additions to the free list are as
follows:
Any cattle, horses, sheep, or other
domestic animals which have strayed
across the border to any foreign coun
try. or where such domestic animals
have been or may be driven across such
boundary by the owner for pasturage
purposes. the same may be brought
back to the United States free of duty,
under Treasury regulations"
Other items added are:
Diamonds and other precious stones,
rough or uncut, including miners dia-
monds Cod oil, not specifically pro
vided in the act Medals bestowed and
accepted as honorary distinctions.
The silk schedule is as follows:
The free admission of raw silk is
specifically stated to not apply to doub-
led, twisted, nor advanced in manufac-
ture in any way.
In the silk schedule, carded silk is
changed from p cents per pound to 20
per cent. ad valorem; thrown and spun
silk from 20 to p per cent. ad valorem.
Silk laces are reduced from 80 to 40 per
cent"
Thus you will observe that the Jeffer-
sonian Democracy of the Senate puts
tariff tax upon food, upon coal, upon
iron, and upon sugar; but gives us free
diamonds, free silk, and free cattle,
provided they already belong to us.
Thank God for that
The government which allows a citi-
zen whose horse strays across the Mex
lean border to bring the animal back
home without paying heavy tariff tax
for the privilege, is great and good
government.
The laboring people having bought
as many of Mr.. Carlisles bonds as
they can hide away, will now probably
lay in supply of diamonds The tariff
tax was taken off them out of a Demo
cratic desire to give our farmers
chance.
Rack up, Farmer Hayseed, and buy
diamond star for the ''old 'ooman,"
like the one Mrs. Cleveland wears!
Minnie Sherman was given several
thousand dollars few years ago out
Of the Federal Treasury, by RENTING
in her favor the tax on imported dia-
mOnds.
My friend John B. Gordon made a
speech in favor of the measure.
Now, all the diamond wearers can re
joice; the duties are to be RENTED en-
tirely, and the millionaires will get
their diamonds freed from the tariff
tax.
The wool farmer will be pleased to
learn that his product is left on the
free list No protection for Him. The
coal and iron barons, the sugar kings,
demanded protection and got it. The
wool grower, and the cotton grower,
and the wheat grower, must complete
with all the 'pauper labor" of the uni
verse. They are able to stand the
competition. Carnegie is not. Haver-
meyer, of the sugar trust, is not.
While the Senate Committee was
shaping the sugar schedule to suit Mr.
Havermeyer (who put $4,000 IN the
Democratic boodle-bag) he apparently
gave some pointers" to Calvin Brice
and other Senators whose votes were
wanted. They specialized in sugar,
and according to the old party organs
made big piles of money.
OF course Mr.. Havemeyer got the
sugar schedules fixed to his notion.
He knows how to buy a Senator as well
as you know how to buy horse.
Tom WATSON.
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