Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-24
WEWITiN11s rRuE LIGHT.

VIEW 1T Units TRUE LIGHT.
If there is any thing at which Cres-
set is an adept, it is on misleading its
readers and lying about statistics. We
punctured its gauzy hide few weeks
ago, concerning the local effect of the
bounty system but it did not have cour-
age enough to even follow the matte
up, but has switched off on anoth e
fake. In last weeks; issue they bor-
row an article from the Marysville
News concerning the expense to the
state on account of the tariff on sugar.
We are extremely sorry that the Cres
set persists in making an issue on the
line it has. We have avoided SO far ac-
cepting the oft repeated challenge to
discuss the question, being fully aware
that an exhaustive discussion of the
subject would not be beneficial to the
mill at this place, but foTbearance
ceases to be a virtue, at times, and
therefore we have concluded to answer
the Cresset even if it makes local 49,
sue. From the News, the Cresset
quotes as follows:
The Big Seventh congressional district has a
population of l7S,208 and these people will
have to pay more than $4,000 each year as
their share of the sugar tax, and Jerry Simp-
son voted and worked to impose this tax on
the people he represents. Chester l. Long
Will vote to remove that tax from the people
OF the seventh district. The new sugar tariff
takes more than $8T5,O00 annually directly
from the pockets Of the people of Kansas. and
more of 1t comes from the poor than the rich.
Congressman-at-Large Harris voted for that
robbery. Col Dick Blue Will spare no time or
effort that he can give TO try TO undo this
wicked work and save this money to the peo-
pie of Kansas. Who are you going 10 vote
for?
twill he discovered that the repub-
licans admit that the tariff is q tao and
on that admission we propose to base
our argument. In the struggle that
ended by the adoption of the present
tariff law and the repeal of the McKin-
ley law, every republican senator work
ed and voted against free sugar and it
was the republicans in the senate aided
and abetted by the recalcitrant demo-
Gratis, Brlce, German and Smith, that
are directly responsible for the present
tariff on sugar. SO this clap-trap talk
about what Long, Blue, ct al will do
when they are elected, is pure rot. 1t
is true that by republican chicanery
sugar is on the dutiable list, but the tax
is not onerOus as the republi can crowd
would have us believe. Under the Nc
Klnley law, raw sugar was admitted
free of duty, but on all sugars above
No. Is Dutch Standard duty of cent
per pound was laid with an additional
one-tenth of a cent on all sugars i'm
ported from countries paying an export
bounty. That six tenths of a cent was
wholly in the interest of the sugar
trust and President Havemyer swore
before the senate committee that this
protection Melted the trust over S27,-
100000. The Mckinley law also pro-
Yided that the government should pay
to the producers of sugar in this coun-
try bonus of two cents a pound. The
annual cost Of the bounty system was
about $4,000, 900. Thus it will be seen
that the sugar trust received a bonus of
S27 600 900; the home manufacturer a
bonus of $15,000,000. Total paid by
the people for which the government
did not receive cent of revenue. S42,-
100000. Under the present law the su-
gar trust by virtue of taVoritism most
ly republican, in the senate) receives
of cent a pound. The difference &C
cording to President Havemyer being
as IS to !, or their protection amounts
to S6,750,OOO now. against $27, 0OO, 900
under McKlnleyism. The government
estimates OF revenue that will be de-
rived from the 40 per cent tariff is $45,-
100000 The bonus and bounty that
the people had to pay less the present
bonus to the trust is S35 $50 900. In
crease taxation by reason of new law,
$9,750,0 900. Thus it will be seen that
the government derives a revenue of
about $45, 100000 and tho tax on the
people is but slightly increased if the
sugar schedule was the only change
that had been made.
Now will the Cresset give us the
amount the people of the eth district,
or the state if they prefer, saves by
reason of the reduced tariff rates on
the following articles: