Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-03
GENERAL DISSATISFACTION.

argument by advancing " propo-
eitions. The first proposition is that op-
position is useless; and the second
which is usually advanced in the same
breath, is that there isn't any any
how. AS " the first Ut these propo
G~itions, opinions may differ; as to the
second. opinions are unlikely to differ
greatly, il the Dingley tariff should
be suffered to go before the people as
q direct issue in substantially it's
present form.
Despite these assurances OF repub-
ican newspapers. representative bus
mess men continue to exercise the
right Of free speech with almost suf-
ticient energy aid lucidity Of argu-
ment to entitle them to DIngleyite
decoration ~ mugwumps and free
traders. Anything like a represent
alive list Of the Important business
interests protesting would exhaust
the space of an ordinary newsr aper.
but a few instances may be added to
those already cited.
Marshall Field. the head Of the great
mercantile firm of Chicago, who is
fighting the bill. pronounces it @the
worst tariff bill I ever saw, not only
as regards the rates Of duty imposed
but in the complicated and ambig-
uous methods Of imposing them.
There is scarcely a limo in the bill
that will not have to DO interpreted
by the supreme court" MI. Field
finds the Washington hotels full of
people on the same errand as him
self, and says that a republican mem.
Der of the senat' finance committee
told him that such is the universal
dissatisfaction with the bill that it
will be necessary for that committee
to amend almost every item-that athe
only persons who are entirely salts
fled with it are the eastern manufact-
urers and the Ohio wool growers,
and they are fighting to prevent
changes"
Elk Postmaster General William L.
Wilson Is competent to speak for
those who, last fall. elected Mckinley
upon the currency issue, believing
that the worst that was to be feared
would be a slight increase in the VIII
son rates so as to make up for the loss
OF the that had been ex-
pected under the income tax-where
by the present law would at G.
produce sufficient revenues. Mr..
Wilson is ably pointing out in n Sc
ries Of articles the unscientitic, pro-
hibitory. the worse-than Mckinley
tie character of the Dingley bill. How
it will affect the consumer he makes
clear by showing among other things
that under the present law the duties
on 100000 pounds Of wooden goods
would be GIG, 600, Or $16,2OO-4O per
cent.-whereas under the proposed
bill they will be $4,000 or 67,100; that
is to say, 1873 or 165 per cent. On ten
dollars worth Of cloth the present
duty is four dollars; the proposed
duty will be from $13 to SIC.
AS to the influence Of the Dingley
betrayal Of popular rights end of the
just expectations Of the people as an
issue i'll the spring elections. opin.
ions differ somewhat. "The tariff"
remarks the Chicago Tribune, "was
not a winning card last fall; it does
not seem to have been n this spring.
Republican senators may find food
for thought IN this fact" The Dover
Index thinks that "ths retroactive
clause in the Dingley tariff act has
had it's answer in the retroactive vote
from the big cities in the different
states" Those are but a few of the
interesting exhibits which might be
indie finitely multiplied, did space per-
NIT, to refute the impudent false
hood that the Dingley tariff bill is
nothing worse than the people ex-
pected all along.-A lbary Argus.