The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-26
THE McKINLEY-DINGLEY BILL

lie ITuSlS are 10 ne ldNOIcu well III
the new McKinley-Dingley tariff drag
net. The republican thinkers are stead
lily preparing sinking weights for their
heels. The new bill is a reproduction
in the main Of the Mckinley monster,
and it will help the trusts to combine
and conspire against the people still
more and carry forward their schemes
of robbery to a still greater success.
The trusts are not known to be active
in pressing their claims, so far as it
appears to the Iong-suffering public,
but they are on hand all the same, and
their friends are in the house and will
be heard from. 1t is thought that the
sugar schedule is laid with direct refer
ence to the benefit of trusts. The tin
plate fellows are remembered also, n
we'll protected. The tax is increased
for their particular benefit. If the
schedules are thoroughly examined
multiplied instances may be found of
favoritism for various trusts. This is
only one of the specimens of republican
hostility to the real interests of the
people at large. A party that operates
to favor trusts is not worthy of public
confidence or the support of the wrong
ed and burdened tax ayers, and should
be repudiated out and out and turned
down at the polls.
There is a tax on iron ore hat is at
least of doubtful wisdom and eXpedi-
ency. 1t will not help the northern iron
.~l - +la .o,tL tho ,irn or0
a%bundantly able to take care of them
selves in all foreign competition. The
organs of the middle states miners are
crying out against the tax. The tax is
40 per cent. per ton.
The wool tax is an outrage upon all
the households in the land. 1t taxes
the many for the benefit of the few.
The following, from The Philadelphia
Record, a goldbug ape of extreme
views, we'll explains in a nut shell the
iniquity in the following paragraph:
There are about IS, 900, coo sheep in
the United States, and about $4,000, 900
people. If Mr.. Dingley can have his
way the 73, 600, 900 people will be obliged
to pay about 81 per sheep in the shape
of increased cost of wooden fabrics.
There are probably not 10000, 900 own
ers of sheep in the United States whose
profits by reason of the excessive tariff
on wool and woolens will exceed their
losses in consequence of the outrageous
taxes imposed. What a farce and a
fraud"
1t is expected the drag-net, barbed-
wire arrangement will raise SIP, OO0. 900
more revenue by increasing the tax
upon the purchasers. The Philadel-
phia Ledger vas a warm supporter of
Mckinley, but it is something dis
gruntled" over the new tariff bill. It
says plainly, that it is a fresh attempt
ito hoodwink the farmer The farmer
has been steadily hoodwinked"
through the decades, as have the wage
n The New York Evening Post,
another hot supporter of Mckinley in
the fight against Bryan, is warm in it's
opposition to the new tariff movement
Among other things, it says:
THE high duties of the metal SEIZED
uleS, on crOckery and glassware, on
wood and jute and linen, are a CHASTITY
farce, from the point of view of reve-
nue., and constitute a standing invita-
ton to domestic manufacturers to form
a trust and exact the uttermOst far
thing from the But it is
the wool schedule which is the most
nefarious. 1t was the original McKin-
ley wool schedule which did more than
. anything else to wreck the republican
party in 1890. Of the Dingley schedule,
1t is sufficient to say that it is worse
than the Mckinley schedule. BY a trick
of classification the rates are ctually
made higher. How this was brought
about is no secret"
But The Ledger and The Evening
Post knew all about the recklessness
and abuses of the Mckinley bill, and
yet deliberately worked together to put
Mckinley in the presidency, knowing
that he and his party were pledged to
"a high robber tariff. So the devilty