The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-03-31
THE COMING TARIFF LAW.
From the Eufaula Times.

| From the Eufaula Times.
| In the new tariff bill bagging and ties,
now on the free list, will be dutiable and
| higher. Sugar is expected to bring in a
great amount of money to swell the re-
ceipts, and the cost of living to people
who eat live in houses or wear clothes
will be greater than heretofore The tax
on WOODEN go DDS under the Wills N bill is
about At per cent. and under the McKin-
| ley bill, and this new bill will not i'm
prove it any, 90 per cent. This whole
section will be mulcted and robbed for
the benefit of New England, an atrocious
outrage Wooden goods must be much
higher hereafter. The tax on sugar will
be heard from and the increase all along
the line will be of suffi cent consequence
to pinch the people, who only feel it in the
take out, that is paying and getting no
compensation for themselves or through
their neighbors. The idea is to contIn-
ne tax to feed the already rich and
rob the already poor. And yet we had
respectable people all over this section
who were willing to help the Mckinley
ties along. This was not because they
were not patriotic, but because they
were not as bright, it seems to MS, as
| they should have been.
From the Albany Herald.
A few days ago the Herald undertook
to show the humbuggery of the republi
can protective tariff, so far as 1t effects
| the farmers of the south, by pointing out
the fact that the cotton planters would
again be placed in the unfair position of
having to sell their products in a free
trade market while the things they are
forced to buy will come higher under
the operation of the protective tariff.
On this same line the Augusta Chronicle
| brings up the lite n of cotton ties and
shows how the protective tariff will OPP
crate as between the tie manufacturers
and the cotton producers. Cotton ties
are now on the free list, and the coming
tariff is expected to restore them to the
dutiable list in order to rescue the home
industry from death at the hands OF for
| eign cheap labor.
knowing that the addition of the duty
would raise the price and permit hand
some profit upon ties bought be-
fore the rise, says the Chronicle, sit is
reported that a southern firm decided to
! load up on ties at present prices. In
| order to make the largest pOssio ole profit
| the services of New York house were
engaged to fully canvas the European
market and find out what country would
supply the largest quantity of ties for the
money.
"The result of the investigation is that
the ties were bought of manufacturers
in the United States 20 per cent. cheaY
er than they could be bought anywhere
in Europe free of duty. And yet in the
face of evidence of this kind the duty
must go on, not to protect our man1fact
urers against foreign competition, but
to enable them to greatly increase their
prices to American consumers, while
continuing to undersell foreign Compel
itOrs in the outside free markets of the
world This will not result in raising
the wages of w3rkmen engaged in maxi
ing these ties, but will simply require the
farmers to pay more for them and en-
rich the manufacturers, who will be en-
abled t. charge price greatly in excess
of what is required to give them a good
profit.