The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-05
The Campaign Liars
FIRE Sill at Work
Gibson in Philadelphia Press.

Gibson in Philadelphia Press.
II is amazing how a campaign lie Will
he used over and over again, even after
it has been exposed thousand times
simply because persons who circulate inc
falsehood think that the people are TOO
ipnorant to discover the truth. A few
wears ago the New York World pup
iished. on the strength of the assertion
of a Democratic member or congress-
list of over 100 alleged trusts whch were
said TO have been benefited by the NC
Kinley act. This same list has been USED
by twenty-six Democrats in the mouse
and senate at this session as applicable
70 the Dingley tariff bill. Figures nave
been changed, but the list Is just the
same. There never was any truth III ~ ~
from the start, and in many cases now IL
is absolutely ridiculous.
The first trust" on the list is the
anthracite coal trust" There is no duty
on anthracite COAL and there mas not
been any duty for over quarter OF
century. A certain kind OF coal Wnlch
has less than 92 per cent. OF nxed CARBON
which is imported into California from
Wales, was held by some judge in san
Francisco to be anthracite. And under
the existing bill a duty was put on that
kind of coal But II does not apply 10
| the kind of coal mined in Pennsylvania,
and known everywhere in this country
outside of the head of that judge as an
| thracite.
The ak trust is the next one In the list
| and there is no such trust in existence.
| Then there follow the broom trust. the
| casket trust, the cigarette trust, the con-
| densed milk trust the copper ingot trust
| the copper sheet trust, and so on. IL Is
pure idiocy to say there Is any sucn
| thing as a broom trust, when brooms are
| In,
in thousands of places in the United
States. 1t is equally absurd to say there
| Is a casket or & coffin trust. Instead o.
the bill benehting the cigarette trust Il
| lust doubled the tax on cigarettes, max
ing an increase in the tax OF 100 pei
| cent. And vet the Democratic campaign
| takers in the senate, including such mel
| as Vest, White, Jones, of Arkansas, ant
others, circulate this falsehood about tn
bill No change whatever was made II
the bill in the duties imposed by IN
Wilson law on condensed milk, copper in
gots, sheet copper and on forty or fft.
other articles in the list of the allege'
trusts.
| One of the trusts mentioned Is "the sal
trust" Salt is produced in New Horh
Michigan, Louisiana, Kansas Pennsyl
vania, Nebraska, and in about half IN
states of the Union. Such thing as
| salt trust WOulu DC dDSOlutely hhPOSolpi
I'm the United States, and the men VIII
circulate this list know that TO be tn
fact. But in England there Is Sal
Union, which controls nearly all the pre-
duct of that country. The Press CORE
spondent attended a meeting of I'll
stockholders of that salt union in Che!
ter, Eng, a few years ago, and hear
I | the chairman of the board state that IN
price OF salt had been increased In III
, previous year by limiting the production
, That speech was printed in the Britis
! newspapers There is a salt trust in Enl
land, but there is none I'm the Unite
States, and never has been one and prol
ably never will be one, And yet DEM
\ | cratic takers and newspapers and Bri
: lsh newspapers talk about our legislatic
in favor of the salt trust.
o.
Y In the same way the steel rail trust
g included in the list, and the false stat
meut is printed that under the Dingl'
bill the duty on steel rails Is N.H to
I That was the duty under the Wilson La
4 but under the Dingley bill the duty HI
a been considerably decreased. There
= not a member of the Senate Finance cor
D mittee who does not know that to be Il
: fact, ana yet Mr. Jones, Mr.. White al