Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-03
SENATORIAL s,loAR


| The Ffne Hand OF the Trusts fn IN
/ D1ngAey Bill.
The man who does not recognize tn
! fine Italian hand of the trusts IN the ser
re amendments to the Dingley bill mus
be the blind man OF the proverb. VIII
| does not want TO see
We are told that on trough est
] mate" the senate schedule viii yieli
from sugar q revenue of sec. 90, 900
year. The figure is so full one looks 70
confirmation of so great expectations
| The full text of the sugar schedule
not given, but from the synopsis tele
graphed it appears that reduced to Al
Rd valorem rate the senate proposes {.
tax sugar IS per cent. as compared witt
q per cent. In the Dingley bill, and q
to - per cent. in the Wilson bill The Nc
Einley act let sugar in free. It is alsS
stated that the senate bill is SO drawn
! as TO place the regular duty on Ia
waiian sugar.
The senate hardly has put an ad va
loren duty on sugar. The report Ii
merely an estimate of an ad valoren
rate. The original Dingley bin taxes
sugar not above 10 D. S. in any shape
enc cent per pound testing not above
IS degrees by the polariscope, and fol
every additional degree three-hun.
dredths of one cent per pound. On
sugar above 10 D. s., and on all refined
sugars, the rates made were to be 1.375
cents per pound. The highest rate pos.
sible on sugar below Is d. S. under the
Dingley bill would be 1s. cents per
pound. It was estimated that the rev
enue derived would be about $50, O0o, 600
But there was no intention to collect
duty on Hawaiian sugar.
IL the senate bill is TO produce $780,
100000 a year. there must be con-
templated stiff advance over the rates
provided for under the home schedule.
The sugar trust is. of course, at the
bottom, and deep down under the foun-
dation of this policy. 1t seems to have
taken the senate 4 willing captive. The
projected abrogation of the Hawaiian
reciprocity treaty seems to be part OF
the same monopoly-inspired raid on the
rights of the people. Sir Claus was the
original instigator of that treaty, and
he has prospered under it in the twenty
odd years of its operation to the tune of
s.
island sugar planters are about to ex-
pire. Some are already at an end, we
believe. Hence this pronounced inter
est in American industries demanding
that the treaty cease. If behind this
little game the heavy trump up Mr..
Spreckies' sleeve is the limiting of Cali
fornia beet sugar reduction, why. il
would be better for the country to go on
losing the revenue on Hawaiian sugar.
But sugar is not the only sweet morsel
in the senate bill. The hand of the
trust and of the monopoly did not grow
weary wncn that piece of work was
done. It's skill and cunning are shown
broadcast in all the schedules, any re-
port of which has reached here. Taking
the reported ad valorem estimates, it
appears that lead ore was raised to
81. IA per cent. from 621k in the house
bill, 1887 in the Wilson act and 1878 in
the Mckinley act. When we get to
wool. product of the farmer, and where
the interest of the eastern high tariff
monopo1ist lies in getting it as cheap
as possible, this trust-ridden senate
committee has lowered the rate from
1888 per cent. in the house bill, the
same as in the Mckinley act, to 43.37
PER cent. But spun yarn, in which the
nonopolist has put some of his money,
is raised from 10 per cent. in the Wilson
bill to 90.S7 per cent. in the senate bill.
It was only 50.61 in the Mckinley act.
The Dingley schedule made the duty on
yarns run from Is to IS cents per pound
IN 10
schedule of 35 per cent. is made As per
cent. in the senate bill. Both the Will
son and Mckinley acts made the rate
As per cent.
On hops, direct product of the farm,
the house rate of 67.2O per cent. is low
cred to 1916. Still wines are dropped
from 1929 to 46.35 per cent. Hemp
comes down from 70.52 to 16.41 per
cent.
This is as far as the republican men,
bers of the ways and means committee
of the senate, who alone are response
BILE for all changes made in the bill
sent up from the house, consented to
let the people know what they have
done. The rest of the bill is kept locked
up in the star chamber secrets, under
which the work of revision was carried
on. They are probably letting us down
easy. And if the rest of the charges
manifest the same subservient regard
for monopoly interests as these, and the
same blind indifference to the interests
Of the farmers and consumers of the
they had better let us down
very easy. \ little of this sort of thing
makes a heavy burden of bad news
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