Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-22


/ expensive to the consumer. That the people
! Of the country will repudiate this bill when
/ they have tested its burdens is beyond all
| doubt"
| SENATORS JONES AND WHITE.
| Senator Jones, OF Arkansas:
In the new tariff are so many outrages that
/ it il hard 10 tell what it's worst features are
/ Perhaps the wooden schedule may be con-
/ sidered the worst The heavy tax laid on raw
! wool. with the eompensatinZ taxes 70 the
manufacturers, will make the average rate of
/ burden imposed in the wooden schedule
enormously high It will practically prohibit
+ the importation of all classes of goods that
| are made in the United States The crockery
! and glass schedules are equally OBJ
noxious, but the bill is filed with gifts
| 70 the trusts and manufacturing monopolies-
| AS it came from the house il carried the high
| est average of taxation ever imposed AS re-
/ ported TO the senate from the committee il was
| slightly modified. and in his opening speech
! Mr.. Aldrich said that bill proposing excessive
! burdens not to be thought Of In the con-
| sideration of the measure. however, the re-
| publicans systematically abandoned the senate
| amendments and took the house rates, and in
| many instances even raised the rates above
| those proposed by the house"
| Senator White:
The tariff bill as it passed the senate is the
most dangerous enactment Of the kind that has
| ever emanated from congress. II the most op-
| pressiye trusts and combines in the United
| States had met in joint convention they could
not have produced measure more satisfactory
| to themselves and more clearly inimical to the
! people. From the commencement of the last
| campaign until the vote was taken upon the
bill the representatives of the republican party
and of this administration declared that
very moderate revenue enactment would be
! framed. This bill is not revenue measure for
| it is thronged with prohibitive duties. The
sugar schedule has already forced up the price
of that article and when the bill becomes
law the consumer will pay 81 p more for a hun
dred pounds OF that commodity than heretofore,
and the trust will reap unprecedented benefits.
It is not practicable here TO enumeFate the ar
ticles of necessity upon which increased rev.
enues have been imposed Before six months
the consumers of the United States will be very
familiar with the Dingley bill and will be quite
competent to exdress themselves accordingly
at the polls. The average burden of taxation
viii be more than Sc per cent, at least, as
against 40 in the Mckinley bill, the burdens of
which were thrown off by the American people
as soon as they could take action upon it.
Il add that it is doubtful whether majority
of the republican members OF congress really
approve of this bill They have been COM
PEELED to stand by it, and the combines of the
United States now expect to squeeze out of the
public profit on their campaign investment 5.
WHAT THE FARMER GETS.
The democratic conferees on the part
of the house are Messrs. Bailey, of
J SAdSs MChlIlIU- OI 4CnuGSSeSs anu
Wheeler, of Alabama.
Mr.. McMillin has long been a mem
Der of the ways and means committee,
and is regarded by both parties as an
expert in tariff matters. He is looked
upon as being very likely to succeed
Senator Harris. He says:
THE extra session of congress for the pur-
pose of revising the tariff was entirely unneceS-
With ordinary there would
be surplus in the treasury at the time of the
regular meeting in December
If there is nothing else to condemn this
measure, the fact that it proposes to raise IN
necessary and unjust taxes ought to do so. You
will search in vain for free sugar in this BILL or
anything else free that benefits the American
people. The republican demagogic cry of a free
breakfast table has been abandoned.
Let US see what they have done for the
farmer. OF all the futile efforts to delude that
have ever seen in a solemn proceeding this
is the most glaring a large per cent of our
population are farmers. They are the ones
who bear the burdens and get no benefits from
protection. The republicans evidently have
moderated their intelligence when proposing
an increase of duty of farm products to satisfy
them with the enormous rates OF duty found in
this bill
I'VE are complaining of hard times, and
justly. Farms selling for taxes Ruin is
abroad in the land, and is not confined to any
particular vocation. The bank doors are clos
ing and bank presidents are going to Canada
and the penitenti airy. Manufacturing eStab-
lishments have their repositories filled with
manufactured goods, which nobody is able TO
purchase; and out in the west the bins and
reservoirs of industry are bursting with the
wheat and corn for which there is no market
Yet over all the wreck the republican party is
self-con1dent and happy. / tell them to look
out when the day of settlement comes to these
taxes.
What have they proposed for the farmers:
To tax them more They realized that when
some one was fieeced some one would complain
More than so per cent OF DUR people are
gagged in agriculture and not benefited by
this measure They raise the taxes on an aver
age higher than they were ever before. They
impose taxes that were not dreamed of by any
other distinguished statesman who ever broke
into congress- and, realizing that somebody
had to be humbugged. what have they done:
They said that the tax upon corn and other
agricultural products was too low. Corn meal
oats wheat, flour and buckwheat are all taxed
20 per cent. under the existing law. But they
said, while we protect the manufacturers,
while we take care of the Sugar trust, while We
spread our protecting wings over the makers of
cutlery, the makers of steel rails and all those
who are engaged in trusts, we would better pre-
tend to do something for the farmer And
what did they do? They taxed corn. instead of
20 per cent, Is cents bushel which, at the
present figures, is nearly 100 per cent. How
much is that going to yield to the farmers:
which will protect them to the extent of S1s9.5I
q year
Magnificent benefaction. glorious statesman
ship. that protects a million farmers by dis
tributing among them s1s9.5l,
They came to the rescue of the miller and
the millers' benefaction is surpassed only by
the benefaction to the corn grower. The i'm
portations last year paid duty of sl026 on
cornmeal
Oats come next They are taxed only 20 per
cent They raise this TO Is cents a busheL Tn
der this new rate the increased duty on oats
will be S272.
Wheat comes next The duty on wheat i'm
ported last year was s4S2 They propose, for
the benefit OF all the wheat growers OF the
United States. TO distribute 1856 in the way of
increased duties In election times they pro-
pose to stand back and look at it in bulk and
say: Behold how we have protected the farm
erS''
Il could go on enumerating the shams and
most outrageous tariff bill ever constructed l
denominated it correctly in the house. during the
brief time allowed for democratic expression
there. and stand by the designation and say
it is the hot-bed for the propagation of trusts
and the protection of those who rob the peo-
pie"
CHAMP CLARK.
Champ Clark said:
when the Mckinly bill was passed ii was
thought by many persons that surely that was
as far as even the greedy tariff pap-suckers
would dare 70 go in plundering the people: but
Aldrich. Dingley s Co. have raised the major
at his own game. The outrages it .perpetrateS
on the taxpayers are so numerous that il is diff
icult to say which overtops the others in iniq-
uity.
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