Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
Champ Clark On The Tariff.
TIE NINTH DISTRICT CONGRESS
MAN SCORES THE NEW Law
UNMERCIFULLY.
He Says It is the Most Monstrous Bill
Ever Conceived in the Minds of
Men To Mislead the Good
American People.

By Telegraph to the st. Louis Chronicle.
WASHINGTON, D. O., July 21.-Editor
Chronicle: The Dingley-Aldrich BILLS
the most monstrous and wicked eve
conceived by the combined ingenuity
and hogishness of nan To call it a
revenue law is to abuse the American
language and to mislead the American
people. Its title should be Gan act to
create, encourage and fatten trusts"
for 1 can name 1872 trusts now existing
to which this bill grants such large
bonus as to fasten them On to the peo-
ple's neck during the life of this in
famous bill. How many there are in
esse and in posse I cannot say.
The Government is In the hands of
the Republicans, and the Republicans
are in the hands of the trusts; 30, in
stead of having "a government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
ple," as Abraham Lincoln loved to call
ir, we have ga government of trusts,
by trusts and for trusta-''
WORK OF ssTHIs MAN MARX"
The trusts furnished Mark Hanna
more money than he needed to pur-
chase McKinley's election, and a ma
jority of the seats in Congress, for, in
credible Ii 1t may seem he has q $780,
600 and half of the campaign money
left over, which he L. busily engaged
in placing where it will do the most
good In his Senatorial cavrss. In re-
turn this man Mark has fixed the tariff
so that the trusts a recoup them
selves q Thousand fold for election ex-
penses.
THE GAIN OF THE TRUSTS.
For example, the Anthracite Trust
gets 81 cents per ton, which prohibits
competition absolutely and permits it
to fix prices according to its own
sweet will; the ak trusts get As per
cent; the barbed wire trust, 2h to 8
cents a pound; the buiscuit and crack
or trust, 20 per cent; the broom trust,
40 per cent; the button trust, from AZ
to 70 per cent; the casket trust, So per
cent; the celluloid trust, 65 cents a
pound and 25 per cent ad valorem;
the cigarette trust, "a cents and 25
per cent ad valorem; the crockery
trust Sd per cent; the steel trust, As
per cent; the tombstone trust, 30 per
cent; the wool hat trust, 40 cents a
pound and 65 per cent ed valorem the
pocket cutlery trust, $50 per cent; the
sandstone trust, 80 per cent.
ENDLESS LINE OF FIGURES.
The rubber ~(gossamer) trust gets so
cents and 55 per cent adj valorem; the
whisky, 1925 per gallon; the carpet
trust, 62% cents per square yard and
40 per cent ad valorem; the white pine
trust, 81 per thousand feet, and so on
to the end of the 1872 trusts of which I
know.
AS most of these rates are prohibi-
tive and are intended to be so, two
woeful effects are certain:
First-The Government will get lit
tie or no revenue out of them.
Second-The trusts are given carte
blanche to fix prices to suit themselves
and to levy such tribute as to them
shall seem best.
REWARD OF POLITICS.
In the Fifty-third Congress Tom
johnson, the second largest manufac-
turer of steel rails in the world, stated
over and over again on the floor that
American steel rail manufacturers
needed no protection, but Dingley,
Aldrich & Go. voluntarily gave them
$6.72 per ton because that trust con-
tributed handsomely in the last cam
paign and is expected to do so again.
And let it not be forgotten that the
people-the producers-pay this out
rageous bounty at last.
THE PEOPLE PAY THE FREIGHT.
The railroads pay 1t to the trusts,
the shippers pay it to the railroads
and the farmers, including the Mis-
souri, farmers, pay it to the shippers.
To sum it all up the people are to
pay an average of nearly so per cent
tax on every article of every day con-
sumption.
1t will no doubt make them shout for
joy to know that by reason of Re-
publican legislation the Sugar Trust
made the enormous sum of $12, 600 last
Monday. CHAMP CLARK.