Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-27
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING" AUG 7 1897

ing and starving over a placer and
mebbe making less'n your keep at
that"
Senator Turner's Wise Words.
In the interview at Spokane, Sena-
tor George Turner gives his opinion
of the Dingley tariff bill. He says:
"The bill has passed practically as
framed by the Ways and Means COM
mittee of the House. Every ameliora-
ton OF its harsh provisions, voted by
the Senate, have, with one or two ex-
ceptions, been stricken out, and the
original House provisions reinserted.
GAS thus framed and passed it is
the most extreme tariff measure adopt.
ed since the tariff of 1868; many of
the duties laid by it approximate to
those OF the war tariff. Moreover, the
bill is distinct abandonment of the
Republican position in favor of the
free importation of necessaries not
produced in this country. Six years
ago the Republican slogan was a free
breakfast table Four years ago the
Wilson bill was denounced in the
most unmeasured terms because it
laid import duties on sugar, and the
Republican position of a breakfast
table was lauded to the skies. This
year the duties on sugar are largely
increased and the differential between
raw and refined sugar, being the bonus
allowed by law to the trust of sugar
refiners, was just doubled. A tax of
over sixty millions of dollars was laid
on the poor mans breakfast table for
sugar alone, and it was so laid that
nearly one-third of it goes in the
pockets of the sugar trust; and this
was done after the abandonment of a
proposition to increase the tax on
beer, a tax so slight that it would not
have increased the cost to the con-
sumer, but which would have pro-
duced an increased revenue of over
$2O,OOO,OOO.
II am opposed to monopoly breed
ing duties, and hence it is that having
been Republican, and prepossessed
in favor Of the protective system,
am yet opposed to the Dingley bill.
1t is an ugly bantling which will
come home to curse the author of its
being. 1t can not produce prosperity.
1t was not framed with that view. It
is more or less reluctant concession
to sordid and selfish interests made in
return for cash contributions last fall.
That it will fall utterly and ignomin-
iously is not doubted by intelligent
and well-informed people in any of
the parties. Even Republican states
men are ashamed of it, and in private
admit that it will bring disaster to the
Republican party.
"The bill is sectional, in that its
benefits all accrue to the northeastern
portion of the union. 1t is partial
and unfair in that its benefits accrue
to the manufacturer and his work.
men and its burdens to the farmer and
his workmen. As the latter far out
number the former, and the effect
of the law will soon be manifest, there
can be little doubt that the people
will refuse to longer continue the Re-
public party in power. The next
campaign will be fought out on the
line of opposition to trusts and
monopolies, including the most gi-
gantic and blighting of all trusts, the
money trust.
patriotic people of all shades of
opinion will rally to the standard of
this opposition. What the name of
the party will be is immaterial. It
will combine all the elements that
united in opposition last year, and
many more. Unless the unforeseen
should happen, its magnificent leader
ship of last year will be the same. Its
progress can no more be stayed than
the waves off the ocean can be curbed.
Injustice and partiality and sectional
ism and robbery under the guise of
law, and extravaganza and corruption
in government will 60 down before it,
never to arise again, or to arise for but
brief moment. Our government
will be rejuvenated and restored to the
simplicity of the fathers. The Democ-
racy of Thomas Jefferson and the Re-
publicanism of Abraham Lincoln will
be the ruling principles of government.
The rights of the people will be re-
spected and protected. The exertions
of power will be scrutinized and
curbed. With such a government it
will be long before the people will
again wander off after false gods"
Nor one complaint has ever been
made by those using Ayers Sarsaparilla